Hardcover. NJ, Prentice-Hall, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 112 pages. Sepia-toned drawings by James Pearsall. In this intimate autobiography, a gorgeous Siamese feline pours her heart out to Douglass Parkhirst, who digs cat lingo purr-fectly. As the cat matures and goes out on her own, she describes her adventures in a bachelor's apartment, her jealous fits over one of her master's female admirers, her first encounter with a mouse, plus many other newsy tidbits that will delight sophisticated cat lovers. Clean copy.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. SIGNED BY LEE LORENZ on title page.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Barefoot Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 96 pages. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS on a tipped-in bookplate on the front fly leaf. Lovely color illustrations by Rebecca Guay. Let yourself be drawn into the magical world of the dance with this sumptuous anthology. Love, laughter, betrayal, adventure and tragedy intertwine to create stories that will reach deep into the heart and dreams of the reader. The story of "The Sleeping Beauty" will whisk you away to the thorny castle where Princess Aurora awaits her prince; the comedy and confusion of "Coppelia" will delight you, and the magical adventures of Clara in "The Nutcracker" will entrance you. Featuring a brief history of classical ballet, as well as historical details of each dance, composition, choreography and early performances, this book will captivate anyone with a love of this awe-inspiring art.
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.Color illustrations by James Stevenson. Janetta's Grandaddy lives on a farm with chickens and a mule, and when he comes to visit her in Baltimore, Janetta is worried that he'll find the city boring. Griffith's narrative is neatly paired with Stevenson's gently humorous, altogether winning watercolor-and-black-pen illustrations, which alternately depict the urban setting and the beloved, rustic home Grandaddy invokes frequently in his conversations with Janetta.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by the author. Dust jacket with light edgewear. As the irrepressible Simpkin goes from warm to chilly, from sensible to silly, young readers can only be sure that he is up to no good..
New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 144 pages. Contains black & white and 2-color illustrations by Ardizzone. Remainder dot on top edge. Dust jacket with edgewear.
Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by author. When a young boy decides to challenge the popular old saying about stepping on cracks in the sidewalk, he comes to find out that it is a valid warning as a number of weird and strange things suddenly begin to happen in his life. Clean copy.
San Diego, Harcourt Brace , 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket6. Color illustrations by David Christiana. Small closed tear on dust jacket.
New York, William Morrow & Company , 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket.. Illustrated by Janet McCaffery. Cloth spine has small frayed/chewed area at top. Dust jacket has same, minor chipping along edges. Otherwise, clean, tight.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st US, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Vivid color illustrations by author throughout. A little boy who is not ready for bedtime runs to hide in a magic castle and finds some unusual friends there. Clean copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Dial, 3rd pr., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by the author. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping. Clean copy.
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. San Diego, Harcourt Brace Janovich, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket.Color illustrations by Julie Vivas. When old Nurse Lugton falls asleep while sewing her multi-patterned curtain, the sky, huts, villagers, elephants, zebras, giraffes, penguins, and other animals on it come to life. Virginia Woolf's story, first in print in 1965 and republished here as a picture book, is indeed a small tale that flows with the rhythms of an accomplished prose writer. Vivas's watercolor illustrations flow across the pages like the prose, with parading animals and marching villagers costumed as if for Mardi Gras.
Hardcover. Chicago, Whitman Publishing , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with light edgewear. Primary school reader. Two-color illustrations by Dorothy Wheeler. No date but appears to be 1930s.
New York, Simon & Schuster , reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Hillary Knight and SIGNED BY KNIGHT on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Color illustrations by Brian Froud. No dust jacket issued. TIght copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston Company, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and soiled dust jacket. (60 cents on flap). Color and two-color illustrations throughout by the Petershams.
Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 48 pages. Color illustrations by Lobel. Clean. Lacks dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st , 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Couderc. Determined to become famous and escape his parents' fate as clothes washers, ambitious raccoon Raoul tries his hand at various careers, including that of a sailor, a pilot, and a New York City police officer.
Hardcover. NY, Cupples and Leon, 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, small format, gray boards printed in navy with color cover plate by John B. (Johnny) Gruelle, plus color frontis and 7 additional plates and line drawings by the artist. Mild soil along spine cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 27 pages Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Black & white illustrations by Michael McCurdy.
New York, Viking Press, 1st ed, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. Edgewear and wrinkling to covers. Dust jacket with chipping, rubbing, closed tear to front.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a chipped, edgeworn dust jacket, B&w drawings by Rita Fava. Collection of 9 French Canadian folk stories, told to told to children at the LeBlanc summer picnic in Vermont to remind them of their ancestors in French Canada; in the beginning they lived near Quebec city and wore long red sashes and later some moved to Montreal where the color was blue. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Jewish Publication Society, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Amy Schwartz. Unpaginated.
Hardcover. NY, Viking/Ariel, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 147 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Chris Van Allsburg. Like new in bright dust jacket. Tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Tight copy with light rubbing to rear dust jacket. Beautifully illustrated in full-color. The crew of a ship become ill after a mysterious stone is taken aboard their ship, in another tale by one of America's premier author/illustrators.
Hardcover. New York, Lippincott, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 89 pages. Black & white illustrations by Charles Mikolaycak. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.
Chicago, Follett Publishing, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Leonard Shortall. A Beginning to Read book about the Prehistoric Stone family. Nice dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace and World, 1st, 1961, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth with a drawing of baby elephant on front cover. Illustrated in blue and black by Leonard Weisgard. Baby Elephant & his mother imagine traveling to France where he uses lots of new French words that he has learned. Text includes many French words/phrases. Covers show wear and soil. Inside front cover with an inscription, otherwise interior is bright and clean.
New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Unpaginated. Color photography by Christopher G. Knight. First-hand observations, personal reflections, and full-color photographs trace a family visit to the sites described in the "Little House on the Prairie" books.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover, illustrated in color by Bruce Ingman. Clen, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Barnes and Noble, reprint, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial boards, 64 pages illustrated in color by James Watts. A larger reprint edition of a 1989 title. Clean.
Hardcover. New York , Harper & Row, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 24 pages. B&W pictures by Elizabeth Bridgeman. INSCRIBED BY BRIDGEMAN on front fly leaf. Some light soil to dust jacket, spine sunned.
Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Illustrated boards and color illustrations throughout by Karen Barbour. Clean, unmarked copy.
New York, Dial Press, 1st , 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. B&W illustrations by Jerry Pinkney. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping.
Hardcover. New York, Barse & Hopkins, Reprint, 1915, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, cloth boards wth color label on front showing two bears dressed in top hats and long coats. 60 pages plus ads. Full color frontis with Traveling Bears meeting Buster Brown and Tige. Foxing to borders of front endpapers. Most pages clean and bright. Front hinge cracked top to bottom. Rear hinge paper intact but weak. Covers worn with bumped corners and chipping to paper in spots.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A collection of 6 hardcover "I Can Read Books", all illustrated by Syd Hoff. All Weekly Reader editions, bright and clean, no markings. A faint musty smell.
New York, Blue Sky Press, 4th pr. , 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BOOKPLATE BY BANG Laid-in. Color illustrations by Bang. Caldecott Honor Book and Charlotte Zolotow award winner, no award medals on dustjacket.
Hardcover. New York, Clarion Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ILLUSTRATOR DAVID WIESNER ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations. Clean, bright copy. 2002 Caldecott Winner. First printing with no sticker.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, quarter red cloth over pictorial boards. First Edition stated on copyright page. 88 pages; color illustrations, including endpapers by Duvoisin. A tale of brown peoples and Hindu temples, mud huts, fighting cocks and volcanoes. SIGNED BY DUVOISIN opposite title page.
New York, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket.Color Illustrations by Floyd Cooper. When Papa tells a story about a brave soldier with a secret message, Chita happily joins in the telling, enjoying the time with her father in a celebration of family and the tradition of the tall tale.
Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Non-paginated. SIGNED BY KEVIN HENKES ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. Chicago, Marshall Field & Co. , 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 7 1/2" square booklet, with four full-page color illustrations, and b&w line drawings illustrating nursery rhymes. Four actual handkerchiefs, 2 attached, 2 loose, all excellent condition. Rare in this condition.
Hardcover. no place, Whitman, 1st, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non Paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Full color & one-color illustrations by Pettee. Previous owner's name on half-title page.
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