Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. New York, Philomel, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Ashley Wolff and SIGNED BY WOLFF WITH A SKETCH OF DR. BIRD on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Michael McCurdy. Foreword by Garry Wills. Light edgewear to covers and dust jacket.

Hardcover. Somerville MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY BLUEMIE on title page. Color illustrations by C. Brian Karas. The clouds are gathering above a city street and soon -- tap, tap, boom, boom! As a thunderstorm rolls in, people of all stripes race down to the subway to get away from the crackling rain and wind. With quirky wordplay and infectious rhymes, Elizabeth Bluemle crystallizes an unexpected moment of community, while G. Brian Karas's warm illustrations show the smiles to be had when a storm brings strangers together as friends.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st , 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 95 pages. Black & white line drawings by Bianco. Light soil to title-page. Light soil to book covers, stain to spine,

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Pictorial boards in a bright, edgeworn dust jacket. 28 pages illustrated in color and b&w by Rounds. Later printing, from the Story Parade Picture Book series, "selected from the most popular stories that have appeared in Story Parade Magazine." Whitey sets out to get a job as a cat skinner at a lumber camp, Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, lovely reprint. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR SENDAK.

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. NY, Random House, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glazed boards, 64 pages. Illustrated throughout in color and b&w by C. Walter Hodges. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Dutton Children's Books, 1st, 1997, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover. SIGNED BY PAUL O. ZELINSKY ON TITLE PAGE. Caldecott Winner for 1998. Acetate-protected dust jacket, gorgeous full page color illustrations. No sign of wear, dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in excellent condition. First printing. no sticker.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, reprint, circa 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards with a black cloth spine. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak in b&w. A beautiful reprint of the classic 1960 edition. No dust jacket, clean. (Imprint is Harper & Row, so not a first. No ISBN so mid-or late 1960s).

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally & Company, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards. A book about Edward "Chubby" Elephant and his friends at the circus in this appealing book w/color illustrations on almost every page by John Dukes McKee. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.Color illustrations by the author.

Hardcover. NY, Walker Books, 1st thus, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 22 small hardcovers in a pictorial slipcase, a very clean set of books unread. All illustrated in color by Oxenbury. Set Titles in the Set Down The Rabbit-Hole, The Pool Of Tears, A Caucus-Race And A Long Tale, The Rabbit Sends In A Little Bell, Advice From A Caterpillar, Pig and Pepper, A Mad Tea-Party, The Queen's Croquet-Ground, The Mock Turtle's Story, The Lobster Quadrille, Who Stole The Tarts, Alice's Evidence, Looking-Glass House, The Garden Of Live Flowers, Looking-Glass Insects, Tweedledum And Tweedledee, Wool And Water, Humpty Dumpty, The Lion And The Unicorn, It's My Own Invention, Queen Alice, Queen Alice, Shaking Waking Which Dreamed It

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2003, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Dust jacket and covers completely illustrated, acetate-protected dust jacket, lovely full page color illustrations. No sign of wear, dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in excellent condition.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, BC Ed., 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, edgeworn dust jacket. Six further adventures of Pippa Mouse and her animal friends. Charming b&w drawings by Cyndy Szekeres. 55 pages, clean 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. New York, Pantheon Books, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 179 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Cloth covers with gilt stamped decoration on front. gilt lettering on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Maria Cristina Brusca. Light edgewear to dust jacket. When a handsome city slicker shows up at the Z-Bar Ranch to borrow a horse, the cowboys there decide to make him the butt of a joke, offering him Zebra Dun, the meanest bucking bronco they have, in a colorful version of a traditional cowboy song.

Hardcover. NY, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1st , 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 62 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white illustrations by Emily McCully. Dust jacket with small piece gone from top on rear panel. Review slip laid in. Small chunk missing from dust jacket rear by spine.

Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1st illust. thus, 1930, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in yellow, 214 pages. This is a first printing of the edition with the two Gertrude Kay color plates, many b&w spot drawings and endpapers illustration. The original edition was published in 1882. A collection of stories and songs the author learned from growing up among slaves in the antebellum South. The green spine is faded otherwise a clean, sharp copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Sis. Like new in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Greenwich, CT, New York Graphic Society, 1st US, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color and illustrations by Beni Montresor. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping and soil.

Hardcover. New York, Wanderer Books, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 12 pages. Hardcover. Features full color pop-ups on each page. All pop-ups are intact with light wear. Minor rubbing to covers.

Hardcover. New York, Blue Sky Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket, illustrated in color by Goode and SIGNED BY GOODE on title- page.

Hardcover. Paris, E. Plon, Nourrit et C., unknown, n/a, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. French text, 48 color pages, illustrated by M. B. de Monvel. Cover edge wear and light soiling, and spine cracked at front fly leaf, and page 17 but all pages intact. Overall, clean. Covered in plastic protecter that is torn on bottom.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 85 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear, small closed tear to dust jacket. Stamp on front fly leaf. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Cloth spine with pictorial boards. Black & white illustrations by Paul Flora. Light edgewear, chipping and soil to covers. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Clarion Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ILLUSTRATOR DAVID WIESNER ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations. Clean, bright copy. 2002 Caldecott Winner. First printing with no sticker.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1955, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 32 pages illustrated in color and b&w by the Haders. Paper covered boards have light soiling, chipping and edgewear. Interior clean, very good.

Hardcover. NY, Orchard Books, 1st US, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illust. by Drawson. Clean, tight copy.

NY, Dial, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, unclipped. Color illustrations by Thomas B. Allen

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday , 2nd, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY JULIA AND ROBERT VAN NUTT opposite title-page. Illustrations by Robert Van Nutt.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with a black cloth spine, 80 pages illustrated in 2-colors by Daugherty. Edge of paper covered boards chipped, corner wear, previous owner's stamp on endpapers, interior pages clean, two pages with small corner chips. Daugherty won a Caldecott Honor Medal in 1939 for this title, a modern retelling of the Androcles And The Lion common folktale about a young boy who loves to read about lions.

Hardcover. New York, Callaway, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Covers and dust jacket completely illustrated, beautiful, bold, full-page color illustrations by Roberts printed on stiff paper, rhyming alphabetical poems. Very slight rubbing to dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked, spine tight and stiff; a gorgeous book in excellent condition.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, reprint, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Cover boards clean and bright. Illustrated in color and b&w by Aldren Watson. Clean copy.

Hardcover. La Jolla CA, Green Tiger Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 33 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Tipped-in color illustrations by Frederic Clement. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover, previous owner's inscription on blank pelim page. Nice dust jacket (also with a paste-on color illustration).

Hardcover. NY, Wonder Books, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 20 pages illustrated in color by Carl and Mary Hauge. Mild cover wear.

Hardcover. New York, Simon and Shuster, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 80 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR KNIGHT on front flyleaf. Scrapbook section written by Marie Brenner. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Adhesive residue on rear dj. Light age toning to top text block edge. Color illustrations throughout. A bright and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Carlos Merida. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Helen Shad. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, William R. Scott, 1st , 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 2-color illustrations by Symeon Shimin. 44 pages. Covers with light discoloration, fade otherwise very good.

Hardcover. New York , Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. A book of prayers for children. 96 pages, color illustrations by John Rae. Spine faded, deckled foredge.

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton , 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 89 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by George Sharp. Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1st, 1897, Book: Fair, Hardcover, oblong boards illustrated in color with red spine which is very faded. Red lettering on title page, illustrated throughout with b/w line drawings in the text by Ver-Beck. Holding nicely but fragile. Soiling to covers, pages tanned with some foxing. Previous owner's name on prelim page.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2nd pr., 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Geisert gives new meaning to the saying "Don't cry over spilt milk." This wordless tale begins when a pig child spills its milk in the house, which is cantilevered on the edge of a river valley. The milk sets off a complex chain reaction that ultimately destroys the home. Miraculously, no one is hurt, and the final scene shows the family together, surrounded by the shambles of their house, smiling at one another in a way that shows their happiness at just being alive.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1962, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glossy boards, 64 pages illustrated in 3-colors by Mary Chalmers. First Edition. Two little brothers in a quandary as to what they should get their Mother for her birthday. Light edgewear, name on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. NY, Albert Whitman & Company, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black & white and color illustrations by Berta and Elmer Hader. Shows some wear on edges. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by illustrator McCully opposite title page.

Hardcover. NY, Garden City Publishing, 2nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 20 pages illust. in color, black & white by Oscar Howard. Scarce in a nice dust jacket with moderate chipping to spine.

Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman, 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated cardboard covers, 32 pages illustrated in color and b&w by the Disney Studio. Small tape repair at bottom of spine, previous owner's stamp inside front cover otherwise clean.