Hardcover. NY, Viking, reprint, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 34 pages. A nice oversize board book reprinting the classic tale first published in 1936. B&w illustrations by Lawson, Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, color illustrations by C.F. Payne, SIGNED by author. This inspirational picture book is based on the true story of Shoeless Joe Jackson and his bat, two of the greatest players in baseball history. Some say Shoeless Joe Jackson was the greatest hitter ever. But Shoeless Joe had a partner: his bat, Black Betsy. And if not for the faithful Black Betsy, Joe might never even have made it to the major leagues. Clean copy
Hardcover. NY, Crown Publishers, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 40 pages illustrated in color by the author. Weekly Reader Book Club Edition. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, a story by the author of Ironweed and his son, Brendan. SIGNED BY BOTH KENNEDYS on title page. Illustrated in color by Glen Baxter.Through ingenuity, determination, and sheer grit, Charlie Malarkey and his friend Iggy must stop Ben Bubie and his diabolical machine from stealing belly-buttons in Albany, New York
Hardcover. Garden City NY, Garden City Publishing, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with red cloth spine. Copyright 1948 by James and Jonathan. Oversize hardback story/picture book measures about 9 by 11 1/4 inches. Story of Slappy, a duckling who runs away from home to discover the world. Clean copy of a fragile book. Fragments of dust jacket laid in.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY SHULEVITZ on title page. In a sleepy sleepy house everything is so sleepy - until music drifts in through an open window. Chairs begin to rock, dishes begin to dance, and a sleepy boy opens his eyes to the revelry of the once-sleepy house. Then, softly, the music drifts out, and everything is sleepy sleepy once more. With his soothing text and gentle, whimsical illustrations, Uri Shulevitz has created the ultimate sleepy sleepy bedtime story. So Sleepy Story was a 2006 New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year.
Hardcover. NY, Dunreath Publishing, 2nd Ed., 1893, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth, lightly soiled, stamped in dark blue with a decorative cover. 80 pages with charming line drawings by George W. Bardwell. The story follows the exploits of a band of elves as they search for the world's most picturesque location. The elves face many difficulties and impediments on their voyage, but they keep going for their goal. They pick up valuable lessons about cooperation, tenacity, and the wonders of nature along the way. Hinge cracked at title page, book a little shaken but holding, clean copy.
Softcover. London, Black Dog Publishing, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 190 pages, pictorial wrappers. Now the world's foremost blues, rockabilly, soul and rock 'n' roll reissue label, Ace Records has been responsible for unearthing lost classics and neglected pioneers for over three decades, and provided some of the finest and most influential records of the post-war era. Illustrated with many unseen archive photographs dating back to the 1920s, rare artwork and newspaper clippings. Written by established music journalist and author David Stubbs.
Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, Book Club, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth. 60 pages illustrated in 3-colors. A Parisian birdseller's pet turtle Rosalie goes missing, and Gaston the talking blackbird must help find her. Weekly Reader Edition. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by Babbitt on title page. Babbitt ( Tuck Everlasting ; Knee knock Rise ) has created some extraordinary children's books, and this one is no exception. It is, quite simply, Babbitt at her best. In a medieval castle, a king and queen argue a crucial question: what is the "best thing" for their young prince? The king insists that his wife gives the child too many toys ("If this keeps up, he'll turn out soft and silly"); she retorts that he gives him too many lessons ("If that keeps up, he'll turn out dry and dusty"). The king resorts to his books to find the answer, whereas the queen polls everyone she meets. The responses run the gamut from "vegetables" (the day nursemaid) to "sunshine" (the gardener) to "a song" (the court musician). But it is the cook's daughter who points the perplexed parents in the right direction, instructing them to ask the prince himself. "Bub," replies the toddler, which translates into the inarguably "very best thing": love. This splendid story is matched by exquisite artwork, which offers a refreshingly realistic depiction of the medieval setting and featuring the royal dog (patiently sporting a court jester's cap), who is entirely devoted to the very lovable prince.
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy pictorial boards, 64 pages illustrated in b&w by Rachel Isadora. Two folktales, one from Ireland and one from Cornwall, about Tom and his encounters with a leprechaun and piskies, which convince him that they are real. "The visual balance of text and illustration completes the elegance of the book." --Booklist. Reissue of a title first published in 1979. Clean and bright.
Hardcover. NY, NYR Children's Collection, reprint, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, reprint of the classic title, SIGNED by Marc Simont on title page, no dj issued.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ruth Sanderson. Three princes go on a quest to the Heart of the World to save their drought-ravaged kingdom.. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , HarperCollins, reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover reissue of a book first published in 1956 written by Jack Sendak and illustrated by his brother, Maurice. SIGNED BY MAURICE SENDAK. Flora, a little circus girl, wonders what the people who come to the circus do when they are not at the circus. Illustrated in black-and-white and pastel pink and green. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket.
Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1st, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with mild soil, corner wear. Color illustrations by ROFry. When a new little pony learns to say "Boo", he wants to tell everyone but he upsets them. They positively forbid him to say boo anymore! Main character looks like a super shaggy bay Exmoor or Dartmoor pony.
Hardcover. New York, Holiday House, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR, Michael McCurdy. Illustrated with sepia wood engravings. Blind-stamped boards. Dust Jacket lightly faded. Clean, tight copy in excellent condition.
Hardcover. NY/London, Frederick Warne, 2nd Ed., 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Small hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The original of this story was written by Beatrice Potter in 1907 but never illustrated by her. This Second Edition features the first appearance of the lovely color plates by Marie Angel. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non paginated. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations by Calef Brown throughout. Illustrated end papers and paste downs. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston Company, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth stamped in gilt. beautifully illustrated with color & black lithographs and numerous text illustrations by the Petershams. Gilt lettering on spine faded.
Hardcover. Somerville, MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 40 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color illustrations by author.
Hardcover. NY, Windmill Books/Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Rockwell. Dust jacket with mild edgewear, light soil. Previous owner's inscription also on front fly leaf. First Printing stated. 23 full-page color Norman Rockwell prints of his wonderful art work. The Rockwell pictures are complimented with one-page short stories.
Hardcover. New York, Philomel Books, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 48 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear to dust jacket. Full page color illustrations by Oliver Jeffers throughout. Tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Dial Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, color art by Agee. This absurdly clever and funny graphic novel, told entirely in palindromes, is created by World Palindrome Champion Jon Agee, author of Go Hang a Salami! I'm a Lasagna Hog! Otto is having a very palindramatic day. His pet, Pip, has gone missing, and his search for the dog leads him deeper and deeper into a strange and perplexing world--full of talking owls, stacks of cats, storms and mazes, boats and trains and automobiles . . . oh my! Everything seems to be the same backward and forward, and Pip isn't sure he'll ever find his way home to Mom and Pop. But you, reader, will enjoy his Oz-like journey thoroughly.
Hardcover. New York, Callaway Editions , Reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 25 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Gutter crack to front flyleaf. An otherwise very clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, color illustrations by New Yorker cartoonist Harry Bliss. SIGNED BY BLISS on title page. It's Halloween night, and one very brave witch has decided to teach her little sister all about humans and what they enjoy, including some yucky stuff called "candy." But when it seems the little Witchling thinks candy is yum, her big sister flies off to set her straight--and then she gets stuck in a tree! Good thing the little Witchling isn't afraid to be brave! Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 64 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. FRENCH TEXT. Illustrated in color by Kahl. Light edgewear to cover boards.
Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Matthew Wheelock, Jerusha's great-great grandfather, creates an enduring legacy for his descendants as he clears his fields and uses the stones to create a marvelous stone wall. Gorgeous watercolor art by Ted Lewin.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 30 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Light soil on front, with corners worn. Pages are clean and bright. Illustrations by Watson.
Hardcover. Somerville MA, Candlewick Press, 3rd pr., 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, color illustrations by Chris Van Dusen. This lovely picture book is a prequel to the Mercy Watson transitional chapter books. It tells the story of how Mr and Mrs Watson came to adopt Mercy, and how Mercy first discovered her love of toast with a great deal of butter. As this book is designed for parents to read to their child, the vocabulary used is richer and more varied than that found in the Mercy Watson chapter books. The illustrations are gorgeous and inviting, and help to create warmth and spark conversation. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Steven Kellogg and SIGNED WITH A SMALL SKETCH BY KELLOGG on the front end paper. Light edgewear on dust jacket.
Hardcover. Golden Books, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 28 pages. Color illustrations by Tony Strobl and the Mattinsons. Price sticker on rear cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Chicago, John C. Winston Company, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. SIGNED BY MAUD AND MISKA PETERSHAM ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Full color and black & white illustrations. Light wear to blue cloth covers. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, reprint, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, cartoon illustrations by Syd Hoff. Light soiling to covers. Book Club edition, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, color illustrations by the Dillons. SIGNED BY THE DILLONS on title page.This gorgeous picture book by Newbery Honor winner Patricia C. McKissack and two-time Caldecott Medal-winning husband-and-wife team Leo and Diane Dillon is sure to become a treasured keepsake for African American families. Set in West Africa, this a lyrical story-in-verse is about a young black boy who is kidnapped and sold into slavery, and his father who is left behind to mourn the loss of his son. Here's a beautiful, powerful, truly unforgettable story about family, memory, and freedom.
Hardcover. NY, Golden Book/Western Publishing, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed pictorial boards, 32 pages illustrated by Scarry. Harry and Larry go fishing for the Cat family's dinner, but all they catch is trouble. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton , 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 64 pages illustrated in color by Diane Goode. Selections include: Buffalo Gal, Clementine, I've Been Working. 17 selections in all. Musical arrangements included. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
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. While looking for his mother in a haunted house, a little boy plays pranks on the monster inhabitants.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Kestrel, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, color illustrations by Kalman. Nighttime is the best time for stories. And Lulu is the best storyteller. She knows about the three cross-eyed dogs at a fancy restaurant, about blue and green mountains where fish fly, about the family party where Maishel Shmelkin forgot to wear his pants, and of course about the noodle woman the pointy red nose. The stories, told by a sister to her little brother, are short and sweet and make you remember things and forget things. Maira Kalman paints a wondrous and humor-filled world in a child's-eye view. It is full of wild invention, people familiar and outlandish, bittersweet moments and flights of fancy. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Books of Wonder, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages. A deluxe facsimile of the rare first edition, featuring forty-two of John R. Neill's full-color plates and twenty-one two-color illustrations, as well as a colorful pictorial binding. Afterword by Peter Glassman.
Hardcover. Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. Imagine the bravest, fiercest Norwegian warriors that ever lived, carrying a baby prince across blizzard-wracked mountains to save his life. Picture the babe's mother undergoing a cruel, brutal test to prove her son is indeed the bona fide prince of Norway. A fairy tale? No, this is a true story, based on the account written in 1264 by Sturla Tordsson, about the Middle Ages' most powerful king during what are known as Norway's Golden Years. Norwegian-born author Lise Lunge-Larsen tells the story of this king's miraculous adventure in infancy, while woodcut artist Mary Azarian stunningly depicts the heroism of the birch-bark armored peasant warriors, the Birkebeiners. Mary Azarian was awarded the Caldecott Medal for her lovely woodcut illustrations in Snowflake Bentley. SIGNED BY AZARIAN.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth with black stamping. 32 pages illustrated with bold colors by the author. A young Indian boy gives timely warning of a forest fire, saving both the wild animals and his people. Tape residue on covers where dj was taped to book, light stamp to front endpaper. Ex-lib. Interior clean.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Altemus, 1st thus, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 62 pages, illustrated in color by Verbeck. Light edgewear to pictorial boards, previous owner's signature on front and rear endpapers. Internally neat and bright.
Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st, 1951, Book: Poor, Hardcover, oblong pictorial boards, 55 pages. Charming children's story of a cobbler with a cat, a dog, and a little mouse named Mr. T. T. Anthony Woo. There is no peace in the house with the cat and dog always chasing after the mouse and vice-versa, until the cobbler's sister moves in with her parrot and upsets things ever more. Illustrated throughout with wonderful full page Lithographs by the author. A Caldecott Honor Book Award Winner in 1952. Fair to poor only as the binding has separated from the black cloth spine. It's all there. no markings, a scarce first printing that's begging to be repaired. Edgewear ro boards.
Hardcover. New York, Blue Sky Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE BY AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR. Crisp, bright copy with minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Arthur A. Levine Books, reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, oblong format. 32 pages with gorgeous watercolors by McCully. Mingyi, a desperate woman who does not want to marry the no-good Soong Ling, seeks the help of Master Wu Mei, the "beautiful warrior" who teaches Mingyi the philosophy and techniques of kung fu to defend herself against her suitor. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Kentucky, Purple House Press, 2nd pr., 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light edgewear to covers, otherwise clean and tight copy. 25th Year Anniversary edition.
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