Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. New York, Little, Brown and Company, 5th printing, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY PATRICK MCDONNELL WITH DRAWING OF A MONKEY OPPOSITE TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations. Minimal wear. Clean, tight copy. Caldectt Honor Book. McDonnell is creator of internationally syndicated comic strip Mutt & has won many awards. This is the inspiring story of the young girl who would grow up to be Dr. Jane Goodall.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 5th pr., 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glazed boards with a die-cut cover. Tails are irresistible to toddlers -- though most are beyond the reach of small hands. But now there's reason for tail fans everywhere to rejoice: a colorful collection of tails created just for those eager toddlers to tug, pat, and even scratch and sniff! Matthew Van Fleet's lovable menagerie features furry tails, spiny tails, shiny tails, and tails that wag -- all designed to inspire and withstand hours of interactive play. While pulling tabs and opening gatefolds, those tail tuggers can also learn to count from one to ten. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Carbondale IL, Southern Illinois University, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages of color plates plus many pages of b/w illustrations, 296 pages in all.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 32 pages with illustrations by Garland. Colorful paintings inspired by Magritte complement the story of a young boys' escape from boredom to the house of his neighbors, Rene Magritte and his wife, and the world they share with Salvador Dali and other artists. The full-page oil paintings that tell the visual tale are based on the work of the 20th-century Belgian artist. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers , 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 48 pages. An exuberant introduction to the wonders of our country shows Izzy and her little sister Jo rowing down the Mississippi, eating pies at the Kentucky State Fair, marveling at Niagara Falls and the California sequoias, and much more.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st thus, 1911, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in black cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and an illustrated, color paper label on the front board. The top edge of the text block is gilt. 273 pages of text and illustrated with end sheets, color title page, and 14 color plates by N. C. Wyeth each separated with printed tissue guards. This is the first Wyeth illustrated edition with the 1911 date on the title page in Roman numerals. Front hinge tender, rear hinge cracked. NOTE: Most descriptions call for a map proceeding Chapter 1. Missing here, but no sign of extraction. Previous owner's bookplate on a blank prelim page Despite map issue, a good plus copy of this scarce first printing.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Candlewick Press, 1st US, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with scarred dust jacket, 160 pages. Color illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Clean, tight copy. Front panel of dj has scuff leaving white paper. Otherwise a super clean copy.

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, Philomel, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket. Color paintings throughout by the author. A swanherd loses his flock but gains a princess in this French fairy tale. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Candlewick Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. Discover the wonders of ancient Egypt through a fascinating journal from a lost expedition -- a treasure trove of fact and fantasy featuring a novelty element on every spread. Who can resist the allure of ancient Egypt -- and the thrill of uncovering mysteries that have lain hidden for thousands of years? Not the feisty Miss Emily Sands, who in 1926, four years after the discovery of King Tut's tomb, led an expedition up the Nile in search of the tomb of the god Osiris. Alas, Miss Sands and crew soon vanished into the desert, never to be seen again. But luckily, her keen observations live on in the form of a lovingly kept journal, full of drawings, photographs, booklets, fold-out maps, postcards, and many other intriguing samples.

Hardcover. Boston, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover with a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket, a story by the author of Ironweed and his son, Brendan. Illustrated in color by Glen Baxter. Through ingenuity, determination, and sheer grit, Charlie Malarkey and his friend Iggy must stop Ben Bubie and his diabolical machine from stealing belly-buttons in Albany, New York. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Clarion Books, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY WIESNER ON TITLE PAGE. Crisp, tight copy. Very good condition with only minor rubbing to edges.

Hardcover. Grand Rapids MI, Zonderkidz , 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 32 pages illustrated in color by David McPhail. When a bunny is born in spring, he sees the world as green and new and full of hope. But as the seasons change, the bunny worries that the earth may be dying. Sally Lloyd-Jones' picture book celebrates the Easter season and rebirth. Award-winning artist David McPhail's whimsical illustrations reflect the beauty of the world around us, No dust jacket. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Four Winds Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 34 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Steven Kellogg. Clean, tight copy with only minor rubbing to edges.

Hardcover. NY, Platt & Munk, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth covers stamped in black. The kindness and determination of the Little Blue Engine have inspired millions of children around the world since the story was first published in 1930. Cherished by readers for over ninety years, The Little Engine That Could is a classic tale of the little engine that, despite her size, triumphantly pulls a train full of wonderful things to the children waiting on the other side of a mountain. Illustrated in color by George and Doris Hauman. Clean, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Dial Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with clipped dust jacket. Illustrations by Donald Carrick. Clean, tight copy with minor wear on edges.

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, Henry Holt and Company, 1st US, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 127 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Gilt decoration of peacock on front. Moderate wear to edges. Tight copy. Illustrations by C. Lovat Fraser.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, color illustrations by Nancy Winslow Parker. Amy watches as everyone leaves the house and as neighbors are busy in the street, but when Grandpa finally comes Amy goes out too. Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Albert Whitman & Company, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white and color illustrations by Berta and Elmer Hader. Shows some wear but mostly clean and nice. Hardbound, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. Candlewick Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 32 pages. Discover the wonders of ancient Egypt through a fascinating journal from a lost expedition -- a treasure trove of fact and fantasy featuring a novelty element on every spread. Who can resist the allure of ancient Egypt -- and the thrill of uncovering mysteries that have lain hidden for thousands of years? Not the feisty Miss Emily Sands, who in 1926, four years after the discovery of King Tut's tomb, led an expedition up the Nile in search of the tomb of the god Osiris. Alas, Miss Sands and crew soon vanished into the desert, never to be seen again. But luckily, her keen observations live on in the form of a lovingly kept journal, full of drawings, photographs, booklets, fold-out maps, postcards, and many other intriguing samples.

Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne & Co, reprint, unk., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 88 pages. Hardcover with clipped dust jacket. Illustrated in color and black and white by Randolph Caldecott. Dust jacket has minor wear. No. 3.

Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1944, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with cardboard spine split along top. No dust jacket. Corners chipped and fraying. Previous owner's sticker on front fly leaf bottom.

Hardcover. NY, Dial Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Color art by Max Ginsburg. A biography of the fifteen-year-old Iowa teenager who helped avert a train disaster in 1881 and became a national heroine. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by George Booth. Clean, very tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Coward-McCann, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 239 pages, with b&w drawings by Kurt Wiese. Minor edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Golden Press, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 140 pages illustrated in color by Benvenuti. Presents "The Elves and the Shoemaker," "The Donkey Cabbages," "The Witch and the Children," "The Bold Little Tailor," "Rapunzel," "Jack and the Beanstalk," and "The Wee Man of the Moors."

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Green cloth covers with gilt titles, color illustrated dust jacket, acetate-protected, profusely illustrated with full-page color plates by Uri Shulevitz. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket, price-clipped.

Hardcover. NY, Young Scott Books, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w drawings by Edward Gorey, dj w/ edgewear, closed tear at folds, chip on rear panel. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with the gold foil Caldecott Medal on the front. SIGNED BY HALL on the title page. Cooney's award-winning color paintings throughout. Also laid in: A signed typewritten note from Hall on his stationery and a newspaper article about the author. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with laminate boards. Illustrations by Seymour Chwast. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st , 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by David Wiesner. SIGNED BY WILLARD. Light edgewear to dust jacket, dust jacket price clipped, remainder ink dot to top edge.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow & Company, Book Club Ed., 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards,, 32 pages illustrated in color by Janet McCaffery. The story of a bad witch who runs a cattery specializing in magical black cats for sale to other bad witches. One day, she is horrified to discover that one of her new kittens is yellow---a good witch cat. Frightened that her business will be ruined, she tries everything she can to get rid of the kitten; but in the end, good triumphs over bad, and "now good witches and fairy godmothers" get their magical cats from Hissing Hill. Corners with light wear, clean copy.

Softcover. Racine, WA, Whitman Publishing, 1st, 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover with light wear to paper wrappers. Light musty odor. Illustrations by Ruth Newton.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, unk., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 115 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.INSCRIBED BY OSBORNE on title page. Wood engravings by Michael McCurdy

Hardcover. Edinburgh, Floris Books, reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, oblong format. Originally published in Swedish in 1899. This is a revised version of the first English edition, published by G.P. Putnam's Sons of New York in 1974 with text translated from Lennart Rudstrom's 1968 adaptation of Larsson's original words. The paintings in this book depict Larsson's home in the village of Sundhorn in western Sweden, where he lived with his wife Karin and eight children. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Los Angeles/NY, Intervisual Communications/Harper & Row, 1st, 1984, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 6 pop-up spreads, illustrated in color by Scarry. All in good shape. Center spread has light wear to moving slots.

Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Margot Tomes. Dj price clipped. Small closed tear to spine.

Softcover. Watertown MA, Charlesbridge Publishing, 1st pbk, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oblong format. A cowboy poet who can't rope, whip, or ride? who ever heard of that? Slim knows he could be a real cowboy if the ranch hands would just give him a chance. Action-filled color drawings by Apple capture the excitement of a cattle run to Dodge City. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Early board book with Garth Williams' charming illustrations, 24 pages, clean copy. Glazed boards. J125125 code on inside cover at bottom indicating a reprint.

NY, Holiday House, 1st , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Robert Sauber. Frolya, a talking dove, weaves a beautiful rug for the archer Frol, which leads to a series of exciting adventures for the archer when the wicked czar covets the dove, adventures that lead Frol to the magical Land of I-Know-Not-Where.

Hardcover. NY, Platt and Munk, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong format, green cloth covers with title and drawing of panicked cows. Color, black & white illustrations by Brook. No dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Dodge Publishing Company, Reprint, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 164 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Deckled fore-edge. Tanning to pages and edges from age. Blue cloth bound cover boards, two-color illustration on front cover board, a good deal of paint has chipped off (see image), white title on spine, slightly faded. Some soil/wear to covers. A bump to front right bottom corner of cover board (see image). In beautiful condition inside, no pages missing, page 84 is partially disconnected. Illustrations by Bessie Pease Gutman) quite vivid.

Hardcover. NY, Four Winds Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. hardcover with dust jacket. Illust. in color by Stanley. Dust jacket with chip, light soil to rear. Tight copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Henry Altemus, Unknown, 1907, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 70 pages. Grey cloth illustrated cover, heavily soiled. B&W plates by the author throughout, one color plate. Heavy edgewear, smudging and some crayon marks throughout. Stamped and inscribed by previous owner. Binding cracked. Scarce edition. Illustrated throughout with clever line drawings which hide an additional item. Clues are given below each picture. An answer page describing the location of each hidden picture is included at the rear.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Leo and Diane Dillon. A history of slavery in America, written for children, and focusing on those who escaped slavery and on the Underground Railroad. Includes stories of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Josiah Henson, and others.

Hardcover. NY, Philomel Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ted Lewin. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Damrell & Upham, 1st, 1892, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 117 pages. lllustrated throughout with b&w reproductions of original woodcuts. Super condition in red cloth with bright gilt design. With the scarce dust jacket in white with a red design that mimics the cloth cover. There is edgewear and tiny holes in the paper along the spine, otherwise all there. A blue ink check mark in the top corner of the front fly leaf is the only internal mark.

Hardcover. Honesdale PA, Boyds Mills, 2nd pr., 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Luminous watercolor art by Ted Lewin. When Adam's family leaves Russia for America, Grandfather gives him an ancient prayer shawl that has been passed down from generation to generation, and in time, an older Adam passes the prayer shawl down to his own grandson.