Hardcover. NY, New York Review Children's Collection, reprint, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with a red cloth spine. 72 pages illustrated in color by the author. A reissue of a title first published in 1934. Peewee the dog didn't know any tricks, not even a single one not even how to roll over not even how to shake hands but never mind he is so teeny weeny that everyone loves him, the clown, the fat lady, the thin man, the strong baby, the acrobats, the elephant, the goat on the burning bed, and all the other amazing performers in the wonderful circus of the man with the quite tall red hat. But then something unexpected happens that threatens to bring Peewee s place under the Big Top to an end. Now Open the Box is a beautiful example of the art of Dorothy Kunhardt, the author of the timeless classic Pat the Bunny and the pioneering picture book Junket Is Nice. Here Kunhardt speaks with wonderfully reassuring directness to children s hopes and fears while making magic out of the simplest things. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Platt & Munk, 1st illustrated thus, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with light green stamping. Color and black & white illustrations by Eulalie. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Light soiling to endpapers.
hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st thus, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, first printing with all numbers present, no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Taback. Winner of the 2000 Caldecott Award. Clean, unmarked copy with with the die-cut holes in pages. Joseph begins the story with a little overcoat but when it gets old & shabby he cuts it down into a jacket. The bright and delightful artwork is done in watercolor, gouache, pencil, ink & collage and aided by die-cuts throughout. Taback did a book about this song in 1976 and re-illustrates it here.
Hardcover. London, Collins, 1st UK, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth, unpaginated (approx. 64 pages), illustrated in b&w by Irene Haas. This is a picture book that introduces young readers to a variety of useful French phrases by describing the trip of two intrepid young travellers by sea to France, by boat train to Paris, and then through sight-seeing adventures. Each phrase is accompanied by a detailed, witty, black and white pictures showing when it might be used. A wonderful picture-book for the young French language learner. Clean. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins Publishers, 1st, 1995, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY ASHLEY WOLFF ON TITLE PAGE WITH ILLUSTRATED SKETCH. Blue board with black cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket, gorgeous full page color illustrations. Extremely slight rubbing to dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in excellent condition.
Hardcover. NY, Golden Press, 1st thus, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, 96 pages with color illustrations by Richard Scarry.
NY, Knopf, 1st US, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.Color illustrations by the author. The story is of a boy who seeks peace and quiet in the nearby park. The reader is taken through the Paradise Garden and its beautiful settings, the illustrations by Thompson are captivating. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. London, Blackie & Son, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color pictorial boards with beige cloth spine, 64 pages. B&w illustrations by Frank Adams. No date or printing. Inscription on inside front cover otherwise clean and bright.
Hardcover. New York, Ginee Seo Books/Antheneum Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2007, Book: Fine, Dust Jacket: Fine, 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. NY, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. On a sweltering summer day in Brooklyn, the local firemen spray a group of bored city kids with cool water from their hoses. In the water-drenched moments that follow, the children make the most of this unexpected treat. Lawrence Ferlinghetti's poem comes alive with charming and exuberant woodcuts by David Frampton, creating an adventure that readers of all ages will enjoy.
Hardcover. New York, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Illustrated throughout in full color by Ted Lewin. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 128 pages. Red cloth over orange boards, paper labels to front cover and spine. 23 tipped-in color plates. Mild shelf wear, chipping to spine label.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 7th pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in 3-colors by Leo Politi. Running through the streets of Lima went Paco, the nine year old Indian boy from the hill country of Peru. He was an orphan and, when his boss-man was hurt and had to go to the hospital, the "Public Welfare" said that Paco must come and live with them. But not Paco! Paco gets himself some city clothes, makes his bed of theater posters in a niche of an old building, and sets himself up as a shoeshine boy in front of the most handsome building he has ever seen, the palace of the President of Peru. Dust jacket with edgewear, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Rand McNally & Co., 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, Illustrated in 2-colors by Dugald MacDougall. The story of a 6-year old Zulu girl who has many adventures when she goes to the store alone for the first time! Includes exotic setting & details of Zulu life. Author grew up in South Africa. Light wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay Company, 1st, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrated boards, unpaginated. Illustrated with full color drawings of Mickey Mouse and friends. Light wear to cover corners and 1 1/2" closed tear at bottom front hinge. Page 14 has a 1" closed tear on right margin - this does not effect text or illustrations. Clean, tight copy.
NY, Bloomsbury, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Tim Raglin.Poor Bill! He is a bull with a passion for fine china. But, as we all know, bulls and china don't really go together too well - or is that just prejudice? In fact, Bill is a perfect collector of the most charming china cups, and only starts to break things when he is made to feel nervous. This is a delightful book about a bull, a china shop and three very kind old ladies. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 56 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. "Horn Book" stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, tight copy.
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.
Springfield, MA, Mcloughlin Bros., 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, large format 10x12", pictorial boards with a black cloth spine. The cloth has separated from the spine and the first signature is holding on by a thread or two, Except for this loose binding defect, the pages are clean and bright. No markings. A scarce title.
New York, Bedrick Blackie, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 30 pages. Color illustrations by author. Dust jacket price clipped. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 9th pr., 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY MACAULAY on the half title page. Black & white illustrations by Macaulay. Lavishly illustrated Caldecott Honor book about the construction of an imaginary French Gothic cathedral. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Bright glossy color illustrated boards. All pop-ups and moving parts very good. Bright color illustrated pages. 12 pages. A well preserved copy of the 1st printing of this higHly regarded mechanical book on the human body. Name on the first page, otherwise clean
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by author on title page.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color cartoon illustrations by Lorenz. In glossy boards with mild spine fade. No dust jacket. Tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Philomel Books, 8th pr., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Moses. It is a silent, snowy December night. Shopkeepers and country folk in the tiny Vermont village are hurrying everywhere, lighting candles, wrapping gifts, baking pies--getting ready. But for what? For Christmas Eve? Or is there more? The Miller family knows there is! Pa and the boys, little Andy and Jamie, rush to the train station through the blizzardy twilight to pick up Grandma Stokes. Old Paul, the hired hand, rides to get Doc Herrick. Mama's quilty friend Tinker won't leave her side. They all know something truly wonderful is going to happen this Christmas Eve, snow or no snow, right here at Miller farm.In his unmistakable style, world renowned folk artist Will Moses brings Christmas to a Vermont village in an original story that the entire family--boys and girls, mothers and fathers, grandparents, aunts and uncles - can share by their own candlelight year after year.
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. Toronto, Groundwood Books , 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 144 pages with color illustrations by Gary Clement. Lottridge uses her storyteller's ear to bring ancient stories from the Hebrew Bible to a young audience, tailoring them to make them more age appropriate. Sometimes blending several stories together, she introduces the familiar characters--Adam and Eve, Abraham and his kin, Moses, Daniel--and writes about them in ways that bring them near. The numerous, well-drawn ink-and-watercolor illustrations are reminiscent of Warwick Hutton's work. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Clarion Books, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 44 pages illustrated in color by Burton. Since it was first published in 1939, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel has delighted generations of children. Mike and his trusty steam shovel, Mary Anne, dig deep canals for boats to travel through, cut mountain passes for trains, and hollow out cellars for city skyscrapers. But with progress come new machines, and soon the inseparable duo are out of work. Mike believes that Mary Anne can dig as much in a day as one hundred men can dig in a week, and the two have one last chance to prove it and save Mary Anne from the scrap heap. What happens next in the small town of Popperville is a testament to their friendship and to old-fashioned hard work and ingenuity. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated in b&w by the author. Tim is so discouraged and bored by life at home and school that he seizes a chance to join a circus, not knowing what really awaits him. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Seymour Chwast celebrates the daily routine of getting dressed in this fittingly whimsical and satisfyingly unique novelty book. Unlike more traditional books on this topic that deal with the how of getting dressed, Get Dressed! instead tackles the why. The text "Get dressed to read about dragons" accompanies an illustration of a boy dressed in a makeshift knight costume. A girl in full floral garb stands in a garden alongside the text "Get dressed to hide." The book features half and full gatefolds, which foreshadow the items of clothing to be seen and provide surprise reveals on each spread. With a die-cut magnetic closure, even the cover invites readers to peek inside!
Hardcover. Boulder CO, Bala Kids, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, gorgeous color art by Wen Hsu. Two sisters discover the power of love and the true meaning of compassion in this princess-adventure story based on an ancient Chinese tale. Miao Shan isn't your typical princess. She likes to spend her time quietly meditating with the creatures of the forest or having adventures with dragons and tigers. Miao Shan's heart is so full of love that her dream is to spread happiness throughout the land and help people endlessly. But her father has other plans for her--he intends to have her married and remain in the palace. With the help of her little sister Ling, Miao Shan escapes and begins her journey to discover the true meaning of compassion. Clean copy.
Hardcover. USSR, Raduga Publishers, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 25 pages. Translated from the Russian by Irina Zheleznova. Black & white illustrations by Ivan Bilibin. Minor soiling to covers.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a very good, unclipped dust jacket, 110 pages. Illustrated throughout with b&w pictures by Maurice Sendak. Blue boards with silver embossed birds and vines on the front board. A fanciful story about a young princess being cursed by her older sister at her christening and the adventurous aftermath of that curse. Dust jacket lightly sunned
Hardcover. Kansas City, MO, Tell-Well Press, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Nonpaginated. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped and in protective brodart. Color illustrations throughout. decorated endpapers. Dust jacket has some age-yellowing. Cover boards decorated in same design as dust jacket. Small superficial tear to top of front cover at spine. Clean inside. In beautiful condition for its age.
Hardcover. NY, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR with a tiny sketch. Another graphically minimalist yet utterly effective picture book for the very young. "Snug inside her warm den, a polar bear cub wakes. Something in the moonlit stillness quietly beckons. What is it?" The tug of this gentle mystery will draw children into Thompson's simple bedtime story, and the hypnotic ebb and flow of her alliterative lines (on a night that's "keen and cold," little cub "sets out for the snow and sky and sea and ice") will keep children immersed as the young explorer encounters floating, dreaming sea creatures, and witnesses a meteor shower that further transforms the already exotic nighttime surroundings. As arresting as Thompson's language are Savage's powerful linocuts, which beautifully reference the textures and forms of Inuit stone carvings and evoke the arctic landscape in a few elemental colors per spread: glacial blues, grays, and sea greens; the pinks and lavenders of the aurora borealis.
Hardcover. NY, Atheneum Books, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in black. Color art by Haley. Discover how an African trickster god made it possible for people to tell stories in this brightly illustrated, Caldecott Medal-winning picture book. Long, long ago there were no stories on earth for children to hear. All stories belonged to Nyame, the Sky God. Ananse, the Spider man, wanted to buy some of these stories, so he spun a web up to the sky to bargain with the Sky God. The price the Sky God asked was Osebo, the leopard-of-the-terrible-teeth, Mmboro the hornet-who-stings-like-fire, and Mmoatia the fairy-whom-men-never-see. Can Ananse capture these sly creatures and give the children of earth stories to tell? No dust jacket, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Emily Arnold McCully and SIGNED BY MCCULLY on front fly leaf. A childhood move in the life of Willa Cather to the plains of Nebraska, brings initial unhappiness, then appreciation and love for her new surroundings. Inscribed, with a sketch by the illustrator.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Rumford. According to Herodotus, an Ancient Greek historian, a Phoenician named Cadmus brought the alphabet to Greece. In the ancient myths, Cadmus was a hero who fought a ferocious monster and founded the city of Thebes. Cadmus was so famous that his deeds were told and retold throughout the ancient world. In this modern retelling, James Rumford uses the alphabet that Cadmus brought to Greece to recount the hero's own story. Part truth, part fancy, this different kind of alphabet book takes its reader on a journey to the distant past, when our letters were not just marks to record sounds but were pictures of eyes and hands, doors and fences, giant teeth and . . . monsters.
Hardcover. NY, Little Simon, 2nd pr., 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover board book with 5 colorful interactive spreads. Featuring brilliant hands-on lessons for curious readers who are preparing for Pre-K, this oversized busy book lets little ones discover, learn, and play with first concept surprises. Includes a memory game with simple shapes hidden under flaps and introduces colors, counting, clocks, and more. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Parents Magazine Press , 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Charles Mikolaycak. Bottom corners slightly bumped. Light rubbing to corners, spine. Minor soiling to covers. Library binding. No dust jacket.
Softcover. Akron, OH, Saalfield Publishing Company, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover with moderate soil and fraying to corners. Paper wrappers lightly darkened. Previous owner's name written on front wrapper. Illustrated by Diane Thorne.
Hardcover. NY, Lothrop Lee and Shepard, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 32 pages illustrated in color by Adrienne Adams. Weekly Reader Club Ed. Name on inside front cover, light wear to bottom of spine, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, color illustrations by David A. Johnson. In a very good, unclipped dust jacket.
hardcover. New York, Dutton, 6th PR., 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY ZELINSKY on title-page. Newbery Honor Book Sticker on front of dust jacket, cover and dust jacket completely illustrated, gorgeous full-page color illustrations. Very minor rubbing to dust jacket, pages clean, crisp and unmarked; a beautiful children's book in great condition.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st thus, 1911, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in black cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and an illustrated, color paper label on the front board. The top edge of the text block is gilt. 273 pages of text and illustrated with end sheets, color title page, and 14 color plates by N. C. Wyeth each separated with printed tissue guards. This is the first Wyeth illustrated edition with the 1911 date on the title page in Roman numerals. Front hinge tender, rear hinge cracked. NOTE: Most descriptions call for a map proceeding Chapter 1. Missing here, but no sign of extraction. Previous owner's bookplate on a blank prelim page Despite map issue, a good plus copy of this scarce first printing.
Hardcover. NY, Coward McCann, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Nice color and black & white illustrations by Hodges. Dust jacket shows minor wear and chipping, some soiling to foredge, clean.
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