Children's Illustrated

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. NY, Doubleday & Co., 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 48 pages. Full color and black & white illustrations by Charles Fox Phillips. Dust jacket shows minor wear. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Beijing, Zhaohua Publishing House, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 40 pages. Lovely color illustrations throughout by Zhu Chengliang. Clean copy. An adventure story set in old China.

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. Akron, OH, Saalfield, 1st , 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 90 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. 12 gorgeous color plates by Diana Thorne. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Spine loose, light soil to front cover. Abrasion on top covers corner.

Hardcover. NY, Lothrop Lee & Shepard , 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Lovely color illustrations by Jan Ormerod. One winter morning Jenny discovers a hawk has come to the farm, and she develops a rapport with the graceful sky dancer. Clean copy.

Hardcover. US, The Platt & Munk Co, reprint, 1952, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Moderate wear to covers, slightly warped. Dust jacket has tape repair to front. Color illustrations by Lucille W. and H.C. Holling.

Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Robert Sauber.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Henry Altemus, 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 58 pages, illustrated with 27 color plates by J.L.G. (Johnny Gruelle). Red cloth spine with gray boards and a color label on front cover. Dust jacket has edgewear, chipping, small holes in spine. Previous owner's signature on end papers.

Softcover. Coventry VT, Radiant Hen Publishing, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 30 pages illustrated in color by Caldecott winner Azarian. Small printing.

Hardcover. NY, Garden City Publishing, 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Illustrated in 3-colors & black & white by Herbert Morton Stoops. Cardboard covers, edges chipped, light marking to covers.

Hardcover. New York, Platt & Munk, reprint, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 62 pages illustrated with 29 color plates by Ver Beck. Red cloth covers with color label on front, black lettering and design. A reprint of the 1926 Altemus book. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Brookfield CT, Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, First Edition; First Printing; Signed by Author. Hardcover. A beautiful first edition/first printing in unread very good condition in alike dust-jacket, SIGNED by author/illustrator Mordicai Gerstein. In 1972, French aerialist Philippe Petit stole into the nearly completed construction site of the World Trade Center, strung a tightrope between the two towers, and the following morning gave the city of New York an incredibly daring and long remembered performance. Gerstein was awarded the 2004 Caldecott award for his illustrations, with the two fold-out panoramas that capture the drama, excitement, and anxiety of the historic death defying feat. Like new. No sticker.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by James Stevenson. New Yorker cartoonist's first children's book of many to follow. Dust jacket with soil, edgewear, chip to bottom 1" of spine, small price sticker.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 64 pages illustrated in color by Adrienne Adams. Dust jacket worn with chipping, some tanning. Flap is price-clipped (has mandatory "A" on title page). Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, last page with dog-ear crease to top corner. Otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light green boards, maroon cloth spine with gilt titles, color illustrated dust jacket, beautiful full page color illustrations by Jim McMullan. Very slight wear to dust jacket; a beautiful children's book in excellent condition.

hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st , 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 46 pages. Hardcover no dust jacket. Illust. in 2-colors by Lynd Ward. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , Knopf, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 42 pages illustrated in color by Wiktor Sadowski. Color illustrated boards, no dust jacket issued for this library edition. NOT ex-library, clean and bright copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Penn Publishing Company, 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth with color paste down on front cover with gilt lettering, 303 pages. Color frontispiece, 4 b&w plates and numerous line drawings by Henry Pitz. "This is the story of the experiences of two boys in the Sierra Nevada mountains in Lassen and Plumas Counties, California. Their adventures take them from Jamesville, a small mining town, up over Old Baldy to Eagle Lake and that spur of the range in which the lake is held."Clean copy.

NY, Harcourt Brace Janovich, 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards illustrated in color. Color art by Errol Le Cain.

Hardcover. New York , Crowell, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated with color paintings by Wendell Minor and SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY MINOR on front fly leaf. Dust jacket has some light sunning to front edge, clipped.

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, Harper Collins, 1st , 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.Color illust. by Aliki. Children and adults of various ages, races, and physical abilities tour a public aquarium to look at many of the world's marine creatures. The language is almost lyricaland the story is alive with color and action. Clean copy.

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.

Hardcover. Paris, Grund, 1st illust thus, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards, illustrated in color by Ludmila Jirincova. Robert Desnos, the famous surrealist poet in the 20s, later joined the Resistance while working as a journalist in Paris. He forged papers and passed along information, but also wrote humorous and lyrical animal poems to cheer little children, though they often had a double meaning. This is his last book, published in 1944. In February of that year, he was deported to Auschwitz and later Treblinka. He died of typhus soon after the liberation. FRENCH TEXT.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Co., 1st, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illust. by Tomi Ungerer. Ex-lib with end paper residue & markings internallly VG. A scarce Ungerer title.

Hardcover. Chicago, Saalfield Publishing Co., 1st, 1918, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated (48 pages), illustrated boards with light edgewear. 12 color and numerous b&w illustrations by Virginia Albert. Small blue stain to edge of last 10 pages, not affecting text or pictures. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf.

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.