Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. New York, Whittlesey House, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Previous owners inscription in pencil on front endpaper. Full color illustrations by Donald McKay. Dust jacket with some chipping and paper loss along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. NY, Platt & Munk Co., 1st thus, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. A fresh, clean, well bound copy. 6 leaves (12 pages) including the cover. Color illustrated front cover with interior of alternating spreads of color and black and white. Illustrations by Eulalie Banks. Stapled binding. Pages are clean and bright.

Hardcover. New York, Franklin Watts, 1st wraps, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color illustrated by Robert Bartelt. Discard stamp to end papers, otherwise Very Good. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping.

NY, Harry Abrams, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author and SIGNED BY DE BRUNHOFF on title page. Pull-out poster in rear.

Hardcover. London, William Heinemann, reprint, 1909, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in green cloth covers stamped in black, gilt title on spine, 416 pages. Features 8 plates in color and 174 richly detailed illustrations in b&w by Hans Tegner. First published in 1900, this subtitled The Queen's Edition published in 1909. Edges and corners of cloth worn, spine faded. Inscription on half-title page.

New York, Abrams, 1st U.S., 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Retold and illustrated in color by the authors, with SIGNED BOOK PLATE BY BOTH LAID-IN. Tight copy.

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, unpaginated, color illustrations by Giselle Potter, very clean, tight copy, like new. Quentin Fenton Herter Third always does exactly what he should, from closing his mouth when he chews to putting away his toys. But Quentin Fenton has an awfully naughty shadow, who calls himself Quentin Fenton Herter Three. Three interrupts, stays up late, and never flosses. How do these two feel about each other? "They loathed each other cordially,/ did Quentin Third and Quentin Three." Strangely enough, though, they also envy each other "--a bit." And when good little Third has the opportunity to be bad one day, guess who steps in to take his place as a perfect gentleman?Amy MacDonald's clever rhymes are nicely complemented by Giselle Potter's unusual, naive-style illustrations.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with white titles. 146 pages, illustrated with b&w photos. Fading to cloth spine, name on front endpapers, otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st , 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Review slip laid-in. Color illustrations by Brian Wildsmith. English translation by Geraldine McCaughrean. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne & Co., reprint, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 43 pages with color illustrations by Mary B. Robinson. Cover illustrations same as dust jacket -- both very clean but slightly yellowed. Dust jacket edge worn, overall very clean. Early printing with 1959 date on rear page. Book originally published in 1940's. It was a lovely morning in the village of Much Cheese. Timothy Twitter ought to have been the happiest mouse in the village, but he wasn't.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset and Dunlap, reprint, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in rust tweed binding, lightly worn and chipped dust jacket with tear to fore-edge. Reprint edition, "printed in large, easy-to-read type." B&w illustrations by Harrison Cady. Spine faded.

Hardcover. New York , Random House, Early edition, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Illustrated in red, blue & black by Seuss. Beginner Book. No price on front flap, unclipped. Rear flap with reviews of Cat in the Hat. Back panel lists other Beginner Books, ending with: Are You My Mother? Clean, beautiful copy.

Hardcover. New York, Joanna Cotler Books/HarperCollins Publishers, 1st, 2003, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover. SIGNED BY BOTH KATE AND JIM MCMULLAN ON TITLE PAGE. Pictorial covers, 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. New York , Philomel, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginatd. Hardcover with dust jacekt. Color illustrations by Thomas Locker. Tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Blue Sky/Scholastic, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Covers and dust jacket completely illustrated in color, beautiful full page color illustrations by Diane Goode. Covers, dust jacket and pages crisp, clean and unmarked, spine stiff and tight; a beautiful children's book in great condition.

Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman and Co , 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown boards with a large color label on the front cover. Translated from the German of Elizabeth Morgenstern. Lovely color plates by Marigard Bantzer. Mild soil to covers, inside bright and clean.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally , 1st , 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 111 pages. Color, B&W illustrations by Keith Ward. Light gray cloth with bright color label illustration. clean, tight.

Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, Book Club Ed., 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 44 pages. Laminate dust jackets illustrated to appear as classic b&w composition notebook, blue dust jacket with b&w illustration, mylar protective covering, lovely b&w illustrations by Amy Schwartz. Price-clipped, previous owner's short ink inscription to front endpaper, clean boards, pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy of a lovely children's book.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in a pictorial embossed gold-foil dust jacket with minor wear. 307 pages, a collection of stories from 17 famous Disney animated films, told in synopsis form and illustrated with color scenes from the movies. Snow White, Peter Pan, Cinderella, Pinocchio, 13 others. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. In this playful story inspired by the impossible buildings of the artist M. C. Escher, Mauk's master is building a grand Palazzo. When something strange and wonderful happens, Mauk is catapulted into a topsy-turvy world. The author draws us into an astounding world where the reader turns Mauk on his head and sends him all the way back to his story's beginning in a dazzling endless loop.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 85 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear, small closed tear to dust jacket. Stamp on front fly leaf. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. Color illustrations by Victoria Chess. Five brief episodes in which Stanley Kane and his friends, the dog, pig and two cats, explore the use of their senses. INSCRIBED BY GOLDBERG on the front fly leaf. Dust jacket with a small chip, closed tear, Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. US, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, tight copy. A young boy named Bobby has the worst teacher. She's loud, she yells, and if you throw paper airplanes, she won't allow you to enjoy recess. She is a monster! Luckily, Bobby can go to his favorite spot in the park on weekends to play. Until one day... he finds his teacher there! Over the course of one day, Bobby learns that monsters are not always what they seem. Each page is filled with "monstrous" details that will have kids reading the story again and again. Peter Brown takes a universal and timeless theme, and adds his own humorous spin to create another winner of a picture book.

Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1st US, 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 63 pages, illustrated throughout by Edward Ardizzone. Light edgewear to dust jacket with tiny hole on front cover and small chip missing from lower edge of rear flap. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Little Simon, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. View Brooklyn's famous past and present landmarks--including the Prospect Park Carousel, Coney Island, and the Brooklyn Bridge--in this lively pop-up book. Brooklyn Pops Up" celebrates the diverse borough of Brooklyn with 8 pop-ups by the world's best illustrators and paper engineers. In this dimensional tour of Brooklyn icons you will find Brooklyn Children by Maurice Sendak * Brooklyn Brownstones by David A. Carter and Tor Lokvig * Grand Army Plaza & Brooklyn Public Library by Bruce Foster * Brooklyn Museum of Art & Brooklyn Children's Museum by Robert Sabuda * Brooklyn Botanic Garden by Ken Wilson-Max and Keith Finch * Prospect Park & the Carousel by Biruta Akerbergs Hansen * Brooklyn Bridge by Iain Smyth * Flavors of Brooklyn by Kees Moerbeek and Carla Dijs * Coney Island by Chuck Murphy.

Hardcover. Natick MA, Picture Book Studio, 1st US, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 68 pages illustrated in color by Zwerger.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1st , 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 304 pages, hardcover. Decorated red boards. Classic children's book. Translated by Margaret Bloom. Illustrated by Harold W. Hess. Light rubbing and edgewear to boards. Light bumping to corners. Fading to spine. Previous owner's inscription to front flyleaf. A tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Wonder Books, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, color illustrations by Mary Barton. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random Library, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 32 pages illustrated by Milion Glaser. Mocked throughout the jungles of India due to his small size, the smallest elephant in the world--no bigger than a house cat--has decided enough is enough. After all, if he's no bigger than a house cat, then a house must be where he belongs! After a long journey in the hold of a ship, this smallest elephant in the world finds himself a home with a nice little boy inside. But he must disguise himself as a cat to satisfy the boy's mother, and disaster strikes when he is confronted with his first mouse... Little does he know that the perfect home is waiting for him, in a circus where differences are celebrated, not scorned. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Joey "invents" a time machine so he can sneak off to see his best friend, Henry, who still lives in Joey's old neighborhood. Sitting in his machine, Joey suddenly begins flying around the attic of the new house, growing smaller and smaller, until he flies right into a label on an old fruit box and ends up in the land of the Great Kettles. He meet extraordinary residents, those who make the world go 'round, and some old friends too. A fascinating fantasy that has him trying to return home on the Time Elevator. This captivating story is wonderfully illustrated with paintings done by the author. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY/Boston, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED with a little sketch of a badger by Begin.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally & Co., 2nd pr., 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with a bright pictorial label on front cover. Five color plates by Paul Strayer (one repeated on cover label). 320 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , HarperCollins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Kellogg and SIGNED WITH A DRAWING of an alligator by Kellogg. A funny and energetic picture book portrayal of one of America's most famous frontiersmen and larger-than-life heroes. Mike Fink was king of the keelboatmen--the strongest, rowdiest bunch of fellows ever to work on the Mississippi. Mike was a whole lot more than a keelboater--yes, sir! He was a crack shot and the best grizzly and gator wrestler on the river. They don't make 'em like Mike these days, now do they? But what will Mike do when the larger, faster, smoke-spewing steamboats attempt to take over the rivers?

Hardcover. NY, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 4th pr., 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket, 48 pages illustrated in colors and b&w by Margot Tomes. A lead statue of King George III relates the events leading to the American Rovolution through indignant ratings about what he observes. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Illustrated by Schwartz and SIGNED by her on title page. On her way to market Jenna makes four new friends. Along with Baby Elephant, there's Robin, who thinks Jenna has a very silly beak; Fly, who wonders where her hundred eyes are; and Goldfish, who thinks she has very goofy gills. Kirkus has written that "the power and grace in Schwartz's spare style and language lies in the fact that she never condescends to young readers-she just compares notes." Here she once again completely and convincingly captures the world of a child in a beautiful and winning picture book about . . . a beautiful girl.

Hardcover. Middletown CT, Xerox Education Publications, reprint, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 32 pages illustrated in color by Massie. Weekly Reader Book Club. Clean, bright copy. Nodust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, Marshall's zany humor with Sendak's color illustrations. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. BOOKPLATE SIGNED BY SENDAK on copyright page.

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, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by New Yorker cartoonist George Booth. The other hens in Farmer Brown's Tennessee henhouse think that Starlight LaPoule - (hush! Her real name is Ethel Fae Klucksworth) - is short a few feathers. They may be right. For Starlight is a chicken with a ridiculous dream. She wants to become a high-fashion model in Paris or Milan. And with the surprise help of her very own chicken fairy godmother, anything is possible. Or is it? 

Hardcover. Stewart Tabori & Chang, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A wild duck narrator looks at the past when the environment was bountiful, searches through today's polluted environment for a home, and encourages saving and restoring the environment for the future

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY KALMAN. From bestselling author Lemony Snicket and celebrated illustrator Maira Kalman comes an uproarious, whimsical word book like no other. Together, Snicket and Kalman present a strikingly beautiful journey woven from a practical introduction to thirteen wonderful words, featuring such marvels as Bird, Dog, Panache, and Haberdashery. Snicket, the notoriously clever and elusive New York Times bestselling author, pushes the boundaries of storytelling in the most fanciful of ways. Maira Kalman, renowned for her art and design, carries this madcap adventure to wondrous heights with her vision of a world populated with hats, song, and cake. This rollicking, surprising book is a true celebration of words.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 5th pr., 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Newbery Medal winner Cynthia Rylant's poetic text, alongside Nikki McClure's stunning, meticulously crafted cut-paper art, makes this book not only timeless but appealing to all ages, from one to one hundred. This lovely book illuminates all the possibilities a day offers--the opportunities and chances that won't ever come again--and also delivers a gentle message of good stewardship of our planet. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , HarperCollins, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. From Caldecott Medalist Arnold Lobel (1933-1987) comes another brand-new collection of rhyming stories-this time featuring a unique assortment of owls and pigs. Discovered by his daughter, Adrianne Lobel, Odd Owls and Stout Pigs: A Book of Nonsense is full of the same humor and wit that is found in Lobel's beloved Frog and Toad stories. This new collection will tickle kids once more and create another generation of Arnold Lobel devotees.

Hardcover. Leicester UK, Brown Watson, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. Novelty pop-up book with all 6 pop-ups in excellent condition. Originally published in Czechoslovakia in 1971

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Innovative color illustrations explaining the concept of weight and measurement. 32 pages.

Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. 28 pages illustrated in color by Martha Castagnoli. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Clarion Books, reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 40 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Blind-stamped covers with light edge wear to dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy. Color illustrations (no words) on all pages by David Weisner. Sticker on front dust jacket " Best Illustrated Children's Book Award.

Hardcover. NY, Wonder Book, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glossy boards, color illustrations by Wilde. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 40 pages. hardcover, no dust jacket. Illustrations by Jim Downer. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.