Vintage & Out-of-Print Children's Illustrated Books

Hardcover. NY, Lion Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 46 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. 2-color wash drawings by Palazzo. Ink price on front paste-down. Tight copy.

Hardcover. Australia, Child & Associates, 2nd pr., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy pictorial boards, 103 pages, 4 stories (poems): Possum Creek's Big Flood - The Great Possum Creek Bush Fire - The Great Possum Creek Earthquake - The Lost World of Possum Creek. Color illustrations by Yvonne Perrine. Clean copy.

Softcover. Rochester, NY, Stecher Lith Co, 1st, 1917, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover with drawings throughout. Previous owner's watercolor paint residue on a few illustrations. Light musty odor. Light soil to wrappers.

hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, glazed boards. Color illustrations by Mark Entwiste. A tall tale about a Big Lie Contest at which a tale about a giant catfish becomes true and swallows its teller.

Hardcover. NY, Stewart Tabori & Chang, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Cream parchment over brown cloth-covered boards, illustrated in color by Gary Kelley, designed by Rita Marshall. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Los Angeles/NY, Intervisual Communications/Harper & Row, 1st, 1984, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 6 pop-up spreads, illustrated in color by Scarry. All in good shape. Center spread has light wear to moving slots.

NY, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards. Color illustrations by Jack Kent. "There was once a prince who longed to live a simple life. He was tired of idle foolishness and fancy dress balls." Name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages, Illustrated in color by Mary Azarian.Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Early board book with Garth Williams' charming illustrations, 24 pages, clean copy. Glazed boards. J125125 code on inside cover at bottom indicating a reprint.

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. Chicago, Follett Publishing, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed pictorial boards. 28 pages illustrated in color and 2-colors by Mary Miller Salem. Front hinge cracked, otherwise clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Dodge Publishing Company, Reprint, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 164 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Deckled fore-edge. Tanning to pages and edges from age. Blue cloth bound cover boards, two-color illustration on front cover board, a good deal of paint has chipped off (see image), white title on spine, slightly faded. Some soil/wear to covers. A bump to front right bottom corner of cover board (see image). In beautiful condition inside, no pages missing, page 84 is partially disconnected. Illustrations by Bessie Pease Gutman) quite vivid.

Boston, Little Brown, 1st thus illus., 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Color illustrations by Tenggren. Chunk gone from half-title page and title page - not affecting text or illust.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Running Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, purple cloth with cover label. From dogs watching over the shepherds' flocks when angels appear, to a charmed cobra performing in Herod's court as the king tries to deceive the wise men, Wormell's trademark animal imagery brings a new perspective to the story of the first Christmas. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st illust. thus, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Steven Kellogg. Clean, like new.

NY, Bradbury Press, 1st , 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Helen Cogancherry.

Paperback. Bear Creek NC, Blackie Bear Corp., 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 58 pages, spiral-bound. B&W illustrations by the author throughout. Some rust on binding. Heavy paper cover exhibits some edgewear, bottom fore-edge corner bumped. Small water damage stain to the bottom corner of the spine. Large pencil mark on page 29. Otherwise clean edition. Sixth in a series of Blackie Bear books for children about anthropomorphized, clothes-wearing animals of the Smoky Mountain region. Blackie Bear introduces children to nature through his woodland antics and wildlife adventures.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ted Lewin. The survival adventure tale gets a desert setting in this picture book about a boy lost in the Sahara. Author and artist have traveled in the area, and they tell the story of sizzling sun and lonely darkness in realistic detail. Lewin's watercolor paintings are rich with story.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Laura Levine. Grammy promotional bookplate on front fly leaf otherwise VG, clean. Pinkerton's family decides he needs a friend, but is a cat named Rose really suitable? Clean copy.

Softcover. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 12 heavy paper sheets plus cover, bound together with blue cord in punched holes at top. One and two color illustrations by Shepard, verse for every month by Milne. Some light pin-size spotting to corner of cover, otherwise clean and bright.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 56 pages, red cloth covers with black decoration. Illustrated by Wendy Watson and SIGNED BY HER on the title page. Dust jacket is present but fair only with chips and wear.

Hardcover. NY, Golden Book, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrations by Greg & Tim Hildebrandt. 45 pages. Glazed cardboard covers. No dust jacket issued.

Hardcover. Berlin, Union Deutsche, 4th printing, n.d., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 105 pages, illustrated in color and b&w by Capek. White cloth spine with color illustrated boards. No date listed. German text. Cover edges with light wear.

Hardcover. NY, John Day Company,, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 100 pages, b&w illustrations and decorative page borders by Vera Bock. A collection of tales about India. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Phyllis Fogelman Books, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards. Color illustrations by Wilson-Max & full of pop-ups, pull-outs, 3-D glasses, map, etc. No dust jacket issued.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 44 pages, illustrated with color and b&w lithographs by Gannett. Red cloth spine faded, edges of cardboard covers show wear, light chipping to paper. Book is shaken, but solid with bright colors to covers, internally clean. Top and boom of spine bumped,frayed.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 2nd pr., 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards, illustrated in color by author.SIGNED BY DAY on the front fly leaf in her formal cursive style. No dust jacket issued. The rottweiler goes to a costume party.

NY, Hyperion, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket Color illustrations by Jim La Marche. A delightful fantasy about the passenger pigeon.

Hardcover. New York , Platt & Munk, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 40 pages, illustrated in color by Tasha Tudor. Glazed boards illustrated in color. Sharp, clean copy, no markings. No dust jacket issued.

Hardcover. Seattle WA, The Innovation Press , 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Daniel Rieley. Growing up in a family of immigrants, Ellen dreamed of becoming a professional flutist, but all of that changed when she discovered engineering in college. Though she was told that field of study wasn't for girls, the bright young scientist refused to give up--ultimately becoming a NASA astronaut who shattered barriers and rocketed to success!

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Candlewick Press, 1st U.S., 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Angela Barrett.This British import depicts a little girl's exploration of the dark, mysterious woods surrounding her home. The quiet, poetic text, featuring subtle rhymes and emphatic phrasing, expresses the hidden drama of her simple quest. The child, safe and warm in her mother's kitchen, longs to discover "what's out there." As the sun sets, she creeps out into the snow and then into the woods. She finds the seemingly still forest alive with sprites, goblins, and eerie beasts. She emerges from her adventure to find her anxious mother waiting for her with outstretched arms.

Hardcover. New York , Hyperion Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color pictorial boards with saw tooth edges. Housed in a cardboard box. The small book is 18 pages, each with double-page color illustrations by Henrick Drescher, each with interactive parts. According to the story Beastie's fur is pulled, his pop-up eyes jiggled, his boot (removed from his pop up foot) is scratched & sniffed, his privacy intruded upon as his shower curtain pulled away, his boogers poked, his miniature book reveal beastie's fantasies of revenge, as finally Judy and Paul are swallowed up by poor beastie and a mirror reveals who may be the next naughty child to incur beastie's wrath. All of these interactive pull and poke activities can be performed by the reader. SIGNED on the front cover in silver ink, with his initials, by Henrick Drescher in the year of publication.

Hardcover. Joliet IL, P.F.Volland Co, 5th pr., 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, unpaginated (94 pages), illustrated throughout in color by Gruelle. Wear to edges of spine, mild crease to rear panel of covers. Previous owner' s signature to prelim page and half title page. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, D. Lothrop Company, 1st, 1888, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Quarter cloth with floral-patterned paper over boards with gilt lettering. 29 b&w plates by Brookes including frontis self-portrait. Name on front fly leaf, chip to cover at bottom corner.

Hardcover. New York , Lancelot Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 40 pages illustrated in color by Tomi Ungerer. Color illustrated cloth covers, no dust jacket. Square, tight and clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Adapted by Leigh Dean from the original opera libretto. illustrated in color by Milton Glaser.

Hardcover. New York , Random House/Beginner Books, BC Ed., 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 63 pages, hardcover, color illustrated cloth with bowed cover, color illustrations throughout by Richard Erdoes. Light verse by LeSieg (Dr. Seuss). Stated Book Club Edition opposite title page. Covers show edge wear, soil. Interior clean.

Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 64 pages illustrated by Marion Downer. "Learn to make animals, flowers, birds, people and all sorts of amusing objects by tying knots in a handkerchief." Dust jacket is edgeworn, book is bright and clean.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st US, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. color illustrations by Nicola Bayley. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York , Knopf, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Bayley. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, McCall Publishing, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Heuck. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped, tape repair. Internally very good.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Nice, almost new-looking condition. Black & white illustrations by Chorao. Hardbound, dust jacket. Author/illustrator's first book.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers with color pastedown on front, gilt lettering, 126 pages. 16 color plates plus several line drawings by Arthur Rackham. Clean, bright copy with a trace of wear to top of cloth spine.

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Kevin Hawkes. Bright, busy paintings and rollicking verse bring to life a fantastical tale of sorcerers and spells, complete with a glossary of exotic Indian words, all in a lively picture book about a most unusual hero.

Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston , 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illustrations by Ray Cruz. Shows minor wear, otherwise nice condition. Hardbound, dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, black cloth spine over matte pictorial boards. Illustrated with 3-color drawings throughout by Maurice Sendak. Meets all points in Hanrahan although the flap has been price-clipped. First title in the Little Bear Series. There is a inked name on the front flap and several light tan stains to front panel. Top of dust jacket spine has light chipping. The book itself is bright and clean.

Hardcover. New York , Thomas Y Crowell, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 31 pages, illustrated in color by Michael Hague. Sticker residue, some wear to cover, otherwise in very good condition.Previous owner's notation on inside front cover, barely visible against blue endpapers.

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.

Hardcover. New York, Blue Sky, 1st pr, October 1, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, Unpaginated, color illustrations by the Dillons.A very clean, tight copy.

Akron OH, Saalfield, reprint, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial with red cloth spine, 92 pages. 10 full-page color illustrations by Eleanor Madsen & numerous b/w drawings by Fern Bisel Peat. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf.