Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 76 pages, illustrated in color and 2-colors by Charles Rosner. Illustrated boards with black cloth spine. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Paris, Grund, 1st illust thus, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards, illustrated in color by Ludmila Jirincova. Robert Desnos, the famous surrealist poet in the 20s, later joined the Resistance while working as a journalist in Paris. He forged papers and passed along information, but also wrote humorous and lyrical animal poems to cheer little children, though they often had a double meaning. This is his last book, published in 1944. In February of that year, he was deported to Auschwitz and later Treblinka. He died of typhus soon after the liberation. FRENCH TEXT.

Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Gennady Spirin. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Walker Books Ltd, reprint, 1988, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 75 pages. Illustrated by Reg Cartwright. Some wear to cover and dust jacket on corners and edges. Inside is bright and clean, many color illustrations throughout.

Hardcover. NY, The Blue Sky Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A beautifully illustrated tribute to the men who built our country's bridges, railroads, skyscrapers, etc. Watercolor art by Barry Moser. Clean.

Chicago, Rand McNally, Rep., 1995, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, A collection of earlier Nursery favorites by Brice reprinted here in a larger format. Covers worn, botton 2" of cloth gone from spine.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrations by Edward Gorey. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. Color Illustrations by William Pene DuBois. Dust jacket price clipped, mild soil, else a clean, tight copy. Charming color illustrations and numbers in 12 different languages, including Urdu, Welsh and Gaelic-Irish.

Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st , 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Diane de Groat. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Margaret K. McElderry Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 48 pages. Illustrated by Erik Blegvad. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. John Harrison (1693-1776), an Englishman without any scientific training, worked tirelessly for more than forty years to create a perfect clock. The solution to this problem was so important that an award of 20,000 pounds sterling (equal to several million dollars today) was established by the English Parliament in 1714. Harrison won recognition for his work in 1773. Together with beautifully detailed pictures by Erik Blegvad, Louise Borden's text takes the reader through the drama, disappointments, and successes that filled Harrison's quest to invent the perfect sea clock.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy illustrated boards with blue cloth spine, 101 pages. Many color illustrations bybH.B. Vestal with accompanying text. Clean, bright copy. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Anatoly Ivanov. Light soil to cover/dust jacket. TIght copy.

Hardcover. New York, Dial, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Thomas Locker. INSCRIBED to the King Family and SIGNED BY AUTHOR CHRISTIANSEN. Clean copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Barse & Co., 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color pictorial boards, illustrated with 6 full color plates and spot illustrations by Millicent Sowerby.Light tape reinforcement to spine. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color, black & white illustrations by Bettina Ehrlich. Excellent condition. Illust. cardboard covers with black cloth spine. Lacking dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Gulliver Books, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 164 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillion

NY, Delacorte, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color and b&w illustrations by Emma Chichester-Clark. A short fantasy about an old man who climbs the town clock tower to make the mechanism's first repair in a hundred years. He finds the clock inhabited by intelligent mice, who communicate silently by pictures. Clean.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Small hardcover, 62 pages. Color illustrations by Field. Plain yellow cloth. Light scuff to top of boards at spine. Previous owner's signature to front fly leaf. Gutter crack on title page.

Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead, and Co., 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, illustrated boards with black cloth spine, 74 pages. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Color and black & white illustrations. Purple illustrated endpapers. Edgewear, corners bumped and worn. Clean.

Hardcover. NY, Parents' Magazine Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial boards. Non-Paginated. Full color illustrations by Friso Henstra. Clean, tight copy. No dust jacket. An enormously fat Sultan is told he will die in 40 days, so he frets his poundage away. Delightful story about losing weight, eat less & you'll do it!

Watertown, MA, Charlesbridge Publishing, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Matt Faulkner. Scatterbrain Sam is the distant down-home cousin of "Morgan and the Pot of Brains," a Welsh tale told by Ellen Pugh. This adaptation is a funny, folksy tall tale filled with exaggeration and sly humor. It is set in mid-20th-century America, and Jackson has freely updated and modified the old story. Sam is so scatterbrained, "he didn't know nothing about nothing," so he asks Widder Woman to help fix his brains. She offers a glue-stew remedy for which the young man must provide the flavoring with things that he loves. When that proves to be too difficult, he is given riddles to solve and only with the help of Maizie Mae, a golden-haired aviatrix with her own stunt plane, does Sam begin to find the solution. When Maizie falls into the sticky concoction, Sam follows the glue flood through town and finally realizes what he truly loves. He takes the Widder's advice and marries Maizie and they fly off together into the sunset. This is a rollicking good tale with exuberant cartoonlike watercolor-and-gouache paintings.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 48 pages. Color illustrations by Lynd Ward. Rubbing, edgewear, fade marks to dust jacket. Brodart cover.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 48 pages illustrated in color by Aliki. With her characteristically sprightly words and pictures, Aliki brings Shakespeare's life, times, and legacy to life in this highly acclaimed information-packed treasury that is truly for readers of all ages. This nonfiction picture book is an excellent choice to share during homeschooling, in particular for children ages 6 to 8. It's a fun way to learn to read and as a supplement for activity books for children From Hamlet to Romeo and Juliet to A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare's celebrated works have touched people around the world. Aliki combines literature, history, biography, archaeology, and architecture in this richly detailed and meticulously researched introduction to Shakespeare's world-his life in Elizabethan times, the theater world, and the Globe, for which he wrote his plays. Then she brings history full circle to the present-day reconstruction of the Globe theater.

hardcover. Joliet, P.F. Volland, 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 40 pages. Illustrations in color, b&w by Maginel Wright Barney. Front fly leaf missing, front hinge cracked, light edgewear to some pages.

Hardcover. New York, Cupples and Leon, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 312 pages. Hardcover with chipped but bright dust jacket. B&W frontispiece by Thelma Gooch. Front hinge loose. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber, 1st UK, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover illustrated in color by Agee. Some wrinkling to the laminate on covers, Clean copy. Art imitates life in this hilarious, absurdist picture book--one of Jon Agee's most beloved titles. Outrageous the judges cried. Ridiculous! Who would dare enter a portrait of a duck in the Grand Contest of Art? But when Felix Clouseau's painting quacks , he is hailed as a genius. Suddenly everyone wants a Clousseau masterpiece, and the unknown painter becomes an overnight sensation.

Hardcover. Kenosha WI, John Martins House, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated in color and black & white by Sari. 32 pages. cardboard covers, worn at corners, previous owner's inscription on inside cover. light soil.

Hardcover. Edinburgh, Floris Books, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color, black & white illustrations by Anastaiya Archipova. Color illustration on front of glossy boards.

Softcover. La Jolla CA, Star and Elephant Books, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A small book illustrated in color by Michael R. Hague. Softcover. Spine sunned. Hague's first illustrated book.

Hardcover. Montreal?, Bedrick/Blackie, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Pauline Baynes. Shows some very minor wear, but really, almost new-looking. Laminated boards, no dust jacket issued.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 5th pr., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Brown. Ex-lib with stamping on half-title page, remnants of pocket, date due on back endpaper, dust jacket flaps with chunks gone where pasted to boards. Dust jacket with light edgewear, closed tears.

Hardcover. NY, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrated boards. Color illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. Tangrams are ancient Chinese puzzles that are still used today by adults as well as children. Author became intrigued by the challenge of the puzzles and began making up her own tangrams and stories about them. Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st US, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Lovely, new-looking condition. Nice color illustrations by Jindra Capek. Hardbound, dust jacket.

NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 80 pages. Color Illustrations by Gerald McDermott. Dust jacket with closed tears, edgewear.

NY, Viking, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In Provensen's talented hands, the unlovable Punch is skillfully resurrected for a generation perhaps unfamiliar with his dastardly deeds. Brought to New York City in the suitcase of Il Professore Tucci-Piccini, Punch is immediately stolen by a thief hoping to snatch a valise full of money. The worthless bag is soon discarded, and Mr. Punch finds himself alone on the streets of the Big Apple. True to form, the conniving marionette outsmarts policemen, muggers and a chauffeur to land himself a job with "the Richest Man in the World" before reuniting with Judy, the Baby, the Hangman and the others. The jaunty text brims with mischief and Provensen's distinctively detailed illustrations are rendered in the bright, buoyant colors of puppetry. Her Manhattan is a suitably kinetic metropolis of limos, hot dog stands and countless skyscrapers, many of which bear the au courant designation Helmstrump. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Four Winds Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Ray Cruz. Shows minor wear, otherwise nice condition. Hardbound, dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st , 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Gay. Light soil, rubbing, edgewear to paper covered boards.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Pictorial boards with red cloth spine, 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." How Whitey found a wild colt, how it survived wolves and a blizzard, and how Whitey trained it for his Sunday horse. Clean copy. Boards show mild edgewear.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrated by Antonio Frasconi. Dust jacket shows some minor wear. Hardbound. Translated from the Yiddish by the author and Elizabeth Shub. The winner of the 1970 National Book Award for children's literature retells a Hebrew legend with vivid simplicity and an internationally respected artist interprets it with a sincerity and fresh vision reminiscent of medieval art.

NY, Harmony Books, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 26 pages. Color illustrations by Coco Dupuy. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Phoebe's parents, who are magicians, forbid her to enter the magic room where they work, until an accident shrinks them to tiny size and they need her help in returning to normal.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Keith West.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Previous owner's name and address printed on front paste-down. Color illustrations by Elizabeth Orton Jones. "A Story Parade Picture Book." Shows some wear, soiling, in and out. Dust jacket with some chipping.

New York, Simon & Schuster, 5th pr, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with $2.95 price. 65 pages. Two-color illustrations by Hilary Knight. Previous owner's inscription on front end paper. Light wear to spine and corners. Dust jacket with minor soil to rear panel.

Hardcover. Winchester MA, Faber & Faber, 1st US, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in laminated pictorial boards. Two young boys complain that nothing exciting ever happens where they live, while witty, stylish illustrations point to the contrary. Wonderful color art by Testa. Clean, bright copy.

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. London, Andersen Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 30 pages, hardcover, pictorial glazed boards. Illustrated in color by the author. While living in the underground stations during the war, Sammy helps the Raries rescue one of their children from the Rat Patrol. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grossett & Dunlap, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, dust jacket with tear and tape repair to rear panel. Color illustrations by Pelagie Doane. Clean internally.

Hardcover. London, Duckwoth & Co., 1st, 1916, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 63 pages, hardcover. illustrated in B&W by Macdonald Gill. Weak hinges.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1923, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, 90 pages. Boards. Tri color illustrations by Josef Wenig. Tales of the devil being outwitted at every turn. Dust jacket very worn and tape repaired along spine and flaps.

Hardcover. NY, Hyperion Books, Book Cub Ed., 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Showing compassion for one's neighbor brings bountiful reward in this original tale based on Guatemalan folklore. Gently imparts a timeless message.--Publishers Weekly. Illustrated in bright, crisp colors of Hispanic folk art by Czernecki.