Children's Illustrated

Chicago, Albert Whitman, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 48 pages. Color, b&w illustrations by Bannon. Previous owner's bookplate opposite title page. Otherwise tight and clean in a bright unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Colorado Springs, Chariot Victor, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Greg Dearth.

NY, Scribner's , 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Reynold Ruffins. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Brings together more than five hundred riddles on a variety of subjects, trivial and important.

NY, Lothrop Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ted Lewin, SIGNED BY TED LEWIN on title page.

Hardcover. Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1st, 1881, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial printed paper on the boards show some edge wear in the form of chipping and rubbing, 372 pages. Over 150 black & white engravings. Bottom front corner chipped, other wise a sound copy.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by James Stevenson. Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Morrow Junior Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Michael Hague and SIGNED BY HAGUE on title page. Like new in dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, George H. Doran, nd, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black boards stamped with gilt lettering, brown buckram spine with gilt lettering on spine badly faded. Pastedown illustrated on upper cover a couple on a horse. Endpapers design by Nielsen in black and gold ink. 24 tipped-in color plates by Nielson plus the color frontispiece along with b&w drawings throughout. The binding is fragile and the boards have edge wear and spotting, but the brilliant plates are all present. This volume is a mystery as it does not conform th other books described on various sites with yellow buckram covers with red lettering. No date anywhere.

hardcover. NY, Garden City Publishing Co., 1st, 1941, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 44 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Gustaf Tenggren. Front fly leaf missing. Edgewear and chipping to covers. Spine coming off.

hardcover. NY, Doubleday , 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Unpaginated, color and b&w illustrations by Aldren A. Watson. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Several blank pages with childrens markings, internally clean. SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR on title page.

Hardcover. Mankato MN, Creative Editions, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. In 1949, SPORT magazine published Lineup for Yesterday, a collection of poems by Ogden Nash celebrating the greatest big-league baseball players of the 1800s and early 1900s. Using an alphabetical approach, the famous wordsmith paid entertaining tribute to 24 legends of the diamond, encapsulating each in just 4 clever lines. Creative Editions is proud to present this masterpiece to a new generation of fans, reintroducing icons from the formative years of professional baseball. The masterful mixed-media illustrations of C. F. Payne portray these heroes of summer in their athletic primes in this, the first-ever picture book publication of Nash s classic. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 3rd, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast. Illustrated end papers. Light edgewear to dust jacket.

NY, Orchard Books, 1st US, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Peter Malone. A boy from the nearby village befriends a girl who has been raised by the animals of the forest and later helps rescue her from a hunter

Hardcover. Sandusky OH, The American Crayon Company, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 61 pages. A child's book on Elsie the Cow, the centerpiece of Borden's milk commercial advertising during the 1940s, 50s and 60s. Two-color illustrations throughout by Walter Early. Edgewear, mild chipping to cardboard covers, name inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 9 x 11", illustrated in color and protected with brodary, lovely full-color illustrations by Steig. Pages, dust jacket and covers clean, crisp and unmarked, spine stiff and tight; a lovely children's book in excellent condition. Zeke Pippin, the pig, finds a harmonica in the street which he soons believes has magical powers. This is the charming story of his adventures. Steig has won both Caldecott & Newbery Medals.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday Doran , 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, color illustrations by the D'Aulaires. Dust jacket with chipping, repaired tears. Stated first edition.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally & Company, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering and color pastedown illustration. B&w drawings and 10 full-page color illustrations by James McCracken. NOTE: 8 of the first smaller drawings have been colored in crayon. Front endpapers with library stamp, otherwise clean. Appears to be a 1925 reprint of the 1918 edition.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt , 1st Thus, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Susan Jeffers. A young readers version of Knight's 1938 classic. SIGNED BY JEFFERS.

Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, non-Paginated. Full color illustrations by Rhoda Chase. Previous owners name on inside front cover. Dust jacket shows light wear.

Hardcover. NY, Dial Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations James Stevenson. Dust jacket unclipped, very good.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, 3rd Printing, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 132 pages. INSCRIBED BY BILL LITTLEFIELD ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations by Bernie Fuchs. First edition, 3rd printing. Vermont Council on the Humanities stamp at bottom edge of front endpaper. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Parragon, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. This is a mix between a picture book and I Spy book. Each page features a simple sentence like "Find Little Bo Beep's lost sheep." or "Find the dish that ran away with the spoon." The pictures are beautifully illustrated and it is a perfect book to read at bedtime. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st Thus, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Richard C. Jones. Introduction by Jan Morris. Afterword By Samuel J. Rogal

Hardcover. New York, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a pristine dust jacket. Non-paginated. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR BRIAN SELZNICK ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket with mild edgewear. A little boy & girl enjoy all of nature- a field, a cow, a fence, a kittycat. Wonderful color art by Weisgard. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st US, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by the author. Bright, unclipped dust jacket. Verses are accompanied by illustrations of unusual situations such as a dog taking a little girl for a walk, a bird scolding a cat for scaring his friends, and a boy sitting calmly while a sheep shears his head.

Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated. BOOKPLATE ON FRONT ENDPAPER SIGNED BY AUTHOR JACK PRELUTSKY AND ILLUSTRATOR PETER SIS. Full color illustrations. Bright, clean copy. Once again the collaborators of The Dragons Are Singing Tonight have combined their extraordinary talents to concoct an irresistible collection of trolls, wizards, witches, giants, ogres (and a solitary yeti). "Jack Prelutsky is up to his usual hilarious no good in this new collection of witchy, wizardly, ogreish poems....Among the subjects of these briskly amusing poems is a wizard who rashly makes himself disappear, a seven-century-old apprentice witch....and a family-type ogre....Prelutsky's skill with catchy rhymes and delightfully fiendish subject matter is complemented by Peter Sis's humorously foreboding and cheerfully nonchalant illustrations."

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co., 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket, b&w drawings by Bill Ogden. While collecting money for charity in front of a supermarket, two boys become inadvertently involved in a jewel theft. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Barry Moser. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 88 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY LYNN MUNSINGER ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Full color illustrations. Dust jacket with darkening along spine, edges. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in beige cloth stamped in red. Black & white illustrations by Gay. Previous owner's bookplate. Ex-lib, with light stamp to front fly leaf, residue to rear end papers. Humorous poetry for young readers.

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. New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 42 pages. Hardcover. Features 6 full color and black & white illustrations in text by Edwin Willard Deming. Short separations of preliminary pages from interior hinge at top and bottom. Areas of foxing and abrasion to title page. Printers unusual binding method has created creasing before the page margins. Short closed tears on some pages. Front cover pastedown intact with some surface abrasions. Scarce.

NY, Sterling, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. Acclaimed artist and naturalist Jim Arnosky has created a breathtaking and informative reference on the subject, filled with intricately drawn prints from creatures both wild and domestic, as well as large-scale paintings of the animals in their environment. Best of all, many of the tracks are true to size, so children can compare the trace left by a big-footed polar bear (whose paws act as snowshoes in its icy environment) with that of a small bird. Adding to the eye-catching illustrations are four awesome gatefolds that display paintings of a bobcat, wolf, deer and a variety of hoofed animals right next to their prints. And the featured menagerie includes bighorn sheep and goats, chipmunks and rabbits, grizzlies and brown bears, horses and burros, domestic cats and dogs and even slithering reptiles!

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 3rd pr., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color photos by Larry Carrara. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping. Dust jacket price clipped. bump to top of spine.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth covers. Color illustrations by Lillian Hoban. Some light abrasions to cloth covers. Remainder mark on bottom. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. NY, The Heritage Illustrated Bookshelf, reprint, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Maroon cloth covers stamped in gilt. Handed down through the generations, the fables have been rewritten by Munro Leaf and illustrated with 2-color drawings by Robert Lawson. Clean copy.

New York, Atheneum, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 87 pages. Black & white and 3-color illustrations by author. Dust jacket has some small tears.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1sr, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 64 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations by Janet Chenery. Dust jacket with $1.95 price at top right corner of inside flap. Light foxing to front and rear endpapers, and some pages. Clean, unmarked text.

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.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 27 pages Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Black & white illustrations by Michael McCurdy.

Hardcover. Newport, R.I., Sheer Bliss Communications, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, unpaginated, illustrated by Seymour Chwast, very clean, tight copy, like new except for slight soiling to back of dust jacket.

Chicago, M.A. Donahue & Company, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with black cloth spine. Color and b&w illustrations by Gruelle. Light corner wear to covers. Clean copy. First published by Volland in 1925, this is most likely a 1930s reprint.

New York, Scholastic Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dustjacket. Color illustrations by Ted Lewin. Unpaginated. Skinny as a beanpole and tall for his age, an awkward young boy learns that Abraham Lincoln was called "gorilla, baboob, backwards hick." Yet along with big feet and big hands, Lincoln had a big heart and the great ability to keep a nation together. And what the boy learns as he studies Lincoln opens his mind to great possibilities for his own future.

New York, Clarion Books, 4th pr., 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket., 32 pages, illustrations by Emily Arnold McCully, very clean, tight copy, like new. From skiing in January, to surfing in July, to giving in December, two energetic piglets romp through the months of the year in this delightful calendar in verse.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Carlos Merida. Clean copy.

New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY PUPPETEER PAUL VINCENT DAVIS (SUBJECT OF BOOK). Unpaginated. Black & white photography by Christopher G. Knight.

Hardcover. Edinburgh, T. Nelson and Sons, Paternoster Row, 1st, 1885, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 72 pages. Green cloth with flowers and birds. Cover slightly faded, soiled. Front hinge torn cracked. Back end pages stained. previous owner's signature. Color frontispiece of beavers building a dam, b&w engravings in text.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan Publishing Co., 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Thomas Allen. A pioneer girl sees pieces of her life sewn into the quilts she, her sister and her mother make. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.