Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. New York , Henry Z. Walck, 2nd pr., 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 39 pages illustrated in color and b&w by Jane Paton. Bright dust jacket with light wear.

Hardcover. NY, Arcade, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Introduction by Michael Patrick Hearn, Reprints 6 of Denslow's early picture books in one volume. Tight copy.

hardcover. NY, Coward, McCann & Gegoghegan, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Tom Allen

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Library edition. Lovely color illustrations by Tony Chen. Great condition, clean and new-looking. Hardbound, dust jacket.

NY, Random House, 1st US, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. llustrated with color pictures and diagram of Excursion Steamer. Translated from the French by Merle Haas. Color illustrated paper covered boards with edgewear to corners, edges.

Hardcover. New York, Bedrick, 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Fiona French. Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Tight copy.

Softcover. New York , Garden City Publishing, 1st thus, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Introduction by Robert Benchley. Color and b&w illustrations by the Disney Studio from the motion picture. Illustrated cardboard covers with a green cloth spine, 1" tear to cloth at top, cardboard edges, corners worn. Light water stain (about 2" circle) on cover. Previous owner's signature opposite half title page. Overall good.

Hardcover. New York, Bantam, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Color illustrations by Seymour Chwast. Excellent condition. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman, 1st, 1936, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Ex-library. Cover paste-down very worn. Cloth Frayed on bottom edges. Usual markings.

NY, Garden City, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 64 pages, illustrated in color by Lee Ames. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping. Light tape residue where dust jacket was taped to covers.

Hardcover. NY, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 32 pages illustrated in color by Ungerer. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Dial, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Susan Jeffers. SIGNED BY JEFFERS. Bright copy.

New York , Hastings House, Reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Adapted from an old French Legend and illustrated in color, B&W by Cooney. SIGNED AND DATED (1987) BY COONEY on title-page. Dust jacket price clipped.

Hardcover. NY, Bluesky/Scholastic, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 65 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Barry Moser. Clean tght copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan , 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. 2-color illustrations by Helen Sewell. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping. Closed tear on rear dust jacket.

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. New York, Dial Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with matching dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Raul Colon. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Philomel Books, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards. A TIME Magazine Top 10 Children's Book of 2015! Ducks growing out of bananas? A mouse catching a cat? What's wrong with this book from the creator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar? Yes, there is something strange, something funny and even downright preposterous on every page of this book. But its not a mistake - its nonsense! And its also surrealism. Nonsense lies at the heart of many beloved nursery rhymes. Children readily accept odd statements like the cow jumped over the moon and the dish ran away with the spoon. This fanciful bending of reality is also basic to surrealism. In this book, nonsense and surrealism combine to spark creativity and imagination. No dust jacket, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Morrow, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 28 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by David Small. Remainder mark on bottom-edge.

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, 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. NY, Random Library, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 32 pages illustrated by Milion Glaser. Mocked throughout the jungles of India due to his small size, the smallest elephant in the world--no bigger than a house cat--has decided enough is enough. After all, if he's no bigger than a house cat, then a house must be where he belongs! After a long journey in the hold of a ship, this smallest elephant in the world finds himself a home with a nice little boy inside. But he must disguise himself as a cat to satisfy the boy's mother, and disaster strikes when he is confronted with his first mouse... Little does he know that the perfect home is waiting for him, in a circus where differences are celebrated, not scorned. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Platt & Munk, Co., reprint, 1933, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Blue cloth covers, front cover completely illustrated with pasted color plate, orange endpapers, profusely illustrated with color and b&w plates. Moderate rubbing and edgewear to covers, previous owner's small black ink signature to front endpaper, spine lightly faded and soiled, crisp and unmarked; overall a neat, tight copy of a lovely children's book

Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 109 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Vibrant color illustrations throughout. This retrospective volume is not intended to illustrate a particular story, but to display the full range of her abilities, and it is arranged according to the seasons she celebrates in her art. There are fifty of her hand-colored woodcuts in full color and an equal number in black and white. The book is large format because that is the way she works and that's what does her work justice. The text, written by her friend Lilias Hart, discusses not only her work, but also what life is like in the rigorous reaches of Northern Vermont.

Boston, Little Brown , 1st , 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color paintings by McPhail. Edward, who learned to read in Santa's Book of Names, and fanned his passion for adventure in Edward and the Pirates, is off on another storybook-inspired flight of fancy, this time with none other than the Lord of the Jungle himself, Tarzan! Losing himself in a book one day, Edward suddenly and most urgently requires the services of Tarzan. After being whisked away from the jaws of an enormous crocodile, Edward takes a few lessons from his hero, and soon has an opportunity to put his new skills to use. David McPhail's thick, jungle-hued paintings of apes, giraffes, lions, and antelopes will capture the imagination of young readers, as will his thrilling tale of the power of reading.Clean copy.

Hardcover. San Diego, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, SIGNED BY NORMAN AND LEO AND DIANE DILLON on title-page. Color illustrations by Leo and Diane Dillon. like-new condition.

Hardcover. Charlottesville VA, Thomasson-Grant, Inc., 1st thus, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, unpaginated, color illustrations by the author, clean, tight copy. A much-loved Danish illustrator, a 1972 Andersen medalist, takes up a problem that seems to be world-wide: kids who feel abandoned by their busy parents. Caroline, realistically pictured in the book's first half during a typical lonely day, wakes up next morning to transcribe a dream: the children band together to build a parent trap that's baited with films, videos, and free popcorn--once caught, an adult would ``never run away'' but, rather, be available for companionship and solace. In the end, Caroline's friends admire her story and do help build a playhouse-trap--with the happy implication that some adults may get the point.

Hardcover. NY, Clarion, 1st , 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ted Lewin. Clean, tight copy.

New York, Lothrop Lee Shepard, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 30 pages. Color illustrations by Alexi Natchev. A long-suffering man who tries to please his crabby and demanding wife is bested by a sly fox in this Hungarian folktale. In the dead of winter, an old peasant woman insists that her husband rustle up some succulent fish to eat. Obsessed, she embroiders fish patterns on the napkins and hums fish songs until she drives her husband batty. In June he finally embarks on a fishing expedition and hauls in a great catch. Outfoxed by a fish-loving fox, the man returns home empty-handed, surely to endure more henpecking. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Lippincott , 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrated by Reinhard Michl. Describes the animal life at a secluded pond during spring and summer days.

Hardcover. New York , The Macmillan Co., 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 200 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated in black & white by Helen Sewell. Dust jacket with small chips, tears.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Penn Publishing Company, 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth with color paste down on front cover with gilt lettering, 303 pages. Color frontispiece, 4 b&w plates and numerous line drawings by Henry Pitz. "This is the story of the experiences of two boys in the Sierra Nevada mountains in Lassen and Plumas Counties, California. Their adventures take them from Jamesville, a small mining town, up over Old Baldy to Eagle Lake and that spur of the range in which the lake is held."Clean copy.

Hardcover. Garden City NY, Garden City Publishing, 1st, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth spine with illustrated boards. Unpaginated (50 pages) illustrated in color & b/w throughout with preliminary sketches and actual scenes of the movie. The title page spread has a long, closed tear on the left side. The book's cardboard edges show wear. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover with a dust jacket. Appears to be a special Christmas gift to friends of Doubleday. Inside flap says "With Best wishes from Doubleday / Christmas 1967. Dust jacket with closed tear, front fly leaf has top corner triangle cut away.

Joliet IL, P.F. Volland, 3rd pr., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover In an edgeworn and chipped dust jacket. Green cloth with colorful pasted down illustration on front cover. Illustrated in color and b&w by Beatrice Stevens. Last 20 pages have light tanning along bottom edge. Set in 1685 France, the story tells of a young boy Philip and the conflict between King Louis XIV and the Huguenots. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Lee & Low Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated throughout in color by Ted Lewin. SIGNED BY BOTH author and illustrator. Describes the Mongolian terrain, people, culture, and day-to-day activities while focusing on Naadam, the annual summer festival.

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. New York , Hyperion Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. SIGNED BY JEFFERS. A small board book. A new installment in this engaging series follows the lovable Westie dog named McDuff who in this holiday tale falls asleep while waiting for Santa to arrive on Christmas Eve only to be awakened by a loud thump and a new arrival.

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. A macabre fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, illustrated by renowned photographer Cindy Sherman.

New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardbound, 40 pages. Color illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Rubbing to dust jacket. Small stain on back cover.

Hardcover. New York, Dial Books for Young Readers, 2nd pr., 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 30 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A Haitian story illustrated by Marc Tolon Brown.

Hardcover. New York, Four Winds Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Yellow cloth covers with red titles to spine and embossed graphic illustration of frogs to front, color illustrated dust jacket with acetate protective covering, numerous beautiful color plates by Margot Zemach, b&w illustrated figures throughout. Slight rubbing to dust jacket, light foxing to top edge, pages and covers crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight children's book in great condition.

Hardcover. NY, Garden City, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 87 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Retold and illustrated in color by Palazzo. Dust jacket worn, chipped. Small paper scar to front fly leaf. Light soil. Light ripple to page block. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2010, Hardcover in a bright jacket. SIGNED with a little pig sketch by Guarnaccia on title page. In this quirky, artsy retelling of "The Three Little Pigs," the pigs and their homes are nods to three famous architects-Frank Gehry, Phillip Johnson, and Frank Lloyd Wright-and their signature homes. Each house is filled with clever details, including furnishings by the architects and their contemporaries. Of course, not all the houses are going to protect the pigs from the wolf's huffing and puffing. Which one will? The wolf, and readers, are in for a clever surprise ending.

hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st , 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Say. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Brown. SIGNED BY BROWN. While out exploring one day, a little boy named Liam discovers a struggling garden and decides to take care of it. As time passes, the garden spreads throughout the dark, gray city, transforming it into a lush, green world. This is an enchanting tale with environmental themes and breathtaking illustrations that become more vibrant as the garden blooms. Red-headed Liam can also be spotted on every page, adding a clever seek-and-find element to this captivating picture book.

Softcover. Burlington VT, Vermont Migrant Education Program, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The scarce 1st printing of this charming book for beginning readers. Paperback. B&W illustrations by Jane Clark Brown.

Hardcover. New York , Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated in color by Shulevitz and SIGNED BY HIM. In this charming story about imagination and adventure, told with Uri Shulevitz's signature playfulness and style, a little boy learns how to be courageous, both on the high seas and at home. The tale is based on a childhood memory from the time when the author/illustrator and his family lived in Warsaw on the eve of World War II.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st illust thus, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in blue with prince on flying carpet on front, Black & white illustrations by Robert Lawson, 110 pages. Some wear and soiling to cover, but internally mostly clean. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York , Dial, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Wordless picture book, color illustrations by Nyeu and SIGNED BY HIM. 48 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.