Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. Illustrated in color by the author. In this lift-the-flap book, the mailman delivers Ruby's Fourth of July picnic party invitations to the correct people, but Max's letter to Santa is given to Grandma instead. Grandma misinterprets Max's meaning, and a few more misunderstood missives are misdelivered, but all works out well in the end. These various letters form the ''flaps'' part of the story.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial cloth, no dust jacket, 64 pages illustrated in 3-colors by Arnold Lobel. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Capital Publishing Co., 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 22 pages illustrated in color with oversize die-cut cardboard covers. Features a piece of felt that can be buttoned to dog's face at the nose - which is an actual button. Green plastic spiral binding, light crease to back cover,dog head reinforced in rear, otherwise very good. Story by Terrus, design and pictures by Plowitz.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 2nd pr., 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Vigorously brings to life the story of a true folktale hero. Dramatic two-color drawings by Watson. 82 pages. Includes music & lyrics for Ballad of John Henry (at end of book). Clean copy.

Hardcover. Brookfield CT, Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated in color by Macdonald. Square-jawed, muscle-bound Jack awakens and embarks on a host of fabulous adventures. Shot from a cannon directly into a spiffy blue suit, he grapples with an alligator and conquers a space alien and giant robot from the wings of his personal airplane- all on his way to work as Chief Flavor Tester in the World's Best Ice Cream Company. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, 3rd Printing, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 132 pages. INSCRIBED BY BILL LITTLEFIELD ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations by Bernie Fuchs. First edition, 3rd printing. Vermont Council on the Humanities stamp at bottom edge of front endpaper. Clean, tight copy.

NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 2nd pr., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright price-clipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Errol Le Cain. Previous owner's inscription front fly leaf. Three poems from Eliot's rollicking ode to felines, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, are gloriously and elegantly illustrated by Le Cain. ``Growltiger's Last Stand,'' ``Of the Awefull Battle of the Pekes and Pollicles,'' and ``The Song of the Jellicles'' spring to life with Le Cain's stylish paintings that match and extend each verse of the rich text. Sinister Siamese arranged in triangles represent Growltiger's foe ``armed with toasting forks and cruel carving knives''; chaos reigns as the Pugs and Poms ``Bark bark bark bark/ Bark bark BARK BARK/ Until you can hear them all over the Park''; suave black-and-white cats ``like to practice their airs and graces/ And wait for the Jellicle Moon to rise.'' The clean typeface and layout make Eliot's poetry take center stage framed by the wonderful illustrations.

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, Walker & Company, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 118 pages illustrated in b&w by Patricia Lynn. Details the early years in the life of the "frontier President," describing how the fatherless boy became a landowner at age three, a rebel scout at thirteen, and a lawyer at twenty. Clean copy.

Softcover. New York, Raphael Tuck & Sons Co, 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 12 unnumbered pages. Soft cover with stapled binding. Color and black and white Illustrations. Moderate creasing and chipping to booklet. Light soil to rear wrapper.

Hardcover. NY, Harper Brothers, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 265 pages. Hardcover. Brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt and decorated in red and black, front cover stamped in black, red and gilt. Floral endpapers. 21 line drawings by W.A. Rogers. No date on title page, assumed late 1880s reprint.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly edgeworn dust jacket with the 295/295 flap price. 1959 stated on copyright page and 'Yertle the Turtle' and 'The Cat in the Hat Comes Back' are printed last on the dual lists on the back dust jacket flap. No markings.

Hardcover. New York, Georgia University Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 30 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.SIGNED BY LOPEZ on half title-page. Color illustrations by Tom Pohrt.

NY, Windmill Books/Simon & Schuster, 3rd pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Rockwell. Dust jacket with mild edgewear, light soil. Third printing but INSCRIBED "SINCERELY' AND SIGNED BY NORMAN ROCKWELL Previous owner's inscription also on front fly leaf at bottom of page. Scarce thus.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st thus, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth with silver lettering on spine, silver design on front cover. Frontispiece, three double-page illustrations in color and b&w line plates by Pamela Bianco. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Crowell, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY YOLEN on half-title pg. Color Illustrations by Mercer Mayer. Lovely copy.

Hardcover. New York, Joanna Cotler Books, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Small leash marker. Felted illustration on a page, fold out dog's tail. etc. Illustrations by Spiegelman.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR David Small on front end paper. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. When Alice Jayne finds a crocodile under the tree on Christmas Eve, her family goes into an uproar! The Christmas Crocodile doesn't mean to be bad, not really, but soon he is eating up Christmas-from the dinner roast to the left stove-top burner...even the Christmas tree! Everyone has an opinion about what to do with him. Uncle Theodore suggests they send him to Africa, Father recommends the zoo, and Aunt Figgy mentions an orphanage. But Alice Jayne thinks the Christmas Crocodile deserves a real family. Can she find him a new home? And will she and the family survive till Christmas morning, with that naughty crocodile gobbling up everything in sight?

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. North Clarendon VT, Tuttle Publishing, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, gorgeous color paintings on every page by Lak-Khee Tay-Audouard. Adventures of the Treasure Fleet is the amazing story of seven epic voyages and their larger-than-life commander, Admiral Zheng He.Beginning in 1405, Admiral Zheng He led more than 300 gigantic, brightly-painted ships across the South China Sea to the Indian Ocean and all the way to the distant coast of Africa. The admiral and his crew battled pirates and raging storms, and were amazed by the people and ways of life in distant lands. At each port, Chinese goods were traded for pearls, precious stones, herbs and medicines which were given as tribute to China's powerful emperor when the ships' returned home. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Nice, clean condition. Color illustrations by Chorao. Hardbound, dust jacket.

New York , Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, red cloth covers with color illustration on cover paste-down. Unpaginated (about 120 pages). Tipped-in color frontispiece, every other page with a full page b&w cartoon, every other page with a smaller b&w image. Book of satiric humor using anthropomorphic cats to illustrate various human foibles. Light wear to cloth with some fading and mottling to rear cover.

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st , 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Moser. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Dial Books for Young Readers, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 48 pages, color illustrations by Marshall, very clean, tight copy, dust jacket price clipped. Lolly wangles her way into Spider and Sam's new tree house by promising to tell the boys a story, and soon everyone is telling tales.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY MATTEO PERICOLI ON TITLE PAGE WITH ILLUSTRATED SKETCH. Two-sided book with drawings of the Manhattan skyline: "Matteo Pericoli began his drawings of the Manhattan skyline in 1998. More than two years, fifteen hundred buildings, and nineteen bridges later, he finished two continuous scrolls, one of the West Side and one of the East Side, each thirty-seven feet long." Hard blue and red covers with white titles and yellow graphic illustration, full page b&w illustrations. Very slight rubbing to covers, pages clean, crisp and unmarked, binding stiff and tight; an excellent copy of a beautiful and unusual book.

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Roz Chast. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY MARTIN. Hardcover with dust jakcet. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY/Oakland, Triangle Square, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated by Ed Young. Told in haiku-based American Sentences and pictures, Yugen is the story of a boy and his mother, inspired by the profound concept of "yugen," a Japanese word for the mystery and beauty of the universe and of human experience. The second collaboration between Caldecott-winning illustrator Ed Young and Mark Reibstein after their award-winning 2008 debut, Wabi Sabi, Yugen is a book of longing and remembrance that is unequaled in its beauty and poetic simplicity.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 95 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white line drawings by Uri Shulevitz. Library Binding Ed. (not ex-lib.) Light spotting on rear cover otherwise, clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.

Hardcover. NY, Arcade, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Introduction by Michael Patrick Hearn, Reprints 6 of Denslow's early picture books in one volume. Tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , E. P. Dutton, 1st, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 45 pages, illustrated in b&w by the author. Green cloth spine with illustrated boards. Dust jacket with light edge wear, chunk gone from rear panel at top, smaller corresponding piece gone from rear board. Interior bright, clean.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Library edition. Lovely color illustrations by Tony Chen. Great condition, clean and new-looking. Hardbound, dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, color illustrations by Raul Colon. SIGNED BY COLON on title page.

Hardcover. New York, Bedrick, 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Fiona French. Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Color Illustrations by the author. In very good condition. Tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Bantam, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Color illustrations by Seymour Chwast. Excellent condition. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zurich, North-South Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. After the hens refuse to help goose, would-be father Mr. Goose decides to take matters into his own hands and sets up a nest for a stray egg, but when it is born, he discovers that it is not a goose, but Mr. Goose is not bothered by the comments of others and remains as proud as ever of his new hatchling. Color illustrations by Alan Marks.

NY, Garden City, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 64 pages, illustrated in color by Lee Ames. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping. Light tape residue where dust jacket was taped to covers.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Carlos Merida. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Dial, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Susan Jeffers. SIGNED BY JEFFERS. Bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, William R. Scott, 1st , 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 2-color illustrations by Symeon Shimin. 44 pages. Covers with light discoloration, fade otherwise very good.

Hardcover. NY, Bluesky/Scholastic, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 65 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Barry Moser. Clean tght copy.

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton , 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 89 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by George Sharp. Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Brooklyn NY, Handprint, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with illustrated boards, 40 pages. n his magnificent interpretation of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow s poem, Christopher Bing seamlessly weaves history and imagination into a rich portrait of an American hero. A meticulous researcher, Bing includes material that provides texture to history, maps that follow the British campaign to quell the rebellious citizenry, as well as the patriot s ride into the Massachusetts night of April, 1775. Documents firmly affixed into the book, including the British general s orders to his troops and Revere s own deposition relating the events, give the reader not only a visual experience but a tactile one as well. Far more than a brilliantly presented history lesson, this book represents a tour de force of coherent artistic vision. In an extraordinary series of rich and moody engravings, from the mysteriously shimmering rigging of the British sloop, The Somerset, looming in a moonlit Boston harbor to the taut urgency of a man and his horse galloping at a combustible moment in the American experience, this book illuminates our country s past unlike any other. Small inscription on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2nd pr., 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Geisert gives new meaning to the saying "Don't cry over spilt milk." This wordless tale begins when a pig child spills its milk in the house, which is cantilevered on the edge of a river valley. The milk sets off a complex chain reaction that ultimately destroys the home. Miraculously, no one is hurt, and the final scene shows the family together, surrounded by the shambles of their house, smiling at one another in a way that shows their happiness at just being alive.

Hardcover. NY, Philomel Books, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards. A TIME Magazine Top 10 Children's Book of 2015! Ducks growing out of bananas? A mouse catching a cat? What's wrong with this book from the creator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar? Yes, there is something strange, something funny and even downright preposterous on every page of this book. But its not a mistake - its nonsense! And its also surrealism. Nonsense lies at the heart of many beloved nursery rhymes. Children readily accept odd statements like the cow jumped over the moon and the dish ran away with the spoon. This fanciful bending of reality is also basic to surrealism. In this book, nonsense and surrealism combine to spark creativity and imagination. No dust jacket, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Albert Whitman & Company, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black & white and color illustrations by Berta and Elmer Hader. Shows some wear on edges. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Scholastic, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, illustrated in color by Mitra Modarressi. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The well-known novelist's first children's book is a gently subversive fable celebrating the rewards of disorder. Princess Molly the Messy is deplored by her family: King Clement the Clean, Queen Nellie the Neat, and Prince Thomas the Tidy. Molly's domain is the castle tower, where she keeps the floor comfortably festooned with clothes and the bed is ``lumpy and knobby with half-finished books.'' Her parents are not pleased, but Molly is vindicated when a flood drives the whole family up to her room, where they find dry clothes and leftover food lying everywhere and a cozy bed to share while Molly reads aloud. When the waters recede, she even helps them tidy up downstairs. Without condescension, Tyler presents a child's-eye view of glorious muss in a witty, economical narrative, while--in a fine picture-book debut--Modarressi (Tyler's daughter) details the disarray in angular forms and flat, carefully structured compositions, with expressive, delicately modeled faces adding a subtler dimension to Tyler's message. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Garden City Publishing, 2nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 20 pages illust. in color, black & white by Oscar Howard. Scarce in a nice dust jacket with moderate chipping to spine.

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. Boston, Ariel Books/Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages. Hardcover with dark blue covers. No dust jacket. Color illustrations by Chris Van Allsburg. Clean, tight copy.