Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. Eerdmans Books for Young Readers;, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 42 pages. Mixed-media collage illustrations, prominently featuring oversize, digitally altered photographs of human heads, reflect Garmann's anxious thoughts in his last summer before he begins school. Signs of autumn abound in nature and in his elderly aunts' annual visit. The six-year-old side of Garmann thinks his aunts are shrinking and soon may not be able to see over the grass, naively offers one aunt his skateboard when she says that soon she will need a walker, and worries because he has not lost his first tooth.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket. Edith and Little Bear try to clean up New York City. Illustrated with black and white photos by Wright, endpapers are a panoramic of NYC which includes the Twin Towers. Light musty odor, sun fading to spine edge, otherwise a clean copy.

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. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, Revised Ed., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MACAULAY on the half-title page. The information age is upon us, baffling us with thousands of complicated state-of-the-art technologies. To help make sense of the computer age, David Macaulay brings us The New Way Things Work. This completely updated and expanded edition describes twelve new machines and includes more than seventy new pages detailing the latest innovations. With an entirely new section that guides us through the complicated world of digital machinery, where masses of electronic information can be squeezed onto a single tiny microchip, this revised edition embraces all of the newest developments, from cars to watches. Each scientific principle is brilliantly explained--with the help of a charming, if rather slow-witted, woolly mammoth. Autographed sticker on cover, a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Books of Wonder, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 292 pages. This deluxe reproduction of the rare first edition features all twelve of Oz artist John R. Neill's beautiful color plates, along with his nearly one hundred black-and-white drawings, Afterword by Peter Glassman.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 315 pages. B&w drawings by Erna Pinner. Appears to be a 1950s reprint of the 1939 title. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Creative Editions, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. A collection of whimsical creatures introduce the colors of the rainbow, identify the primary colors, and show how to create new colors.

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. NY, Philomel, 2nd pr., 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 52 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR ON TITLE PAGE. Color illustrations by David Small. Winner of the Caldecott Medal. Clean, tight copy. Second printing, no medal sticker on cover.

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. Akron, OH, Saalfield Publishing, 1st, 1932, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with light chipped laminated boards. Spine is loose, as are gutter but still intact. Light wear to pages. Fore edge and corners moderatly frayed. Still good condition. Text describing various dog breeds and 12 full page color plates by Thorne. Thorne is among the most highly regarded dog artists; this volume includes drawings of many different breeds: the Collie, German Shepherd Dog, English Setter, Cocker Spaniel "Husky", Boston Terrier, Irish Terrier, Great Dane, Sealyham terrier, Wire Haired Fox terrier, Cairn terrier and Airedale.

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. Chicago, M.A. Donohue & Company, reprint, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 95 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket has heavy chipping and wear. Small chunk missing from top, corners and bottom/top spine. Chipping to cover boards, light internal soil, gutter cracked on page 19.

Hardcover. NY, Parents' Magazine Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth. Color illustrations by Boche Kaplan. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1st, 1928, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Chipping, tears and heavy wear to cover boards. Rear hinge separated with staples exposed. Previous owner's marking on preliminary pages.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Brown. In Venice, city of cats and canals, a little striped cat is befriended by a canal boatman's son and gets a name and a home. Library binding, some tape residue to boards but no stamping, clean interior.

Hardcover. New York, Hyperion, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE. Tight copy with little wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Mitra. Waking up on his birthday with a toothache, Elephant visits the dentist and learns about proper tooth care. Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 96 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Chipping on dust jacket. Illustrated by Kate Seredy.

Hardcover. London, Writers and Readers , 1st UK, 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy boards. From two Italian authors, this tale of female baby elephants who rebel against their allotted role is an early example of challenging sexist stereotyping in children's books. 32 pages in color. Top 1" of spine worn, front fly leaf torn away. The rest of the book clean and tight.

Softcover. US, Platt & Munk, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover with light to minor wear to paper wrappers. Illustrated by H. Cady. Previous owner's markings on some pages.

Hardcover. NY, Garden City Books, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Palazzo, previous owner's sticker on front endpaper and minor edge wear, otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Parent's Magazine Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial cloth, 48 pages. Striking drawn illustrations by Devlin. Fifteen tales from many lands explaining nature's phenomena: thunder, lightning, and rain. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, P.F. Volland Company, 1st, 1918, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Previous owner's name on title page. Front hinge cracked and separated from pages. Covers show heavy wear to edges and has chipping and frayed corners. Illustrated by Johnny Gruelle in color. Previous owner's sticker in rear end paper.

Hardcover. Sydney, Austalia, P.I.C., 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 48 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Robert Ingpen. Clean, tight copy. This children's picture story, a detective mystery, is about a Siamese white elephant, en route from Siam to Britain as a gift to the Queen, and which disappears in New Jersey. This is one of the author's most hilarious, but overlooked, masterpieces for any child or adult to enjoy. The life-like illustrations are by international illustrator, Robert Ingpen. The literature classic was originally published in 1882 as a short story.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 14th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Story of the Santa Fe trail, presented in a charming production with full color plates and marginal line drawings presenting learning lessons on a variety of Western history subjects. Stated 14th printing, rear of DJ is review for just the Paddle to the Sea. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Gulliver Books/Harcourt, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 82 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with color illustrations by Tom Pohrt.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nonpaginated. Hardcover. Covers bound in blue cloth with gilt title on spine and cover with decoration and pastedown art. Beautiful b/w illustrations throughout by Seton. Bump to top corner of cover, small scrape to cover label otherwise clean, very good. The aim of this well-illustrated work is to picture the life of a Grizzly Bear with the added glamour of a remarkable Bear personality (from the Preface). Presented in 16 chapters, Seton considered this work as an historical novel of Bear life.

Hardcover. Copenhagen, Jespersen & Pio, 1961, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light wear, closed tear. 125 pages, color illustrations by Axel Mathiesen. No markings.

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Minor wear to dust jacket. Light rubbing to covers, fading to spine. Illustrations by Wendy Watson.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers decorated in gilt, 251 pages. Edited by Tiffany Thayer. Black & white drawings by Robert Ball. Excellent condition.

Hardcover. NY, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1st, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial cloth, 40 pages with wonderful 3-color woodcuts by Robert Quackenbush. Covers are worn and shabby looking, inside pages bright and clean. Small notation on title page. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black silhouetted illustrations by Ed Young. Clean, tight copy with light wear to dust jacket and covers.

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. NY, Dial Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Nicole Rubel. Amelia adopts a stray bull terrier who barks a lot but earns her family's gratitude by solving a mystery. Dust jacket shows light wear, clean copy.

Softcover. New York, McLoughlin Brothers, 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 12 pages, un-numbered. Softcover with stapled binding. Light wear to paper wrappers. Illustrated in full color on all pages. Previous owner's name in pencil on front wrapper.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by John O'Brien. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. St Paul MN, Minnesota Historical Society , 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. In this book lush, life-like illustrations by natural history artist Laurie Caple accompany Cheryl Blackford's poetic imagining of a year in the life of an urban coyote. Across the pages, Coyote sneaks, skulks, and scurries in his constant quest to feed himself and his growing family. While Coyote hunts nearby, people enjoy a city park. At the lake, in the marsh, among the trees, children jump, twirl, and play, oblivious to his secret life. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 40 pages, illustrated in color by Klassen. Laszlo is afraid of the dark. The dark lives in the same house as Laszlo. Mostly, though, the dark stays in the basement and doesn't come into Lazslo's room. But one night, it does.This is the story of how Laszlo stops being afraid of the dark. With emotional insight and poetic economy, two award-winning talents team up to conquer a universal childhood fear.

Hardcover. London, Dent, 1st UK, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. B&w illustrations by Leonard Lubin. INSCRIBED BY FOX on title page. Light wear to top and bottom of spine otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light beige cloth with blue lettering on spine and drawing on front cover, 96 pages illustrated in color and b&w by the author. Mild soil to covers.

Hardcover. NY , Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards with black cloth spine. 32 pages illustrated by Chalmers in shades of pastels and b&w. Presumed first printing of this scarce title. Charming story of Kevin Rabbit who likes to garden, visits the city, makes friends with a white cat and some seagulls and has adventures. The boards have light tan spotting or foxing. Previous owner's inscription on first page, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st , 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 41 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. 20 original illustrated fables in color by Lobel. Caldecott Winner. VG minus dust jacket.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally , reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 344 pages, 10 color plates by Milo Winter. Blue cloth covers with paste-on cover label and gilt decoration.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, color illustrations by Jerry Pinkney. While Susan sleeps in this mesmerizing bedtime book, crickets, owls, raccoons, bread bakers, and saxophone players enact their nighttime activities.

hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st US, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illust. by Gary Kelley. Small hole in dust jacket spine. Short tear starting in gutter on title-page.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 32 pages illustrated in 2-colors by Bridgman. In a lightly edgeworn dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. NY, Clarion, 1st, 1992, hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color paintings by Ted Lewin. A ten-year-old Lebanese boy balances his life in a war-torn city. Lewin's watercolor illustrations capture contemporary Beirut with stunning clarity and drama.

hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 24 pages with color illustrations by Ambrus. An old Hungarian folk tale.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st illustrated thus, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 127 pages illustrated in color by Michelle Wiggins. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.