Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. NY, Little Simon, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. All of your favorite fairy tale characters come together in this original pop-up masterpiece, from expert craftsman Robert Sabuda. In this brand-new pop-up adventure, a Dragon and a Knight race through a fairy tale treasury, visiting the worlds of all of your favorite stories--from "Rapunzel "to "Aladdin," to "Cinderella," "The Three Little Pigs," and more! With characters who literally pop right off the pages, this tour de force will have readers young and old speeding through the book to see just how this chase will end! Robert Sabuda has created a unique pop-up experience, bringing readers into a story via a 3-D journey. It's a true masterpiece from the master!

Hardcover. New York, Four Winds Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Yellow cloth covers with red titles to spine and embossed graphic illustration of frogs to front, color illustrated dust jacket with acetate protective covering, numerous beautiful color plates by Margot Zemach, b&w illustrated figures throughout. Slight rubbing to dust jacket, light foxing to top edge, pages and covers crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight children's book in great condition.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 2nd pr., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Beautifully illustrated scenes from the world's jungles teem with hidden life. Can you spot the wonderful selection of camouflaged creatures? Test your powers of observation to find the answers and more information about them. Includes intricate die-cut gatefolds. John Norris Wood is a renowned wildlife artist who has exhibited at London's Royal Academy of Arts, Natural History Museum, and Victoria and Albert Museum. He lives on his own nature reserve in England with his boa constrictor.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2nd pr., 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non paginated. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR on title page. Extensive illustrations by Marc Brown throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY GRAMATKY ON HALF-TITLE PAGE. Brown cloth covers, color illustrated dust jacket, decorated endpapers, numerous color illustrations by Gramatky throughout. Light edgewear to dust jacket, pages crisp and unmarked, paste-down front endpaper partially detached from cover at hinge, though binding still intact; overall a very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Front of dust jacket is cut out and glued onto title-page. Nicely done. Blue cloth covers with mild shelf wear. Translated from Russian by Tatiana Balkoff Drowne. Nice color illustrations by Vera Bock. No markings.

Hardcover. MA, Candlewick Press, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrations by Juan Wijngaard. Pop-ups in excellent condition. Plays are meant to be seen, and this interactive book features a fold-out model of the Globe Theatre in its heyday, complete with stage, galleries, thatched roof, and spectators ready for a performance. Selected punch-out characters from 12 of Shakespeare's plays are included (and attached to a small cardboard handle to allow for easy manipulation), as are two removable scripts that include monologues and/or scenes in which the characters appear. The package also provides a booklet introducing the Wooden O and the state of the theatre in Elizabethan and Jacobean times as explained by Richard Burbage, leading actor of the King's Players. The well-constructed 10-inch model is made with a good-quality lightweight cardboard and is drawn to scale and filled with accurate architectural details.

Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1st, 1944, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Red cloth cover, wear to edges and corners. Fragile, partial spine separation at front endpage. Color illustrations by Leonard Weisgard. A nice copy.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Barry Blitt. A fresh approach to fractured fairy tales: take one small child's insatiable demand for Just one more story and add a sleepy parent's wish to get the bedtime ritual over with as quickly as possible. The result is this collection of eight condensed folktales. For example, Goldilocks and the Bears begins, There were some bears;/It doesn't really matter how many./There was a bunch./Let's get to the point: and ends, When the bears came back,/They found her asleep./She woke up, screamed, and ran home/So she could sleep in her own bed./Just like you. A few nursery rhymes (Hickory, dickory, dock,/A mouse ran up the clock./The clock struck eight./Oh, my, it's late!/So the mouse went straight to bed) and jokes round out the book. Blitt's ink-and-watercolor illustrations are amusing, with fine lines and soothing colors underscoring the comedy in the characters and situations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Schwartz & Wade, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by illustrator Lane Smith. Bestselling Caldecott Honor artist Lane Smith and legendary author Florence Parry Heide have teamed up to create an unforgettable princess sure to charm and delight young readers. Princess Hyacinth has a problem: she floats. And so the king and queen have pebbles sewn into the tops of her socks, and force her to wear a crown encrusted with the heaviest jewels in the kingdom to keep her earthbound. But one day, Hyacinth comes across a balloon man and decides to take off all her princess clothes, grab a balloon, and float free. Hooray! Alas, when the balloon man lets go of the string . . . off she goes. Luckily, there is a kite and a boy named Boy to save her.

Hardcover. London, Dorling Kindersley, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 95 pages, hardcover with an unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated technological narrative. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers stamped in black. 135 pages illustrated by H.C. Millard. Wonderful drawings of prehistoric creatures, many full page on beige color background. Scarce. Light stains to cover, inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York , Atheneum, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by author. SIGNED on title page, also INSCRIBED on copyright page by Lewin. A look at Brazil's Pantanal marsh describes the various types of creatures who inhabit it, from the South American caiman, to the world's largest rodent, to storks, egrets, and herons.

NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st US, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price- clipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by John Shelley. All the kids at school have amazing things--from a rabbit munching lettuce in a box, to a birthday cake hidden inside a desk--but no one can match Bobby Bell and the extraordinary surprise in his wardrobe.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with a black cloth spine. 36 pages illustrated by Ipcar. 1955 copyright, no indication of later printing. Bright, clean copy. Lacks dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York , Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY HILLARY KNIGHT. What's this--a new Eloise, never before seen or published? News doesn't get better than that. Kay Thompson first wrote Eloise Takes a Bawth in Italy in the 1960s with Hilary Knight and pal Mart Crowley; it has been marinating until now for a release with all-new drawings by Hilary Knight. Of course, this time Eloise is not in Moscow, not in Paris, she is simply in the bawth at home in the Plaza Hotel. With Eloise, though, nothing is simple. Perhaps especially the notion of taking a bath, where you have to "skibble into the bathroom and take off all your clothes," then strike a pose and look in the mirror, and splawsh, and sing, and bathe with turtle Skipperdee and dog Weenie. And pretend to be the "loosest cannonball in all the Caribbean" and "Little Miss Mermaid but let's keep that between us." But what's this? Could Eloise's bathtime shenanigans be causing a drip that "has begun to drop within the walls and hallowed halls of the stately old Plaza?" Drenching the elite at the Venetian Masked Ball in the Grawnd Ballroom, no less? Fabulously decadent scenes of Eloise enacting wild battles and undersea dives in the bathtub on the "tip top floor" of the Plaza contrast deliciously with the resulting swampy splendor of the ballroom. Extended fold-out cross-sections of the hotel's plumbing system and a spectacular, colorful, double gatefold illustrating the underwater ball ("the sensation of the social season" thanks to Eloise!) add drama and silliness as well.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, reprint, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth. Kokoko the hen announces she will keep house when Labourd, the old peasant, and his family leave the farmhouse but the hen and her animal friends find housekeeping harder then they thought. Illustrated in two-colors by Emma Brock. Small stamp on inside front cover, otherwise clean. Nice reprint of a book first published in 1933.

Hardcover. NY, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Award-winning artist Jerry Pinkney's wordless adaptation of one of Aesop's most beloved fables, an unlikely pair learn that no act of kindness is ever wasted. WINNER OF THE 2010 CALDECOTT MEDAL SIGNED BY PINKNEY.

Hardcover. London, Cresta House, 1st, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards in color, 24 full page color illustrations by Angi Petrescu Tiparescu with the story printed in black on half-size sturdy yellow paper & bound in the center of the book. Printed in Romania. No date but appears to be 1970s. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Beach Lane Books, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon and SIGNED BY BOTH DILLONS. In a time long past, in a land far away, a family has suffered an unspeakable loss. But a lonely goblin has been watching. And he knows what to do to help them heal. From internationally acclaimed picture book masters Mem Fox and Leo and Diane Dillon, here is a rich and moving original fairy tale about family, friendship, and the power compassion has to unite us all.

Hardcover. NY, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 3rd pr., 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Based on a new translation by Aliana Brodmann. Measures approximately 8.5 x 12.25 inches. Dust jacket has minor edge wear. Beautiful color plates by Gennady Spirin. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt and Co., 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, color illustrations by Yaccarino. All week long, a boy and his father look forward to their Friday ritual-breakfast at their favorite diner. The leisurely walk through the neighborhood is just as good as the pancakes at the end.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in bright dust jacket with a short repaired tear. Color illustrations by Winter. As a young girl growing up in Kenya, Wangari was surrounded by trees. But years later when she returns home, she is shocked to see whole forests being cut down, and she knows that soon all the trees will be destroyed. So Wangari decides to do something and starts by planting nine seedlings in her own backyard. And as they grow, so do her plans. . . . This true story of Wangari Maathai, environmentalist and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, is a shining example of how one woman's passion, vision, and determination inspired great change. Stiker on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York , Balzer + Bray, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 40 pages illustrated in color by Shea. SIGNED BY SHEA. In this humorous paean to fatherhood, a hippo explains that he is so smart that he shows his dad how to do things. Shea goes through a series of scenarios in which the father gets his son to do what he wants by pretending he doesn't know how to do it correctly. When the youngster claims to be "busy getting dressed," the pictures show him watching TV in his underwear. The father proceeds to mix up his clothing and asks, "Is this how you get dressed?" prompting the child to respond, "Oh, Daddy! This is how you get dressed!" And so it goes on.

Hardcover. NY, Parents' Magazine Press, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. The story of an industrious little boy who listens to too many peoples' advice! Set in Ireland. Color and 2-color illustrations throughout by Ervine Metzl. Dj price blacked out, mild soil to rear of jacket otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, First printing of the revised Harper Collins edition (the title was originally published in 1960) in virtually As New condition in alike dust-jacket. SIGNED by illustrator Maurice Sendak on the title page; Ruth Krauss' legendary book of good and useful things to know, such as what kind of face to make when you say please. Masterfully illustrated by legendary illustrator Maurice Sendak; 48 pages.

Hardcover. NY, Treasure Books, 1st, 1954, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 28 pages illustrated by Chad after the character created by Terry-Toon animators. Front cover with lightscratches, rubbing.

Hardcover. Essex, VT, Sweet Pea Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 36 pages. Hardcover with matching dust jacket. Color photographic illustrations by John Churchman. SIGNED BY JOHN CHURCHMAN. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. This is the true first edition, privately published before it was picked up by Little and Brown.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, reprint, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly soiled dust jacket. color illustrations by William Pene Du Bois, 32 pages. Together Lewis and his mother remember Grandpa, who used to come in the night when Lewis called.

Hardcover. New York, Scholastic , 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non paginated. Hardcover. Color illustrations by Jon Agee throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Harry Z. Walck, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Small hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 47 pages illustrated in color and b&w by Tudor. Scarce pristine copy with 1955 on the title and copyright page. The bottom of front flap with $1.95 price. The top of flap is clipped, the only imperfection, otherwise like new.

Hardcover. NY, Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, color illustrations. SIGNED BY SMITH.

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Foreword by Herman W. Liebert. First publication of a manuscript illustrated ABC by Edward Lear. Letters in red and blue, art in black. Orange cloth with black lettering. Mild chipping to dj spine. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLY LEAF. 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Illustrated by James Ransome. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, New York Review Of Books , reprint, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong format in pictorial boards. Peewee the dog doesn't know any tricks, 'not a single one not even how to roll over not even how to shake hands but never mind he is so teeny weeny that everybody loves him,' the clown, the fat lady, the thin man, the huge tall giant, the strong baby, the acrobats, the elephants, and all the other amazing performers in the wonderful circus of the man with the quite tall red hat. A classic picture book first published in the 1930s. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Garden City, New York, Doubleday, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 48 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. clean tight copy with illustrations by Edward Ardizzone.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, reprint, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with color pictorial label, 72 pages. A book for children about what it takes to be a Boy Scout. Encourages younger children to do good deeds and help others. Uses the example of the grandfather, a veteran of the Civil War. Beautifully illustrated throughout in color and black and white. Art not credited. Appears to be a reprint of a book printed in 1916. Page 37 with a quarter-size scar to paper over text, several pages with mild creases, name on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. New York, Disney Enterprises, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial gate-fold covers with magnetic closure, rear board slightly bowed, else fine. Five fabulous pop-up tableaux depicting scenes from Bambi, Lady & The Tramp, Peter Pan, Snow White and Pinocchio. This copy is SIGNED BY DAVID CARTER who designed the pop-ups.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with mild fading to dust jacket. Five poems by Langston Hughes and one anonymous one translated from the Spanish present the story of the first Christmas from different perspectives. Ashley Bryan has long been known for his interest in and illustration of African American spirituals and poetry. Here he puts his gifts of illustration to work in a way that seems to reflect his dedication to both. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Paris, E. Plon, Nourrit et C., unknown, n/a, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. French text, 48 color pages, illustrated by M. B. de Monvel. Cover edge wear and light soiling, and spine cracked at front fly leaf, and page 17 but all pages intact. Overall, clean. Covered in plastic protecter that is torn on bottom.

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY STEVEN KELLOGG WITH SMALL ILLUSTRATION ON END PAPER. Clean, tight copy otherwise.

Hardcover. NY, Rand McNally , 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color art by Stephen Conlin. With the turn of each page, the book's illustrations will grow to five feet. On one side of the book, peer into a cut away of Chicago's John Hancock Center. On the flip side, size up the world's tallest structures, from Ulm Cathedral spire to the CN Tower, all drawn to scale. Climb to the top as the story of skyscrapers unfolds in this unforgettable book.

Hardcover. New York, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by the Dillons and SIGNED BY THE DILLONS. Tight copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges.

Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne & Co., reprint, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong format. Unpaginated. Illustrated boards, green cloth spine. Extensively illustrated in color and black and white by F. D. Bedford. Covers worn with mild soiling, tan stain to rear cover, edgewear. Reprint of a story which first appeared in "Holiday Romance" in 1868. This is the extraordinary story of a very nearly ordinary princess named Alicia. Given a magic fish-bone by a good fairy, Alicia can have whatever she wishes--provided she wishes for it at the right time. But it's never clear when the right time is, and sometimes the best magic is no magic at all.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, color illustrations by Raschka. Sergei Prokofiev composed his Peter and the Wolf in 1936 with the hope of introducing children to the instruments of the orchestra. It happens that he also devised a wonderfully dramatic story. The characters - boy, bird, duck, cat, grandfather, wolf, hunters - and their doings have been beloved by young and old for decades. Writer, artist, musician, and Caldecott Medalist Chris Raschka has given the original story a new setting: a stage performance. Here you will relish language inspired music; enjoy mischief, suspense, and triumph in the theater; and delight in a surprise (and an additional character) Prokofiev's merry tale didn't provide. Please do not turn immediately to the last page. SIGNED BY RASCHKA.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st thus, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Oblong hardcover, pictorial boards, 54 pages illustrated in lovely watercolors by the Danish artist Johannes Larsen. Commemorating,the 150th anniversary of the birth of Hans Christian Andersen on April 2nd, 1805. Translated by R. P. Keigwin. Small stamp on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

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

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 64 pages illustrated throughout by Hoff in color. Without publisher's zip code on copyright page, so an early printing. Name on blank prelim page otherwise clean. Not a book club.

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. NY, Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light brown cloth with black lettering on spine. 101 pages illustrated with b&w photos throughout. Two children take a ride in an airship. Published before the Hindenburg disaster in May of 1937. Scarce, Clean tight copy, lacks dust jacket.