Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 40 pages illustrated in color by Egielski. When a homeless rat named Slim is forced into a life of crime, he encounters a kind young mouse named Jim, who's willing to take him in and give him a chance. But when Slim's checkered past catches up to him, their friendship is put to the test. Together they must do battle with the evil villain Buster, relying upon their faith in one another -- and their yo-yos. In this Oliver Twist for tots, Richard Egielski tells a tale of true friendship and creates characters as memorable as Fagin, Bill Sikes, and the Artful Dodger.

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. New York, Harper & Brothers , 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with black cloth spine, illustrated boards, 2 small signatures opposite title page. Clean and tight copy. Lacks dust jacket.

Softcover. London , Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Beisner. Glazed cardboard covers, no dust jacket. This illustrated compilation of rhyming spells, chants, and incantations draws on traditional lore from around the world.

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, Charles Scribners Sons, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 258 pages. Black and white Illustrations by Pyle. Tissue over frontispiece. Lettering on spine a bit faded. Light edgewear to covers. Back hinge partially cracked. Previous owner's signature on blank prelim page.

Hardcover. New York, Bradbury Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 30 pages. Color illustrations by Rick Brown. Dust jacket price clipped. Remainder mark on bottom edge. While enjoying a summer vacation traveling with her best friend, Lucy, through Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona, Kate writes a series of letters home.

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. Chicago, Albert Whitman, 1st , 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 32 pages. Illustrated in color, B&W by Tousey. Color label on front cover. Color end papers, light edgewear to green cloth covers. Pencil inscription on front end paper.

Hardcover. New York, Crown, 1st U.S., 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. Color illustrations by Burningham. Bright, 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. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AT BOTTOM OF TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations by Shulevitz. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated glazed boards, 62 pages illustrated in color by Hoff. Clean, bright copy .

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.

New York, Bantam Little Rooster, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Small. Retells in verse the tale of the cowboy raised by coyotes, married Sluefoot Sue, and rode a wild mustang stallion named widowmaker. Clean copy

Hardcover. London, J. M. Dent, 1st UK, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards. Grandfather and grandchild enjoy the life in Japan's forested rural areas. Translated from the Japanese. Lovely color illustrations by the author. Ichisaburo Sawai is one of Japan's foremost painters, though "Green Grow the Mountain" is his first picture book. This enchanting glimpse into an idyllic rural life will delight both young and old, evoking as it does a serenity and charm that is ageless. Clean, bright copy.

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.

New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1947, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 144 pages. Black & white and color illustrations by the Petershams. Edgewear, chipping, soiling to dust jacket. Brodart cover.

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. 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, Harper & Row, reprint, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 1st pub in 1960, this edition probably early 70's, dust jacket with light edgewear, chips.

Hardcover. NY, David McKay Company, 1st thus, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. A collection of the author's holiday books published previously. Color illustrations throughout by Tudor. Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

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

Hardcover. Joliet IL, P.F. Volland Co., 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover with tattered dust jacket with most of rear panel and half of spine gone. The book itself is in exceptional condition. gilt-lettered with gilt decorated golden cloth, nice, clean, bright copy, with title vignette and 10 full page color plates and endpapers by John E. Perkins. Publisher's Inglenook Series. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Books of Wonder, reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 304 pages. Join Tik-Tok, the Shaggy Man, and a host of other friends--both old and new--on an exciting, imaginative journey through the world of Oz. Capturing all the fun are twelve color plates and nearly eighty black-and-white drawings by Oz artist John R. Neill, as well as a facsimile of Neill's full-color map endpapers of Oz and the enchanted realms that surround it--the first maps of Oz ever published. Tik-Tok of Oz is the eighth Oz novel and the first to bring a girl other than Dorothy to Oz. Now, in this beautiful reproduction of the rare first edition, a whole new generation can discover the enchantment and joy that have made the Oz series such an enduring favorite. Afterword by Peter Glassman.

Softcover. New York, Workman Publishing Company, First Edition, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non paginated. Softcover. Light wear to covers including toning, folds to edges, small chip to rear corner. Light foxing to preliminary pages & edges. Photographs by Robert Doisneau. Otherwise clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Garden City Publishing, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, pictorial boards in a edgeworn dust jacket, unclipped (1.00). Notable for the illustrations by Ralston Crawford. Ralston Crawford (1906-1978) was an American abstract painter, lithographer, and photographer. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st thus, 1974, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 176 pages, yellow pictorial cloth covers. A collection of 4 classic Seuss titles, color illustrations throughout. Covers soiled, worn edges and corners. Interior bright and clean.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, color illustrations by Sis.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers stamped in black, 96 pages illustrated in line by Brown. Endpapers have child's pencil marks, top of spine is worn, frayed. Corners worn. ONE PAGE (12th from beginning) has a child's crayon marking covering 3 lines of text, not affecting art. Every page has text and drawings on a cream block background.

Hardcover. NY, Enchanted Lion Books, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Drawn from life, Arthur Geisert's Pumpkin Island is the fantastical story of a real life town brought to a halt by a profusion of pumpkins. Elkader, Iowa, is the perfect picture of small town life that is, until the pumpkins arrive. One pumpkin? Fine. Two pumpkins? Okay. But with pumpkins growing around every street corner, and over every building, what's a town to do? Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1sr, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. "Come and enjoy the sequence of hilarious events that is set in motion when Mike holds one end of a rope for a clown at a circus. This imaginatively illustrated book is complete with tattooed man, acrobatic ladies and roaring lion." Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday Page & Co., 1st, 1927, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrated boards with a brown cloth spine. 60 pages illustrated in color by James Daughterty. Boards are chipped, soiled. Binding shaken but still holding.

Hardcover. NY, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. The book opens up to a 'pop-up' of a goliath beetle (paper engineering by James Diaz), illustrated by Wendy Smith-Griswold, and then opens on either side, again with pop-ups and sliders. A book on Beetles, in a three-dimensional and 'pop-up' format for children, discussing the life cycle and lives of the insects. All in great shape, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrated boards. Color illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. Tangrams are ancient Chinese puzzles that are still used today by adults as well as children. Author became intrigued by the challenge of the puzzles and began making up her own tangrams and stories about them. Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Green cloth covers with gilt titles, color illustrated dust jacket, color illustrated endpapers, profusely illustrated with lovely color plates. Small clipped color illustrated article from unknown publication on Maurice Sendak included. Slight edgewear to dust jacket, very faint small brown stain to bottom right front corner of dust jacket, pages clean, crisp and unmarked; a very nice, clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped with gilt and dark green design. Being the Histories of a Cat, A Dog, A Pigeon, A Lynx, Two Wolves and a Reindeer and in Elucidation of the Same. With over 200 drawings by Ernest Thompson Seton. 363 pages. Stated First Printing on copyright page. A very good plus copy with some fading to the spine but internally a clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Kenosha WI, Samuel Lowe Co., 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 24 pages, illustrated boards. Bonnie Book # 4132. A collection of puzzles, games and things to do for children. Unmarked with the little plastic toy intact on the cover. Bright 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, 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.)

Softcover. US, Boyds Mills Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated in color by Yaccarino. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Package contains everything that you need to construct your own house that will measure approximately 8 x8 1/2 inches when constructed. Name the familiar objects that appear on the cubes. Identify the musical instruments that the people are playing. Mimic the emotions that are portrayed on the cubes. Tell stories about the people and animals that live in The House of Fun! Create your own cubes (use an unconstructed cube as your pattern).

Chicago, M.A. Donahue & Company, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with black cloth spine. Color and b&w illustrations by Gruelle. Light corner wear to covers. Clean copy. First published by Volland in 1925, this is most likely a 1930s reprint.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Tight and bright copy with only light edgewear to dust jackets and covers.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lippincott , 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-Paginated. Color Illustrations by Brodsky. Dust jacket price clipped. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 72 pages. A true masterpiece of book design and illustration for beginning readers, this collection pairs well-known nursery tales with uniquely beautiful period illustrations that look as fresh and vital today as they did six decades ago, when the book was first published in Great Britain. Never before published in the United States, My First Nursery Book features four beloved stories: "Who Killed Cock Robin?," "The Gingerbread Man," "Three Little Pigs," and "The Three Bears." Franciszka Themerson, a Polish avant-garde artist and filmmaker who returned to children's book illustration as a refugee in London in the 1940s, is regarded as one of the great talents in classic children's book illustration. Finally, American children can experience and enjoy this remarkable volume, filled with stunning illustrations that will bring a new audience to Themerson's genius.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in light green, 259 pages. Illustrated in b&w by Robert Lawson. Stated First Edition on copyright page. Previous owner's inscription on blank leaf, spine cloth with light fading. Otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrations by Brown. Decorated library binding. Hardbound, no dust jacket. Clean.

Hardcover. Chicago, Scott, Foresman and Company, Reprint, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by Keith Ward and Eleanor Campbell. "Public School 201, 155 St. & 65 Avenue, Flushing, N. Y." stamped at top right left corner of title page. Light rubbing, surface soiling to covers. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Nice color illustrations by Crews. Dust jacket shows minor wear, mostly clean and good condition. Hardbound. Laid-in: Bigmama poster.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated by Frances Tipton Hunter. SIGNED WITH SKETCH BY MUNRO LEAF ON PAGE OPPOSITE OF TITLE PAGE. Previous owner's name on front end paper. Dust jacket has chipping and small tears. Covers have rubbing and chipping of laminate on edges. Tight copy.