Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A retelling in story form of five of Shakespeare's works: The Tempest, As You Like It, Othello, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Julius Caesar. Colour and black and white illustrations by Hungarian-British artist Victor Ambrus.
Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne & Co, reprint, unk., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 88 pages. Hardcover with clipped dust jacket. Illustrated in color and black and white by Randolph Caldecott. Dust jacket has minor wear. No. 1.
NY, Crowell, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Color illustrations by Aliki. Dust jacket price clipped. Aliki describes and illustrates the techniques and the reasons for the use of mummification in ancient Egypt.
Hardcover. NY, Hurst & Company, reprint, 1914, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth with color label on front cover, Unpaginated, with a page decorated in color for each letter of the alphabet.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row , 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ezra Jack Keats. Minor wear to dust jacket, chipping at edges. Brilliant paintings by Caldecott Medalist Keats evoke all the humor & warmth of Levoy's Chaplinesque character Janos, who must sell his violin to pay his passage to America (New York). Tale of an irrepressible musician and dreamer.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering in a lightly worn dust jacket. An interpretation from "Fantasia", lyrics by Rachel Field, inspired by the music of Franz Schubert. Previous owner's inscription front end paper. Color and black & white illustrations by Disney. Dust jacket shows wear and chipping, internally some soiling. Hardbound.
Hardcover. NY, Philomel Books, 1st thus, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy pictorial boards. Stated first impression of this reproduction of Nister's work from the late 1800's. Includes poetry, fold-outs & reproductions of antique dimensional pictures. All 4 pop-ups perfect. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Brown cloth covers with blue metallic titles to spine, color illustrated dust jacket with acetate protective covering, lovely full page color illustrations. Very light edgewear to dust jacket; otherwise dust jacket, covers and pages, clean, crisp and unmarked; a lovely children's book in great condition.
New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 60 pages, illustrated in color by O.D.V. Guillonnet. Large format in a edgeworn, lightly chipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Wonder Books, 1st, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with light edgewear. 20 pages illustrated in color by Adele Werber & Doris Laslo. Name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co. , 1st, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Color art by Stephen Harvard. A vain & lazy barnyard cat makes a coat of mouse-skins- the mice consider him their god & trust him to send them to heaven. An unusual, humorous tale with a happy ending. Bookseller stamp to front endpaper, name on front flap. clean internally.
Hardcover. NY , Doubleday, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, pictorial cloth in a worn and chipped dust jacket. Spier's illustrations accompany the words to our national anthem. Endpapers design shows evolution and various designs of American flag. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Los Angeles, CA, Marvel Comics Group, 1st , 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Laminated boards. Color illustrated throughout with moveable parts. Small 5-1/2 x 6" size. Clean, tight copy
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1998, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Meet Walter.And better yet, turn the pages and --meet his staff. The Gum Guy, who archives his chewed-up gum. His Homework Helper who does...well, you know. A complete Dream Team, to do his sleeping for him...And thats only the beginning!This laugh-out-loud picture book is a dream come true for any kid who has ever wanted someone else to kiss Aunt Winnie or eat their lima beans. Author Patricia Marx and illustrator Roz Chast prove with hilarity that anyone can have the staff they need, if they have enough imagination. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally , 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, a collection of strange and unlikely (impossible) events for children's amusement. Some edge scuffs and other normal exterior wear. Color and b&w drawings by Smock.
Hardcover. NY/London, Overlook Duckworth, 2nd pr., 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 93 pages, illustrated throughout in color by Ronald Searle. Light wear o pictorial dust jacket with small tear to lower edge of spine. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by James Stevenson. New Yorker cartoonist's first children's book of many to follow. Dust jacket with soil, edgewear, chip to bottom 1" of spine, small price sticker.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st illust. thus, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The classic picture book from Margaret Wise Brown about two trains and their cross-country journey from east to west, with a bold new look from Geisel Award-winning artist Greg Pizzoli.
Hardcover. NY, McLoughlin Bros., reprint, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, paper-covered boards with blue cloth spine. This is the Pirated edition published by McLoughlin in NY with no date but believed to be 1880s. Illustrated with Kate Greenaway chromolithographs. Covers worn, soiled, previous owner's inscription. Fair only.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown and Company, reprint, 1918, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 111 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. An early reader with 3-color illustrations throughout text. Fraying to spine and edges. Clean, binding slightly shaken.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Co., 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 48 pages. Full color and black & white illustrations by Charles Fox Phillips. Dust jacket shows minor wear. Clean, tight copy.
hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. Color illustrations by Sandro Nardini and Enrico Bagnoli. Introduction by John Updike.
NY, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Vladimir Radunsky. Light edgewear to dust jacket. A never-before-published poem for children by the Nobel laureate:In the beginning there were just waveshammering at the obstacles . . .So begins a lovely, thought-provoking poem that Joseph Brodsky wrote in 1995. It is about the first discoverers of America -- fish, birds, then man. But it is also about a land that even today is full of secrets waiting to be discovered. Illustrated in collage and gouache by Vladimir Radunsky, this poem is, finally, a celebration of our world -- a world open to possibilities.
Hardcover. NY, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1st US, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth. Color and b&w illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Edgewear to boards, minor soil, no markings.
NY, Knopf, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glossy boards. Color illustrations by Reynold Ruffins. No dust jacket. From Angola to Zanzibar, this treasury is as varied and bountiful as Africa itself! Master storyteller Verna Aardema retells 12 tales of justice and revenge, greed and generosity, sly trickery, and off-the-wall silliness with her trademark humor and flair. Nearly 50 illustrations vibrantly reflect the spirit of these read-aloud delights, while a map of Africa, story source information, and a personal note from the author make this a rich volume for folk-tale lovers of all ages.
NY, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Vladimir Radunsky. Light edgewear to dust jacket. A never-before-published poem for children by the Nobel laureate:In the beginning there were just waveshammering at the obstacles . . .So begins a lovely, thought-provoking poem that Joseph Brodsky wrote in 1995. It is about the first discoverers of America -- fish, birds, then man. But it is also about a land that even today is full of secrets waiting to be discovered. Illustrated in collage and gouache by Vladimir Radunsky, this poem is, finally, a celebration of our world -- a world open to possibilities.
Hardcover. Stockholm, Albert Bonniers, reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong pictorial boards with green cloth spine. Beautiful color plates by Beskow. SWEDISH TEXT. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally & Company, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering and color pastedown illustration. B&w drawings and 10 full-page color illustrations by James McCracken. NOTE: 8 of the first smaller drawings have been colored in crayon. Front endpapers with library stamp, otherwise clean. Appears to be a 1925 reprint of the 1918 edition.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston Company, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth stamped in gilt. beautifully illustrated with color & black lithographs and numerous text illustrations by the Petershams. Gilt lettering on spine faded.
Hardcover. NY`, E P Dutton, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket, 32 pages. Illustrated in b&w by Symeon Shimin. A young boy living on the island of Bimini tries to make a trap to catch the rare wentletrap. Previous owner inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1995, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color by the author. In almost new condition. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 6th pr., 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Meet Mr. Gilly. He cleans up Trashy Town. Theres trash at the pizza parlor, trash at the school, and trash at every house. Its a big job, but Mr. Gilly does it with a big truck, a big smile, and loads of style. Trashy Town features a rhythmic, repeatable refrain that will have children clamoring for repeat readings. Dynamic art from acclaimed illustrator Dan Yaccarino puts the zip in Mr. Gillys stride and adds style and charm to trash collection. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Kalman. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. When Bear and Little Bird see a kangaroo for the very first time they can't believe their eyes. They must be dreaming! Bear and Little Bird know they could wake themselves up with a pinch, but first they decide to have some fun. Bear eats all the honey he was saving for winter, and Little Bird eats all his birdseed. Then they have a mess party. Soon it looks like their dream is going to turn into a nightmare! And what about that kangaroo? The lovable Moonbear returns in an imaginative story that will have readers laughing out loud. Color art by Asch. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated. BOOKPLATE ON FRONT ENDPAPER SIGNED BY AUTHOR JACK PRELUTSKY AND ILLUSTRATOR PETER SIS. Full color illustrations. Bright, clean copy. Once again the collaborators of The Dragons Are Singing Tonight have combined their extraordinary talents to concoct an irresistible collection of trolls, wizards, witches, giants, ogres (and a solitary yeti). "Jack Prelutsky is up to his usual hilarious no good in this new collection of witchy, wizardly, ogreish poems....Among the subjects of these briskly amusing poems is a wizard who rashly makes himself disappear, a seven-century-old apprentice witch....and a family-type ogre....Prelutsky's skill with catchy rhymes and delightfully fiendish subject matter is complemented by Peter Sis's humorously foreboding and cheerfully nonchalant illustrations."
Hardcover. Seymour, Greenwich Workshop Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 100 pages. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR SCOTT GUSTAFSON ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Seven Stories Press, 1st, 2016, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Bestselling author Julia Alvarez's new picture book is a beautifully crafted poem for children that gently addresses the emotional side of death. The book asks, "When somebody dies, where do they go? / Do they go where the wind goes when it blows? ... Do they wink back at me when I wish on a star? Do they whisper, 'You're perfect, just as you are'? ..." Illustrated by Vermont woodcut artist, Sabra Field, Where Do They Go? is a beautiful and comforting meditation on death, asking questions young readers might have about what happens to those they love after they die. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st US, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Anthony Browne. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Hungary, Petofi Printing House, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial laminated boards. Color illustrations by Emma Heinzelmann. Spine and corners rubbed. Translated by Judith Elliott. Covers slightly splayed. The Terrible Seven cats terrify nine dogs, all called Louis in what was perhaps the most frightful conflict since cat and dog wars began.
Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y Crowell , 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, red cloth covers in a lightly worn dust jacket, 466 pages. Profusely illustrated with b&w plates, 24 pages of color plates. Selected from the Rare Book Collections of the Library of Congress and Introduced by Virginia Haviland & Margaret N. Coughlan. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. New York, M A Donahue & Company , reprint , 1925, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 96 pages. Extensive color and b&w illustrations throughout. Illustrated endpapers and fly leaves. Light edge wear to top right corner of front cover. Otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. B&W illustrations by Emma L. Brock. Decorated blue cloth with shelfwear, light soil to end papers. Mild water stain to front end- paper. Review copy stamp to blank prelim. page.
Hardcover. Cleveland, World Publishing, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 48 pages. Color art by Schulz. The story of "an all-star baseball team and its conscientious but misunderstood manager-pitcher, Charlie Brown. " The book was the basis of the second prime-time animated TV specials based on the Peanuts comic strip. C;ean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Philomel, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations Charles Mikolaycak. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Schwartz & Wade, 4th pr., 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial cloth, color art by Hills. Learn to read with this New York Times bestselling picture book, starring an irresistible dog named Rocket and his teacher, a little yellow bird. Follow along as Rocket masters the alphabet, sounds out words, and finally . . . learns to read all on his own! Clean copy, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY`, Child's Play Ltd., 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Meyrick. Laminated covered boards with color illustrations. Small dings on top edge.
Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by Diane Goode. Dust jacket with light wear, tape repaired closed tear at top edge rear. Clean, tight copy.