Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glossy boards. A large pop-up of Boston Red Sox's Fenway Park, along with booklet telling a history of the historic stadium. Illustrations by Bill Purdom and paper engineering by Rick Morrison. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , North-South, 1st U.S., 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 24 pages illustrated in color by Zwerger and SIGNED BY ZWERGER on title page. Originally published in Zurich in 1985.

Hardcover. New York , Abelard-Schuman, reprint, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Light blue cloth cover, some wear to corners and edges. Many color illustrations throughout. A bright, clean copy. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth stamped with orange lettering. 64 pages of b&w photos of kittens at play by Spillman, words by Paul Dehn. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. US, Prydwen Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. 32 pages illustrated in color. Terrence Lawlor has cut and pasted together all things beautiful, strange and colorful to create this wicked story of three vain sisters and their "dos." Lawlor's collaged illustrations are a delight and you'll find yourself oohing and ahhing as you recognize pots, scissors, cups, ships, cakes, baubles, flowers and fruits that play hide and seek on every beautifully composed page. The sisters, Carlotta, Whilhelmina and Delight, have true fashion attitude.

Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap , reprint, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrated boards. Non paginated. Extensive color and b&w illustrations throughout. Illustrated endpapers and flyleaves. Illustrated frontispiece. Spine cracked. Front fly leaf loose. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Oslo, Dreyers Forlag, 1st thus, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt titles in a bright dust jacket, 189 pages. Ever since they first appeared in translation more than a hundred years ago, the Norwegian folk tales collected by Asbjornsen and Moe have maintained unrivaled popularity on both sides of the Atlantic. The best of these tales are presented, with b&w illustrations by Erik Werenskiold and Theodor Kittelsen. Clean, bright 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. New York, Doubleday, 2nd, 1966, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. A clean, unmarked copy with heavy wear to dust jacket edges. Turnabout book where first side is country story and turn it over and the city story is in rear. dust jacket shows closed tears and small open rips. Illustrated by Ib Ohlsson.

Hardcover. NY, Random House/Beginner Books, reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy boards, illustrated in color by the authors, 60 pages. Daddy Bear tries to show his son how to use the sled, skis and skates he got for Christmas - with disastrous results. Fist published in the early 70s. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York , Dutton Juvenile, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY JEFFERS on title page. Ever since it was published in 1978, the picture-book presentation of Robert Frost's poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" has been an enduring favorite. For this special edition with a new design, trim size, and three new spreads, Susan Jeffers has added more detail and subtle color to her sweeping backgrounds of frosty New England scenes. There are more animals to find among the trees, and the kindly figure with his "promises to keep" exudes warmth as he stops to appreciate the quiet delights of winter. The handsome new vellum jacket will attract new and old fans as it evokes a frost-covered windowpane.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 32 pages illustrate in 3-colors by Lobel. Author/illustrator's first book is the story of a watchman on a drawbridge near a village full of friendly people. No dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NT, Di Capua/ HarperCollins, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, color illustrations by James McMullan. Copyright page states 1st Ed but no price on dust-jacket so assumed Book Club. Noel is a girl who wants to play a doll in the Nutcracker ballet her dance school is performing. She gets the part of a tree. She is sadly disappointed. A great story about how attitude and a change in it can affect life.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, reprint, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 52 pages illustrated in b&w by Erik Blegvad. Weekly Reader Edition. Dusty Hopkins was worried because it looked like he wouldn't be able to attend the Old-timer's picnic, all because of an argument his Pa and Mr. Folly had about who played the best fiddle. A delightful Miska Miles children's tale of little Dusty Hopkins, his friend Viola Folly and how they manage to resolve a silly feud involving the pride of their families and neighbors. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 48 pages. Reissued edition. Red woven boards with black vignette of boy playing to lower portion. Black titles to spine. Pristine inside, as new. SIGNED by Maurice Sendak on the half title page without dedication.

Hardcover. NY, NYR Children's Collection, reprint, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with red cloth spine. "Once upon a time, in fact it was Tuesday," the Bear went into the woods to settle in for his long winter nap. But when he awoke what had happened? The trees were gone, the grass was gone, the flowers were gone, and in their place were buildings, cars, a fenced-off courtyard. The Bear had no idea that he was in the middle of a factory. "Get back to work!" a man yelled out of the blue. "I don't work here," said the Bear, "I'm a bear." The man laughed and laughed. "Fine excuse for a man to keep from doing any work--saying he's a bear." And so it began and so it went, with the Bear protesting his bearness all the way from the Third Vice President to the First, and no one willing to believe that he wasn't just a silly man in a fur coat who needed a shave. How the bear endured and how he finally prevailed are the subject of this delightful modern fairy tale--beautifully illustrated with the author's inventive line drawings--about sticking up for yourself, no matter how many Foremen, General Managers, Vice Presidents, or even Company Presidents stand in your way. Reprint of this classic originally published in 1946.

Hardcover. New York , Duo Press LLC, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. New York City has never been more whimsical than in this visual narrative that uses wire-art sculptures to explore the Big Apple. Everything starts with a paper clip that unfolds to create some of New York's most famous symbols, including the Statue of Liberty, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the Empire State Building. A lively text accompanies the striking visuals, and six pages of information chronicle everything needed to know about the included attractions and landmarks. SIGNED by author and illustrator on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. NY, Rinehart & Co., 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with half the spine missing, Blue cloth with silver and black eagle on cover and silver and black lettering. Black lettering on spine. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated in b&w and 3-colors by Charles Child. Biographical rhyming verse: Columbus to Woodrow Wilson, some generic categories. Name on page opposite half-title, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by RASCHKA. Raschka's and Radunsky's simpatico styles are at long last paired in this "doggy allegory" told in a hip-hop beat. Born into a litter of 16, the scruffy protagonist is the pup not chosen--the "saddest and the baddest." His solitude, however, facilitates his sensitivity to the sounds that permeate his urban environment, and while the "clatter makes him gladder," ultimately it's the strains of opera that motivate him to "bark it like Brunhilda." Raschka's musicality undergirds his street-savvy lingo, making the narrative fresh and lyrical. The font becomes bigger and bolder to indicate emphasis, a technique that is particularly helpful when the text spirals around the pages. "I'm the zoom-est and the boom-est, spread no gloom-est, say no doom-est. I'm the top-est, never stop-est, Boston Pop-est, be be bop-est. I jazzle dazzle like it as the Hip Hop Dog." Radunsky's caricatures of the moves of a canine version of Snoop Dogg manage to be convincing, poignant, and funny--no small feat. Loose lines, brushwork that allows the textured background to show through, and occasional bits of collage combine to create a gritty cityscape peopled with quirky personalities. This story of a neglected orphan who sings and struts his way to happiness will gladden the hearts of readers young and old.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust with light wear and a small closed tear, color illustrations by Deborah Zemke. Best friends Becky and Molly get into a ferocious fight when Becky refuses to trade dolls with Molly. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Pavilion Books / Chrysalis Book Group, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, no dust jacket issued. A follow up to 'Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book'. . Marbled endpapers. Letters and envelopes all present; All about fairies. these letters contain everything from wisdom to suggestions to chastisement. Lady Cottington has made notes in the margins not to mention smashed fairies throughout (will she ever stop this nasty habit?!) And the fairies - they too have done their part. sprinkling magic and mayhem throughout. SIGNED BY FROUD.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, 2nd pr., 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 48 pages. Illustrated with Dare Wright's b&w photos featuring a doll with her teddy bears and a live duckling. No dust jacket, Clean and bright, no markings.

Hardcover. New York , Hyperion Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY EGIELSKI. No dust jacket issued. Paper engineering by Gene Vosough. 16 pages, 8 two-page pop-ups, all tight with crisp edges and in working order. Clean cover, solid binding.

Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing , 1st, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, color illustrations by Beth Wilson. Small picture book with no dust jacket. Tell-a-Tales Series. Light corner and edge rubs, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 40 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrations by Amy Schwartz.

Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Helen Shad. Clean copy.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to boards.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Candlewick Press, reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Kenneth Grahame's classic children's story tells the adventures of the amiable Mole, the dapper Water Rat and the marvelous Badger as they endeavor to keep the wayward Toad out of trouble. Sensitively abridged and beautifully illustrated in color with great charm and detail by Inga Moore. 182 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Frances Lincoln Children's Bks, reprint, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 56 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Some wear and light bumping to corners, otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to boards.

Hardcover. London, Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 94 pages. Brown cloth covers, beveled edges, gilt titles to spine and front cover, lovely gilt pictorial to front, patterned endpapers, all edges gilt, 10 full-page color plates (1 plate torn in half) and numerous b&w illustrated figures, by Frances Brundage and M. Bowley. Previous owner's bookplate to front endpaper, light edgewear to covers, endpapers lightly discolored with age, chipping and tear to first plate, half of 9th color plate torn off, a few pages separate from page block.

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, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, reprint, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 224 pages. Few stories are as widely read and as universally cherished by children and adults alike as The Little Prince. This special edition of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's world-famous classic marks its seventy-fifth anniversary in print. Featuring a beautiful new cover and a special look at its history and making including a biography of Saint-Exupery, sketches, photos, and reviews from the first edition. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins , reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 81 pages illustrated with color woodcuts by Bowen. SIGNED BY BOWEN opposite the title page. Publisher's promo sheet laid in. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Aladdin/Simon & Schuster, 1st thus, 2023, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, Bears Halloween party gets overwhelmed by a delicious excess of popcorn in this classic picture book refreshed with new art by celebrated and award-winning author-illustrator Frank Asch. On Halloween night Sam invites all his friends to his house for a costume party. As his guests arrive, each one brings the same treat: popcorn! They make it all and soon the house is overflowing with popcorn. What will Sam and his friends do with so much of this tasty treat? Clean copy.

Softcover. New York, Harry Abrams, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with matching dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Tight, bright copy.

Hardcover. San Francisco, McSweeney's Publishing, reprint, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket that unfolds to become a poster. A unique collaboration between two artists- one Russian, one American- joined forces to create this marvelous picture book. In the story, a single mouse runs around shouting "HERE COMES THE CAT!" again and again--in both English and Russian--until everybody he knows is worried sick. Just when the tension can't get any tenser, the cat arrives... with a giant wheel of cheese! A big party breaks out... Originally published in 1989. Clean copy. INSCRIBED BY CO-ARTIST ASCH on the front fly leaf.

Hardcover. New York, Grosserr & Dunlap, 1st, 1944, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 10 pages. Hardcover with plastic comb binding. Color illustrations by Julian Wehr. Three pages have movable tabs with one tab missing. Moderate chipping on cover boards and fading.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth with red and black design, 44 pages illustrated in color by Burton. Mike and his trusty steam shovel, Mary Anne, dig deep canals for boats to travel through, cut mountain passes for trains, and hollow out cellars for city skyscrapers -- the very symbol of industrial America. But with progress come new machines, and soon the inseparable duo are out of work. Mike believes that Mary Anne can dig as much in a day as one hundred men can dig in a week, and the two have one last chance to prove it and save Mary Anne from the scrap heap. Bright, clean reprint of this classic, lacks dust jacket.

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. NY, Frederick A. Stokes , 1st US, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth decorated in dark green, black and gilt, 418 pages. From the sword in the stone and the founding of Camelot to the famed Round Table and the Lake of Enchantment, the legend of King Arthur will never lose its magic. Though simpler, this version includes all the wonderful stories-such as King Arthur's winning of Guenievere and Merlin's tragic downfall at the hands of the evil Vivien. B&w drawings throughout by A. G. Walker. Introduction by John W. Hales. Undated, circa 1900, front hinge partially cracked, title page tanned from frontis. tissue-guard. Small gouge to spine, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Philomel Books, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY SPIRIN ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1st, 1947, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, paper covered boards, 32 pages illustrated in color by Rosemary Buehrig. The adventures of Farmer Jones and his trusted tractor who gets rewarded with a new coat of paint. Covers worn, chipping at spine, fragile staple binding.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, color illustrations by Raschka. Sergei Prokofiev composed his Peter and the Wolf in 1936 with the hope of introducing children to the instruments of the orchestra. It happens that he also devised a wonderfully dramatic story. The characters - boy, bird, duck, cat, grandfather, wolf, hunters - and their doings have been beloved by young and old for decades. Writer, artist, musician, and Caldecott Medalist Chris Raschka has given the original story a new setting: a stage performance. Here you will relish language inspired music; enjoy mischief, suspense, and triumph in the theater; and delight in a surprise (and an additional character) Prokofiev's merry tale didn't provide. Please do not turn immediately to the last page. SIGNED BY RASCHKA.

Hardcover. NY, Barrons /Woodbury, 1st US, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth. A young crow forms a friendship with a caged parrot and sets him free. Color illustrations by Yutaka Sugita. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Michael di Capua Books, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row , 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 64 pages illustrated in color by Kessler. When the animals in the woods decide to hold the first All-Animal Olympic Games a series of humorous events follow. Clean copy.

Softcover. International Exhibitions Foundation;, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 28 pages. Color & B&W illustrations. Bibliography. Uncommon exhibition catalog as it toured smaller US museums. 2 page "Homage to Babar" by Maurice Sendak.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace and World, reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, unclipped ($4.95) dust jacket. The dramatic color illustrations of Swiss artist Felix Hoffman make this book truly unique. Color pictorial boards matching image on DJ. Yellow cloth spine. Dust jacket with light soil, internal tape repairs. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Scholastic, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color. Minho and his father have an active morning at the park, taking a carriage ride, seeing the animals in the zoo, and riding the merry-go-round.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday and Co., reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, illustrations in 2-colors by Leonard Weisgard. Twelve poems reflect the author's feelings about various colors. A nice early printing ($3.95 on flap) of this classic first published in 1961.