Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Previous owners inscription in a fine hand along top edge of inside front cover dated 1939. Full color and black & white illustrations by Barbara Latham. Rubbing to edges and corners of covers. Degree of age toning to page edges. Clean, unmarked copy.
Softcover. Akron, OH, Saalfield, Unknown, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with blue cloth spine. Tipped-in color frontis (by Frances Partridge). B&W drawings by Helene Nyce. Blue
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. NY, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 3rd pr., 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Based on a new translation by Aliana Brodmann. Measures approximately 8.5 x 12.25 inches. Dust jacket has minor edge wear. Beautiful color plates by Gennady Spirin. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Cleveland OH, World Publishing Co, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated by the cowboy/author/artist with sixty five b&w illustrations; red cloth lettered in bright gilt with a sketch of a horse on front cover. The Chapters: The cowboy today; The cowboy's work and outfit; The critter; All in the Day's riding; On the drift; The cowboy calendar; The rodeo; For a horse; Tom and Jerry; Scattered tracks; Folks west; Horseflesh. Clean copy.
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.
Hardcover. NY, Hurst & Company, reprint, 1914, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth with color label on front cover, Unpaginated, with a page decorated in color for each letter of the alphabet.
Hardcover. London, Augener Ltd., First Edition, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non paginated. Mustard cloth boards with oval paste down illustration. Fraying to spine edges. Dime sized damage to spine top edge. Oval full color illustrations by H. Willebeek Le Mair throughout, most in very good condition. Light foxing to a few pages. Moderate foxing to preliminary pages & endpapers. Previous owner's date written to title page. Otherwise clean & unmarked.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Janovich, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by David Gentleman. Dust jacket shows some minor wear, chunk gone from top of spine, rear panel.
Hardcover. NY, Philomel Books, 1st thus, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy pictorial boards. Stated first impression of this reproduction of Nister's work from the late 1800's. Includes poetry, fold-outs & reproductions of antique dimensional pictures. All 4 pop-ups perfect. Clean copy.
NY, Harper Collins , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. Book review laid in. SIGNED BY JOYCE WITH A DOODLE OF AN ELF'S FACE. "Art Atchinson Aimesworth--inventor, crime fighter, and all-around whiz kid--receives a mysterious summons from Santa Claus and shares a Christmas adventure with his sister Esther that brings them closer together." Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , Dodd, Mead & Co., 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ashley Wolff and SIGNED BY WOLFF on front fly leaf. In very good condition. Tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Wonder Books, 1st, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with light edgewear. 20 pages illustrated in color by Adele Werber & Doris Laslo. Name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Morton Grove IL, Albert Whitman & Co , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. An adaptation of the author's biography, Land of Enchantment, describes her eventful 1852 journey with her mother and brother from Kansas to California over the Santa Fe trail in a large wagon train. Lovely detailed watercolors illustrate her narrative. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Golden Book, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 72 pages illustrated in color by Tenggren. No dust jacket issued. Like new.
Hardcover. London, Collins, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A reprint collection of the first four books featuring the mice from Brambly Hedge, charmingly illustrated in color by the author. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Ginee Seo Books/Antheneum Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY BARYSHNIKOV AND RADUNSKY ON TITLE PAGE. Glossy dust jacket and covers completely illustrated in color, beautiful full page color illustrations by Vladimir Radunsky. No wear to book or dust jacket; a gorgeous children's book in excellent condition.
Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally , 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, a collection of strange and unlikely (impossible) events for children's amusement. Some edge scuffs and other normal exterior wear. Color and b&w drawings by Smock.
Hardcover. Springfield MA, Mcloughlin Brothers, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with light edgewear, 60 pages illustrated in color and b&w by Clyne. Name stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Chicago, Whitman Publishing , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with light edgewear. Primary school reader. Two-color illustrations by Dorothy Wheeler. No date but appears to be 1930s.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st illust. thus, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The classic picture book from Margaret Wise Brown about two trains and their cross-country journey from east to west, with a bold new look from Geisel Award-winning artist Greg Pizzoli.
New York, Simon & Schuster, 5th pr, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with $2.95 price. 65 pages. Two-color illustrations by Hilary Knight. Previous owner's inscription on front end paper. Light wear to spine and corners. Dust jacket with minor soil to rear panel.
Hardcover. US, Piggy Toes Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Clean, tight copy. In this technical tour de force, father and daughter combine origami-style figures and intricate pop-up effects into six spreads and a double gatefold of paper magic. The art evokes common materials, from a whirl of newspaper doves or passport pages made into sailboats to legal-pad-paper ducks swimming in a desktop "pond" of spilled coffee and, for a spectacular finish, an array of Chinese take-out menus and cartons falling prey to a hungry dragon's attack. The figures are mostly made of precut and glued pieces, but many of the beaks and noses, at least, are actually folded.
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. NY, Wonder Books, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrations by Joe Oriolo. Illustrated cardboard covers with minor edgewear, otherwise very good, clean.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ron Parker. A look at the bears of Tennessee's Smoky Mountains depicts them foraging for nuts and berries, readying a den for hibernation, and waking and sleeping with the rising and falling temperature during the long winter.
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 waves hammering 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.
Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1923, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, 90 pages. Boards. Tri color illustrations by Josef Wenig. Tales of the devil being outwitted at every turn. Dust jacket very worn and tape repaired along spine and flaps.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 32 pages illustrated in color by Grifalconi, Bright, unclipped dust jacket. Sissy, a pensive, round-faced, soft-eyed little black girl, mopes around her Georgia farm feeling neglected, lonely and "all grumpy-like." She is missing her father, who ". . . had died back when I was a baby girl." But her understanding uncle emerges from the fields, sees her sadness, and makes her feel better by reminding her that "we all be family." Uncle Dan knows that, just like his crops, she needs a little watering, a little love , and a little attention to shake off her blues. Sissy's Uncle Dan is able to cheer the little girl up when he takes her into the corn fields and points out to her how each and every one of the ears of corn is different from the other.
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 waves hammering 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. Somerville MA, Templar, 1st US, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Winner of the New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book Award. Glorious artwork, on each and every page.
Hardcover. New York , Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages, hardcvoer with dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Frank Modell. Some light edgewear, spine faded. Clean, tigth copy.
Hardcover. Camden ME, Down East Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. What happens to the denizens of the tidal zone when the sea recedes every 12 hours? This is the question that Hodgkins answers in a playful yet instructive way. Children are introduced to crabs, sea urchins, mussels, sea worms, starfish, lobsters, periwinkles, and other creatures that must adapt to constantly changing conditions. Color illustrations by Jim Sollers.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Kalman. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 64 pages.This book features fifty train cars, one for each of the Fifty states (plus a caboose for the District of Washington!). Interesting, informative detail in the illustrations give both adults and children plenty to see and discuss. Using the motif of a circus train, Sis has designed a different car for each state. A great deal of research went into this book as evidenced by the many tiny details in each watercolor painting. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, Johnny Gruelle Co., reprint, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, illustrated in color and b&w by Gruelle's son, Worth Gruelle. Color illustrated cardboard covers with blue cloth spine, light edgewear, back panel with rubbing and white spotting to blue color. Inside front cover has some wrinkles to pastedown. Internally clean, very good.
Hardcover. Seymour, Greenwich Workshop Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 100 pages. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR SCOTT GUSTAFSON ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, After her grandfather's death, eight-year-old Sophia fulfills his last request and journeys to Greece with her mother to see the land where her roots are. Color art by Karen Barbour.
Hardcover. San Diego, Gulliver Books/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrations bu Michael Hague. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Hungary, Petofi Printing House, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial laminated boards. Color illustrations by Emma Heinzelmann. Spine and corners rubbed. Translated by Judith Elliott. Covers slightly splayed. The Terrible Seven cats terrify nine dogs, all called Louis in what was perhaps the most frightful conflict since cat and dog wars began.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Illustrated in color and two-colors by Antony Groves-Raines. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London/New York, Viking/Kestrel, Revised Ed., 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 408 pages, illustrated in b&w by Antony Maitland. Edited by Brian Alderson with his notes on the stories in the rear. Previous owner's handwritten note inside front cover otherwise clean with a bright dust jacket with light edgewear.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. B&W illustrations by Emma L. Brock. Decorated blue cloth with shelfwear, light soil to end papers. Mild water stain to front end- paper. Review copy stamp to blank prelim. page.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 342 pages, illustrated by Jessie Wilcox Smith with color title page, 8 color plates, and blue endpapers drawing. Light tan cloth with blue and gilt design and color label on front cover. Top edge gilt. Hinges fragile, light chipping to cover label, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, BC Ed., 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, color art by Keats. Archie's cat is missing the day of the pet show - but all turns out well in the end. Vibrant, full-color illustrations fill every page. Oblong format, unpaginated. Clean book club edition.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, reprint, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards with black cloth spine. Color illustrations by Garth Williams. Early but not a first. Previous owner's name on end paper, otherwise clean, very good. Lacks dust jacket.
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