Hardcover. New York, Doubleday Page & Co., 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 129 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Gilt decoration and laid in art on front cover. Black & white illustrations by Charles Livingston Bull.
Softcover. NY, Hyperion, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 2 folded signatures comprising the complete book in a folded dust jacket. A color proof of Agee's 2008 book.
Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated by Donald Sultan. Light edge wear to covers. Otherwise, clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1st , 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 62 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white illustrations by Emily McCully. Dust jacket with small piece gone from top on rear panel. Review slip laid in. Small chunk missing from dust jacket rear by spine.
Hardcover. NY, Dial, 2nd pr., 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, color illustrations by Susan Jeffers. Weaving together the beautiful oral traditions of the American Indian into a grand epic poem, Longfellow's renowned classic is given a stunning visual interpretation by an award-winning artist. Clean copy.
NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st , 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Tim Bowers. During the summer at his grandparents' farm, Fritz stumbles across some unusual rabbits. He follows their footsteps to their home in the middle of a grassy hill. One of the rabbits sees Fritz peering in their window and informs him that the other rabbits are out looking for a new meeting place. Fritz offers his grandfather's shed if they let him become a member, which they do.
Hardcover. Akron OH, Saalfield Publishing, 1st, 1933, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with green cloth spine. Short stories about the every day activities of little girls, with eight vibrant full-page color illustrations by Peat. Unmarked.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Nice, almost new-looking condition. Black & white illustrations by Chorao. Hardbound, dust jacket. Author/illustrator's first book.
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, Bantam, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Color illustrations by Seymour Chwast. Excellent condition. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. DK Publishing, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A thickly sentimental tale, told in graphic-novel-style frames, of a dying boy's metaphorical quest for courage.
Hardcover. NY, Putnam, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Nice color illustrations by Gammell. Great, clean condition. Hardbound, dust jacket. Though his parents explain there have been no mammoths for over 10,000 years, Will goes out in the snow one day, certain he will meet some.
New York, Greenwillow Books, revised ed., 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Lobel. Sven, a respected watchman on a drawbridge, finds his work disrupted when a thoughtless king blows the bridge up. This ia a revised edition of Anita Lobel's first book, published in 1965.
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. Philadelphia, Lippincott , reprint , 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Previous owner's inscription front end paper. Translated by Elisabeth P. Stock. Color illustrations by Maria L. Kirk. Cover shows age and some wear. Hardbound, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Parents Magazine Press , 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Jane Miller. Corners bumped. Wear to corners, spine. Dust jacket with light edgewear.
Hardcover. NY, Dial Books, 4th pr., 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A collection of traditional tales from around the world each of whose main character is female. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row , 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Nice color illustrations by Lobel. Minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Austin, Texas, Steck-Vaughn Company, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 30 pages, Illustrated in color by Frank O'Leary. Small note in pencil on back fly leaf. Dust jacket has several tears, placed in protective plastic cover. Describes the physical characteristics and habits of the peccary, or javelina, that inhabits the southwestern United States.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Worth's poems take us from the first excitements of early December through the wistful farewells of Twelfth Night. Illus. by Caldecott winner Frasconi. Glorious woodcuts in bright colors enhance the poetry's spirit of festivity & wonder.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Bros., 1st thus, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 117 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black and white drawings by J.M. Conde. A Hollow Tree Story. Cover label illustration in color by Conde. ( balloon is also misspelled with one L) previous owner's inscription front fly leaf.
Hardcover. New York, Lippincott, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 63 pages. Boards. Illustrated by Edward Gorey. Previous owners inscription at top of front endpaper. Price clipped dust jacket is worn at edges with some red marking and smearing on front cover.
Hardcover. Scarsdale NY, Bradbury Press, 2nd pr., 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Paul Goble. Two young Sioux join in a raiding party to capture horses from some neighboring Crows. Front endpapers with stamp inside front cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York , Dutton Children's Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Ashley Wolff and SIGNED BY WOLFF WITH A SMALL SKETCH on front fly leaf. In very good condition.
Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. B&W drawings by C. Walter Hodges. 189 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston , 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Michael Hague. 162 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A collection of tales including "The Snow Queen," "The Little Mermaid," "The Little Match girl," "Thumbelina," "The Elfin Hill," "Little Ida's Flower," "The Ugly Duckling," "The Wild Swans," and "The Emperor's New Clothes."
NY, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Velma Ilsley, 93 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket and light soil. Small tear to back pastedown. Story about Christmas giving and the true meaning of Christmas. Mr. Frisco isn't on his corner selling newspapers. So Charlie buys him a pair of gloves for a Christmas present and goes looking. Clean copy.
NY, Philomel Books, 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Patrick Benson. Bright, unclipped dust jacket. Five episodes featuring Hob, a goblin, and the family he lives with and protects, though only the children can see him.
Hardcover. Joliet, P. F. Volland, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial boards. Color illustrations by Herman Rosse, paper chips to cardboard covers, minor foxing to first few pages. Previous owner's name in pencil on copyright page.
NY, Warne, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Illustrated by Author in color. A young girl dreams of the fun she could have if there were two of her. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row , 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Montresor. Some edgewear. Dust jacket with soilng, small tears.
Hardcover. London/NY, F. Warne & Co., reprint, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 64 pages. Illustrated in color by Kate Greenaway. Boards are beige, with paste-down illustration on front. Edges are bright green. Price-clipped dust jacket is fresh and bright, with just a trace of soil. First published with the Greenaway illustrations in 1886. Small price sticker on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Marc Simont. Light rubbing to dust jacket and some sticker residue on front.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in b&w by cartoonist James Stevenson. Dust jacket price-clipped otherwise very good.
Hardcover. Akron OH, Saalfield Publishing, reprint, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth cover with pictorial design stamped in black and gilt. Color frontis plus b&w plates by Arthur DeBebian. Billy, our favorite goat, escapes from his comfortable farm home and causes absolute chaos in a travelling circus. Rescued by his master, he is then kidnapped and made to perform. Clean copy. Light shelf wear.
hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Black & white photos by Ylla. Light edgewear to dust jacket and rubbing. Shelf wear to covers.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, no dust jacket. Illustrated in color and b&w by the author. Tan cloth covers with dark brown illustration, lettering. End paper map by De Angeli. Stated first edition. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harlan Quist, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with light gray lettering, no dust jacket. Full color illustrations by Etienne Delessert. A retelling of the story of Noah's ark with vivid, color illustrations. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, McElderry Books, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by James Watts. Clean, tight copy. Retelling of a wry Chinese folk tale, charmingly illustrated.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover, illustrated in color by Bruce Ingman. Clen, tight copy.
Softcover. Paris, DIANE SELLIERS, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover, in a pictorial dust wrapper, 395 pages. Color illustrations by Pat Andrea give a whole new surrealistic look to the classic tales. FRENCH TEXT.
NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1992, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Dust jacket pristine. Color illustrations by Brusca. A familiar folktale motif is that of the clever man who outwits the devil. In this zesty retelling, based on an Argentinian source, that man is Juan Pobreza, a poor blacksmith who reshoes a mule belonging to St. Peter and charges nothing for the job. Touched, St. Peter asks the man to name three wishes. Juan, sure that Peter is not who he claims to be, makes three seemingly senseless wishes that help him out later when he must deal with the agents of the devil. In the twist at the end, Pobreza finds himself barred from both heaven and hell.
Hardcover. New York, Harper and Row, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Color illustrations by Ben Shecter. Library stamps on front fly leaf, otherwise unmarked. 32 pages.John's best friend tells everything he knows about John, the secrets they share, their likes and dislikes, and the fun they have as friends.
Hardcover. Charlottesville VA, Thomasson-Grant, Inc., 1st thus, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, unpaginated, color illustrations by the author, clean, tight copy. A much-loved Danish illustrator, a 1972 Andersen medalist, takes up a problem that seems to be world-wide: kids who feel abandoned by their busy parents. Caroline, realistically pictured in the book's first half during a typical lonely day, wakes up next morning to transcribe a dream: the children band together to build a parent trap that's baited with films, videos, and free popcorn--once caught, an adult would ``never run away'' but, rather, be available for companionship and solace. In the end, Caroline's friends admire her story and do help build a playhouse-trap--with the happy implication that some adults may get the point.
NY, Potter, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrations by Helen Craig. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Lightly bumped corners. When Angelina Ballerina sees old Mr. Bell all alone at Christmastime, she decides to bring him some holiday cheer. Cousin Henry doesn?t want to help until he finds that there?s a real Santa Claus living in their town!
Hardcover. New York, Little Simon, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed brown covers with color illustrated pastedown. Non-Paginated. Full color illustrations by Kyte. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Red illustrated boards, no dust jacket, lovely full page color illustrations. Pages crisp, clean and unmarked. Early printing, mid-50s, 16 titles on rear cover starting with Yertle the Turtle. This is the tall 12x9 retail edition; not the smaller book club edition. Copyright page has the Redbook reference that was removed in the bookclub editions. This copy has the original illustration of 2 Seuss characters with a black complexion from the fictional African island of Yerka; which has since become objectionable; also stereotypical drawings of Asian characters. The top 2 inches of the cardboard spine is missing. Binding sound. One of the six discontinued Seuss titles.