Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt & Company, 1st thus, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, color illustrations by Jonathan Allen. A new edition of the nineteenth-century classic contains the original text and full-color illustrations, all in a individually slipcased volume. Clean copy.
Boston, Little Brown, 1st thus illus., 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Color illustrations by Tenggren. Chunk gone from half-title page and title page - not affecting text or illust.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 3rd pr., 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Eric Carle. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping. Tape along the spine of dust jacket. The Bible Story of Noah as told by the great Jewish writer, Isaac Bashevis Singer. The illustrations are by the children's illustrator, Eric Carle. Singer is a Nobel Prize winner and Newbury winner. Carle's bright illustration set the mood of this Bible Story.
Hardcover. Prague, Brown and Watson / Artia, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. 10" x 8", 6 double page pop-ups of scenes telling the story of Puss-in-Boots. All 6 pop-ups seem to be working & sharp; illustrated with Kubasta cover; ; Treasure Hour Pop-Up Book. Clean copy. NOTE: The scarce original Prague edition in 1960 had 8 pop-ups.
Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, board book, unpaginated, color illustrations by Magda Moses, very clean, tight copy. Die-cut boards that show a smiling Hopsi as her surroundings change throughout the day.
Hardcover. NY, Little Simon, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy boards. Big, dynamic pop-ups bring to life such legendary prehistoric creatures as the saber-toothed tiger and the woolly mammoth, as well as a number of lesser-known beasts. Each of the seven bold and dramatic spreads includes clear and informative descriptions of each animal. Paper engineering by Ruth Mawdsley. Clean working copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, P.F. Volland Company, 1st, 1918, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Spine shows heavy wear, chipping and tearing with exposed cardboard under fabric. Light musty odor. Clean internally. Color illustrations by Rachael Robinson Elmer.
Hardcover. Boston , Godine, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by the author. Light edgewear to dust jacket.Tim is so discouraged and bored by life at home and school that he seizes a chance to join a circus, not knowing what really awaits him. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth, 32 pages illustrated in a color cartoon style by David Goldin. INSCRIBED BY GOLDIN with a sketch of the cat and himself. In this ironic tale of beauty and the beholder, an anxious owner creates a flattering portrait of his missing cat, while the pet's rescuer takes an opposing view. As the owner races around town hanging "Lost Cat" posters, exclamation points of sweat shooting off his brow, he remarks that his affectionate pet "Loves to eat./ Shares your seat./ Snuggles tight around your feet." He doesn't know the cat has taken up residence at-where else?-"Le Cafe Chat Perdu," whose proprietor is at wits' end. "Swiped my dinner./ Knocked me flat./ Someone please/ COME GET THIS CAT!" . Funny stuff. Clean copy, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, Revised Edition, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Adapted from the Russian by Babette Deutsch and Abrahm Yarmolinsky. Black & brown & white illustrations by Janina Domanska. Dust jacket shows minor wear and chipping.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Hardcover,no dust jacket. Light edgewear to corners, and edges. Light age soiling on text block. Vivid color illustrations by Warren Chappell. Based on the famous ballet about a remarkably lifelike doll.
Hardcover. NY, McLoughlin Brothers, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial beige cloth. Color lithograph frontis of Santa peeking at sleeping toddler. Approx. 150 pages with b&w line illustrations. Each page with a red decorative border. Front fly leaf present but loose, pencil name and date (1905) on a blank prelim page. Otherwise clean copy.
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. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 96 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Chipping on dust jacket. Illustrated by Kate Seredy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Color illustration throughout. Light edgewear to dust jacket, cover boards. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Bradbury Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY SCHWARTZ on title-page. Color illustrations by Schwartz. Dust jacket with light edgewear, minor chipping at top of spine.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Running Press, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Purple cloth with pictorial pastedown, green endpapers, bright and unmarked copy, still in publisher's shrinkwrap. A glorious, full-color collection of Mother Goose rhymes, featuring the classic Blanche Fisher Wright illustrations. 136 pages.
Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Victor G. Ambrus. Bright, clean copy in an unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Gretchen Schields. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR. Clean, tight copy in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 7th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, B&W lithographic illustrations by Creekmore. In a bright dust jacket with $4.50 flap price.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st thus, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Adapted by Allen Chaffee, illustrated by Lois Lenski. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, dust jacket edge wear and small tears along spine edge, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Mild musty odor.
Hardcover. NY, Parents' Magazine Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth. A visual tribute to what the wind takes away illustrated in color by Ati Forberg. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard , 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Emily Arnold McCully (1994 Caldecott winner). Minor wear to dust jacket, mostly nice condition.
Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, reprint, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 36 pages illustrated in color and b&w by Tousey. Paper covering gone from spine. Otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York , North-South, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 20 pages illustrated in color by Zwerger. SIGNED by Zwerger on title page.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly edgeworn dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. Thin 4to, white linen, with circular pictorial label. Dj price-clipped and 10/70 on dust wrapper flap, 7 titles on the back flap. and the silver Caldecott Honor Book sticker on the front. Probable second printing as the first didn't have the sticker which was awarded in 1971.
Hardcover. NY, Hyperion Press, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with light blue lettering. 72 pages illustrated in color and b&w by Oscar Fabres who also decorated the endpapers. Spine cloth faded, interior clean.
Reading, MA, Addison-Wesley, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated with 2-color drawings by Jerry Joyner. Clean copy. Everything you need and don't need to know about mud including 'how mud acts'. Clean copy (no mud).
Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Brace, 1st US, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Michael Foreman. Light edgewear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Tambourine Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover wth dust jacket. Illustrations in color by Kimberly Bulcken Root. SIGNED BY ROOT on title pg. Closed tear to front panel of dust jacket otherwise VG.
NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in blue-green cloth with maroon lettering and drawing. Three-color, b&w illustrations by Margaret Van Doren. Front fly leaf gone, light soil, small mark to covers. Otherwise very good, clean. A spirited black puppy learns to make friends with two kittens in his new home.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Glossy boards, illustrated in color and b&w by Gertrude Elliott Espenscheid. Copyright page states 1955 but ISBN tells us it's a probable 1970s reprint. Owner's signature on iside front cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1st, 1959, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 80 pages. Hardcover with lightly worn dust jacket. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR, Aldren A. Watson, on TITLE PAGE. Cover boards show moderate rubbing and edge wear, tight binding.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 3rd pr., 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. On a rainy afternoon, a woman shares with three restless granddaughters her "earliest memory" from her childhood in China. Adapted from Tan's The Joy Luck Club , the haunting tale that unfolds is worthy of retelling--and of repeated rereading. The narrator, Ying-ying, recalls waking up at the age of seven on the morning of the Moon Festival; it was a steamy day, and "the sun drove rays through the bamboo curtains like knives." Filled with similarly vivid images, Tan's lilting text conveys Ying-ying's contagious excitement about the festivities. These include the appearance of the Moon Lady, who can fulfill one's secret wish. Later, celebrating with her family on a "floating teahouse," Ying-ying loses her balance and falls into the lake, where she is caught in a fisherman's net. He returns her to shore, where her secret wish is granted: she is found by her family, and thus learns a lesson about which kind of wishes come true. Tan has done a superb job of distilling this incident for young readers, who will be as mesmerized by the expressive narrative as by Schields's ornately detailed paintings, ablaze with luminous color.
Softcover. La Jolla CA, Star and Elephant Books, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A small book illustrated in color by Michael R. Hague. Softcover. Spine sunned. Hague's first illustrated book.
Hardcover. Somerville MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. While Tia Isa wants to save money for a car that will take the whole family to the beach, her niece does odd jobs for neighbors. But it's hard to save enough when half the money is set aside to someday bring family members who live far away to join them. Meg Medina's simple, genuine story about keeping in mind those who are far away is written in lovely, lyrical prose and brought to life through Claudio Munoz's charming characters.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay Co., 1st, 1932, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color pictorial Illustrated boards are lightly rubbed, worn at edges and corners. Front hinge is cracked, light finger smudges to a few pages, yellow paper on cardboard spine chipped. Illustrated in color throughout. A follow-up to The Adventures of Mickey Mouse Book 1, featuring a supporting cast and personalities that align more closely to the Mickey Mouse short films and comic strip of the time. Characters include Captain Church Mouse, Tanglefoot, Peg-Leg Pete, and Pluto along with Mickey and Minnie Mouse.
Hardcover. NY, Clarkson N. Potter, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. 128 pages. Charmingly attired antique Steiff bears, presented and photographed as characters in the memoirs of Ophelia, a stuffed bear who worked in a Paris shop.
Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Lee Lorenz. Bottom corners and spine a bit bumped. SIGNED BY LORENZ on title page.
Hardcover. New York, Clarkson Potter, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, unpaginated. Hardcover laminated boards with matching dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Natick, MA, Picture Book Studio, 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Lisbeth Zwerger.
Hardcover. New York, Windmill Books, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Library edition with usual markings. Light edgewear to cover boards. Library stickers on dust jacket. Illustrated by Lee Lorenz.
NY, Philomel Books, 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Patrick Benson. Bright, unclipped dust jacket. Five episodes featuring Hob, a goblin, and the family he lives with and protects, though only the children can see him.
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. San Diego, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st thus, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with a award sticker. An illustrated edition of the classic poem, in which a British soldier recalls his experiences in the army in India and pays homage to the courage of the Indian water carrier Gunga Din. Lovely watercolor art by Robert Andrew Parker. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Writer's Guild and Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 32 pages, illustrated in color and b&w by Ward. Pictorial endpapers. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.