Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on half-title page with illustrations throughout. Very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st thus, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, large format glossy boards. Collects three of the author's works, including the stories about a family of ducks on a trip to the Boston Public Garden, a boy who saves the day with his harmonica, and a little girl who loses a tooth. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Green cloth covers with gilt titles, color illustrated dust jacket, color illustrated endpapers, profusely illustrated with lovely color plates. Small clipped color illustrated article from unknown publication on Maurice Sendak included. Slight edgewear to dust jacket, very faint small brown stain to bottom right front corner of dust jacket, pages clean, crisp and unmarked; a very nice, clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Little Simon, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. In beautiful condition, no rips. All pop-ups are intact and fascinating. Includes a small, to-scale pop-up book within. "Master paper engineer Robert Sabuda has interpreted the classic American anthem 'America the Beautiful' in dazzling dimention. From the Golded Gate Bridge to Mount Rushmore to the Statue of Liberty, America has never looked more spectacular. This stunning keepsake masterpiece will be shared and admire by generations to come; indeed it is a national treasure in and of itself."

Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 109 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Vibrant color illustrations throughout. This retrospective volume is not intended to illustrate a particular story, but to display the full range of her abilities, and it is arranged according to the seasons she celebrates in her art. There are fifty of her hand-colored woodcuts in full color and an equal number in black and white. The book is large format because that is the way she works and that's what does her work justice. The text, written by her friend Lilias Hart, discusses not only her work, but also what life is like in the rigorous reaches of Northern Vermont.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrations by Wnedy Watson. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color by the author and SIGNED BY SHULEVITZ with a small sketch under his dedication.

Hardcover. London, Batsford, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 256 pages, profusely illustrated in color and b/w. A detailed record of important children's books and stories from English literature between 1600 and 1900, with chapters on the "Prehistoric Age", Harris to "Alice", the triumph of nonsense, after Carroll, the importance of pictures, and more. Written by Percy Muir a distinguished English antiquarian bookseller, book collector, and bibliographer who served as president of both the Antiquarian Booksellers Association and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. Clean copy.

Softcover. Akron, OH, Saalfield Publishing, 1st, 1917, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover with light wear to paper wrappers. Moderat soil throughout. Tight booklet binding.

Hardcover. New York, Dial, 1st , 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY MCCULLY on prelim-page. Color illustrations by McCully

Hardcover. Paris, Librairie Armand Colin, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gazed boards, 32 pages illustrated in color and b&w. French text. Small chip to spine otherwise clean, bright copy.

Softcover. New York, McLoughlin Bro, 1st, 1888, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 14 pages. Soft cover on linen, with moderate chipping to paper wrappers. Stapled booklet with rust. Moderate tears and paper wrapper almost detached from staple binding. Full page color chromolithographs.

Hardcover. NY, Harper Brothers, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 265 pages. Hardcover. Brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt and decorated in red and black, front cover stamped in black, red and gilt. Floral endpapers. 21 line drawings by W.A. Rogers. No date on title page, assumed late 1880s reprint.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay Co, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover. Brown cloth covers with embossed black titles, color plate pasted to front board, color-illustrated dust jacket, 11 full-page color plates by Jessie Willcox Smith. Edgewear and chipping to dust jacket, two 2" tears to dust jacket top front cover, otherwise dust jacket still makes neat presentation with acetate protective covering, pages crisp, clean and unmarked; overall a very neat copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrations by Seuss throughout. 19 songs for Beginning Singers. Piano score and Guitar chords by Eugene Poddany. 1st printing, with 1st group listed books ending with I Had Trouble & list for Beginning Readers ending with Fox in Socks on back cover, decorated cloth cover. Mild soil to rear cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Michael Paraskevas. In triumph and disaster, Junior Kroll has a comical way of altering the course of events. He plays in a kazoo quartet, frees the dinner party lobsters, steals one neighbor's roses as a present for another, and decorates Grandfather's birthday cake with "little chocolate flies." Michael Paraskevas's zany illustrations bring these offbeat, bittersweet poems to life.

Hardcover. New York, Scholastic Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 6 double-page color pop-ups, engineered by Reinhart, text by Yorinks, art by Sendak. Like new condition, no dust jacket issued.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, Reprint, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nonpaginated. Hardcover. Decorated cover boards. Some fading and dame to spine (see image). Slight tanning to boards and pages from age. Two-color illustrations throughout. Some light fingerprint smudges throughout.

Hardcover. New York, Dial Books, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Non-paginated. Color illustrations. by Jerry Pinkney. SIGNED BY PINKNEY on title-page. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Silver Burnett, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 320 pages illustrated mostly in color by Dorothy Bayley. Illustrated cloth covers. Previous owner's inscription opposite title page, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 109 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Vibrant color illustrations throughout. This retrospective volume is not intended to illustrate a particular story, but to display the full range of her abilities, and it is arranged according to the seasons she celebrates in her art. There are fifty of her hand-colored woodcuts in full color and an equal number in black and white. The book is large format because that is the way she works and that's what does her work justice. The text, written by her friend Lilias Hart, discusses not only her work, but also what life is like in the rigorous reaches of Northern Vermont.

hardcover. Edinburgh, Floris Books, 1st illust. thus, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial glossy boards. Color illustrations by Katrien van der Grient. No dust jacket issued. Clean copy. The selfish giant drove the children out of his garden and built a high wall around it. Then the frost and the snow came, and after that it was always winter. Until one day the children crept back in through a hole in the wall.

Hardcover. New York /London, Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1st thus, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 104 pages, 12 color plates and many in b&w. Maroon cloth spine over glazed boards illustrated in color. No date given, but circa 1900. Various illustrators contributed including Frances Brundage and Harold Copping. Frontispiece loose but otherwise good+, light edgewear to covers.

Hardcover. NY, Clarion, 1st , 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ted Lewin. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1st , 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Mendelson. Animal characters highlight a retelling of the story of two rascals who sell a vain emperor an invisible suit of clothes. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Akron OH, Saalfield Publishing, reprint, 1913, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 147 pages, illustrated by Arthur Debebian in b&w and 6 color plates. Blue cloth spine, color illustrated boards. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Fragile binding but all there and holding. Vol. 5 in this series.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth covers with blue label on cover. "1" on copyright page. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. 54 pages illustrated in color by Doris Lee. Mild soil to covers. In this charming story Quillow, a tiny toymaker, defeats a ferocious giant, Hunder, saving his town from destruction.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.All 7 picture books in one volume. Introduction by Madeleine L'Engle. Afterword by Margaret Rey. Color illustrations by Rey. 405 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Marie Chardin/privately printed, 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 64 pages illustrated in 2-colors and full color by Bess Bethell. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Red cloth with black type and drawing of a penguin on front. Fraying to top of spine, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Dust jacket worn, chipped. A children's reader, number and alphabet book, all in French.

Hardcover. NY, John Day Company,, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 100 pages, b&w illustrations and decorative page borders by Vera Bock. A collection of tales about India. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman, 1st, 1936, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Ex-library. Cover paste-down very worn. Cloth Frayed on bottom edges. Usual markings.

Hardcover. New York , John Day Co., 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 56 pages, illustrated in full color and 2-colors by the author. Blue cloth covers with dark blue decoration, lettering. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf otherwise clean, very good. in a color dust jacket, that has the publisher's gold sticker on the front, light edgewear and chipping.

Hardcover. NY, Crowell, 2nd pr., 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, oblong, 83 pages. Black & white & red woodcut illustrations by Leo & Diane Dillon. Dust jacket price-clipped, shows some wear and chipping at edges.

Hardcover. NY, Scholastic Press, 1st , 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Emily Arnold McCully. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , Simon & Schuster, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Colorful board book illustrated by Pienkowski. One in the "Look At Me" series. Clean.

Hardcover. NY/Oakland, Triangle Square, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated by Ed Young. Told in haiku-based American Sentences and pictures, Yugen is the story of a boy and his mother, inspired by the profound concept of "yugen," a Japanese word for the mystery and beauty of the universe and of human experience. The second collaboration between Caldecott-winning illustrator Ed Young and Mark Reibstein after their award-winning 2008 debut, Wabi Sabi, Yugen is a book of longing and remembrance that is unequaled in its beauty and poetic simplicity.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st US, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Anthony Browne. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1st illust. thus, 1930, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in yellow, 214 pages. This is a first printing of the edition with the two Gertrude Kay color plates, many b&w spot drawings and endpapers illustration. The original edition was published in 1882. A collection of stories and songs the author learned from growing up among slaves in the antebellum South. The green spine is faded otherwise a clean, sharp 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.

NY, Macmillan Co., 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 92 pages. The story of a little brown goat. Color, black & white illustrations by the Haders. (small number 3 on bottom of title-page signifying?). G+ with light corner wear, previous owner's lettering on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. New York, Arthur A. Levine / Scholastic, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. First state printing with all points of issue satisfied: $17.95 price on front flap, no #2 on spine of DJ or book, raised diamond pattern on dark blue boards, and raised silver letters for title and author name on DJ. 10-1 number line and '37', and first American edition June 1999. An attractive and collectible copy.

Hardcover. Garden City NY, Garden City Publishing, 1st, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth spine with illustrated boards. Unpaginated (50 pages) illustrated in color & b/w throughout with preliminary sketches and actual scenes of the movie. The title page spread has a long, closed tear on the left side. The book's cardboard edges show wear. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, reprint, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 80 pages illust. in color and black & white by Hope Dunlap. Red cloth spine with illust. cardboard covers. F-20 code suggests 1920 printing. Smudges to rear panel. Light edgewear to covers, previous owner's bookplate otherwise nice.

Hardcover. New York, Delacorte Press, 1st US, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by the Sandbergs. Glazed boards with red cloth spine. Originally published in Sweden in 1973. Corners of boards show wear, otherwise clean, very good. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon Books, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Unpaginated. Watercolor art by Joe Servello. End papers also illustrated. Dust jacket has minor wear and soil, cover lightly soiled.

NY, Random House, 2nd pr., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A novelty alphabet book. Each letter has a flap that reveals who lives inside. A board book. Color illust. by Percy. Learning the shapes of all 26 letters of the alphabet has never been more exciting in this big fun-filled board book! Inside each letter-shaped house lives an appropriate person at work--from Andy the Astronaut in his "A"-shaped house to Zach the Zookeeper in his "Z." Peek inside the houses and see the sturdy board letters spring up from the page like magic! Preschoolers will love learning their letters in this ABC neighborhood.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Margaret K. McElderry Books, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Warwick Hutton. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Kalman. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Saxonville, Mass., Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR YOSHI on title page. Book is printed back to front. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Overall, a tight clean copy.