Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st , 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Barry Moser. Dust jacket price clipped. Tight copy. A collection of poems about Biddy Early, the Wise Woman of Clare, and her animal, human, and supernatural associates.

Chicago, Follett , unknown , 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Translated from French by John Mills. 70 pages, including glossary. First American edition. Profusely illustrated. 71 pages, giving information of various types of ships from Galleys, Clippers, Whalers, Glossary of sailing terms. Famous sailers James Cook & others.

Hardcover. Somerville MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, color illustrations by Gwen Millward. What may appear to be an abandoned garden is actually home to an unusual array of insects. Meet a ladybug who prefers making mud angels to acting like a lady, a roly-poly bug who loves to roll ("wa-hoo!"), a cricket who dreams of grand adventures, and a whole neighborhood of bugs gazing up at a fireworks show of flowers bursting into bloom. These inviting vignettes are sure to have readers seeing bugs in a whole new light. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Front cover slightly bowed, otherwise clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges. Color ullustrations by Wendy Watson.

New York, Philomel, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Thomas B. Allen. Unpaginated. With America at war with Germany, Littlejim's father believes that there is no time for fun despite the coming of the Christmas holidays, but Littlejim practices hard for the Bible competition, hoping to go to the church Christmas tree celebration.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Features more than 80 of Tasha Tudor's favorite family recipes accompanied by her wonderful illustrations, book and jacket are in excellent condition, there are no significant flaws, the original price is present ($26.99). Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Augener Ltd., First Edition, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non paginated. Blue cloth boards with oval paste down illustration. Toning to board edges & spine. Oval full color illustrations by H. Willebeek Le Mair throughout, most in very good condition. Light foxing & fingerprints to a few pages. Moderate foxing to preliminary pages. Otherwise clean & unmarked.

Hardcover. New York , Thomas Y Crowell, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 31 pages, illustrated in color by Michael Hague. Sticker residue, some wear to cover, otherwise in very good condition.Previous owner's notation on inside front cover, barely visible against blue endpapers.

Hardcover. New York, M. Evans & Company, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, red cloth covers with black lettering and illustration of an aardvark on front. Pictures by Wendy Watson. Front hinge shows light tearing.

New York, Hawthorn Books, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound. Color illustrations by Rosemary Wells. Dust jacket with light edgewear, closed tears. Brodart cover.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, blue cloth covers stamped with design and title. Worn dust jacket with a small sticker on front. Calligraphy and silhouette drawings by the author showing children's adventures in NY city. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth with red and black design, 44 pages illustrated in color by Burton. 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 -- the very symbol of industrial America. 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. Bright, clean reprint of this classic, lacks dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon Books, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 55 pages, illustrated with b&w photos by the author, very clean, tight copy, small taped tears to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston, 4th pr., 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boars with green cloth spine. Unpaginated. Charming color illustrations by Diana Thorne throughout. Soiling to spine and light edgewear to cover boards. Internally very good.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Company, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in color throughout by Emma Chichester Clark. When Cissy Lavender house sits for Mr. William Holly's cats and dog, she finds a multitude of things to do and write to him about.

Hardcover. NY, Gulliver Books, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 164 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillion

Hardcover. Washington, DC, Encino Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Illustrated in black & white by Pat Oliphant, the award-winning editorial cartoonist. SIGNED BY OLIPHANT with his pequin sketch. Quarterbound w/green lined paper covered boards w/dark green cloth covered spine, no dj issued.

Hardcover. Cleveland, World Books, 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong pictorial boards, 28 pages illustrated in color by Chiyoko Nakatani. The zoo hippo family of "Wake up Hippopotamus" ferry the other animals to safety when floods come. Lovely long hippo pictures extend across spreads. Mild musty odor, No markings.

NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Light edgewear and soil to the dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Gail Owens. A Parisian mongrel successfully leads a double life until both of his "owners" enter him in the same dog show. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, North-South Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. From the gospel of Luke, illustrated by Eleonore Schmid. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.

Hardcover. NY, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ben Shecter. Two friends decide that playing hide and seek isn't as much fun as doing things together. Publisher's review slip laid in.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay, na, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Preface by Mrs. Maxwell Scott. 389 pages including glossary. 12 color plates by Simon H. Vedder. Previous owner's bookplate. Maroon cloth, gilt decorated. Top edge gilt.

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, Dutton, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Introduction by Milne. Music by H Fraser-Simson, decorations by E.H. Shepard. A bright copy in the scarce dust jacket that's edgeworn, chipped.

Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 79 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket has chunks missing at spine. Chipping to covers. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Illustrated by Elizabeth Enright.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, reprint, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn and chipped dust jacket with 2.95 price on flap, blue cloth covers stamped in black with title and moose face on front. 40 pages illustrated in 3-colors by Seuss. Later issue, with the 7-line copyright notice. The story of a moose who was too hospitable for his own good told in humorous verse.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, short closed tears. B&w pictures by William Pene Du Bois. $8 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a heavily chipped dust jacket, 192 pages illustrated in color and b&w by the D'Aulaires. A collection of idealized Greek myths, a child's first introduction to the Classical world.

New York, Harcourt Brace , 3rd pr., 1994, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by David Diaz. Winner of the Caldecott Medal with sticker on dust jacket.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Candlewick Press, reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Kenneth Grahame's classic children's story tells the adventures of the amiable Mole, the dapper Water Rat and the marvelous Badger as they endeavor to keep the wayward Toad out of trouble. Sensitively abridged and beautifully illustrated in color with great charm and detail by Inga Moore. 182 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, M. A. Donohue, 1st, 1924, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Color illustrations by Gruelle. Color illust. cardboard covers. Light wear to corners. Previous owner's writing on front end paper. Dust jacket shows heavy wear, with chunks missing from top and bottom spine, rear, and corners. Covered in plastic.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Bros , unknown, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with illustrated boards. Color, b&w Illustrations by Helene Guertik. Heavy wear to cardboard covers, mostly corners. Tender binding. Charming full page color lithographs (one double-spread), illustrated title page, plus two b&w drawings. As the sun rises on the Little French Farm, Francois, the farmer's son takes us around and introduces us to all the creatures on the farm.

Hardcover. NY, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, reprint, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 224 pages. Few stories are as widely read and as universally cherished by children and adults alike as The Little Prince. This special edition of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's world-famous classic marks its seventy-fifth anniversary in print. Featuring a beautiful new cover and a special look at its history and making including a biography of Saint-Exupery, sketches, photos, and reviews from the first edition. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Scholastic , 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non paginated. Hardcover. Color illustrations by Jon Agee throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st , 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Bruce McNally. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, reprint, 1915, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth with boards illustrated in red and black. 318 pages profusley illustrated with b&w drawings by Pyle. Previous owner's inscription on inside front cover.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 166 pages, illustrated in b&w by Marvin Friedman. Small previous owner's stamp on front fly leaf otherwise very good in a bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 2nd pr., 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with price clipped dust jacket. Dust jacket chipped, with moderate amounts of wear and tearing, now covered in plastic. Lithograph illustrations. Cover boards show minimal wear, light rubbing. Caldecott medal sticker on front of dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY , Harper, reprint, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 196 pages. From New York Times best-selling Shel Silverstein, celebrated creator of Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, and Falling Up, comes an amazing collection of never-before-published poems and drawings. Copyright page says First Edition, but line below suggests 2013 printing. First published in 2011. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Minneapolis MN, Carolrhoda Books, reprint, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations by Nancy Carlson. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Mcloughlin Bros., 1st, Book: Good, Hardcover, 9 1/2 X 12", paper-covered boards. Title on cover is The Wonderful Story of a Little Bear. Five color plates and many other two-color illustrations by Sarah Noble-Ives. No date found but early 1900s. Approx. 48 pages. Covers are fair only with paper chipping, edgewear, rear cover with paper covering loose. Bottom quarter of blue cloth spine missing. But the inside is complete, bright and clean.

Hardcover. NY, Rand McNally , 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color art by Stephen Conlin. With the turn of each page, the book's illustrations will grow to five feet. On one side of the book, peer into a cut away of Chicago's John Hancock Center. On the flip side, size up the world's tallest structures, from Ulm Cathedral spire to the CN Tower, all drawn to scale. Climb to the top as the story of skyscrapers unfolds in this unforgettable book.

Hardcover. New York, Blue Sky Press/Scholastic, Inc., 1st, 2004, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, SIGNED BY DAVID SHANNON ON TITLE PAGE. Acetate-protected dust jacket, gorgeous full page color illustrations. No sign of wear, spine stiff and tight, dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in excellent condition.

Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne and Co, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black. 76 pages, seven color plates & numerous b/w illustrations by L. Leslie Brooke. No date, probably 1950s. Small ownership stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glossy boards, 36 pages. The text is illustrated in Charles Schulz's inimitable style, showing Snoopy and Woodstock and the crew involved in various boating activities. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY MINOR ON half title-page. Color illustrations by Wendell Minor.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Oblong hardcover. Color title page plus 23 full-color plates by Smith. Beige cloth spine with paper covered boards, color illiustration on cover. Hinge shows stress just after front fly leaf, otherwise very good with minor nicks to cardboard edges.

Hardcover. NY, Neal Porter/Holiday House, 1st, 2019, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, color illustrations by the author. It can be a little scary to be small in a big city, but this child has some good advice for a very special friend in need.Winner of the Ezra Jack Keats Award for Writer! A New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Book of the Year. The first book both written and illustrated by award-winning artist Sydney Smith spins a quiet, contemplative tale about seeing a big world through little eyes. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow Books, 1st , 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Martin. Dust jacket with closed tear, light soil.

Hardcover. New York , Grosset & Dunlap, 1st thus, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, illustrated in color and b&w by Doris and Marion Henderson. Oblong format, color illustrated boards with blue cloth spine. Previous owner's bookplate otherwise clean, very good.