Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead & Co, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Color illustrations throughout. Minor wear to cover and dust jacket edges. A very nice, clean copy.

Softcover. Paris, DIANE SELLIERS, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover, in a pictorial dust wrapper, 395 pages. Color illustrations by Pat Andrea give a whole new surrealistic look to the classic tales. FRENCH TEXT.

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. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Retells stories from the Old Testament in humorous, less-than-reverent verses. Illustrated in b&w by her husband, William Steig.

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 30 pages, hardcover. Illustrated in color by Bagram Ibatoulline. Very good condition with very good dust jacket. Clean, 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. London, S.O. Beeton, 1st, 1862, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 3/4 leather tooled binding with raised decorated bands on spine. 426 pages. Illustrated with woodcuts by Harden Melville and William Harvey. 10 color illustrations from water-color drawings by J.R. Zweker, Harrison Webb, and Harden Melville. Six fold-out maps. Marbled edges. Endpapers with light foxing. Rubbing wear to spine edges, small scuff mark to front leather edge. Corners bumped, worn. A fascinating work of hunting and natural history by journalist and novelist James Greenwood discusses the history, habits and physiology of a number of species of big game, including tigers, elephants, hippos and leopards. The work also offers information regarding the methods of their hunting including weaponry and tactical movements. The work is particularly noted for its discussion regarding deer hunting, with anecdotal evidence regarding the capacity of the white tail deer to heal from extremely serious wounds.

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. Boston, Little Brown and Co., 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong format, red cloth covers stamped in blue. Covers with some corner wear. Contents are very good. Quite scarce with 58 original illustrated maps in vivid colors. A product of the 1930s, it depicts stereotypical images of people, such as on the Tennessee map (not pictured here) there are a Ku Klux Klan (KKK) member in white hood and robe with a pistol and a bucket of tar, and a black person dragging a sack of cotton. In addition to these somewhat offensive images, it also reflects the times in terms of what was important or noteworthy about each area of each state be it growing corn, raising mules, crabbing, racing horses, making movies, sailing, Native Americans, national parks, quilting, romance, volcanoes, whales, rain, gold, or big trees. Pictorial endpapers designed by Taylor depict double hemisphere world maps. Art by Ruth Taylor (1900-) who was educated at the Pratt Institute of Art; the Art Students League. Name on half title page otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, reprint, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright die-cut dust jacket with decorated boards. Printed on yellow paper. Colorized illustrations. Dark green ribbon page marker. Like new.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 1st book by award winning team, b&w illustrations by Richard Egielski. Dust jacket with paper scar where sticker was removed on front. Otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with mild fading to dust jacket. Five poems by Langston Hughes and one anonymous one translated from the Spanish present the story of the first Christmas from different perspectives. Ashley Bryan has long been known for his interest in and illustration of African American spirituals and poetry. Here he puts his gifts of illustration to work in a way that seems to reflect his dedication to both. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Jump At The Sun/Hyperion, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. SIGNED AND DATED BY CHRISTOPHER MYERS ON BACK OF FRONT ENDPAPER. Clean, bright hardcover in a very good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Mankato MN, Creative Education, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glossy boards, 32 pages illustrated in color by Delessert. Includes four brief stories, each accompanied by a factual segment. Yok-Yok is a little boy and is based on a series of animated films created for television, Switzerland. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Kansas City, MO, Tell-Well Press, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Nonpaginated. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped and in protective brodart. Color illustrations throughout. decorated endpapers. Dust jacket has some age-yellowing. Cover boards decorated in same design as dust jacket. Small superficial tear to top of front cover at spine. Clean inside. In beautiful condition for its age.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally & Co, 1st, 1939, 63 pages. Small hardcover with no dust jacket. Chipped cover boards. Tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne & Co., reprint, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong format. Unpaginated. Illustrated boards, green cloth spine. Extensively illustrated in color and black and white by F. D. Bedford. Covers worn with mild soiling, tan stain to rear cover, edgewear. Reprint of a story which first appeared in "Holiday Romance" in 1868. This is the extraordinary story of a very nearly ordinary princess named Alicia. Given a magic fish-bone by a good fairy, Alicia can have whatever she wishes--provided she wishes for it at the right time. But it's never clear when the right time is, and sometimes the best magic is no magic at all.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Emily Arnold McCully and SIGNED BY MCCULLY on front fly leaf. A childhood move in the life of Willa Cather to the plains of Nebraska, brings initial unhappiness, then appreciation and love for her new surroundings. Inscribed, with a sketch by the illustrator.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribners Sons, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. Color illustrations by Adrienne Adams. Previous owners inscription on front endpaper. Green cloth covers. Clean, tight copy. Dust jacket has moderate wear with chunk missing rear spine.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 64 pages illustrated in 3-colors by Joan Sandin. Every day is the same for Pablo's father. Then one afternoon the ground growls, hisses smoke, and swallows up his plow. A volcano is erupting in the middle of his cornfield! The story is based on reports of the eruption of Paricutin volcano on Feb. 29, 1943. It came up in the Mexican state of Michoacan, in the cornfiled of a Tarascan Indian Named Dionisio Pulido. No one was killed, but more that 2000 people are said to have lost their homes. An I Can Read History Book. Light stamp on rear endpaper, otherwise a bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers , 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Masha. Previous owner's inscriptions on half-title page. Dust jacket price clipped. Dust jacket with chunks gone from spine edges, tape repaired tears, closed tears to corners.

Hardcover. New York , Harcourt Brace & Co, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Illustrated in line by Thurber and color by Don Freeman. "I" on copyright page, no copy on rear dust jacket flap. dust jacket with edgewear, light soil.

Hardcover. NY, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, color art by Jon Muth. Here is the rare book that not only expresses a parent's love for their child, but offers a hope for what that love will become. It begins with a wish at bedtime, as parents hold their children tight and hope their love will cradle them, safe and sound. It continues through the day their children have grown up, proud and strong, and can pass that love on to someone else. This is a book that goes beyond a parent's "I love you" to the generous wish that our children will make the world a better place. A gentle, poetic text is illustrated in soft gouache-and-watercolor washes that depict scenes in the life of a boy from infancy, when his mother and father hold him close, to adulthood, when he is a parent himself. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Philomel Books, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 40 pages, color art by Eric Carle. With unused apron in vinyl case, as new issued at rear of book. The last page has a short 1/2" tear at top, small crease, otherwise very good.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ashley Wolff and SIGNED BY WOLFF on half title-page.

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. London, Oxford, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Nice color illustrations by Hodges. Dust jacket shows minor wear, mostly clean. Hardbound.

Hardcover. New York, Michael di Capua Books/Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Non-paginated. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR FRED MARCELLINO ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations. Bright, clean copy. 1991 Caldecott Honor Book.Long regarded as the preeminent designer of book jackets in America, Fred Marcellino provides an unstinting visual feast in his first full-color picture book. The adventures of that rascal, Puss, and his master, the miller's son, are portrayed in a lavish series of illustrations that range from sumptuous grandeur to comedy both boisterous and sly.

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.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Ness. Ex-lib with library stamp on front and back endpapers. Dust jacket with light edgewear to bottom corner edge.

Hardcover. Flagstaff, AZ, Northland Publishing, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Bill Farnsworth. In a Native American buffalo jump, a hunter lures a herd of buffalo to follow him, rouses them to a stampede pace (he's on foot, by the way) and jumps off a cliff: while he drops safely onto a narrow ledge in the cliff wall, the buffalo plummet over his head to their deaths below. Here, a Blackfoot boy named Little Blaze wishes to lead the buffalo jump, an act of bravery that would earn him his adult name. When his older brother is chosen instead, Little Blaze is resentful, but the brother trips and Little Blaze dashes to the rescue. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 36 pages with color art by Ati Forberg. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Scribners, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated. Etchings by Barbara Garrison. Not Ex-library. A bright, clean copy. Boris the bear receives dancing lessons from his friend Max, a dancing bear with the Moscow Circus.

Hardcover. London, Constable And Co., 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginanted. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Moderate wear to edges. Tight copy. lllustrated by Antony Maitland.

Hardcover. Chicago, Children's Press, reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 26 pages illustrated in color by Sergio Leone. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Golden Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaged hardcover. Color photos. Like new.

Hardcover. New York, Dutton Children's Books, 1st, 1994, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, SIGNED BY PAUL ZELINSKY ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Acetate-protected dust jacket, gorgeous full page color illustrations. No sign of wear, spine stiff and tight, dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in excellent condition.

Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 4th pr, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Sweetness was determined not to go back to scrubbing the orphanage floor with a toothbrush, so ran away to the desert, foiled an outlaw, and found a Pa (the sheriff) for herself and the other seven orphans. Interesting pictures in gouache, acrylic, and pencil by Karas. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Paris, Jardin des Modes, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow pictorial boards, 14.25'' x 10.25'', black cloth spine. 48 pages. Color illustrations. Pictorial endpapers. First French edition of the third installment of the adventures of Babar, the orphaned elephant. An unusually bright, clean copy of a book often found in rough shape. Some mild soil to yellow boards. Beautful collector's copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston Co., 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 229 pages,color frontis, endpapers art plus many b&w drawings by Diana Thorne.

Hardcover. San Diego/NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, reprint, 1989, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards illustrated in 3-colos throughout. Ex-library but fairly clean with light stamp to front fly leaf and envelope residue to inside rear cover. First published in 1951 and a winner of a Caldecott Medal.

Hardcover. London, Victoria & Albert Museum, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. "This collection of illustrations from the National Art Library at the V&A contains well-known and unfamiliar fables accompanied by contemporary texts and translations, often with a topical or satirical content. It gives a cross-section of illustrative styles from the 15th to the 20th centuries. Fabulous color and b/w illustrations throughout. A wonderful reference volume, with a small bibliography and an "Analysis by Theme" at rear (plus Index)." Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 3rd Printing, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 57 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ELIZABETH COATSWORTH AT BOTTOM OF FRONT ENDPAPER. Black & white illustrations by Lynd Ward. Winner of the Caldecott Medal in 1931. Front cover with areas of foxing to cover hinge and along right edge - approximately 3/4" from top to bottom. No dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Philomel, 1st , 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.Color illustrations by Young.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Bright color illustrations by Lilo Fromm. Winner of the German Children's Book Prize in 1967. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Soil to inside edge of rear cover. Illustrated in bright primary colors by Barton. Dust jacket has a 1 1/2 inch closed tear, otherwise very good.

Hardcover. New York, Random House , 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, llustrated by Beni Montresor, minor dust jacket edge wear and price clipped, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Hardcover. New York, Platt & Munk Co, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black stamped lettering and illustration of monkey and elephant on front cover. Clean, tight copy with small chip from spine and light fraying on edges.

Hardcover. Cleveland, World Publishing, reprint , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. B&W illustrations by Tunis.160 pages. Dust jacket with light edgewear, unclipped.

Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Gay. Minor wear and chipping to dust jacket. Hardbound.