Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. NY, Schwartz & Wade, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by illustrator Lane Smith. Bestselling Caldecott Honor artist Lane Smith and legendary author Florence Parry Heide have teamed up to create an unforgettable princess sure to charm and delight young readers. Princess Hyacinth has a problem: she floats. And so the king and queen have pebbles sewn into the tops of her socks, and force her to wear a crown encrusted with the heaviest jewels in the kingdom to keep her earthbound. But one day, Hyacinth comes across a balloon man and decides to take off all her princess clothes, grab a balloon, and float free. Hooray! Alas, when the balloon man lets go of the string . . . off she goes. Luckily, there is a kite and a boy named Boy to save her.

Hardcover. NY, Parents' Magazine Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 40 pages illustrated in color by Tom Vroman. It was bedtime. Chris and his father sat down side by side on Chris's bed. They talked of Chris's friend Alexander, the red horse with green stripes. "Alexander was a pretty bad horse today," Chris said. "He wouldn't eat his cereal. He wouldn't sit up at the table and he spilled his milk." "That's too bad," said Chris's father. "What else happened?" The ensuing conversation of Alexander's bad day makes for an entertaining read, along with its priceless ending. Mild shelfwear. name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York , Atheneum, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by author. SIGNED on title page, also INSCRIBED on copyright page by Lewin. A look at Brazil's Pantanal marsh describes the various types of creatures who inhabit it, from the South American caiman, to the world's largest rodent, to storks, egrets, and herons.

Hardcover. Chicago, Benefic Press, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth with Squeaky on front cover. Illustrations in 3-colors by Edward Miller. Clean copy. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York , Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY HILLARY KNIGHT. What's this--a new Eloise, never before seen or published? News doesn't get better than that. Kay Thompson first wrote Eloise Takes a Bawth in Italy in the 1960s with Hilary Knight and pal Mart Crowley; it has been marinating until now for a release with all-new drawings by Hilary Knight. Of course, this time Eloise is not in Moscow, not in Paris, she is simply in the bawth at home in the Plaza Hotel. With Eloise, though, nothing is simple. Perhaps especially the notion of taking a bath, where you have to "skibble into the bathroom and take off all your clothes," then strike a pose and look in the mirror, and splawsh, and sing, and bathe with turtle Skipperdee and dog Weenie. And pretend to be the "loosest cannonball in all the Caribbean" and "Little Miss Mermaid but let's keep that between us." But what's this? Could Eloise's bathtime shenanigans be causing a drip that "has begun to drop within the walls and hallowed halls of the stately old Plaza?" Drenching the elite at the Venetian Masked Ball in the Grawnd Ballroom, no less? Fabulously decadent scenes of Eloise enacting wild battles and undersea dives in the bathtub on the "tip top floor" of the Plaza contrast deliciously with the resulting swampy splendor of the ballroom. Extended fold-out cross-sections of the hotel's plumbing system and a spectacular, colorful, double gatefold illustrating the underwater ball ("the sensation of the social season" thanks to Eloise!) add drama and silliness as well.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2nd pr., 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with small tape repair. Caldecott Honor stickeron front. 32 pages illustrated in color by Peter Parnell. Simple text and illustrations describe the characteristics of the desert and its plant, animal, and human life.

Hardcover. NY, MDC Books/Hyperion, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Based on the 1938 Czech opera by Adolf Hoffmeister and Hans Krasa, retold by award-winning playwright Tony Kushner with color illustrations by Maurice Sendak, SIGNED BY BOTH SENDAK & KUSHNER on title page.

Hardcover. NY, North-South Books, 1st US, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, unpaginated, color illustrations by Tomek Bogacki. Sticker residue on front cover. Else a very clean, tight copy. When a storm destroys his island home, a kindly giant goes out into the world and finds it a very unfriendly place.

Hardcover. New York , 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. Flagstaff AZ, Northland Publishing, 2nd pr., 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial white boards. Delicate watercolor illustrations accompany a simple story about a family building an adobe house in the Southwest desert. Clean copy.

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. Chicago, Rand McNally, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in laminated boards, color illustrations by Manning de V. Lee. The front board has an illustration of Andy Archer holding Bugle with Yorktown, VA waterfront in the background.

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. NY, Viking , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Max Stravinsky, the poet dog hero of Max Makes a Million , realizes his dream of going to Paris in Kalman's latest high-spirited high jinks. In the City of Light he goes to museums and clubs, meets like-minded suffering artists and falls in love with Crepes Suzette, "that divine dalmatian." Visual and literary jokes abound--a Parisienne wears strategically placed bananas a la Josephine Baker; a hunchback crouches atop Notre Dame; a man's hat is marked "this is not a hat"--while lighthearted digressions offer amusing first lessons in art appreciation. The exuberant text imports French words and other vocabulary that rely heavily on context but convey a rousing musicality ("I am Fritz from the Ritz / which I quit in a snit / when the chef in a fit / threw escargot on my chapeau / and hit my head / with a stale French bread")--sophisticated fare indeed, but children and the uninitiated alike will find plenty of amusement nonetheless. Painstaking design integrates text and pictures, turns type upside-down or sideways, shrinks or expands type size--whimsical touches in perfect keeping with this fluid work. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Phaidon Press, 1st us, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Wonderful color illustrations by the master Ungerer. An old teddy bear recalls his life, beginning as a birthday present, later shared by two boys separated under European bombardment, companion to the daughter of an American soldier whose life he had saved, battered by nasty boys, trashed, and restored as a collector's item displayed in an antique shop. The moving denouement re-unites the two men, who as boys were separated by war's travails.

Hardcover. NY, Dover Publications, reprint, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 48 pages illustrated in color by Gorey. A new approach to the ancient fables of Aesop features charming rhymes and winsome images by a beloved illustrator. Artist Edward Gorey sets the scenes for poet Ennis Rees's modern interpretation of Aesop's verses, which recount how animals with all-too-human failings receive their just desserts. Memorable renderings of familiar and lesser-known vignettes include the fable of the industrious ant, who prepares for the hardships of the coming winter, and the feckless grasshopper, whose laziness proves fatal. A mighty lion is amused at the notion of a tiny mouse coming to his rescue, a naive young crustacean admires the bright red shell of a boiled lobster, and a swarm of flies are undone by their attraction to a pool of spilled honey. These and other timeless tales provide humorous insights into the folly of greed and vanity and the rewards of virtuous behavior. Originally published in 1971 by Young Scott.

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. Chicago, Rand McNally, reprint, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 32 pages illustrated in color by Eleanor Corwin. Light edgewear to cover edges.

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. NY, The Viking Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Bright glossy color illustrated boards. All pop-ups and moving parts very good. Bright color illustrated pages. 12 pages. A well preserved copy of the 1st printing of this higHly regarded mechanical book on the human body. Name on the first page, otherwise clean

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. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st Illust., 1912, Hardcover, originally written in 1886, this is a 1912 printing, a more scarce edition featuring the pen-and-ink sketches & color (black/gray/white/red) illustrations by artist Katharine R. Wireman. 91 pages. Small hardcover 8vo (6.75" x 8.5"), green cloth over boards with red & lighter green illustrations of birds, candles, & holly & red script lettering to front & spine. Front fly leaf gone, spine with mild fading.

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, Platt & Munk, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, glazed pictorial boards, 61 pages. Color illustrations by Susan Perl. An educational book created from a series of award-winning magazine ads created by Health-Tex clothes for children that ran in the 1960s and 70s. Answers a variety of questions such as "What are freckles?", "Why am I ticklish?", and "How many countries are there?" Small sticker residue otherwise clean, bright copy.

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, Henry Holt, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, In ancient China a jealous artist plots to eliminate the favorite architect of the emperor. Once again Demi captivatingly presents a Chinese folktale with just enough text to tell the story and keep the interest of her young readers. Rendered in vibrant reds and pale blues and yellows, her illustrations feature finely detailed buildings and costumes, all the while retaining a fresh, clean look.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. Boston, David R. Godine, 2nd Ed., 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 109 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Vibrant color illustrations throughout. This retrospective volume is not intended to illustrate a particular story, but to display the full range of her abilities, and it is arranged according to the seasons she celebrates in her art. There are fifty of her hand-colored woodcuts in full color and an equal number in black and white. The book is large format because that is the way she works and that's what does her work justice. The text, written by her friend Lilias Hart, discusses not only her work, but also what life is like in the rigorous reaches of Northern Vermont.

Hardcover. New York, Hyperion Books for Children, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with matching dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Golden Books, reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy pictorial boards, 28 pages illustrated in color by Leonard Weisgard. A lovely reprint of the 1953 first printing.

Hardcover. New York, Morrow Junior Books, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY STEVEN KELLOGG WITH SKETCH ON FRONT ENDPAPER. 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.

Softcover. Chicago, Merrill Publishing Co., 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 12 pages, 13" x 9 1/2" heavy paper covers and pages. Covers show light soiling with slight wear at spine and corners. The pages are clean, tight and unmarked. Great art by Milo Winter.

Hardcover. New York, Scholastic Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY KIRK WITH Illustration on title-page. Color illustrations by the author. Tight copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 64 pages illustrated in 3-colors by Bonsall. An I Can Read Book. A tale of a polar bear, walrus and a puffin. Clean copy.

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, Schwartz & Wade, 4th pr., 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial cloth, color art by Hills. Learn to read with this New York Times bestselling picture book, starring an irresistible dog named Rocket and his teacher, a little yellow bird. Follow along as Rocket masters the alphabet, sounds out words, and finally . . . learns to read all on his own! Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, no publication date listed, circa 1916. Beige front boards with decorations in slate blue and black. Boards are in very nice condition, with only minor wear. Decorative endpapers and text pages are clean. 15 beautiful full color tipped in plates including frontispiece by Edmund Dulac. Previous owner's signature on detached title page. Light wood smoke odor.

Hardcover. NY, Wonder Books, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glossy boards. 20 pages illustrated in color. Casper, the Friendly Ghost and Wendy, the Good Little Witch starred in animated cartoons in the 1950s. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dial Books, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 40 pages illustrated in color. A beautifully illustrated retelling of the beloved fairy tale from Caldecott Medal-winning author Jerry Pinkney. SIGNED BY PINKNEY.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, reprint, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, A lonely wild horse runs away to find love from children on a merry-go-round. Illustrated in color by Hoff. Clean 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, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket, 48 pages illustrated in b&w by Sewall. Ex-lib with pocket and stamp to rear endpapers. Internally clean.

Hardcover. NY, Books of Wonder, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 304 pages. For the first time in more than eighty years, the most spectacularly illustrated of all the Oz books is available again with the metallic "emerald" green ink that illuminated the color plates of the original edition. This deluxe new edition features ninety black-and-white pictures and sixteen dazzling five-color plates by Oz artist John R. Neill. Afterword by Peter Glassman.

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 2nd pr., 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with green bards stamped with silhouette design, beige cloth spine. No dust jacket. Winner of the Caldecott Medal in 1980. Color illustrations by Barbara Cooney. Short inscription on front fly leaf otherwise a clean copy.

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.)

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co., 1st US, 1974, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 32 pages illustrated with color paintings by Bradley done in a primitive style similar to Grandma Moses. Ex-lib with some light stamping, bookplate on inside front cover.

Hardcover. New York, Platt & Munk Co, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black stamped lettering and illustration of monkey and elephant on front cover. Clean, tight copy with small chip from spine and light fraying on edges.

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 5th pr., 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth covers stamped in blue, 56 pages illustrated in color and b&w by Herrera. Covers with some discoloration, interior clean, no markings.

Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ex-Library copy with usual stamps, paste downs and markings. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, color illustrations by Paul Galdone. A droll rendition of the old English ghost story about the teeny-tiny woman who found a teeny-tiny bone in the teeny-tiny churchyard.