Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Small hardcover, pictorial boards. Color and b&w illustrations by Clarence Biers and Joan Harman, 60 pages. Light edge wear to boards, clean.

Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Gennady Spirin. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 113 Pages. White cloth beautifully decorated in pale green and gilt to front cover. Pale green end papers. 10 tipped-in paper-guarded richly colored plates by Edmund Dulac. A tale from The Arabian Nights retold by Housman. Spine and corners bumped. Cloth is slightly grubby and the spine is a little bit browned. Previous owner's name on front end paper, previous owner's sticker on rear end paper. Light wood smoke odor. Tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Sea Star Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illust. by Kinuko Y. Craft. Tight copy with only minor wear to cover edges.

Chicago, Rand McNally, Rep., 1995, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, A collection of earlier Nursery favorites by Brice reprinted here in a larger format. Covers worn, botton 2" of cloth gone from spine.

Hardcover. New York , North-South Books, 1st US, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 24 pages illustrated in color by Lisbeth Zwerger, Dust jacket tanning at edges, price-clipped. Otherwise very good, clean.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by William Pene du Bois. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Dust jacket with moderate wear, areas of staining, tape repaired tears. Clean, unmarked pages. A child eye's view of moving day. No statement of first on copyright page.

Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st , 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Diane de Groat. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Orchard Books, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Raul Colon. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Schocken Books, 2nd pr., 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Stated second printing of this ingenious picture puzzle book with a hidden story told through the vibrant illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Anatoly Ivanov. Light soil to cover/dust jacket. TIght copy.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st thus, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, Illustrated with nine full page color plates and the color title page by Frederick Richardson. 219 pages. Pictorial endpapers. Original pictorial black cloth with color pictorial paste-down to front cover and spine stamped in gilt. In a tan chipped dust jacket with a color paste-down. No top edge gilt so probably second issue. Book is clean and tight with some mild foxing to pages opposite color plates.

Hardcover. NY, Harpercollins;, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. An illustrated edition of the libretto for Handel's popular choral work, color plates by Barry Moser.

Detroit, Wayne State Univ., 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white, color illustrations. 211 pages. This catalog was compiled to document the complete holdings of the Detroit Public Library's Kate Greenaway Collection. Over 400 items catalogued here. 9 color plates + numerous black & white illustrations. Selected bibliography. 10" high X 7" wide.

Hardcover. London, S.P.C.K., 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards, 52 pages, color frontispiece and sepia line drawings throughout by Randolph Caldecott. Light cover wear, clean.

Hardcover. Moscow, Raduga, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated glossy boards. Color illustrations by Kirill Ovchinnikov. Three old Egyptian tales: Jedi The Magician, The Seafarer and The Snake, How the Thief Outwitted the Pharaoh. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Unpaginated, color illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Light edge wear to dust jacket, small scratches on rear. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Four Winds Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 64 pages, three humorous tales about mice illustrated by Caldecott Medalist, Stephen Gammell.

NY, Hart Publishing, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. A reprint of a 1890's book. 6 color plates + black & white drawings. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR, Barbara McClintock, on title page. Very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Hoban. One morning Silly Tilly Mole wakes up and smells jelly beans. She thinks she forgot to remember Easter. She wants to ask the Easter Bunny in for a cup of tea, but where are her glasses and Easter bonnet? Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Tambourine Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover wth dust jacket. Illustrations in color by Kimberly Bulcken Root. SIGNED BY ROOT on title pg. Closed tear to front panel of dust jacket otherwise VG.

Hardcover. New York, Clarion Books, 3rd printing, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages, illustrated throughout in full color by Ted Lewin. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 1st book by award winning team, b&w illustrations by Richard Egielski. Dust jacket with paper scar where sticker was removed on front. Otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. NY, University Microfilms/Xerox, reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with a color label of 3 children on cover. 64 pages. A facsimilie of the 1881 first printing by Estes & Lauriat. Pictures by Henry Richards (the author's husband). Light wear, rubbing to edges and spine, else a clean, tight copy. This edition printed in 2-colors, while the original featured bright chromoliths. Now very scarce.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR Fred Marcellino on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. With light-hearted, lavish illustrations, Caldecott Honoree Fred Marcellino makes the most--and more--of the fantasy and farce to a trio of Lear's best tales: The New Vestments, The Pelican Chorus, and The Owl and the Pussycat. Three splendid picture books in one!

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, BC Ed., 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. No price on flap so assumed a book club edition. Clean copy with colorful illustrations on every page by Barton.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Thomas B. Allen. Nice, new-looking condition. Hardbound, dust jacket.

hardcover. New York, Hyperion, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 57 pages. Hardcover. Extensive b&w illustrations by Betsy Lewin throughout. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Small stain to fore edge. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st illust., 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red embossed covers with gilt decoration of two children in profile. One volume from the publisher's 10 volume series, 442 pages. Notable for the full color plates by H.I. Bacharach, 16 in all. Illustrated endpapers of young children in field of flowers (by another artist). Owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise interior clean, very good.

Hardcover. Grand Rapids MI , Eerdmans, 1st?, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Really nice, new-looking condition. Color illustrations by Nancy L. Clouse. Hardbound in a bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color bird paintings by Estelle Duval. Cover & decorations by Carl Hurlbut. SIGNED BY KING on title-page. Foxing, edgewear to bottom and corners of blue cloth covers. Bright red bird painting on front cover.

Hardcover. NY, Ars Edition, 1st US, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glazed boards. Approximately 5 3/4" x 4 3/4", 18 pages. English version by John Theobald. Bohatta was a Austrian writer/artist whose titles were republished in the U.S. in small printings. Charming color illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Janovich, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Katherine Coville. Nice condition. Hardbound, dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Illustrated in color and b&w by Clifford Webb. In a price-clipped dust jacket that has a long chunk gone from top of back panel.

Hardcover. NY, Lothrop Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. Kael, a black timber wolf, is captured & performs for a circus, until he has the opportunity to escape. Haunting story of a wild Wolf & the gentle man who trains him. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering in a lightly worn dust jacket. An interpretation from "Fantasia", lyrics by Rachel Field, inspired by the music of Franz Schubert. Previous owner's inscription front end paper. Color and black & white illustrations by Disney. Dust jacket shows wear and chipping, internally some soiling. Hardbound.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Altemus, 1st thus, 1928, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 62 pages, illustrated in color by Ver Beck. Heavy edgewear to pictorial boards, previous owner's signature on front and rear endpapers. Pages darkened. Hinge separated, loose pages.

NY, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Vladimir Radunsky. Light edgewear to dust jacket. A never-before-published poem for children by the Nobel laureate:In the beginning there were just waveshammering at the obstacles . . .So begins a lovely, thought-provoking poem that Joseph Brodsky wrote in 1995. It is about the first discoverers of America -- fish, birds, then man. But it is also about a land that even today is full of secrets waiting to be discovered. Illustrated in collage and gouache by Vladimir Radunsky, this poem is, finally, a celebration of our world -- a world open to possibilities.

Hardcover. London, Oxford, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Nice color illustrations by Hodges. Dust jacket shows minor wear, mostly clean. Hardbound.

New York, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Jose Aruego and Ariane Dewey. A little mouse runs away from home to find a "nicer" family, but when darkness comes, he misses them and realizes how much he loves them.

Hardcover. NY, R & S Books, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. One evening when Boris is watching television, he notices that the picture looks blurry. The repairman who comes over tells him that the problem is not the television but, rather, Boris's eyesight. A trip to the eye doctor confirms the diagnosis - Boris is an astigmatic. How important this sounds! When he gets his glasses, a whole new world unveils itself to him. Boris decides to get a job with his "talent" and starts work at the radio factory as a foreman. However, nothing turns out as Boris expects in this sweet story enlivened by Olof Landstrom's sprightly cartoon-like illustrations.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 47 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY KUBINYI front end paper. Black & white illustrations by Kubinyi. Some very minor wear to dust jacket, mostly nice and clean.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow Books, 1st , 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Martin. Dust jacket with closed tear, light soil.

Hardcover. New York, Clarion Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Caldecott Medal Winner for 2002. Gray covers with maroon cloth spine, gorgeous full page color illustrations. Small closed tear to bottom right corner of dust jacket, pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in excellent condition. Wiesner's second book to win the Caldecott Medal after his earlier "Tuesday".

Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages, Illustrated in color by Mary Azarian, SIGNED BY AZARIAN & AUTHOR.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1st , 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 48 pages. Color illustrations by Charles Bragg. Previous owner's signature, address on front paste-down endpaper. Dust jacket with tape repaired tears to corners, back top edge.

Hardcover. NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In this amusing, eloquently told story, created by Katherine Paterson specifically for artist Vladimir Vagin to illustrate with his beautifully detailed watercolors, there was born a wise little princess who was different from everyone else. Miranda had been granted the gift of being wide awake all her waking hours. Thus, unlike those before her, she was able to see that the peasants of the kingdom were overworked and starving while the nobles lived in selfish luxury. Miranda, with confidence and determination, forms an innovative plan to help her people overcome their oppression, and in the process reveals the power of words to vanquish ignorance and bring about change.

Chicago, Follett , unknown , 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Translated from French by John Mills. 70 pages, including glossary. First American edition. Profusely illustrated. 71 pages, giving information of various types of ships from Galleys, Clippers, Whalers, Glossary of sailing terms. Famous sailers James Cook & others.