Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. New York, Jump the Sun/Hyperion Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR on reverse side fly leaf. Tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, J.B. Lippincott, 1st, 1955, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in 2-colors by the author. SIGNED BY GRIDER on the front fly leaf and dated 1955. Yellow cloth with gray lettering, dust jacket worn with repaired tears, chipping. Indications that jacket was once stapled to covers, tiny holes visible. Light soil, musty odor.

Hardcover. London, J.M. Dent, 1st UK, 1980, Color illustrated glazed boards, watercolor art by Dumas. Small nick to top of cover spine, otherwise very good, like new.

Racine, Wisconsin, Whitman Publishing Co., 1st, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 62 pages. Black & white and color illustrations by Frances Tipton Hunter. Dust jacket with major edgewear, chipping and soil. Pieces missing from edges.

Hardcover. Paris, Domino Press, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 16 pages, blue cloth spine with illustrated cardboard covers. Bright color lithographs throughout. French language edition. Light soiling to covers otherwise very good, clean and tight.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st US, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by the author. Bright, unclipped dust jacket. Verses are accompanied by illustrations of unusual situations such as a dog taking a little girl for a walk, a bird scolding a cat for scaring his friends, and a boy sitting calmly while a sheep shears his head.

Hardcover. New York, Phyllis Fogelman Books, 2nd pr., 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Jerry Pickney and SIGNED BY PICKNEY on half-title page.

Hardcover. NY, Thames and Hudson, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 25 pages. Star Trek is one of the most enduring franchises in Hollywood entertainment history. Part of the public consciousness since 1966, it spans the worlds of television and the movies and counts millions of fans worldwide. Now Star Trek Pop-ups delivers seven iconic Star Trek moments in a new way--popping off the page in three dimensions. From the original USS Enterprise in flight to the dreaded Borg cube from The Next Generation and beyond, here is an unforgettable series of alien encounters and thrilling action scenes, featuring memorable moments from Deep Space Nine, Voyager and Enterprise. Bursting with energy and ingenuity, Star Trek Pop-ups will capture the imaginations of fans young and old. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. NY, Dial Press, 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Dust jacket shows wear, chipping and some tears. Internally clean. Quentin Blake illustrations in black & white & blue. Hardbound. One summer, whilst on holiday in northern France Aristide is given a blue Li-Lo by his Grandmother. Despite being told not to go too far from the shore Aristide manages to float all the way across the channel to England where he is captured and held prisoner by some boys. (Robert Tibber is the nom-de-plume of Rosemary Friedman)

Hardcover. Somerville, MA, Candlewick, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 40 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Full page colored illustrations by Jon Klassen. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 48 pages illustrated in color by the author. This is a facsimile of the original 1933 0versized edition that introduced the iconic elephant to American audiences. In a bright dust jacket that matches the laminated boards.

Hardcover. Atlanta, Turner, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by author. Clean, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st illust., 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red embossed covers with gilt decoration of two children in profile. One volume from the publisher's 10 volume series, 381 pages. Notable for the full color plates by Henry Pitz, 16 in all. Illustrated endpapers of young children in field of flowers (by another artist). Interior clean, very good.

Hardcover. Natick MA, Picture Book Studio, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by Lisbeth Zwerger. Light foxing to endpapers. Dust jacket with light wear along edges, tape repaired tears. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Perry Mason & Co., 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 600+ pages. This is a children's periodical, all issues for the year 1899, bound together in black-cloth, gilt, edgeworn boards. Many b&w engravings. Large format, 11.5x16". Total of 50 issues or around 12-16 pages each. A treasure trove of old advertising and graphic images from that era. Perfect for a graphic artist, or collector, interested in Victoriana.

Hardcover. Joliet, P. F. Volland, 11th Ed., 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial boards. Color illustrations by Herman Rosse, paper chips to cardboard covers, minor foxing to first few pages. Previous owner's name on copyright page.

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow, 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 189 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Heavy fraying to cover boards and gutter fragile throughout. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf and one page.

NY, The Viking Press, reprint, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth boards, 40 pages illustrated in color and b&w by the D'Aulaires. Ex-lib with endpapers marking and residue but interior is clean and bright. 14th printing, originally published in 1935. Small sticker on spine.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, unpaginated, color illustrations by Dee Huxley, dust jacket covered with acetate, very clean, tight copy.

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.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace & World, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Illustrated by author. "The timelessness of childhood, its sudden friendships and short sorrows, its dreams, its laughter, its make-believe - all are delightfully and delicately pictured here in words and illustrations that reflect a small child's own world and that will bring back to his elders many happy memories. With its gentle wisdom and delicate beauty, this tiny gem will enchant readers of all ages." (description from the dust jacket). Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1st, 1881, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial printed paper on the boards show some edge wear in the form of chipping and rubbing, 372 pages. Over 150 black & white engravings. Bottom front corner chipped, other wise a sound copy.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color art by Lionel Kalish. Clean copy. Three siblings have a bout with the chicken pox, and their father comes down with a bad case as soon as they recover. It's their turn to help nurse him back to health in a nicely done role reversal. He misses his daughter's ballet recital and has to bathe in oatmeal to help the itching. The kids are worried, but things pick up as he recuperates and all ends well.

Hardcover. Akron OH, Saalfield Publishing Company., reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Illustrated in color and some b&w by Janet Laura Scott. 123 pages, pictorial boards with red cloth spine. Front fly leaf clipped at the corner otherwise clean. A lovely, bright reprint edition of this 1928 Volland title.

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

Hardcover. New York, Orchard Books, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 26 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Amy Schwartz. Dust jacket price clipped. Clean, tight 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, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 64 pages illustrated by Wallace Tripp with sepia drawings. Dust jacket with light edgewear, closed tears. Library edition, NOT ex-lib.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY KAUFMAN on front endpaper. 32 pages illustrated in color by Kaufman and inscribed by him with a large b&w drawing on front fly leaf. Nothing seems to be going right for poor Farmer Foster, who has lost everything he has except for a strange rock that suddenly develops a crack from which milk keeps bubbling.

Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman & Co, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, pictorial cloth/library binding, 32 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Ex-lib with endpaper stamp and residue. Interior is clean. Tales told in the MIddle East travel from storyteller to storyteller, from country to country. Sometimes they cross the ocean, as this story in one form did to be told in Detroit by an Armenian grandmother. An American scholar heard this story told of the Bedouins, while still another version is Turkish.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with color illustrations by Javaka Steptoe and SIGNED by her.

Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Barry Moser. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Scribner & Welford, 1st US, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color pictorial boards with a green cloth spine. Illustrated throughout in color by Seeley. The history of the inhabitants of Brandon Hall is told from the planting of a mulberry tree brought to England by Sir Francis Drake until the reign of Queen Victoria. No date but appears to be the first American edition. Originally published in London in 1881. Very nice copy, bright and clean.

NY, Knopf, 1st , 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in green cloth with a drawing of a monkey on a pole on the front cover. Illustrated in 3-colors and black & white by Meg Wohlberg. Previous owner's signature front end paper, light spotting to covers.

Softcover. New York, Scholastic Book Services, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 47 pages. Softcover with faded paper wrappers. Clean, tight copy. Light edge wear on corners. Scarce edition with charming illustrations by Garth Williams.

Hardcover. San Diedo CA, Silver Dolphin, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Children and parents will love this cleverly crafted interactive adventure. Kids get to turn flaps to reveal pop-up surprises on every page; which ends with an entire pop-up scene. When Winnie Wolf Cub finds a feather in the forest, she is determined to find its owner as well. She meets a lot of new friends in her search, but no one with a black and white feather. Will she ever find its owner? Lift the flaps that appear throughout this pop-up adventure and see! Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dial Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, color illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. A story about a child's love for her favorite rag doll. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth covers, 66 pages, illustrated in b&w by Joe Servello. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, HarperFestival, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. 13 pages. Paper-engineered with all lift-flaps undamaged. A romp among spooky friends on the way to finding Dracula on his birthday. Color illustrations by Jonathan Lambert. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, scarce true first printing with b&w drawings by Clara Skinner. 113 pages, blue cloth covers.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping and price sticker on rear. Otherwise, clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Scholastic Press,, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A stunning picture book inspired by the beloved "Hallelujah Chorus," and the remarkable story of Handel's personal mission to spread peace and joy. Color illustrations by Jason Walker. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt and Co. , 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR on half title page. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. As a boy, Edward Hopper knew exactly what he wanted to be when he grew up: on the cover of his pencil box, he wrote the words EDWARD HOPPER, WOULD-BE ARTIST. He traveled to New York and to Paris to hone his craft. And even though no one wanted to buy his paintings for a long time, he never stopped believing in his dream to be an artist. He was fascinated with painting light and shadow and his works explore this challenge. In this striking picture book biography, Robert Burleigh and Wendell Minor invite young readers into the world of a truly special American painter (most celebrated for his paintings "Nighthawks" and "Gas").

Hardcover. New York, Random House, early reprint, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 61 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with moderate chipping to laminated covers.

Hardcover. New York, Dial Books, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 40 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. INSCRIBED WITH ELF DRAWING BY "Steven and Helen" otherwise, clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Crown, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Really nice, almost new-looking condition. Color illustrations by Burningham. Hardbound, no dust jacket. Library edition. A small girl reflects on the comfort she gets from her imaginary friend Aldo.

Hardcover. New York, Callaway/Hyperion, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Covers completely illustrated in color, high-quality and stiff papers, gorgeous, bold, full-page color illustrations by Michael Roberts. Slight rubbing to covers, pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in great condition. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York , Dial, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 64 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color, B&W illustrations by Edward Gorey. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping, and light soil.

Hardcover. NY, Crown, 2nd, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Berson. Ex-lib with light stamp to front fly leaf, minor residue to rear paste-down.

Hardcover. NY, Derrydale, reprint, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Richard Doyle. Edited and with a Foreword by Cary Wilkins. Dust jacket shows some wear and minor soiling. The King and Queen of the country next to Fairyland are blessed with a daughter whom Prince Comical rescues in the land of magic Mushrooms. Originally published in England in 1869.