Hardcover. NY, Green Tiger Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Chi Chung.
Hardcover. Middlebury VT, Vermont Folklife Center, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In rural Quebec in the 1830s, Jenny is hired to help a family by cooking and cleaning after her predecessor, the beloved Emily, has died, but Jenny is mysteriously prevented from completing one of her chores. Color illustrations by Lydia Dabcovich.
Hardcover. New York, Lippincott, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 63 pages. Boards. Illustrated by Edward Gorey. Previous owners inscription at top of front endpaper. Price clipped dust jacket is worn at edges with some red marking and smearing on front cover.
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. Translated from Danish by Anthea Bell.
Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated by Donald Sultan. Light edge wear to covers. Otherwise, clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Algonquin Book, 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 39 pages. Hardcover with laminated boards. Color illustrations by author. Previous owner's marking in front and rear. Moderate chipping to spine with chunk missing from bottom. Loose page block.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Full-color illustrations follow a day in the life of a country veterinarian as he deals with examinations, innoculations, and emergencies at his office; makes rounds in his truck; and returns to his office to check his patients. Clean copy.
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. NY, HarperCollins, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, color illustrations by Steig. Pete is a young boy who is in a bad mood because it's a rainy day so he decides he would like to be a pizza. His parents play along with his make-believe game until the sun comes out and "the pizza" decides it's time to go out to play with his friends.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st , 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with glazed boards. Color illustrations by Ehlert. Light wear. Clean, tight copy. Top Cat rules the house until an unexpected box from the humane society arrives with someone new--and cute--inside. At first, Top Cat doesn't want to share his house and favorite things, but soon he learns that two cats can be lots more fun than one.
Hardcover. Somerville MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, color illustrations by Gwen Millward. What may appear to be an abandoned garden is actually home to an unusual array of insects. Meet a ladybug who prefers making mud angels to acting like a lady, a roly-poly bug who loves to roll ("wa-hoo!"), a cricket who dreams of grand adventures, and a whole neighborhood of bugs gazing up at a fireworks show of flowers bursting into bloom. These inviting vignettes are sure to have readers seeing bugs in a whole new light. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , reprint, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, Remains of Caldecott sticker on front panel. No date on title page so assumed early reprint. 1953 Caldecott winner. A delightful story about Johnny and the bear he finds as a cub. Illustrated in soft brown tones by the author.
Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st , 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Diane de Groat. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Features more than 80 of Tasha Tudor's favorite family recipes accompanied by her wonderful illustrations, book and jacket are in excellent condition, there are no significant flaws, the original price is present ($26.99). Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Pale yellow boards with red titles to spine and red illustrated figure to front cover, color illustrated dust jacket with acetate protective covering, lovely tri-tone color illustrations by Margot Zemach. Light rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket, with a few quarter-inch tears to edges, price-clipped, otherwise covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a neat, tight children's book in great condition.
Hardcover. DK Publishing, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A thickly sentimental tale, told in graphic-novel-style frames, of a dying boy's metaphorical quest for courage.
Hardcover. New York, M. Evans & Company, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, red cloth covers with black lettering and illustration of an aardvark on front. Pictures by Wendy Watson. Front hinge shows light tearing.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 48 pages illustrated in color by Marc Simont. Bravery, wit, and clear thinking all give the boy Wally the edge when Hogbone the thief and bully, with his 15 other bad guys ride into town. Clean copy.
NY, Pantheon, 2nd pr., 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards. Color illustrations by Cyndy Szekeres. Unpaginated. Cover has minor wear to spine edge and corners. Doctor Rabbit finds an abandoned tadpole and raises her to froghood. The cast of characters, including Nurse Mouse and others, is irresistable. The ending is bittersweet, because even orphaned tadpoles grow up one day, but this ending is one of the things that makes this such a special story for a parent to read with their still-small child.
Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1899, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original cloth-backed color pictorial boards. Full-page color frontispiece with five full-page color plates and numerous black-and-white line illustrations throughout. [19] leaves, printed recto only. Cloth spine gone leaving both covers detached, covers edgeworn, especially corners. Interior of book sound, clean with bright plates.
Hardcover. New York, Coward-McCann, 1st, 1943 , Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardbound. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Edgewear, corners worn. Light soiling throughout book. Dust jacket with soiling, large chunk missing from front cover. Closed tears. Brodart cover.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY JIM AND KATE MCMULLAN on half title-page. Color Illustrations by Jim McMullan. TIght copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Company, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in color throughout by Emma Chichester Clark. When Cissy Lavender house sits for Mr. William Holly's cats and dog, she finds a multitude of things to do and write to him about.
Hardcover. NY, Vanguard Press, 1st, 1077, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The Catfish Bend series, set in Mississippi, is both a gentle comic satire and a fascinating tale of eccentric animals. Here after a lapse of eleven years, are a new band of silly creatures: a Sherlock Holmes type Bloodhound, the Prophet Crows etc. B&w drawings by Alice Caddy. No markings.
Hardcover. New York, Philomel Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. SIGNED BOOKPLATE LAID IN. Illustrations by author.
Hardcover. Cleveland, World Books, 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong pictorial boards, 28 pages illustrated in color by Chiyoko Nakatani. The zoo hippo family of "Wake up Hippopotamus" ferry the other animals to safety when floods come. Lovely long hippo pictures extend across spreads. Mild musty odor, No markings.
Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, bright pictorial cloth, b&w drawings throughout by author. Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ben Shecter. Two friends decide that playing hide and seek isn't as much fun as doing things together. Publisher's review slip laid in.
Hardcover. London, Allen & Unwin, 5th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 78 pages. Black & white illustrations. by Roger Garland. Small stain to back of cover.
Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st Thus, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Richard C. Jones. Introduction by Jan Morris. Afterword By Samuel J. Rogal
Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Introduction by Milne. Music by H Fraser-Simson, decorations by E.H. Shepard. A bright copy in the scarce dust jacket that's edgeworn, chipped.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 5th pr., 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers stamped in red, large format. A square, bright copy of this vintage classic dictionary for children. Color illustrations by Gertrude Elliott. No marking.
Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st US, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Full color and black & white illustrations by Carl Larsson. Dust jacket with rubbing along edges, areas of darkening. Clean, tight copy. A beautiful book featuring the full color watercolor artwork by Carl Larsson of his family in Sweden.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, short closed tears. B&w pictures by William Pene Du Bois. $8 pages. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Princeton Architectural Press, rep, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by the Rands. Clean, tight copy.
New York, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Symeon Shimin. Light edgewear. Dust jacket with edgewear, rubbing.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Mary Azarian. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Harpercollins;, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. An illustrated edition of the libretto for Handel's popular choral work, color plates by Barry Moser.
Hardcover. NY, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1st , 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Mendelson. Animal characters highlight a retelling of the story of two rascals who sell a vain emperor an invisible suit of clothes. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, New York Review of Books, reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards with a red cloth spine. First publlshed in 1950, this charming picture book by the Caldecott Medal-winning team of Simont and Krauss features bold illustrations that bring to life a humorous and engaging reversal of ordinary reality that will enchant young children and their parents. Full color. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Larousse, 1st US, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated cloth covers, no dustjacket. Translated by Anthea Bell. Color illustrations by Svend Otto S. Some foxing to covers. Otherwise very good.
Hardcover. Brookfield, CN, Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Color illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. A kids' picture book introducing the Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock.
Hardcover. NY, Scholastic, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated by Vladimir Vagin. While poking about in the attic, Marvin and Joey discover old letters written by their great-great uncles, Henry and Timothy, whose correspondence with each other reveals to the youngsters the truths about being different and being brothers. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Based on a tale by Nathaniel Hawthorne, here retold in verse. Black and white drawings and silhouettes by Marc Brown. Dust jacket with closed tear, edgewear at top of cover.
Hardcover. New York, Barse & Hopkins, Reprint, 1915, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, cloth boards wth color label on front showing two bears dressed in top hats and long coats. 60 pages plus ads. Full color frontis with Traveling Bears meeting Buster Brown and Tige. Foxing to borders of front endpapers. Most pages clean and bright. Front hinge cracked top to bottom. Rear hinge paper intact but weak. Covers worn with bumped corners and chipping to paper in spots.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, color illustrations by New Yorker cartoonist Harry Bliss. SIGNED BY BLISS on title page. It's Halloween night, and one very brave witch has decided to teach her little sister all about humans and what they enjoy, including some yucky stuff called "candy." But when it seems the little Witchling thinks candy is yum, her big sister flies off to set her straight--and then she gets stuck in a tree! Good thing the little Witchling isn't afraid to be brave! Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a very good dust jacket. Non-paginated. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR WENDELL MINOR ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations. Clean, bright copy.
hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, glazed boards. Color illustrations by Mark Entwiste. A tall tale about a Big Lie Contest at which a tale about a giant catfish becomes true and swallows its teller.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, Each page features a child introducing a dino, 25 in all, and describing its behavioral and physical characteristics. The child tells about him-/herself, too, with an argument for renaming the dinosaur after him/her. For example: "My favorite dinosaur is Tyrannosaurus Rex, the biggest, meanest, fiercest, most powerful meat eater ever found . . . when I have a bad day or lose my temper, my dad calls me RYAN-osaurus Rex!" Solid scientific information shares space with fictional youngsters in an ingenious way.