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

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, color illustrations by Lionni. Weekly Reader Book Club Edition. Winter is coming, and all the mice are gathering food . . . except for Frederick. But when the days grow short and the snow begins to fall, it's Frederick's stories that warm the hearts and spirits of his fellow field mice. Winner of a 1967 Caldecott Honor. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, MDC Books/Hyperion, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Based on the 1938 Czech opera by Adolf Hoffmeister and Hans Krasa, retold by award-winning playwright Tony Kushner with color illustrations by Maurice Sendak, SIGNED BY BOTH SENDAK & KUSHNER on title page.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 48 pages with b&w illustrations by Ian Ribbons throughout. Slight dust jacket edge wear and price clipped, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Stephen longed for a parrot but on a visit to his grandmother he found an injured sea gull that he nursed back to health. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Hyperion Press, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with light blue lettering. 72 pages illustrated in color and b&w by Oscar Fabres who also decorated the endpapers. Spine cloth faded, interior clean.

Hardcover. New York , Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by New Yorker cartoonist George Booth. The other hens in Farmer Brown's Tennessee henhouse think that Starlight LaPoule - (hush! Her real name is Ethel Fae Klucksworth) - is short a few feathers. They may be right. For Starlight is a chicken with a ridiculous dream. She wants to become a high-fashion model in Paris or Milan. And with the surprise help of her very own chicken fairy godmother, anything is possible. Or is it? 

Hardcover. Springfield Mass , McLoughlin Brothers , reprint, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 24 pages. Hardcover. 12 full page color illustrations and smaller black & white illustrations throughout. Illustrated chapter headings. Center double page illustration with old clear tape over binding staples. Edge wear to top and sides. Some pages with short closed tears. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, DeWolfe, Fiske & Co., 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with yellow cloth spine, 344 pages. Undated, circa 1900 with name and 1902 date on front fly leaf. Well kept copy generously illustrated throughout with black and white engravings. Mild edgewear to boards. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY KALMAN. From bestselling author Lemony Snicket and celebrated illustrator Maira Kalman comes an uproarious, whimsical word book like no other. Together, Snicket and Kalman present a strikingly beautiful journey woven from a practical introduction to thirteen wonderful words, featuring such marvels as Bird, Dog, Panache, and Haberdashery. Snicket, the notoriously clever and elusive New York Times bestselling author, pushes the boundaries of storytelling in the most fanciful of ways. Maira Kalman, renowned for her art and design, carries this madcap adventure to wondrous heights with her vision of a world populated with hats, song, and cake. This rollicking, surprising book is a true celebration of words.

Hardcover. Chicago, Saalfield Publishing, 1st, 1917, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Hardcover with heavy bumping on spine. Gutter crack on front end paper. Illustrations by Virgina Albert.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Co, 8th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, chipped dust jacket. Winner of the Caldecott Medal, (with printed image of medal on dj) an ALA Notable Children's Book, and a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year, Peter Spier's Noah's Ark has been the iconic edition of this tale for over 40 years, in print continuously since its debut in 1977. In Spier's imaginative retelling, readers witness the danger and the grandeur of the terrifying flood but also the lighter moments: Noah's wife jumping on a crate to avoid the rats; Noah shooing all but two bees from a busy hive; and all the animal babies being born in the spring. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, dust jacket. 32 pages illustrated in color by author. SIGNED BY LUCKE. Stories of adult bad behavior (and civil disobedience) throughout history done in a humorous vein. Colorful gouache paintings on each spread feature figures from Hannibal and Napoleon Bonaparte to Susan B. Anthony and Rosa Parks, in their "time-out" locations in jail or in exile.

Hardcover. Somerville MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, color illustrations by Gwen Millward. What may appear to be an abandoned garden is actually home to an unusual array of insects. Meet a ladybug who prefers making mud angels to acting like a lady, a roly-poly bug who loves to roll ("wa-hoo!"), a cricket who dreams of grand adventures, and a whole neighborhood of bugs gazing up at a fireworks show of flowers bursting into bloom. These inviting vignettes are sure to have readers seeing bugs in a whole new light. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , HarperCollins, reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover reissue of a book first published in 1956 written by Jack Sendak and illustrated by his brother, Maurice. SIGNED BY MAURICE SENDAK. Flora, a little circus girl, wonders what the people who come to the circus do when they are not at the circus. Illustrated in black-and-white and pastel pink and green. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, New York Review Children's Collection, reprint, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with a red cloth spine. 72 pages illustrated in color by the author. A reissue of a title first published in 1934. Peewee the dog didn't know any tricks, not even a single one not even how to roll over not even how to shake hands but never mind he is so teeny weeny that everyone loves him, the clown, the fat lady, the thin man, the strong baby, the acrobats, the elephant, the goat on the burning bed, and all the other amazing performers in the wonderful circus of the man with the quite tall red hat. But then something unexpected happens that threatens to bring Peewee s place under the Big Top to an end. Now Open the Box is a beautiful example of the art of Dorothy Kunhardt, the author of the timeless classic Pat the Bunny and the pioneering picture book Junket Is Nice. Here Kunhardt speaks with wonderfully reassuring directness to children s hopes and fears while making magic out of the simplest things. Clean copy.

Softcover. Milwaukee, OR, Dark Horse, 1st, 2007, 216 pages. Softcover, color illustrations by John Stanley and Irving Tripp. Based on the character created by Marge Buell. Light edgewear to wrappers.

Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. While Ol' Jake is thinking about how rich he is going to be after he catches and sells a hare he is stalking, the hare runs away into the forest. A Russian fable illustrated with lovely watercolors by Ivanov. Library binding but NOT ex-lib.

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations by Kyrsten Brooker throughout. Illustrated endpapers and paste downs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Dover Publications, reprint, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 48 pages illustrated in color by Gorey. A new approach to the ancient fables of Aesop features charming rhymes and winsome images by a beloved illustrator. Artist Edward Gorey sets the scenes for poet Ennis Rees's modern interpretation of Aesop's verses, which recount how animals with all-too-human failings receive their just desserts. Memorable renderings of familiar and lesser-known vignettes include the fable of the industrious ant, who prepares for the hardships of the coming winter, and the feckless grasshopper, whose laziness proves fatal. A mighty lion is amused at the notion of a tiny mouse coming to his rescue, a naive young crustacean admires the bright red shell of a boiled lobster, and a swarm of flies are undone by their attraction to a pool of spilled honey. These and other timeless tales provide humorous insights into the folly of greed and vanity and the rewards of virtuous behavior. Originally published in 1971 by Young Scott.

Hardcover. New York, Katherine Tegen Books, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR ON TITLE PAGE. Otherwise, clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, reprint, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 32 pages illustrated in color by Eleanor Corwin. Light edgewear to cover edges.

Hardcover. New York, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY PINKNEY ON TITLE PAGE. 40 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Full page color illustrations by Jerry Pinkney. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, E P Dutton & Co., 1st US, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with a bright dust jacket with matching pictorial boards, Illustrated in color by Derrick Sayer. First American edition. Delightfully witty and utterly absorbing tales about Nichols' three cats, Four, Five, and Oscar. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Somerville, MA, Candlewick Press, 1st US, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy with color illustrations by author throughout.

Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne and Co, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black. 76 pages, seven color plates & numerous b/w illustrations by L. Leslie Brooke. No date, probably 1950s. Small ownership stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan , 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 96 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. 8-2-color plates, B&W line drawings by Dombrowski. With a nice dust jacket, only minor edgewear. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Philomel Books, 8th pr., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Moses. It is a silent, snowy December night. Shopkeepers and country folk in the tiny Vermont village are hurrying everywhere, lighting candles, wrapping gifts, baking pies--getting ready. But for what? For Christmas Eve? Or is there more? The Miller family knows there is! Pa and the boys, little Andy and Jamie, rush to the train station through the blizzardy twilight to pick up Grandma Stokes. Old Paul, the hired hand, rides to get Doc Herrick. Mama's quilty friend Tinker won't leave her side. They all know something truly wonderful is going to happen this Christmas Eve, snow or no snow, right here at Miller farm.In his unmistakable style, world renowned folk artist Will Moses brings Christmas to a Vermont village in an original story that the entire family--boys and girls, mothers and fathers, grandparents, aunts and uncles - can share by their own candlelight year after year.

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 99 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Blue cover boards with light soiling on front, spine and rear. Light edgewear. Front end papers have small previous owner's sticker on bottom and light residue mid end paper. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Philomel Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Known for her luminescent art, Barbara Helen Berger brings beauty and power to this memorable parable from Tibet. A young boy and his yak bravely overcome all odds to get to Lhasa, giving a wise and simple message that will inspire children of any age to dream and reach for a shining goal that may seem "very far." Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st , 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with matching dust jacket. SIGNED BY KALMAN on title-page. Illust. in color by Kalman. Clean, tight copy with light edgewear to covers.

Hardcover. NY, Silver,Burdett and Company, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated cloth, 160 pages plus vocabulary. Illustrated in color and b&w by Constance Whittemore. Children's reader to introduce children to Germany through a trip with Karl and Gretel. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Philomel Books, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY SPIRIN ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Camden ME, Down East Books, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, color illustrations by Dawn Peterson. Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Margaret K. McElderry Books, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 129 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, William Guild, 1st, 1850, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gilt lettering and decorations on front and back cover. 84 pages, b&w illustrations, cloth spine missing. Short pieces on various subjects: The Poultry Yard, Ruth the Gleaner, The Squirrel, My Grandmother, etc. Each decorated with wood engravings and a decorative border treatment. Introduction by Forrester who published a monthly magazine for children. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Mineola NY, Calla/Dover Books, reprint, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 336 pages, gilt-decorated green cloth. This Calla Edition of fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm is drawn from the mammoth collection first published in 1909 and illustrated by Arthur Rackham. His 40 full-color plates, plus innumerable black-and-white spot elements, get sensitive treatment in a design that retains the best features of the original, including the ornate gilt stamping on the cover.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, reprint, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 64 pages illustrated in 3-colors by Arnold Lobel. A Science I Can Read Book. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Michael di Capua Books, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color.

Hardcover. NY, Penguin Young Readers, 1st, 2020, Hardcover, pictorial glazed board book with Interactive elements makes this board book ideal for little hands. Who is in the forest where it's bright and sunny? Busy, buzzing bees making tasty honey! Play hide-and-seek with The Very Hungry Caterpillar in this fantastic finger trail lift-the-flap book. With a gentle rhyming narrative and an introduction to woodland friends, this book is perfect for little explorers.

Softcover. International Exhibitions Foundation;, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 28 pages. Color & B&W illustrations. Bibliography. Uncommon exhibition catalog as it toured smaller US museums. 2 page "Homage to Babar" by Maurice Sendak.

Hardcover. London, Palazzo Editions, reprint, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 209 pages. Illustrated in color by Robert Ingpen. The 1926 translation is by Carol Della Chiesa. Award-winning illustrator Robert Ingpen captures the rascally Pinocchio and his extraordinary escapades as never before, breathing new excitement into this enchanting classic. The tale of how the old woodcarver Geppetto made a disobedient puppet boy that could talk, dance and turn somersaults has been a much-loved story since it was first written more than 130 years ago. The Adventures of Pinocchio first appeared in 1881 as a series in a children's newspaper. Since then, readers young and old have delighted in Collodi's fantastic fairy-tale world, in which anything can happen and excitement waits round every corner. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Scholastic, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color. Minho and his father have an active morning at the park, taking a carriage ride, seeing the animals in the zoo, and riding the merry-go-round.

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 6th pr., 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a bright, but chipped and worn dust jacket, 56 pages. Green cloth cover with a line drawing of a girl on a horse on the front, with brightly printed endpapers and full page color illustrations of Bemelman's charming paintings throughout. This was the authors fourth (4th) title in the "Madeline" series of seven titles. Small stain to dust jacket at the bottom of the spine. Internally clean and bright.

Hardcover. NY, Books of Wonder, reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages. Journey to the spectacular land of Oz with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz! This classic tale from L. Frank Baum has enchanted readers for over a century. Now, in this stunning hundredth anniversary edition featuring the original illustrations by W.W. Denslow, new readers will learn the power of the phrase "There is no place like home."In this hardcover edition with high-quality reproductions of the original art, follow the adventures of young Dorothy Gale and her dog, Toto, as their Kansas house is swept away by a cyclone and they find themselves in a strange land called Oz.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Z. Walck, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 114 pages. Illustrated in b&w by Judith Gwyn Brown. Translated from the Russian by Fainna Glagoleva. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Calla/Dover, reprint, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 328 pages. For over 150 years, the enchanting fairy tales of Danish author Hans Christian Andersen have delighted people all over the world. This beautifully designed treasury gathers his most beloved tales in a gilt-stamped, hardcover edition, illustrated with 28 full-color images by Golden Age artist Edmund Dulac. Filled with such favorites as "The Snow Queen," "The Nightingale," and "The Emperor's New Clothes," this masterful collection will excite the senses of book lovers everywhere. Originally published in 1911 by Hodder & Stoughton.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light beige cloth with blue lettering on spine and drawing on front cover, 96 pages illustrated in color and b&w by the author.

Hardcover. New York, Michael Di Capua Books/HarperCollins Publishers, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Covers and dust jacket color illustrated, large, beautiful color illustration by Sendak throughout. Covers, dust jacket and pages clean, crisp and tight, spine stiff and tight, no signs of wear: a lovely children's book in excellent condition.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf/Ariel, 2nd pr., 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 87 pages illustrated in color by Atkinson.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY ALVAREZ on front fly leaf. Color illustrations by Fabian Negrin. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 1st book by award winning team, b&w illustrations by Richard Egielski. Dj unclipped.