Hardcover. NY, Phaidon Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 48 pages. In this imaginative tale from master storyteller Tomi Ungerer, two young siblings find themselves cast away on mysterious Fog Island. No one has ever returned from the island's murky shores, but when the children begin to explore, they discover things are not quite as they expected.Ungerer's captivating drawings evoke the eerie beauty and magic surrounding this timeless adventure. Selected by both The New York Times and Publishers Weekly as one of the year's best children's books, Fog Island is destined to become a modern classic.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace and World, reprint, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust, unclipped with $3.95 on flap. Color illustrations by Doris Lee. Quillow the toy-maker is the shortest man in town and Hunder the giant roams the countryside. Quillow saves his town from the ravages of Hunder. Exceptional copy, clean and bright.
Hardcover. NY, HMH Books for Young Readers, 1st thus, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 368 pages. Like all best friends, George and Martha do everything together--go to the movies, play at the beach, and just hang around not doing much of anything. George and Martha teach each other (and adoring readers) that even in a close friendship, privacy is important, practical jokes can sometimes backfire, and among other things, pouring split pea soup into your loafers to spare the chef's feelings is not the best-laid plan. A man with a talent for friendship, James Marshall defined its very essence in his stories about the world's two best friends. In this volume, all thirty-five episodes are brought together to celebrate friendship and two of the most lovable characters ever created. Each of these brief tales is filled with humor, and James Marshall's drawings are guaranteed to spark feelings of empathy, delight, and self-recognition. This collector's edition includes 35 stories, an introduction by Maurice Sendak as well as appreciations by some of the top authors and illustrators working in children's publishing today. It is a true testament to James Marshall as an author, as an artist, and as a person that his work and his life inspired such a diverse and immensely talented group. Noted children's book historian Anita Silvey provides an afterword.
Hardcover. NY, Platt and Munk, Revised Ed., 1932, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with large cover label illustration featuring Humpty Dumpty. Illustrated in color and b&w by Eulalie and Lois Lenski. Copyright page states 30th Edition with the latest date being 1932. Covers worn, spine cloth frayed with a short tear to bottom edge. Binding a little loose, fragile. Inside illustrations bright and clean.
Hardcover. Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Lane and SIGNED BY LANE. From the creator of the national bestseller It's a Book comes a timeless story of family history, legacy, and love. Grandpa Green wasn't always a gardener. He was a farmboy and a kid with chickenpox and a soldier and, most of all, an artist. In this captivating new picture book, readers follow Grandpa Green's great-grandson into a garden he created, a fantastic world where memories are handed down in the fanciful shapes of topiary trees and imagination recreates things forgotten. In his most enigmatic and beautiful work to date, Lane Smith explores aging, memory, and the bonds of family history and love; by turns touching and whimsical, it's a stunning picture book that parents and grandparents will be sharing with children for years to come.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, BC Ed., 1950, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 32 pages illustrated by Duvoisin in color and b&w, Weekly Reader's Book Club. Clean copy
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.)
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, BC Ed., 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, illustrate with 2-color linoleum cuts by Brown. Weekly Reader Book Club Ed. Name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Holt, Rhinehart, Winston, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with laminated boards. Clean, tight copy with bright illustrtaions by author. Light soil on front bottom cover.
Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 2nd pr., 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, color illustrations by Robin Preiss Glasser. Determined to be as perfect and neat as her older sister Olivia, Sophie tries to be tidy, but the more she tries the messier she becomes while her sister watches in exasperation, in a delightful book that keeps readers amused as they follow Sophie's funny and appealing antics. Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, BC Ed., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 32 pages illustrated in color by Kahl. An adventurous boy is warned about giants when he sets out to see the world that lays beyond his home in the forest. Weekly Reader Book Club Edition.
Hardcover. New York, Parent's Magazine Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Edward Gorey. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Anne Shwartz/Atheneum, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 18 silly poems with full color illustrations done as collages by Kroninger. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Janovich, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 59 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Barry Moser. Stories adapted by Van Dyke Parks.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row , 1st, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket, ex-lib with stamping, residue to rear endpapers. Color illustrations by Uri Shulevitz. Mr. Fanshaw and his grandson Will have a kitten show up at their door. Can the kitten help to solve the mystery in their woods?
Hardcover. New York, Abingdon Press, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 64 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in 2-colors by the author. Clean, tight copy. Sticker on dust jacket. Light fraying to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Berkeley CA, Ten Speed Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in color, b&w by Jeff Grove.
Hardcover. NY/Boston, Little Brown Young Readers, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, color illustrations by Marla Frazee. Wondering where babies come from, a young child is told that they arrive on the New Baby Train that travels its long tracks from destination to destination, picking up and delivering its precious bundles along the way. Guthrie's song is brought to life by Frazee's gouache illustrations, which tell a story all their own. A guitar-playing narrator and his younger siblings sit together on their front porch, as the boy tries to explain where babies come from. Clean copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Color pictures by Chwast. Features large fold-out illustration of the traffic jam. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket
Hardcover. NY, Garden City Books, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 92 pages. Color illustrations by Aldren Watson. Light soil to dust jacket. Otherwise very good. SIGNED BY ALDREN WATSON on title page.
Hardcover. New York, Longman's Green and Co, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 40 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Moderate soil on covers and end papers. Illustrations by author.
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.
Hardcover. Boston , Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. B&W woodcut illustration by Michael McCurdy. Tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nonpaginated. Hardcover. Covers bound in blue cloth with gilt title on spine and cover with decoration and pastedown art. Beautiful b/w illustrations throughout by Seton. Bump to top corner of cover, small scrape to cover label otherwise clean, very good. The aim of this well-illustrated work is to picture the life of a Grizzly Bear with the added glamour of a remarkable Bear personality (from the Preface). Presented in 16 chapters, Seton considered this work as an historical novel of Bear life.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth covers stamped in blue. Story of the Santa Fe trail, presented in a charming production with full color plates and marginal line drawings presenting learning lessons on a variety of Western history subjects. No printing stated but an obvious reprint of a book first published in 1942. Clean copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to covers and edges. 2nd printing. Illustrated by authors. Light fraying to corners.
Hardcover. New York, Watts, 4th pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. hardcover with dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR BRIAN WILDSMITH on front fly leaf. Color illust. Light wear, rubbing to edges of dust jacket, closed tear to front cover.
Hardcover. Copenhagen, Jespersen & Pio, 1961, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light wear, closed tear. 125 pages, color illustrations by Axel Mathiesen. No markings.
Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 43 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ronald Himler. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Washington, DC, Encino Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Illustrated in black & white by Pat Oliphant, the award-winning editorial cartoonist. SIGNED BY OLIPHANT with his pequin sketch. Quarterbound w/green lined paper covered boards w/dark green cloth covered spine, no dj issued.
Hardcover. NY, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1st, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial cloth, 40 pages with wonderful 3-color woodcuts by Robert Quackenbush. Covers are worn and shabby looking, inside pages bright and clean. Small notation on title page. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Philomel Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to covers. Color illustrations by Nonny Hogrogian.
Hardcover. New York, Crown, 1st , 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 117 pages. INSCRIBED BY VELDE on title-page. Black & white illustrations, color wrap-around dj art by Trina Schart Hyman.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON HALF-TITLE PAGE. Brown boards, white cloth spine, color illustrated dust jacket, large full page color illustrations by Alice Provensen.
Hardcover. New York, Capitol Publishing Company, 1st Edition, 1947, Book: Very Good, Nonpaginated. Hardcover. Full color board pages. Noise mechanism still works but decorative topper missing (see image). Decorative covers. Pages still bright. In very good condition.
NY, Holiday House, 1st , 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Color illustrations by Tomie dePaola. Dust jacket with short tears, chipping.
Hardcover. New York, Little Brown and Co., 5th pr., 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages illustrated in color by Nolan and INSCRIBED BY BOTH AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR on the title page. Dust jacket with light edgewear, unclipped.
Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated cardboard covers, illustrated throughout in color by Byrd, 48 pages. Famous in his time as a painter, prankster, and philosopher, Leonardo da Vinci was also a musician, sculptor, and engineer for dukes, popes, and kings. What remains of his work-from futuristic designs and scientific inquiry to artwork of ethereal beauty-reveals the ambitious, unpredictable brilliance of a visionary, and a timeless dreamer.Robert Byrd celebrates this passionate, playful genius in a glowing picture book replete with the richness and imagination of Leonardo's own notebooks. Twenty lavish spreads, including side drawings, supplemental texts, and quotes from Leonardo's writings, highlight distinct periods and make the master's art, jokes, explorations, and inventions wonderfully vivid and accessible. A striking tribute to an irrepressible mind and to the potential within all who are curious.
Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st revised ed., 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by and SIGNED BY CARLE on half-title page. Orig. pub. in 1972 by Knopf. Bright, clean hardcover in a similar dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 32 pages. Color illustrations by Say. Minor edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, attractive copy. One morning eight-year-old Martin looks in the mirror and sees a stranger. Overnight, he has changed. His parents take him to one doctor after another, only to be told that there is nothing wrong with their son. At school his teacher asks, "What have we here, trick or treat?" His classmates will not play with him. At home his family tries to treat him as if he were the same child. But things now are different. Martin has grown very old in the space of one day. His world will never be the same again.
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. New York, Philomel, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ashley Wolff and SIGNED BY WOLFF WITH A SKETCH OF DR. BIRD on front fly leaf.
hardcover. NJ, T.F.H. Publications, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glazed boards. How to care for hamsters told in comic strip form. 32 pages. All in color.