Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Story, black & white photos by Hess. Because of its strong odor, the skunk has often been disliked and even feared. Lilo Hess shows how appealing this animal can be --and how helpful, too. A photography story book about a family of skunks. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st , 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Illustrated in black & white by Emma Brock.
Softcover. NY, Dial, 2nd pr., 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illust. by James Marshall. 64 pages. Small crayon scribble to rear end paper otherwise clean. No dust jacket issued, glazed cardboard covers.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st , 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 47 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in 3-colors by Marc Simont. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st , 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with glazed boards. Color illustrations by Ehlert. Light wear. Clean, tight copy. Top Cat rules the house until an unexpected box from the humane society arrives with someone new--and cute--inside. At first, Top Cat doesn't want to share his house and favorite things, but soon he learns that two cats can be lots more fun than one.
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.
NY, Holiday House, 1st , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Robert Sauber. Frolya, a talking dove, weaves a beautiful rug for the archer Frol, which leads to a series of exciting adventures for the archer when the wicked czar covets the dove, adventures that lead Frol to the magical Land of I-Know-Not-Where.
Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Robert Sauber.
NY, Holiday House, 1st , 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Color illustrations by Tomie dePaola. Dust jacket with short tears, chipping.
Hardcover. London, Dent, 1st UK, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. B&w illustrations by Leonard Lubin. INSCRIBED BY FOX on title page. Light wear to top and bottom of spine otherwise clean, very good.
Hardcover. NY, Bradbury Press, 1st , 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Goble. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Michael Paraskevas. The mother (Author) and son (Artist) team present another adventure in the life of the poor little rich boy.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Michael Paraskevas. In triumph and disaster, Junior Kroll has a comical way of altering the course of events. He plays in a kazoo quartet, frees the dinner party lobsters, steals one neighbor's roses as a present for another, and decorates Grandfather's birthday cake with "little chocolate flies." Michael Paraskevas's zany illustrations bring these offbeat, bittersweet poems to life.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 4th pr., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Barry Moser. Stories adapted by Van Dyke Parks. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. Chicago, Book House for Children, 28th pr., 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-red coth with gilt lettering and color paste-down on front cover,192 pages. Illustrated in color by Maude & Miska Petersham. Light soil to covers, internally VG.
Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st US, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Gay. Library Edition (NOT ex-lib.). Dust jacket flap clipped. A cheerful story about a baby penguin and his arctic friends.
Hardcover. New York, Lothrop, Lee and Shepard, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY LEWIN on title page. Brilliant water color illustrations by Lewin. Tight copy. Describes, with wonderful luminous visual detail, the characteristics of different markets in various parts of the world: Ecuador, Nepal, Ireland, Uganda, Morocco, and New York's Fulton Fish Market.
Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Bagram Ibatoulline. No dust jacket issued but has title-band present. Clean. tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 6th pr., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Mary Azarian. A early printing of the Caldecott Winner (without the sticker on the dust jacket ). This copy INSCRIBED BY AZARIAN on title page. Two original color photos of Azarian pasted to front end papers with previous owner's inscription under both. Also a local newspaper interview with Azarian folded into envelope pasted to rear end paper. Dust jacket with light edgewear.
Hardcover. NY, Four Winds Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. hardcover with dust jacket. Illust. in color by Stanley. Dust jacket with chip, light soil to rear. Tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Garden City Publishing, 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Illustrated in 3-colors & black & white by Herbert Morton Stoops. Cardboard covers, edges chipped, light marking to covers.
Softcover. London, George Allen & Unwin, 2nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color, black & white lithographs by Feodor Rojankovsky. #4 of Pere Castor's Wild Animal Books. Transl. by Rose Fyleman. Cardboard covers with dust jacket. Dust jacket with closed tear to rear panel.
Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st revised ed., 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by and SIGNED BY CARLE on half-title page. Orig. pub. in 1972 by Knopf. Bright, clean hardcover in a similar dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st , 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 41 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. 20 original illustrated fables in color by Lobel. Caldecott Winner. VG minus dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Dial, 1st , 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket. Non-paginated. Color illustrations by Jerry Pinkney. SIGNED AND DATED BY PINKNEY ON TITLE PAGE. A sequel to the Patchwork Quilt. A bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Grove Prress, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, color illustrations by Tomi Ungerer. Transl. by Richard Seaver. Dust jacket with light edgewear, rubbing.
Hardcover. New York, Dial Books, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Non-paginated. Color illustrations. by Jerry Pinkney. SIGNED BY PINKNEY on title-page. Clean, bright copy.
Hard Back . NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st thus, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Michael Hague. A retelling by Michener based on Rogers & Hammerstein's musical. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, David White, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Black & white illust. by Paul Giovanopoulos. Small number lettered on dust jacket spine and rear panel.
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. New York, Dial, 1st , 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY JEFFERS on title page. and illustrated in color by Jeffers. There is a production flaw to the corner bottom paste-down in front (hidden by the dust jacket flap) otherwise VG.
Hardcover. Honesdale, PA, Caroline House, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Tomie dePaola. A reprint of a book orig. pub. by Holiday House in 1982. Light wear, sticker residue to dust jacket.
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, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illust. by James Stevenson. Unclipped dust jacket.
hardcover. N Y, Harcourt Brace Janovich, 1st, 1992, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Blue covers and blue cloth-bound spine with gilt titles, color illustrated dust jacket, profusely illustrated with beautiful full color plates by Michael Hague. Slight rubbing to dust jacket, pages and covers clean, crisp and unmarked; a lovely children's book in great condition.
hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st US, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illust. by Gary Kelley. Small hole in dust jacket spine. Short tear starting in gutter on title-page.
hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st US, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, light mustard cloth covers in a chipped and worn dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Rockwell. Clean copy.
Softcover. Winchester, MA, Faber and Faber, 1st US, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by author. No dust jacket issued, glazed cardboard covers. Three city friends encounter numerous adventures when they decide to enrich the lives of countryfolk with their superior scientific knowledge.
hardcover. Edinburgh, Floris Books, 1st illust. thus, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial glossy boards. Color illustrations by Katrien van der Grient. No dust jacket issued. Clean copy. The selfish giant drove the children out of his garden and built a high wall around it. Then the frost and the snow came, and after that it was always winter. Until one day the children crept back in through a hole in the wall.
hardcover. NY, Metroplitian Museum of Art, reprint, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Musical scores to 30 children's song, illustrated in color by Paul Woodroffe. Illustrated cardboard covers with white cloth spine. Endpapers illustration in yellow. A reprint of a book originally published in 1912. Includes words and music to popular nursery songs, such as Old King Cole, Little Bo-Peep and Three Blind Mice.
hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 321 pages. A Swallows and Amazons adventure. Black & white illustrations. Previous owner's inscription on prelim page. Spine faded. Light soil to front cover.
Record # 64468
Price: $25.00
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 "Misunderstood Skunk, The by: Hess, Lilo")
 "Present For Auntie, A by: Brock, Emma L.")
 "Four on the Shore by: Marshall, Edward")
 "Jack of Hearts by: French, Fiona")
 "Mouse and Tim by: McNulty, Faith and Marc Simont")
 "Top Cat by: Ehlert, Lois")
 "At the Frog Pond by: Michels, Tilde")
 "Turkey and Partners by: Harris, Ray")
 "I-Know-Not-What, I-Know-Not-Where - A Russian Tale by: Kimmel / Robert Sauber, Eric A.")
 "Swan Maiden, The by: Pyle / Robert Sauber, Howard")
 "Susie and Alfred in A Welcome For Annie by: Craig, Helen")
 "Maggie and the Monster by: Winkthrop/Tomie dePaola, Elizabeth")
 "The Little Swineherd and Other Tales (SIGNED COPY) by: Fox, Paula")
 "Love Flute by: Goble, Paul")
 "Junior Kroll and Company by: Paraskevas, Betty and Michael")
 "Junior Kroll by: Paraskevas, Betty and Michael")
 "Jump Again! More Adventures of Brer Rabbit by: Harris, Joel Chandler and Barry Moser")
 "Tales Told In Holland by: Miller/Maude & Miska Petersham, Olive Beaupre")
 "Lady Who Put Salt in Her Coffee, The by: Hale, Zucretia and Amy Schwartz")
 "Bibi's Birthday Surprise by: Gay, Michel")
 "Market! (SIGNED COPY) by: Lewin, Ted")
 "Hey! Get Off Our Train by: Burningham, John")
 "Crossing by: Booth, Philip")
 "Snowflake Bentley (SIGNED COPY) by: Martin, Jacqueline Briggs and Mary Azarian")
 "Peter the Great by: Stanley, Diane")
 "Hiawatha's Childhood by: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth and Herbert Morton Stoops")
 "Frou the Hare by: Lida and Rojan")
 "Walter the Baker (SIGNED COPY) by: Carle, Eric")
 "Fables by: Lobel, Arnold")
 "Tanya's Reunion (SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR) by: Flournoy, Valerie and Jerry Pickney")
 "Warwick's 3 Bottles by: Hodeir/Tomi Ungerer, Andre")
 "Black Cowboy - Wild Horses: A True Story (SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR) by: Lester, Julius and Jerry Pinkney")
 "South Pacific by: Michener, James")
 "How Many Miles to Babylon? by: Fox, Paula")
 "Tiger Trouble! (SIGNED COPY) by: Goode, Diane")
 "Brother Eagle, Sister Sky (SIGNED COPY) by: Jeffers, Susan")
 "Nicholas Bentley Stoningpot III by: McGovern/Tomie DePaola, Ann")
 "Passel of 'Possums and Other Animal Families by: Palazzo, Tony and Robin Fox")
 "Sacred River by: Lewin, Ted")
 "Lost Moose by: Slepian, Jan and Ted Lewin")
 "Alec's Sand Castle by: Russ, Lavinia and James Stevenson")
 "Grandaddy's Place by: Griffith/James Stevenson, Helen V.")
 "Alice Yazzie's Year by: Maher, Ramona")
 "South Pacific by: Michener, James")
 "Bosh Blobber Bosh - Runcible Poems for Edward Lear by: Lewis, J. Patrick")
 "Girl With a Donkey Tail, The by: Rockwell, Anne")
 "Townsfolk and Countryfolk by: Sopko, Eugen")
 "Selfish Giant, The by: Wilde, Oscar")
 "Thirty Old-Time Nursery Songs by: Moorat, Joseph")
 "Missee Lee by: Ransome, Arthur")