Vintage & Out-of-Print Children's Illustrated Books - pg. 32 including After The War Was Over: The Sequel to the Award-winning War Boyby: Foreman, Michael
Hardcover. NY, Arcade, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages, profusely illustrated in color and b&w with the author/artist's drawings and photographs. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Dunrea. Dust jacket with light edgewear. Bracken Van Eyck, a simple farmer who helps anyone in need, assists a trow-wife in finding her lost baby and in return she rewards him with a hen that lays golden eggs.
Hardcover. San Diego, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, SIGNED BY NORMAN AND LEO AND DIANE DILLON on title-page. Color illustrations by Leo and Diane Dillon. like-new condition.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Leo and Diane Dillon. A history of slavery in America, written for children, and focusing on those who escaped slavery and on the Underground Railroad. Includes stories of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Josiah Henson, and others.
Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 109 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Vibrant color illustrations throughout. 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, 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.
Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st US, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color by French. Tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, color illustrations by Jerry Pinkney. While Susan sleeps in this mesmerizing bedtime book, crickets, owls, raccoons, bread bakers, and saxophone players enact their nighttime activities.
Hardcover. Mankato MN, Creative Education, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Glazed boards illustrated in color, 32 pages, color art by Roland Topor.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Caldecott medalist Emily Arnold McCully uses luminous watercolors and expressive line to tell a story that will comfort anyone who has ever felt unappreciated at home. In this last production of her lovable Farm Family Theater series, Ms. McCully shows that all families are real families.
Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light green boards, maroon cloth spine with gilt titles, color illustrated dust jacket, beautiful full page color illustrations by Jim McMullan. Very slight wear to dust jacket; a beautiful children's book in excellent condition.
Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Jim McMullan. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR.
Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Jim McMullan. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR.
Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light green boards, maroon cloth spine with gilt titles, color illustrated dust jacket, beautiful full page color illustrations by Jim McMullan. Very slight wear to dust jacket; a beautiful children's book in excellent condition.
Hardcover. NT, Di Capua/ HarperCollins, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, color illustrations by James McMullan. Copyright page states 1st Ed but no price on dust-jacket so assumed Book Club.
Hardcover. New York, Philomel, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ashley Wolff and SIGNED BY WOLFF WITH A SKETCH OF DR. BIRD on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. NY, Scholastic Inc., 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 64 pages. SIGNED BY WILLARD on the title page. An A-to-Z gift collection of angels presents a celestial character for every occasion, such as a wish-delivering angel of Knapsacks and a dew-faced angel of Morning. Willard has assembled a collection of photographs of angel statuettes- ceramic, cloth, wood, or metal; blond, darkskinned, Oriental, or gnomish. Ingeniously arranged against backgrounds of light and shadow, posed against painted settings or among flowering plants, the full-page pictures offer a gallery of portraits. Some of the winged dolls are guardians of the mundane (eggs, flowers, ink, and vegetables), while others are more imaginative or visionary, associated with dreaming, night, planets, and "yonder." Rhyming couplets link the letters of the alphabet to the scenes and seek to make sense of the sometimes mystifying choices of settings.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, reprint, circa 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Illustrated boards with black cloth spine. Charming illustrations by Garth Williams in b&w and pastel green. An early reprint ($3.95 on dj flap). Originally published in 1960 this is probably a mid-sixties reprint. No date given. Dust jacket with mild wrinkle. Clean.
Hardcover. Honesdale PA, Boyds Mills, 2nd pr., 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Luminous watercolor art by Ted Lewin. When Adam's family leaves Russia for America, Grandfather gives him an ancient prayer shawl that has been passed down from generation to generation, and in time, an older Adam passes the prayer shawl down to his own grandson.
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.
Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Describes how dolphins are trained to perform tricks through the experiences of Squirt, a bottlenose dolphin whose successful training led to appearances in marine shows all across the country. B&w illustrations by Ted Lewin.
Hardcover. NY, Clarion, 1st, 1992, hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color paintings by Ted Lewin. A ten-year-old Lebanese boy balances his life in a war-torn city. Lewin's watercolor illustrations capture contemporary Beirut with stunning clarity and drama.
Hardcover. NY, Philomel, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Young. Doko is only a simple basket. It is not only grain from the field that he carries--he has also carried his master's child, and wood for the fire. He was there when the child became a man and married. And he very nearly had to carry the grandfather away forever. Luckily, someone wise beyond their years spoke up and made it possible for Doko to carry the grandfather home again instead. As ever, Ed Young has taken a simple fable and made it into a masterpiece of stunning illustration and expert storytelling. This beautiful and unique book celebrates the generations with great originality.
Hardcover. Boulder CO, Vernissage Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Natasha Voronina. This Christmas tale broadens a child's understanding of another culture as it introduces a few words of Russian. It is a story of self-discovery while it introduces readers (parents, as well as children) to some of the lore and language of a far-away country.
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 32 pages, color illustrations by the author. Convinced that crossing the river on the back of Monty the alligator is too slow, the animals try to find a faster way to get their children to school.
Hardcover. Edinburgh, Floris Books, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Oblong glazed boards, color plates throughout by author. Christopher meets the spirit of September in the garden, and is introduced to all the harvest folk: the Gooseberry girls and boys, old man Black-Currant, the misses Plum and the proud Strawberries. First published in Sweden in 1920, this is the first English language edition. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. London, Odyssey Press/ Paul Hamlyn, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Glossy pictorial boards, 45 pages. Pocket-sized book illustrated in color by Peter Spier. No dust jacket. Green illustrated covers. Part of the Odyssey Library. Excellent condition.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 249 pages. Light stain to front end papers, also affecting front flap on dust jacket. Light foxing to copy block edges otherwise very good. A teenage runaway encounters both love and loneliness when she decides to settle in a small Arkansas town.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Penn Publishing Company, 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth with color paste down on front cover with gilt lettering, 303 pages. Color frontispiece, 4 b&w plates and numerous line drawings by Henry Pitz. "This is the story of the experiences of two boys in the Sierra Nevada mountains in Lassen and Plumas Counties, California. Their adventures take them from Jamesville, a small mining town, up over Old Baldy to Eagle Lake and that spur of the range in which the lake is held."Clean copy.
Hardcover. Woodstock VT, privately printed/Elm Tree Press, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 21 pages illustrated in red and black by Peg Schaeffer Gruver. An animal story set in rural New England. Illustrated gray boards in a glassine dust jacket that's tanned and chipped. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Thomas Crowell, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket. Color illustrations done in comic book style by Wendy Watson and SIGNED BY WENDY WATSON on the title page. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Chicago, Follett Publishing Co., 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. B&W illustrations by Paul Giovanopoulos. 192 pages in a nice, price-clipped dust jacket. The saga of the Amistad. Off the Cuban coast, a slave from Sierra Leone took over the ship which drifted and was taken into custody by the US Navy. The return to Sierra Leone after protracted legal battles. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black. 3-Color illustrations by Mildred Boyle. Light edgewear to covers. No dust jacket. Front and back hinges with tape re-enforcement. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, illustrated throughout by Marc Simont in blue & black. Stated First Printing. In a lightly soiled dust jacket that's price-clipped. Small scar to front endpaper otherwise clean
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth covers with blue label on cover. "1" on copyright page. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. 54 pages illustrated in color by Doris Lee. Mild soil to covers. In this charming story Quillow, a tiny toymaker, defeats a ferocious giant, Hunder, saving his town from destruction.
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, Henry Holt, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated with colorful paintings by Pauline Baynes. Based on hymns from the Book of Daniel. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman Company, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with lllustrated paper label on front. 110 pages, color and b/w illustrations throughout by the author. Dust jacket chipped, worn. A collection of eleven stories: Mrs. Spider's Surprise, The Mystery in the Bake Shop, Captain Caddis' Adventure, April Fool Raindrop, The Dreamland Toys, The Hallowween Brownie, Wee Willie Winkie and others.
Hardcover. NY, Hart Publishing, 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 56 pages. Two-color illustrations by Ronald Ferns. Previous owner's inscription on back of front endpaper. Dust jacket with light edgewear. Story of a cat and her kittens moving into a new town.
Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Small hardcover, pictorial boards. Color and b&w illustrations by Clarence Biers and Joan Harman, 60 pages. Light edge wear to boards, clean.
Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st thus, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated in color by Barry Moser.
Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, illustrated in 2-colors by Hilary Knight. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st illust. thus, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with mild fade to spine. Black & white illustrations by Leonard Lubin.
Hardcover. Cleveland, World Publishing, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with black stamping, 62 pages. French and English edition. Illustrated throughout in 2-colors. The mischief-maker in this dual-language picture book is a cat who is si vilain that he spends all of his time playing tricks on other animals in the garden. Tired of being outwitted, the animals decide to unite against him. But the daytime and nighttime animals find it hard to get together and things get out of hand- until a little mouse restores peace in a way that astonishes all. Clean copy, no dustjacket.
Hardcover. NY, Hyperion Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations and SIGNED BY YACCARINO on title page with a small sketch.
Hardcover. NY, Hyperion Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations and SIGNED BY YACCARINO on title page with a small sketch.
Hardcover. NY, Hyperion Books, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations and SIGNED BY YACCARINO on title page with a small sketch.
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Price: $30.00
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.
 "After The War Was Over: The Sequel to the Award-winning War Boy by: Foreman, Michael")
 "Home on the Range: Cowboy Poetry by: Janeczko, Paul B./Bernie Fuchs (Illust.)")
 "Trow-Wife's Treasure, The by: Dunrea, Olivier")
 "Girl Who Dreamed Only Geese, The - And Other Tales Of The Far North (SIGNED COPY) by: Norman, Howard")
 "Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom by: Virginia Hamilton/Leo and Diane Dillon")
 "Four Seasons of Mary Azarian: Essays by Lilias Macbean Hart by: Macbean Hart/Mary Azarian, Lilias")
 "The Great Quillow by: James Thurber/Steven Kellogg")
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 "Hey, Pipsqueak! by: McMullan, Kate and Jim")
 "I Stink! (SIGNED COPY) by: McMullan, Kate & Jim")
 "I Stink! (SIGNED COPY) by: McMullan, Kate & Jim")
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 "An Alphabet Of Angels (SIGNED COPY) by: Nancy Willard")
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 "The Always Prayer Shawl by: Oberman, Sheldon/Ted Lewin")
 "Cowboy Country by: Scott, Ann Herbert")
 "Ali: Child of the Desert by: Jonathan London and Ted Lewin")
 "A Dolphin Goes to School: The Story of Squirt, a Trained Dolphin by: Elizabeth Simpson Smith/Ted Lewin")
 "Sami and the Time of the Troubles by: Florence Parry Heide and Judith Heide Gilliland/Ted Lewin")
 "I, Doko: The Tale of a Basket by: Ed Young")
 "How The Russian Snow Maiden Helped Santa Claus by: Buyske, Gail")
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 "The Sailing Ship (The Odyssey Library) by: De Hartog, Jan")
 "To Take a Dare by: Dragonwagon, Crescent and Paul Zindel")
 "Black Boulder Claim by: Newberry/Henry Pitz, Perry")
 "Josh & His Pals by: Sargeant, Alice Loring")
 "Birthday Goat, The (SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR) by: Watson/Wendy Watson, Nancy Dingman")
 "Long Black Schooner, The: The Voyage of the Amistad by: Sterne, Emma Gelders")
 "Farm Beyond The Town, The by: White, Eliza Orne")
 "The Wonderful O by: Thurber, James and Marc Simont")
 "The Great Quillow by: Thurber/Doris Lee, James")
 "Uncle Fonzo's Ford (SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR) by: Miles/Wendy Watson, Miska")
 "Song of the Three Holy Children by: Baynes, Pauline")
 "Surprise Stories by: Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin")
 "Semolina Silkpaws Comes to Catstown by: Williams, Gladys")
 "The Story of Silky and the Kitty with the Black Nose by: Jasmine Stone van Dresser")
 "Casey At the Bat: a Centennial Edition by: Thayer Ernest Lawrence; Illustrated by Barry Moser.")
 "Sunday Morning by: Viorst/ Hilary Knight, Judith")
 "Birthday of the Infanta, The by: Wilde, Oscar")
 "Le Vilain Chat/ The Mischievous Cat by: Trez, Denise And Alain")
 "New Pet: Blast-Off Boy and Blorp (SIGNED COPY) by: Yaccarino, Dan")
 "New Pet: Blast-Off Boy and Blorp (SIGNED COPY) by: Yaccarino, Dan")
 "First Day on a Strange New Planet: Blast-Off Boy and Blorp (SIGNED COPY) by: Yaccarino, Dan")