Children's Illustrated

Softcover. New York, Workman Publishing Company, First Edition, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non paginated. Softcover. Light wear to covers including toning, folds to edges, small chip to rear corner. Light foxing to preliminary pages & edges. Photographs by Robert Doisneau. Otherwise clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Garden City Publishing, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, pictorial boards in a edgeworn dust jacket, unclipped (1.00). Notable for the illustrations by Ralston Crawford. Ralston Crawford (1906-1978) was an American abstract painter, lithographer, and photographer. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st thus, 1974, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 176 pages, yellow pictorial cloth covers. A collection of 4 classic Seuss titles, color illustrations throughout. Covers soiled, worn edges and corners. Interior bright and clean.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, color illustrations by Sis.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers stamped in black, 96 pages illustrated in line by Brown. Endpapers have child's pencil marks, top of spine is worn, frayed. Corners worn. ONE PAGE (12th from beginning) has a child's crayon marking covering 3 lines of text, not affecting art. Every page has text and drawings on a cream block background.

Hardcover. NY, Enchanted Lion Books, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Drawn from life, Arthur Geisert's Pumpkin Island is the fantastical story of a real life town brought to a halt by a profusion of pumpkins. Elkader, Iowa, is the perfect picture of small town life that is, until the pumpkins arrive. One pumpkin? Fine. Two pumpkins? Okay. But with pumpkins growing around every street corner, and over every building, what's a town to do? Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1sr, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. "Come and enjoy the sequence of hilarious events that is set in motion when Mike holds one end of a rope for a clown at a circus. This imaginatively illustrated book is complete with tattooed man, acrobatic ladies and roaring lion." Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday Page & Co., 1st, 1927, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrated boards with a brown cloth spine. 60 pages illustrated in color by James Daughterty. Boards are chipped, soiled. Binding shaken but still holding.

Hardcover. NY, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. The book opens up to a 'pop-up' of a goliath beetle (paper engineering by James Diaz), illustrated by Wendy Smith-Griswold, and then opens on either side, again with pop-ups and sliders. A book on Beetles, in a three-dimensional and 'pop-up' format for children, discussing the life cycle and lives of the insects. All in great shape, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrated boards. Color illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. Tangrams are ancient Chinese puzzles that are still used today by adults as well as children. Author became intrigued by the challenge of the puzzles and began making up her own tangrams and stories about them. Clean copy, no dust jacket.

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. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped with gilt and dark green design. Being the Histories of a Cat, A Dog, A Pigeon, A Lynx, Two Wolves and a Reindeer and in Elucidation of the Same. With over 200 drawings by Ernest Thompson Seton. 363 pages. Stated First Printing on copyright page. A very good plus copy with some fading to the spine but internally a clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Kenosha WI, Samuel Lowe Co., 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 24 pages, illustrated boards. Bonnie Book # 4132. A collection of puzzles, games and things to do for children. Unmarked with the little plastic toy intact on the cover. Bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 28 pages in color. A colorfuly illustrated book challenges young readers through visual tricks and puzzles in which one can spot the surprises with each turn of the page. McGuire's art has a spare, highly stylized quality and most of the cartoonlike illustrations are composed of flat, geometrical shapes. Great picture fun.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Juvenile, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 318 pages, illustrated throughout by Bemelmans. Very clean and tight copy. Includes Madeline; Madeline and the Bad Hat; Madeline's Rescue; Madeline and the Gypsies; Madeline in London; Madeline's Christmas, and The Isle of God (or Madeline's Origin.)

Softcover. US, Boyds Mills Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated in color by Yaccarino. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Package contains everything that you need to construct your own house that will measure approximately 8 x8 1/2 inches when constructed. Name the familiar objects that appear on the cubes. Identify the musical instruments that the people are playing. Mimic the emotions that are portrayed on the cubes. Tell stories about the people and animals that live in The House of Fun! Create your own cubes (use an unconstructed cube as your pattern).

Chicago, M.A. Donahue & Company, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with black cloth spine. Color and b&w illustrations by Gruelle. Light corner wear to covers. Clean copy. First published by Volland in 1925, this is most likely a 1930s reprint.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Tight and bright copy with only light edgewear to dust jackets and covers.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lippincott , 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-Paginated. Color Illustrations by Brodsky. Dust jacket price clipped. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 72 pages. A true masterpiece of book design and illustration for beginning readers, this collection pairs well-known nursery tales with uniquely beautiful period illustrations that look as fresh and vital today as they did six decades ago, when the book was first published in Great Britain. Never before published in the United States, My First Nursery Book features four beloved stories: "Who Killed Cock Robin?," "The Gingerbread Man," "Three Little Pigs," and "The Three Bears." Franciszka Themerson, a Polish avant-garde artist and filmmaker who returned to children's book illustration as a refugee in London in the 1940s, is regarded as one of the great talents in classic children's book illustration. Finally, American children can experience and enjoy this remarkable volume, filled with stunning illustrations that will bring a new audience to Themerson's genius.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in light green, 259 pages. Illustrated in b&w by Robert Lawson. Stated First Edition on copyright page. Previous owner's inscription on blank leaf, spine cloth with light fading. Otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrations by Brown. Decorated library binding. Hardbound, no dust jacket. Clean.

Hardcover. Chicago, Scott, Foresman and Company, Reprint, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by Keith Ward and Eleanor Campbell. "Public School 201, 155 St. & 65 Avenue, Flushing, N. Y." stamped at top right left corner of title page. Light rubbing, surface soiling to covers. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Nice color illustrations by Crews. Dust jacket shows minor wear, mostly clean and good condition. Hardbound. Laid-in: Bigmama poster.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated by Frances Tipton Hunter. SIGNED WITH SKETCH BY MUNRO LEAF ON PAGE OPPOSITE OF TITLE PAGE. Previous owner's name on front end paper. Dust jacket has chipping and small tears. Covers have rubbing and chipping of laminate on edges. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 2nd pr., 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, paper over boards with white and black lettering over color illustration of young girl having tea with a squirrel. Tan cloth over spine. Edges, corners show wear. No

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, Lumos/Scholastic, reprint, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 160 pages. No dust jacket issued. The Tales of Beedle the Bard contains five richly imaginative stories of adventure, cunning, heartache, and, of course, magic. They are to the wizarding community what the tales of the Brothers Grimm are to Muggle families. This lush new illustrated edition has been translated from the ancient runes by Hermione Granger and is presented here with extensive commentary by Albus Dumbledore. And now Hans Christian Andersen Medalist Lisbeth Zwerger interprets these classic tales with beauty and tenderness (and wit), illuminating them for modern readers. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace World , 1st, 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by the author. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Ex-library with usual markings, stamping and tears to end papers.

Hardcover. Cambridge UK, Brimax Books, 2nd pr., 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glossy boards, color illustrations by Gerda Muller. 45 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , North-South, 1st U.S., 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 24 pages illustrated in color by Zwerger and SIGNED BY ZWERGER on title page. Originally published in Zurich in 1985.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Lane Smith. Unpaginated. With complete number line. A 1993 Caldecott honor book - delightfully illustrated parodies of children's fairy tales. The entire book, with its unconventional page arrangement and eclectic, frenetic mix of text and pictures, is a spoof on the art of book design and the art of the fairy tale. Clean copy.

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.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. Illustrated in color by Carolyn Croll. Corners lightly worn. Dust jacket spine sun faded, one small tear, placed in protective plastic cover.

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 3rd, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by the author. Hardcover with dust jacket. non-paginated. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Parents' Magazine Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth covers. 48 pages illustrated in color by Anne Rockwell. Minor wear to cover at edge of spine. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Hawthorn Books, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages, b&w photographs. Lively account of the day-to-day care and training of horses experienced by many teens at horse farms in summer. In a lightly worn dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, St Martins Press, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Peter Barrett. Gyp, a cheerful but always silent sheep dog, startles everyone with uncharacteristic behavior during the championship sheep dog trials. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Margaret K. McElderry Books, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 129 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean and tight copy.

NY, Stewart Tabori & Chang, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Descriptions of twenty-six (one for each letter of the alphabet) unfamiliar but everyday foods from around the world include couscous, rijsttafel, goulash, kebabs, and Welsh rabbit. Color art by author. Clean.

Hardcover. Grand Rapids MI, Eerdmans, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A brief collection of seasonal poems for young readers based on the author's experiences living in Lancaster County, PA. Beautifully illustrated in color by Bill Farnsworth.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace, 1st , 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 190 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white drawings by George Hughes. Dust jacket worn, chipped. Previous owner's bookplate on front end paper.

Hardcover. Somerville, MA, Candlewick Press, 1st US, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy with color illustrations by author throughout.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset and Dunlap, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Naomi Averill. Clean copy.

NY, Pippin Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color cartoon illustrations by the author. SIGNED BY LEE LORENZ on title page. Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Tokyo, Japan, Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 101 pages, black and white Illustrations by Yoshie Noguchi. Dust jacket with small rips, tears and creases, otherwise in good condition.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Jim McMullan. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 206 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Moderate wear to cover board edges. Illustrated by Harrison Cady.

Hardcover. Toronto, McClelland and Stewart, reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 2-color Illustrations by Carol Jones, 92 pages. "Excitement and adventure pervade the mysterious Arctic as young Tuk experiences the thrill of killing his first bear; as beautiful Sedna commands the wrath of the seas; and as lovely Leealura wins the heart of Maleyato, the best hunter in the village." Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 124 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Previous owner's writing on front fly leaf. Moderate wear to covers and heavy fraying, chipping and abrasion to corners of laminate.