Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with color illustrations by Thatcher Hurd.
Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with clipped dust jacket. Color illustrated by author. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 78 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Color illustrations by author.
Hardcover. New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 88 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Illustrations by Berta an Elmer Hader. Light fraying to cloth covers corner.
Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1947, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Moderate to heavy soil on covers. Spine ripped on top and small stain on front bottom corner and rear.
Hardcover. New York, Philomel Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to covers. Color illustrations by Nonny Hogrogian.
Hardcover. New York, Dial Books for Young Readers, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Illustrations by Friso Henstra. Minor wear to covers. Dust jacket price-clipped.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 127 pages. Hardcover with cloth covers. Moderate soil to covers. Internally clean except previous owner's name and bookplate near front. Light foxing to end papers.
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.
Softcover. New York, McLoughlin Bro, 1st, 1888, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 14 pages. Soft cover on linen, with moderate chipping to paper wrappers. Stapled booklet with rust. Moderate tears and paper wrapper almost detached from staple binding. Full page color chromolithographs.
Softcover. New York, McLoughlin Bro, 1st, 1889, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 10 unnumbered pages. Soft cover mounted on linen, with moderate chipping to paper wrappers. Stapled booklet. Full page color chromolithographs.
Softcover. New York, Raphael Tuck & Sons Co, 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 12 unnumbered pages. Soft cover with stapled binding. Color and black and white Illustrations. Moderate creasing and chipping to booklet. Light soil to rear wrapper.
Softcover. New York, McLoughlin Brothers, 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 12 pages, un-numbered. Softcover with stapled binding. Light wear to paper wrappers. Illustrated in full color on all pages. Previous owner's name in pencil on front wrapper.
Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with light to no wear on edges. Red Ribbon marker.
Hardcover. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 124 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Previous owner's writing on front fly leaf. Moderate wear to covers and heavy fraying, chipping and abrasion to corners of laminate.
Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Bright color illustrations by Keith Haring. Clean, tight copy, minor wear to edges. Dust jacket has moderate wear on bottom edge, including small tear.
Hardcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics Books, 1st Edition, 2021, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 210 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages and edges clean and bright. Full color Illustrated cover boards, excellent. When Uncle Scrooge decides to seek out a safe new place to store his money, he sets his sights on an asteroid. But the asteroid he chooses holds a secret that he wasn't counting on! With insightful story notes by an international panel of Barks experts. In beautiful condition, looks nearly new.
Hardcover. New York, Capital Publishing Company, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with cardboard pages and metal ring binding. Bell attachment missing. Moderate soil to board pages. Light rubbing.
Softcover. Akron, OH, Saalfield Publishing Company, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover with moderate soil and fraying to corners. Paper wrappers lightly darkened. Previous owner's name written on front wrapper. Illustrated by Diane Thorne.
Hardcover. US, The Platt & Munk Co, reprint, 1952, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Moderate wear to covers, slightly warped. Dust jacket has tape repair to front. Color illustrations by Lucille W. and H.C. Holling.
Hardcover. New York, Rand McNally & Company and Phillips Publishers, Inc. , 1st Edition, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nonpaginated. Hardcover with decorated gift box (some light wear--see image). Some slight tanning to pages, but still quite bright. Color illustrations throughout. Also included is directions insert (see image). Decorative cover boards, back cover board has two small holes (see image), otherwise in good shape. Novelty childrens book from mid-19th Century.
Hardcover. New York, Capitol Publishing Company, 1st Edition, 1947, Book: Very Good, Nonpaginated. Hardcover. Full color board pages. Noise mechanism still works but decorative topper missing (see image). Decorative covers. Pages still bright. In very good condition.
Softcover. Aakron, OH, Saalfield, 1st Edition, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 16 pages. Softcover, textured pages. Vivid, full-color illustrations. Some chipping to wrapper at spine and crease to top right corner of front cover and top left corner of back cover. Some light tanning to covers and pages from age. Staple bound. Adorable childrens book with sheet music included in illustrations.
Hardcover. Great Britain, Abelard-Schuman Limited, Reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nonpaginated. Hardcover. Decorated cover boards (see image). Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages clean, bright and unmarked. In beautiful condition. the classic Grimm tale of the origins of the moon is brought back to life.
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. NY, Random House, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrations by Seuss throughout. 19 songs for Beginning Singers. Piano score and Guitar chords by Eugene Poddany. 1st printing, with 1st group listed books ending with I Had Trouble & list for Beginning Readers ending with Fox in Socks on back cover, decorated cloth cover. Mild soil to rear cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 40 pages, illustrated in color by Klassen. Laszlo is afraid of the dark. The dark lives in the same house as Laszlo. Mostly, though, the dark stays in the basement and doesn't come into Lazslo's room. But one night, it does.This is the story of how Laszlo stops being afraid of the dark. With emotional insight and poetic economy, two award-winning talents team up to conquer a universal childhood fear.
Hardcover. Whitman Tell-A-Tale, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated cardboard covers, color illustrations by Ben Williams. Small sticker on first page otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st thus, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. To mark the fortieth anniversary of Paddington's appearance in America, Houghton Mifflin put out this huge treasury, containing chapters from eleven of the Paddington Bear books published between 1958 and 1979. Thirty five adventures in all. There's a new Introduction by the author. The original black & white drawings of Peggy Fortnum were hand-colored by her step-granddaughter, Caroline Nuttall-Smith. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Springfield MA, McLoughlin Bros., 1st thus, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrated cardboard covers, 60 pages illustrated in color and b&w by Harrison Cady. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Newark NJ, Charles E, Graham, 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Gilt letters with mild fading on purple, ribbed cloth. The front board has a color pastedown illustration. 87 pages; color illustrations by C.M. Burd, 12 of the rhymes have music arranged by Joseph Knecht and color plates. B&w illustrations by Grace Irwin. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, bookplate on prelim page.
Hardcover. NY, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 3rd pr., 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages. Caldecott Honor winner Sweet mixes White's personal letters, photos, and family ephemera with her own exquisite artwork to tell the story of this American literary icon. Readers young and old will be fascinated and inspired by the journalist, New Yorker contributor, and children's book author who loved words his whole life. This authorized tribute, a New York Times bestseller, includes an afterword by Martha White, his granddaughter.
Softcover. Coventry VT, Radiant Hen Publishing, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 30 pages illustrated in color by Caldecott winner Azarian. Small printing.
Hardcover. NY, Sion & Schuster, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Ziegler. Having laughed at the friendly, talkative old man who tells comic stories, a group of children is shocked when the man is hurt in an accident and begins to accept him and laugh with him instead. Illustrations by the noted New Yorker cartoonist enliven this unusual intergenerational story.
Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated cardboard covers, illustrated throughout in color by Byrd, 48 pages. Famous in his time as a painter, prankster, and philosopher, Leonardo da Vinci was also a musician, sculptor, and engineer for dukes, popes, and kings. What remains of his work-from futuristic designs and scientific inquiry to artwork of ethereal beauty-reveals the ambitious, unpredictable brilliance of a visionary, and a timeless dreamer. Robert Byrd celebrates this passionate, playful genius in a glowing picture book replete with the richness and imagination of Leonardo's own notebooks. Twenty lavish spreads, including side drawings, supplemental texts, and quotes from Leonardo's writings, highlight distinct periods and make the master's art, jokes, explorations, and inventions wonderfully vivid and accessible. A striking tribute to an irrepressible mind and to the potential within all who are curious.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards. Tells of the true adventures of Ibn Battuta, a fourteenth-century traveler who, like Marco Polo, set forth on a seventy-five thousand mile journey of discovery through many lands, including Tanzania, China, Russia, and Morocco. Rumford's simply written adaptation is often surprisingly eloquent. For example, Ibn Battuta comments on his voyage: "Traveling-it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller." "Traveling-it had captured my heart, and now my heart was calling me home." On each page, a portion of the text appears within its own bright white narrow road crossing elegantly bordered illustrations that shine with generous amounts of gold, red, and deep blue. This text also flows into and out of larger frames. The artist adorns many of these illustrations with Arabic and Chinese calligraphy, providing translations for the longer phrases at the end of the book. A few maps are included and they are executed with the same attention to presentation. A glossary of names, places, and important words provides essential information in an accessible format.
Hardcover. Brooklyn NY, Handprint, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with illustrated boards, 40 pages. n his magnificent interpretation of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow s poem, Christopher Bing seamlessly weaves history and imagination into a rich portrait of an American hero. A meticulous researcher, Bing includes material that provides texture to history, maps that follow the British campaign to quell the rebellious citizenry, as well as the patriot s ride into the Massachusetts night of April, 1775. Documents firmly affixed into the book, including the British general s orders to his troops and Revere s own deposition relating the events, give the reader not only a visual experience but a tactile one as well. Far more than a brilliantly presented history lesson, this book represents a tour de force of coherent artistic vision. In an extraordinary series of rich and moody engravings, from the mysteriously shimmering rigging of the British sloop, The Somerset, looming in a moonlit Boston harbor to the taut urgency of a man and his horse galloping at a combustible moment in the American experience, this book illuminates our country s past unlike any other. Small inscription on inside front cover, otherwise clean.
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.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, Reprint, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nonpaginated. Hardcover. Decorated cover boards. Some fading and dame to spine (see image). Slight tanning to boards and pages from age. Two-color illustrations throughout. Some light fingerprint smudges throughout.
Hardcover. London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1st, 1897, Book: Fair, Hardcover, oblong boards illustrated in color with red spine which is very faded. Red lettering on title page, illustrated throughout with b/w line drawings in the text by Ver-Beck. Holding nicely but fragile. Soiling to covers, pages tanned with some foxing. Previous owner's name on prelim page.
Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 109 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR ON TITLE PAGE. Vibrant color illustrations throughout. small dent on front cover bottom, otherwise tight copy. This retrospective volume is not intended to illustrate a particular story, but to display the full range of her abilities, and it is arranged according to the seasons she celebrates in her art. There are fifty of her hand-colored woodcuts in full color and an equal number in black and white. The book is large format because that is the way she works and that's what does her work justice. The text, written by her friend Lilias Hart, discusses not only her work, but also what life is like in the rigorous reaches of Northern Vermont.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1961, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers stamped in black in a nice dust jacket with mild soil and short closed tears. Illustrations by Helen Sewell. Reprint on the 1954 edition with a small 61 code on copyright page.
Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman, 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated cardboard covers, 32 pages illustrated in color and b&w by the Disney Studio. Small tape repair at bottom of spine, previous owner's stamp inside front cover otherwise clean.
Softcover. Chicago, Quaker Oats Company , 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 44 pages, illustrated by Electra Papadopoulos. a promotional booklet extolling the benefits of oatmeal and how it's made all over the world. Near faultless for a cheaply made juvenile intended as a coloring book, exceptionally clean cover and great contents (Never colored and unmarked in any way).
Softcover. Chicago, Merrill Co., reprint, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled linen-like wraps. An oversize ABC book with color illustrations on every page/ not credited but believed to be Vivian Robbins.
Hardcover. Brookfield CT, Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, First Edition; First Printing; Signed by Author. Hardcover. A beautiful first edition/first printing in unread very good condition in alike dust-jacket, SIGNED by author/illustrator Mordicai Gerstein. In 1972, French aerialist Philippe Petit stole into the nearly completed construction site of the World Trade Center, strung a tightrope between the two towers, and the following morning gave the city of New York an incredibly daring and long remembered performance. Gerstein was awarded the 2004 Caldecott award for his illustrations, with the two fold-out panoramas that capture the drama, excitement, and anxiety of the historic death defying feat. Like new. No sticker.
Record # 371200
Price: $100.00
Vintage & Collectible Children's Picture Books
This section brings together used, rare and out-of-print children's illustrated books, where the artwork matters as much as the story. Expect picture books, illustrated readers and treasuries from a range of decades and artists, such as W.W. Denslow's Denslow's Picture Book Treasury and Emily Arnold McCully's Crossing the New Bridge.
You will also find storybook favorites like Jan Wahl's A Gift for Miss Milo, Randall Jarrell's Fly by Night and Philippe Dumas's Caesar: Cock of the Village. Many titles are earlier printings or hard-to-find editions prized for their plates, endpapers and jacket art, and are described down to their condition and binding.
As with all used and rare stock, condition and availability differ between copies. Most are single copies, so order online while yours is listed.
 "Fritzi Fox Flew In From Florida by: Komaiko, Leah and Thatcher Hurd")
 "Beauty and the Beast by: Hutton, Warwick")
 "Cinderella and Other Tales from Perrault by: Hague, Michael")
 "Jimmy the Groceryman by: Miller, Jane")
 "Beginning with A by: Bianco, Pamela")
 "Juna's Journey by: Kherdian, David and Nonny Hogrogian")
 "Tsar & the Amzing Cow, The by: Lewis, J. Patrick and Friso Henstra")
 "Last Muster, The by: Chalmers and Cecil Aldin, Patrick R.")
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 "On Golden Sands: Father Tuck's \"Little Treasure\" Series #1529 by: n/a")
 "Circus Fun (Circus Series) by: n/a/")
 "Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You by: Diterlizzi, Tony: Black, Holly")
 "Golden Bible, The: from the King James version of the Old Testament by: Werner (edited), Elsa Jane")
 "Dogs by: Haring, Keith")
 "Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge: \"Island in the Sky\" by: Barks, Carl")
 "How Tinkle Got Her Bell by: Harpor")
 "Dog Stories: Told by Boys and Girls (#2152) by:")
 "Road to Storyland, The by: Piper, Watty")
 "Hoppie the Hopper: An InAction Book by: Baller, Albert")
 "Noisy Chick, The by: Plowitz, K.M.")
 "Romper (Issue #2942) by: Falconer, Ann (Story and Music)")
 "How the Moon Began: A Tale from Grimm adapted by James Reeves and Edward Ardizzone by: Reeves, James , Edward Ardizzone (Illustrator)")
 "Baby Animals by: Williams, Garth")
 "The Cat in the Hat Song Book by: Dr. Seuss (scores By Eugene Poddany)")
 "Fluffy and Tuffy - The Twin Ducklings by: McKean, Emma C.")
 "Twelve Days of Christmas, The by: Mars, W.T.")
 "The Dark by: Lemony Snicket and Jon Klassen")
 "Tuffy the Tugboat by: Sankey, Alice")
 "The Lazy Automobile by: Wadsworth, Wallace")
 "Paddington Treasury by: Bond, Michael")
 "Little Pete's Adventure by: Burgess, Thornton W.")
 "Mother Goose in Song and Rhyme by: (Prof. Joseph Knecht)")
 "Some Writer!: The Story of E. B. White by: Sweet, Melissa")
 "Higher Ground by: Fitton/Mary Azarian, Kevin")
 "Mister Knocky by: Ziegler, Jack")
 "Leonardo: Beautiful Dreamer by: Byrd, Robert")
 "Traveling Man: The Journey of Ibn Battuta, 1325-1354 by: Rumford, James")
 "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere by: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Christopher Bing (Illust.)")
 "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by: Carroll, Lewis")
 "How the Grinch Stole Christmas! by: Dr. Seuss")
 "The Dumpies by: Ver-Beck, Frank and Paine, Albert Bigelow")
 "Four Seasons of Mary Azarian: Essays by Lilias Macbean Hart (SIGNED) by: Macbean Hart/Mary Azarian, Lilias")
 "The Thanksgiving Story by: Alice Dalgliesh / Illustrated by Helen Sewell")
 "Walt Disney's Bongo from Walt Disney's Fun and Fancy Free by: Walt Disney Production")
 "Around the World With Hob by: Hallock, Grace T.")
 "Winter Is Here (The Basic Science Education Series) by: Parker, Bertha Morris")
 "ABC Picture Book by: N/A (Vivian Robbins - illust.)")
 "The Man Who Walked Between the Towers (SIGNED COPY) by: Gerstein, Mordecai")