Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pictorial boards with a red cloth spine. Original unclipped color and gilt pictorial dust jacket ($1.75). Illustrated in color, gilt, and black-and-white throughout by the D'Aulaires, with color pictorial endpapers and color and gilt pictorial title page. 32 pages. The Protestant Edition. Name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Barry Moser. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Little Simon, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. View Brooklyn's famous past and present landmarks--including the Prospect Park Carousel, Coney Island, and the Brooklyn Bridge--in this lively pop-up book. Brooklyn Pops Up" celebrates the diverse borough of Brooklyn with 8 pop-ups by the world's best illustrators and paper engineers. In this dimensional tour of Brooklyn icons you will find Brooklyn Children by Maurice Sendak * Brooklyn Brownstones by David A. Carter and Tor Lokvig * Grand Army Plaza & Brooklyn Public Library by Bruce Foster * Brooklyn Museum of Art & Brooklyn Children's Museum by Robert Sabuda * Brooklyn Botanic Garden by Ken Wilson-Max and Keith Finch * Prospect Park & the Carousel by Biruta Akerbergs Hansen * Brooklyn Bridge by Iain Smyth * Flavors of Brooklyn by Kees Moerbeek and Carla Dijs * Coney Island by Chuck Murphy.

NY, Dutton, 1st, 1959, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 96 pages. Interior pages slightly age-tanned at the edges, but clean & tight. Dust jacket has only light edgewear. Illustrated with drawings by Sam Savitt. The stories of various pets in rresidence at the White House over the years.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrations by Feodor Rojankovsky. Rubbing Edgewear and soil to covers. Illustrated end papers. Scarce 1st edition.

Hardcover. NY, Little Simon, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. View Brooklyn's famous past and present landmarks--including the Prospect Park Carousel, Coney Island, and the Brooklyn Bridge--in this lively pop-up book. Brooklyn Pops Up" celebrates the diverse borough of Brooklyn with 8 pop-ups by the world's best illustrators and paper engineers. In this dimensional tour of Brooklyn icons you will find Brooklyn Children by Maurice Sendak * Brooklyn Brownstones by David A. Carter and Tor Lokvig * Grand Army Plaza & Brooklyn Public Library by Bruce Foster * Brooklyn Museum of Art & Brooklyn Children's Museum by Robert Sabuda * Brooklyn Botanic Garden by Ken Wilson-Max and Keith Finch * Prospect Park & the Carousel by Biruta Akerbergs Hansen * Brooklyn Bridge by Iain Smyth * Flavors of Brooklyn by Kees Moerbeek and Carla Dijs * Coney Island by Chuck Murphy. Remainder line through ISBN number on rear cover, otherwise clean, in excellent working order.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st US, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Two stories, back to back. Illustrated in b&w. Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The dolls are planning a birthday party: the first half of the book tells of the preparations, then midway through you turn the book over and start again at the other end to see the guests arrive. Full-page black-and-white illustrations throughout, with a centerfold in full color.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, First Edition, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. White cloth boards with bright Tibetan illustration to cover by Peter Sis. Translucent vellum dust jacket with light toning, silver dollar sized stain to back. Full page, full color illustrations throughout. Bright, clean & unmarked copy.

Softcover. Chicago, Reuben H. Lilja , 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 16 pages including covers, verse and color illustrations by Milo Winter. Charming die-cut polka dot "bow tie" is featured on every page, taking different forms with different animals, which include Rabbit, Kitty, Puppy, Duck, Mouse, Chicks, etc. The "bow tie" becomes a sash, package decoration, dress sash, etc.

Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, Reprint, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 206 pages plus 14 pages of ads. Hardcover. Last title on copyright page: "Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout". Previous owners name in pencil on front endpaper. Light wear.

Hardcover. New York , Harper Collins, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Dirk Zimmer. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Morton Grove IL, Albert Whitman & Co, 1st US, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. When Tom, a young panda, goes to his very first day of kindergarten, his whole family stays and plays and wishes they could be in kindergarten too. David Legge's fun-filled watercolors are as infectious as Australian author Wild's lively tale about adults rediscovering the satisfaction of creative play.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Illustrated in 2-color, full-color by Booz. Dust jacket chipped, edgeworn.

Hardcover. NY, Platt & Munk, rep, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Moderate soil on covers. Light bumps on top cover. Tight copy. Profusely illustrated in b&w and colors, depicting the history of our flag.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-Paginated. SIGNED BY NANCY WILLARD AND JERRY PINKNEY ON TITLE PAGE. 1st edition/1st printing. Full color illustrations by Jerry Pinkney. Not ex-library. A bright, clean copy.

NY, Platt & Munk, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth covers. Color, black & white illustrations by Brook. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Chicago, M.A. Donohue and Co., reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 96 pages illustrated in color by Gruelle. Bright cardboard covers in color, wear to corners. Light tape shadow to front endpaper illustration, otherwise clean internally.

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers stamped in black. 135 pages illustrated by H.C. Millard. Wonderful drawings of prehistoric creatures, many full page on beige color background. Scarce. Light stains to cover, inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Chicago and New York, Rand McNally, 1st, 1916, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Shows wear, internally some tears, pg. 63/64 detached but laid-in. Color illustrations by Warner Carr. No dust jacket.

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1st UK, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Edgewear, rubbing and sticker residue to dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. Light sticker residue, small closed tears to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Willia Morrow and Company, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 142 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Illustrated by Mary K. Okheena.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon Books, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 43 pages. Black & white pictures by Whitney Darrow, Jr. An "I Am Reading" book. Library binding. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Peter Bendrick, 1st US, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrations by Froud, 6 double-page spreads featuring pop-ups / moveable parts. All very good in working order. Small nick to cardboard spine otherwise very good. No dust jacket issued.

Hardcover. NY, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 44 pages illustrated in color by Cyndy Szekeres. This wonderful children's story is a tale of a backwoods family hearing-tell that their Uncle Skinny is sick. Mrs. Clumpet, the best soup-maker around whips up a batch to be carried downstream by their makeshift boat. But they all fall asleep and are being carried toward the waterfall! What will become of the Clumpets? What will become of Uncle Skinny's soup? Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. US, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated by Stein. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, tight copy. Caldecott Honor winner David Ezra Stein has fans at his command with this comical dog's-eye view of having a best friend. Many dogs have human owners. Not this one.

Softcover. London, J.M. Dent, 1st wraps, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illustrations by Roberta F.C. Waudby. 28 pages. Blue paper covers with light wear. Fade to spine area and rear wrapper.

Hardcover. NY, Crown Publishers, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 48 pages illustrated in colors by Giulio Maestro. Weekly Reader Book Club Edition. Bright, clean copy. Story about a duck and bear who are faced with a new neighbor, a chipmunk. Can they all be friends?

Hardcover. New York, Athenuem, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY MAHY on the title page by winner of 1982 & 1984 Carnegie Medal.

NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, INSCRIBED BY JOSE ARUEGO WITH SKETCH OF ALLIGATOR ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Orange boards and cloth bound spine, color illustrated dust jacket, lovely full page color pictures by Jose Aruego and Ariane Dewey. Very slight rubbing to dust jacket, pages clean, crisp and unmarked; a beautiful book in great condition.

Hardcover. New York , Parent's Magazine Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Illustrated in color by Wendy Watson. Cover with some edgewear, otherwise very good.

Hardcover. NY, Greenberg Publishers, 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth spine, pictorial boards that are still bright. Hole is in front cover for finger to stick through as a puppet, not a defect. Pocket at back has separated from inside cover. Cut-out sheets from folder laid in. Pages are bright and clean.

NY, Knopf, 1st US, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glossy boards. Color illustrations by the author. Light edgewear and rubbing to covers. No dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom-edge.nspired to test Alfred's love, Susie dresses up as a princess and plays "damsel in distress," but Alfred is too busy to come to her aid, until she is confronted by a real dragon.

Hardcover. New York, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by the Dillons and SIGNED BY THE DILLONS. Tight copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped with dark green decoration. Color illustrations by Eric Von Schmidt. Clean copy.

NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color and black & white illustrations by Kate Greenaway. Clean copy. A new era in the history of children's books began in 1878 when Kate Greenaway's first book of pictures and verse, Under the Window, was published. This was followed by her Birthday Book, A Day in a Child's Life, Mother Goose, Little Ann, Language of Flowers, and Marigold Garden. These and the many other enchanting volumes she illustrated, gained her a devoted worldwide audience of all ages. Today's great revival of interest in Kate Greenaway's work is understandable; as an illustrator of childhood she had no equal in her day, nor has she had since. The Kate Greenaway Book contains a short biography and selections from her best-known as well as little-known works: a collection of texts and pictures, some never even published before, charmingly arranged for readers of all ages to enjoy.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st Illust. U.S., 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrations by Irene Haas and SIGNED BY HASS on title-page. Book has bump to bottom lower corner of front cover. Light rubbing on rear dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 79 pages. Hardcover facsimile copy of the original 1937 edition in full color. Black boards with white titles to spine. Full page, full color & bw illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with light marginal wear to edges. Tight bindng, sharp corners, illustrated endpapers, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Hardcover. NY, Random House Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Most pets are cats and dogs, but what happens when a boy wants a different kind of pet, one that doesn't meow or bark? Bob Staake's exuberant tale of a little boy and the pet of his dreams will appeal to anyone whose best friends are . . . books! Books make the perfect pets, the boy decides, and chooses a bright red one. When it goes missing, a lively adventure is in store for readers who love a happy ending. Soon kids everywhere will wish for a pet book of their very own.

Hardcover. New York, Callaway, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 64 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Scratch mark to rear dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear to dust jacket. Illustrations by Michael Roberts.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with a big picture of Kate in the snow blowing the whistle her grandfather had made for her. 32 pages, color illustrations by Winifred Bromhall. Copyright page states 1947 but this appears to be a reprint, ex-school library stamps. Front fly leaf gone. Still an attractive reading copy.

Hardcover. New York , Putnams, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 74 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY DE PAOLA on title-page. Illustrated in B&W by De Paola. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown and Co., 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Tasha Tudor. First printing with all numbers present. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Harpers Collins, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Illustrated by Roz Chast. Minor wear to edges.

London, Macmillan, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations done in comic book style by Wendy Watson.

Hardcover. NY, JellyBean Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed pictorial boards. illustrated in rich color throughout by Charles Santore.

Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne & Co, reprint, unk., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 88 pages. Hardcover with clipped dust jacket. Illustrated in color and black and white by Randolph Caldecott. Dust jacket has minor wear. No. 1.

Hardcover. New York, Crowell, 1st , 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Rockwell. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Glazed cardboard covers, no dust jacket issued. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Books of Wonder/Morrow, 1st thus, 1994, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 64 pages, illustrated in color by Michael Witte. The first edition with illustrations by Witte and SIGNED BY BOTH JUSTER AND WITTE on the title page. Like new.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row , 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ezra Jack Keats. Minor wear to dust jacket, chipping at edges. Brilliant paintings by Caldecott Medalist Keats evoke all the humor & warmth of Levoy's Chaplinesque character Janos, who must sell his violin to pay his passage to America (New York). Tale of an irrepressible musician and dreamer.

New York, Orchard Books, 1st US, 1988, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Color illustrations by Anno. Dust jacket price clipped. Previous owner's inscription on front end paper. Bottom of spine bumped. Light rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Chaos descends on Shadowland when the watchman leaves his post to join a little match girl on a snowy street in the real world.