Children's Illustrated

NY, Golden Press, 1st, 1956, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glazed boards. Color Illustrations by Garth Williams. Illustrated end papers. Edgewear and soil to covers. Bottom of spine torn.

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. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 32 pages illustrated in color by Kaufman and inscribed by him with a large b&w drawing covering the front endpapers.

NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. Light edgewear to dust jacket. As they play video games inside, children miss out on a world of activity just outside their window.

Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. B&W drawings by C. Walter Hodges. 189 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. Covers and dust jacket illustrated in color, gorgeous full page color illustrations by Nascimbene. Very slight rubbing to dust jacket, spine stiff and tight, covers and pages clean, unmarked and crisp; a beautiful children's book in excellent condition. Two children, separated by great distances both of miles and of social class, grow up dreaming each other's dreams. By incredible chance they meet not just once, but twice, and live happily ever after.

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1st UK, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Edgewear, rubbing and sticker residue to dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. Light sticker residue, small closed tears to dust jacket.

NY, Philomel Books, 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Patrick Benson. Bright, unclipped dust jacket. Five episodes featuring Hob, a goblin, and the family he lives with and protects, though only the children can see him.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly edgeworn dust jacket with the 295/295 flap price. 1959 stated on copyright page and 'Yertle the Turtle' and 'The Cat in the Hat Comes Back' are printed last on the dual lists on the back dust jacket flap. No markings.

Hardcover. New York, Georgia University Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 30 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. SIGNED BY LOPEZ on title-page. Color illustrations by Tom Pohrt.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row , 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Montresor. Some edgewear. Dust jacket with soilng, small tears.

Hardcover. New York, Funk & Wagnalls, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 42 pages. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by Norman Rockwell. Dust jacket with rubbing, tape repaired tears along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Jerry Pinkney. Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in b&w by cartoonist James Stevenson. Dust jacket price-clipped otherwise very good.

Hardcover. New York/London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1st thus, circa 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Dark blue cloth with black and gilt trim, decoration and lettering on front cover panel and spine. 126 pages with 11 (of 12) tipped-in color plates by Edmund Dulac (lacking the frontis-illustration). Bookplate on front fly leaf, otherwise bright, clean copy.

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, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, no dust jacket. Illustrated in color and b&w by the author. Tan cloth covers with dark brown illustration, lettering. End paper map by De Angeli. Stated first edition. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co., 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket, b&w drawings by Bill Ogden. While collecting money for charity in front of a supermarket, two boys become inadvertently involved in a jewel theft. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover, illustrated in color by Bruce Ingman. Clen, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in beige cloth stamped in red. Black & white illustrations by Gay. Previous owner's bookplate. Ex-lib, with light stamp to front fly leaf, residue to rear end papers. Humorous poetry for young readers.

NY, Pippin Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color cartoon illustrations by the author. SIGNED BY LEE LORENZ on title page. Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Harper and Row, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Color illustrations by Ben Shecter. Library stamps on front fly leaf, otherwise unmarked. 32 pages.John's best friend tells everything he knows about John, the secrets they share, their likes and dislikes, and the fun they have as friends.

NY, Sterling, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. Acclaimed artist and naturalist Jim Arnosky has created a breathtaking and informative reference on the subject, filled with intricately drawn prints from creatures both wild and domestic, as well as large-scale paintings of the animals in their environment. Best of all, many of the tracks are true to size, so children can compare the trace left by a big-footed polar bear (whose paws act as snowshoes in its icy environment) with that of a small bird. Adding to the eye-catching illustrations are four awesome gatefolds that display paintings of a bobcat, wolf, deer and a variety of hoofed animals right next to their prints. And the featured menagerie includes bighorn sheep and goats, chipmunks and rabbits, grizzlies and brown bears, horses and burros, domestic cats and dogs and even slithering reptiles!

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping and price sticker on rear. Otherwise, clean, tight copy.

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, The Heritage Illustrated Bookshelf, reprint, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Maroon cloth covers stamped in gilt. Handed down through the generations, the fables have been rewritten by Munro Leaf and illustrated with 2-color drawings by Robert Lawson. Clean copy.

New York, Atheneum, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 27 pages. Color illustrations by Michael Foreman.

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. NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In this amusing, eloquently told story, created by Katherine Paterson specifically for artist Vladimir Vagin to illustrate with his beautifully detailed watercolors, there was born a wise little princess who was different from everyone else. Miranda had been granted the gift of being wide awake all her waking hours. Thus, unlike those before her, she was able to see that the peasants of the kingdom were overworked and starving while the nobles lived in selfish luxury. Miranda, with confidence and determination, forms an innovative plan to help her people overcome their oppression, and in the process reveals the power of words to vanquish ignorance and bring about change.

New York, Philomel, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Thomas B. Allen. Unpaginated. With America at war with Germany, Littlejim's father believes that there is no time for fun despite the coming of the Christmas holidays, but Littlejim practices hard for the Bible competition, hoping to go to the church Christmas tree celebration.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. INSCRIBED BY JEAN CRAIGHEAD GEORGE ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy in a bright dust jacket.

Chicago, M.A. Donahue & Company, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with black cloth spine. Color and b&w illustrations by Gruelle. Light corner wear to covers. Clean copy. First published by Volland in 1925, this is most likely a 1930s reprint.

Hardcover. New York, Scholastic, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 72 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by David Shannon. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Full color illustrations by Dr. Seuss. 19 Seuss-Songs for Beginning Singers - Piano Score and Guitar Chords by Eugene Poddany. Previous owners bookplate opposite title page. Quarter size abrasion at top right corner of front endpaper. Light wear to cover, corners. Clean, 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. New York, Lothrop, 1st US, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Unpaginated. Color illustrations by Shirley Hughes. Dust jacket has closed tear at spine and is faded. Tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon , 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-Paginated. Full color illustrations by Brian Wildsmith. All pages intact. Dust jacket with tape repaired tears along edges, some shallow surface abrasion. Clean, tight.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan Publishing Co., 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Thomas Allen. A pioneer girl sees pieces of her life sewn into the quilts she, her sister and her mother make. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Johny Gruelle Co. , 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color, B&W illust. by Gruelle. Color illustrated cardboard covers, red cloth spine. Previous owner's sticker front end paper. Otherwise very good.

Hardcover. New York, Golden Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictoriak boards. Full color illustrations by Ben F. Stahl. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Bronx NY, Child Guidance Books, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. "Cut-out, stiff paper characters move on top of the illustrated page as the opposing page of text is turned. The characters are covered by a thin sheet of plastic [which protects from damage] and they move under the plastic." The five action scenes show pigs dancing, a wolf huffing and puffing to blow down a straw house, Mr. Wolf's paw moving to knock on a pig's door, pigs riding a merry-go-round, and a pig in a barrel rolling downhill chasing after the wolf. No dust jacket, as issued. Color illustrations by David K. Stone.

Hardcover. New York , Hyperion, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 63 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrated by Brian Selznick. SIGNED BY BOTH WELLS AND SELZNICK. Tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Dial Press, 2nd Printing, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. 1980 Second Printing. Previous owners name at top left corner of preliminary page opposite title page, Also - INSCRIBED BY ILLUSTRATOR TOM FEELINGS on same page. Black & white illustrations by Tom Feelings. Faint foxing to endpapers, small moisture stain at very bottom right corner of pages. Dust jacket with short closed tears along edges, areas of rubbing - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked pages.

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. New York , Doubleday, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustratrd glazed boards, no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Spier. Clean copy.In 1687, young Sietze Hemmes helps rescue a vessel foundering off the Dutch coast, and three hundred years later, another Sietze Hemmes takes part in a similar rescue, in parallel stories that explore the themes of heroism and selflessness.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 79 pages. Hardcover facsimile copy of the original 1937 edition in full color. Black boards with white titles to spine. Full page, full color & bw illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with light marginal wear to edges. Tight bindng, sharp corners, illustrated endpapers, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset and Dunlap, reprint, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in rust tweed binding, worn and chipped dust jacket with closed tears. Reprint edition, "printed in large, easy-to-read type." B&w illustrations by Harrison Cady. Clean copy inside.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st , 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket.Color illustrations by Atwell. Debby Atwell does a lovely job of conveying the sweep of history. The book's two narrative threads--the histories of the United States and of six generations of Pearl's family--intertwine neatly. The pictures are a delight, and their folk art style lends a nice sense of continuity to the book.

New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, unpaginated, color illustrations by William Steig, very clean, tight copy, like new.