Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. Phila, Jr. Literary Guild/Winston, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 115 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated by Decie Merwin, dj w/chipping, wear, closed tears. Light musty smell otherwise very good.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Co., 1st, 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 48 pages with color and b&w illustrations by Slobodkin. Ex-library but with minimal stamping and remnants of tape where dust jacket was attached to cover.

Hardcover. Boston, Ariel Books/Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages. Hardcover with dark blue covers. No dust jacket. Color illustrations by Chris Van Allsburg. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Jersey CI, Singram Co. Ltd, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 10 pages. Hardcover. Color, life-like pop-up illustrations throughout. A touch of foxing throughout. Binding tight. Completely intact, all pop-ups are complete and in working order. Last pop-up is a removable flying kestrel that really flies.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Unpaginated (46 pages), color illustrated boards with blue cloth spine. Illustrated with color and b&w lithographs by the D'Aulaires. True first with $2 on front flap. Dust jacket is poor with big chunks gone, closed tears. Spine of the book has fraying to top and bottom. Previous owner's inscription on illustrated front fly leaf. Otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 88 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Illustrations by Berta an Elmer Hader. Light fraying to cloth covers corner.

Hardcover. New York, G.P. Putnams, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by the author. SIGNED BY TALBOTT on title page.

Hardcover. New York , Harper & Row, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 64 pages illustrated in color by Hoban. Bright, unclipped dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Akron, OH, Saalfield Publishing Company, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover with moderate soil and fraying to corners. Paper wrappers lightly darkened. Previous owner's name written on front wrapper. Illustrated by Diane Thorne.

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, Rep., 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 377 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Illustrated in black & white and 2-colors by T.M. and M.T. Bevans. Excellent condition.

Hardcover. New York , Viking Press, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 152 pages, blue cloth covers with dark blue design. Illustrated in b&w by Lawson. . Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping, not price clipped ($2.50).

Hardcover. NY, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 3rd pr., 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages. Caldecott Honor winner Sweet mixes White's personal letters, photos, and family ephemera with her own exquisite artwork to tell the story of this American literary icon. Readers young and old will be fascinated and inspired by the journalist, New Yorker contributor, and children's book author who loved words his whole life. This authorized tribute, a New York Times bestseller, includes an afterword by Martha White, his granddaughter.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st , 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Illustrated in black & white by Emma Brock.

Hardcover. New York , Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 57 pages, illustrated in b&w by Ilonka Karasz, title page and end papers decorated in pink and black. Black cloth covers stamped with with stars and type design. Mild soiling to covers, previous owner's inscription on blank prelim page. No dust jacket.

Softcover. Chicago, Merrill Co., reprint, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled linen-like wraps. An oversize ABC book with color illustrations on every page/ not credited but believed to be Vivian Robbins.

Hardcover. Chicago, Book House for Children, 28th pr., 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-red coth with gilt lettering and color paste-down on front cover,192 pages. Illustrated in color by Maude & Miska Petersham. Light soil to covers, internally VG.

Hardcover. New York , Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth stamped with red decoration. Ex-library with bookplate and mild residue to rear end papers. The story of a Chinese boy who starts school, attractively illustrated in black and white with soft drawings by Laura Bannon.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly soiled, price-clipped dust jacket. David Levine's line-drawn caricatures throughout, humorous, satiric nature; a mystery of letters, solved by Boswell & Dr. Johnson; "First Printing" stated on copyright page. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, David White, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Black & white illust. by Paul Giovanopoulos. Small number lettered on dust jacket spine and rear panel.

Hardcover. Springfield MA, McLoughlin Bros., 1st, 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrated boards, spiral bound, color art by McKean. Seven color spreads feature moveable sliding frames with pull-ribbons. All functional and attached. The red plastic spiral binding needs repair. The top 3 rings have on ring missing and the bottom three rings are missing. All the holes are intact, untorn and appear repairable. Good plus condition, fragile, clean.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 249 pages. Light stain to front end papers, also affecting front flap on dust jacket. Light foxing to copy block edges otherwise very good. A teenage runaway encounters both love and loneliness when she decides to settle in a small Arkansas town.

hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 321 pages. A Swallows and Amazons adventure. Black & white illustrations. Previous owner's inscription on prelim page. Spine faded. Light soil to front cover.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth stamped in black, 126 pages, line drawings in brown by Paul Brown. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, light shelf wear, tanning to endpapers, otherwise clean. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Hyperion Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations and SIGNED BY YACCARINO on title page with a small sketch.

NY, Scribners, 9th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, Color illustrations by Shulevitz. Light edgewear, closed tears to dust jacket. As the boy who lives in a tenement looks out the window on a rainy day, he begins a story about a king, a queen and a little price who visited him, but he was not home. Then, as the story progresses, more days and more characters are added on to the ensemble until on Sunday, when the cast of characters is complete, the little boy is home to greet his company. And, the reader discovers that the little boy's imagination allowed him to invent his company while he was playing with a deck of cards.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 10 color plates (including cover label), color illustrated title page, endpaper design and map by N.C. Wyeth. Gilt lettering on spine faded, previous owner's name on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. London, J.M. Dent, 1st UK, 1980, Color illustrated glazed boards, watercolor art by Dumas. Small nick to top of cover spine, otherwise very good, like new.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcvoer with dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Van Allsburg. SIGNED by Van Allsburg. Tight copy. Light rip on back of dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR. Very clean and tight copy. Babar, King of the Elephants, receives an invitation to meet with the President of the United States- the perfect excuse for a family vacation! None of the elephants have been to America before, so Babar packs up his family and sets off to see the sights. From the hustle and bustle of New York to the wide open spaces of the Grand Canyon, from riding streetcars in San Francisco to fishing on Lake Michigan, Babar and his family experience America in all its glory and splendor.

Hardcover. NY, Scott Foresman and Company, 1st thus, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with illustrated boards, 40 pages. Three-color illustrations throughout by Leo Politi. Originally published by Viking Press in 1944, this is a reprint edition with a 33 1/3 vinyl record in a pocket at the rear In pristine condition. Scarce thus. No dust jacket issued.

Boston, Little Brown, 1st thus illus., 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Color illustrations by Tenggren. Chunk gone from half-title page and title page - not affecting text or illust.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf Books for Young Readers, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 94 pages, SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR, Paul O. Zelinsky, on half-title page, collected and with a foreword by George Hendrick, illustrated throughout in color. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. Color Illustrations by William Pene DuBois. Dust jacket price clipped, else a clean, tight copy.

NY, Bradbury Press, 1st , 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Helen Cogancherry.

Hardcover. US, HMH Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A sweet story about the death of a beloved pet, this is bibliotherapy at its best. Daisy, a dog, and Arthur, a boy, are inseparable until the day the canine lies down in her basket never to rise again. Although she arrives in a lovely doggy nirvana, Daisy can't fully enjoy her newfound paradise because she is able to look down on her former home and see her family grieving. On the advice of fellow dogs in heaven, she sends the child dreams that both reassure him about her benign fate and encourage him to move forward by acquiring a new puppy. Clark's simple text and characteristically child-friendly illustrations make this book useful for sharing with even the youngest children.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Laura Levine. Grammy promotional bookplate on front fly leaf otherwise VG, clean. Pinkerton's family decides he needs a friend, but is a cat named Rose really suitable? Clean copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by author on title page.

Softcover. Philadelphia, Donald McKay, reprint, 1934, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial card covers (Mickey holding a bone above Pluto), red cloth spine. Illustrated in b&w with stills from Mickey's early animated shorts. Covers worn, front cover with paper torn leaving an area with cardboard exposed. Back cover has a corner chunk gone. Pencil name on inside front cover. Interior pages clean.

Hardcover. Akron, OH, Saalfield, Rep., 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color pictures by Fern Bisel Peat. Light corner wear to illustrated cardboard covers. Previous owner's inscription in pencil on front fly leaf. Fraying to spine material.

Hardcover. Boston, HMH Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Color photos by Alfred A. Cohen. A Sonoran Desert nature primer told by a small Papago girl (note that Tohono O?odham is now the proper name for these native Americans). Unusual book in that full color photographs are used throughout, rather than illustrations.

Reading, MA, Addison-Wesley, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated with 2-color drawings by Jerry Joyner. Clean copy. Everything you need and don't need to know about mud including 'how mud acts'. Clean copy (no mud).

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound. Illustrated by Guy Brown Wiser. Previous owner's signature and review stamp front end paper. Light soiling to endpapers. Soiling to covers. Corners a bit bumped. Covers with slight bend. Small tear in front pastedown. Pink cloth cover.

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Beautiful color illustrations by Ruth Heller. Clean. This is an enchanting and magical variant of the favorite fairy tale. Publishers Weekly noted that "the text is especially noteworthy for its instructive but unobtrusive incorporation of Korean words." Children's Literature pointed out that "it should be noted that all the illustrations--from those depicting Korean rituals to the smallest clothing details--are the result of the illustrator's extensive research and passionate interest in Korean culture."

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, color illustrations by David A. Johnson. In a very good, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow, 1st, 1955, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 46 pages. Color and black & white illustrations by Tracy Sugarman. Rear hinge cracked. Chipping to edge of front endpaper. Dust jacket with soiling, edgewear, chipping, spine fade. Brodart cover.

Hardcover. New York , Philomel Books, 1st U.S., 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Clean, tight copy. Color illustrations by Anno. Adapted from the translation by Ursula Synge. No dust jacket.

hardcover. N.P., Donohue, reprint, n.d. (1901), Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrations in black, orange & green by W.W. Denslow. Binding loose, back hinge cracked, edgewear to covers. Title pg. says Bobbs Merrill, spine says Donohue.

NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in blue-green cloth with maroon lettering and drawing. Three-color, b&w illustrations by Margaret Van Doren. Front fly leaf gone, light soil, small mark to covers. Otherwise very good, clean. A spirited black puppy learns to make friends with two kittens in his new home.