Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Hoban. One morning Silly Tilly Mole wakes up and smells jelly beans. She thinks she forgot to remember Easter. She wants to ask the Easter Bunny in for a cup of tea, but where are her glasses and Easter bonnet? Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber , 1st, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Pictorial boards. Non-Paginated. Color and black & white illustrations by Irene Hawkins. Foxing to dust jacket and covers. Interior clean. Some numbers written in pencil on inside covers. Dust jacket price clipped with some tape repaired tears.
Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Beautiful color illustrations by Ruth Heller. Clean. This is an enchanting and magical variant of the favorite fairy tale. Publishers Weekly noted that "the text is especially noteworthy for its instructive but unobtrusive incorporation of Korean words." Children's Literature pointed out that "it should be noted that all the illustrations--from those depicting Korean rituals to the smallest clothing details--are the result of the illustrator's extensive research and passionate interest in Korean culture."
Hardcover. NY, Parents' Magazine Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial boards. Non-Paginated. Full color illustrations by Friso Henstra. Clean, tight copy. No dust jacket. An enormously fat Sultan is told he will die in 40 days, so he frets his poundage away. Delightful story about losing weight, eat less & you'll do it!
Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, 1st US, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color pictures by Sigrid Heuck. Transl. from German by Theodore McClintock. Dust jacket with edgewear, closed tears.
Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, pictorial boards in a bright price-clipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Lillian Hoban. Dust jacket with chipping, small closed tears. Publisher's gold sticker across spine. Clean copy of the Hobans' classic tale of goodnight fears and the way to put oneself to sleep.
Hardcover. NY, Pantheon Books, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Glazed pictorial boards, 47 pages. Black & white illustrations by Lillian Hoban. Darkening to spine. Light wear. Clean, tight copy. The Maple Street Club is putting on a play. But Seymour refuses to kiss the sleeping princess.
Hardcover. London, Book Club Associates, reprint, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 24 pages, illustrated in color by Holden. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 6th pr., 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Diane Goode. Clean copy.
NY, Crown, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY BOTH MARY ANN HOBERMAN AND KEVIN HAWKES ON PRELIM PAGE. Dust jacket and covers completely illustrated, gorgeous full page color illustrations. No sign of wear, spine stiff and tight, dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in excellent condition. In rhyming verse that's a deliberate homage to Dr. Seuss, poet and picture book author Mary Ann Hoberman takes on quarreling and its consequences, and shows how turning fighters into friends leads to greater peace. It all starts with a fighting brother and sister, who make up with the help of another sibling. When the family begins fighting with their noisy neighbors, it's music that brings them together. Soon the whole town is marching in a parade, and eventually the parade swells to include the whole country, and even the animals. By the end of this optimistic picture book, the whole world is united in friendship.
Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Kevin Hawkes. Bright, busy paintings and rollicking verse bring to life a fantastical tale of sorcerers and spells, complete with a glossary of exotic Indian words, all in a lively picture book about a most unusual hero.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 48 pages, color illustrations by Kevin Hawkes, very clean, tight copy, like new.
Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Barbara Garrison and SIGNED BY GARRISON on the title page. Like new. When an apple-shaped birdhouse is placed in the tree, a curious frog thinks that it may be a home meant just for him and so moves in, but other animals have the same idea and soon the frog has a whole cast of interesting visitors dropping on by his unique abode.
Hardcover. London, Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., 1st, 1881, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards. With color title-page, fourteen leaves of color plates, and b&w drawings by Hopkins. Covers worn at edges, corners, paper spine gone. There is some pencil marking to front endpapers but interior pages and all color plates are bright and clean.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, illustrated in color and b&w by Roger Duvoisin, pattern of little vignettes in blue frames on endpapers. Gutter split at endpapers, spine reinforced with black tape. Internally the book is very good with bright art by Duvoisin, a scarce early work by the illustrator.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 1st book by award winning team, b&w illustrations by Richard Egielski. Dust jacket with paper scar where sticker was removed on front. Otherwise clean, very good.
Hardcover. New York , Philomel Books, 1st U.S., 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.Color illustrations by Anno. Adapted from the translation by Ursula Synge.
Hardcover. New York , Philomel Books, 1st U.S., 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Clean, tight copy. Color illustrations by Anno. Adapted from the translation by Ursula Synge. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 48 pages illustrated in color by Aliki. With her characteristically sprightly words and pictures, Aliki brings Shakespeare's life, times, and legacy to life in this highly acclaimed information-packed treasury that is truly for readers of all ages. This nonfiction picture book is an excellent choice to share during homeschooling, in particular for children ages 6 to 8. It's a fun way to learn to read and as a supplement for activity books for children From Hamlet to Romeo and Juliet to A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare's celebrated works have touched people around the world. Aliki combines literature, history, biography, archaeology, and architecture in this richly detailed and meticulously researched introduction to Shakespeare's world-his life in Elizabethan times, the theater world, and the Globe, for which he wrote his plays. Then she brings history full circle to the present-day reconstruction of the Globe theater.
Hardcover. NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Gorgeous color collages by the artist on every page. In this exuberant new picture book, Lois Ehlert takes us on a trip to the farmers market with a group of friendly, furry, and (mostly) well-behaved pups. And when the shopping's done, the gang heads to the dog park for some serious playing.
Hardcover. NY, Dial Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Laszlo Gal. Peel risks his life to save his brother Pome's new bride from her father's evil curse.
Hardcover. NY, Henry Z, Walck, 1st, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, illustrated in 3-colors by Walter Erhard. Villagers try to please a giant on his birthdays with various gifts. This is an ex-library book but in great condition with stamping to endpapers and title page and a price-clip to the dj flap. Appears unread.
Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally & Co., 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, color illustrations by Ruth Caroline Eger. Short tear to cover paper along spine, easily re-glued. Light tanning to pages, Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Two-color illustrations by Richard Egielski. Mary's mirror tempts her to trade in her happy life for fine clothes but she realizes her mistake.
Hardcover. New York , Thomas Y Crowell, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 31 pages, illustrated in color by Michael Hague. Sticker residue, some wear to cover, otherwise in very good condition.Previous owner's notation on inside front cover, barely visible against blue endpapers.
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, Harcourt Brace Janovich, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by David Gentleman. Dust jacket shows some minor wear, chunk gone from top of spine, rear panel.
Hardcover. NY, Mcloughlin Bros., 1st, Book: Good, Hardcover, 9 1/2 X 12", paper-covered boards. Title on cover is The Wonderful Story of a Little Bear. Five color plates and many other two-color illustrations by Sarah Noble-Ives. No date found but early 1900s. Approx. 48 pages. Covers are fair only with paper chipping, edgewear, rear cover with paper covering loose. Bottom quarter of blue cloth spine missing. But the inside is complete, bright and clean.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 95 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white line drawings by Uri Shulevitz. Library Binding Ed. (not ex-lib.) Light spotting on rear cover otherwise, clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.
Hardcover. Adelaide AUS, Rigby Limited, reprint, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 79 pages illustrated in color and b&w. A collaboration between artist Ainslie Roberts & anthropologist Charles Mountford, who combined Ainslie Roberts outback paintings with his knowledge. Previous owner's inscription on the front fly leaf.
Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, BC Ed., 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. No price on flap so assumed a book club edition. Clean copy with colorful illustrations on every page by Barton.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 3rd pr., 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Eric Carle. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping. Tape along the spine of dust jacket. The Bible Story of Noah as told by the great Jewish writer, Isaac Bashevis Singer. The illustrations are by the children's illustrator, Eric Carle. Singer is a Nobel Prize winner and Newbury winner. Carle's bright illustration set the mood of this Bible Story.
Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Jindra Capek. Light edgewear and soil to dust jacket. Illustrated end papers. Clean.
Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber, 1st UK, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover illustrated in color by Agee. Some wrinkling to the laminate on covers, Clean copy. Art imitates life in this hilarious, absurdist picture book--one of Jon Agee's most beloved titles. Outrageous the judges cried. Ridiculous! Who would dare enter a portrait of a duck in the Grand Contest of Art? But when Felix Clouseau's painting quacks , he is hailed as a genius. Suddenly everyone wants a Clousseau masterpiece, and the unknown painter becomes an overnight sensation.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st U.S., 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrated by Anthony Browne. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Henry Z. Walck, reprint, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color, b&w illustrations by Ardizzone. Ex-library copy with residue to end papers. Nice, bright dust jacket.
Softcover. NY, Hyperion, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 2 folded signatures comprising the complete book in a folded dust jacket. A color proof of Agee's 2008 book.
Hardcover. NY, Windmill/Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Hardcover, blue cloth covers with black lettering. Full color illustrations by Whitney Darrow, Jr. Light wear. Clean, tight copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Seymour Chwast. "What do you do when the moon comes to your window and offers to take you on a night ride? You say yes, of course! And so begins a night of surprising travel around a city that never sleeps. Seymour Chwast has spent many evenings exploring New York City after dark. Harriet Ziefert adds to the fun with a text that is both humorous and offers sound advice to any child going on a trip." Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1969, Hardcover, Updike's story adaptation from William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", set to music by Felix Mendelssohn. In turquoise cloth boards with gilt lettering at spine, illustration of Bottom surrounded by fairies stamped in red on front panel. Chappell's illustrations in both color and B&W. Previous owner's inscription on dedication page. Lacks dust jacket.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Candlewick Press, 1st US, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket, 160 pages. Color illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st illust., 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red embossed covers with gilt decoration of two children in profile. One volume from the publisher's 10 volume series, 517 pages. Notable for the full color plates by Martin Robinson, 16 in all. Illustrated endpapers of young children in field of flowers (by another artist). Interior clean, very good.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st illust., 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red embossed covers with gilt decoration of two children in profile. One volume from the publisher's 10 volume series, 508 pages. Notable for the full color plates by H.I. Bacharach, 16 in all. Illustrated endpapers of young children in field of flowers (by another artist). Interior clean, very good.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st illust., 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red embossed covers with gilt decoration of two children in profile. One volume from the publisher's 10 volume series, 381 pages. Notable for the full color plates by Henry Pitz, 16 in all. Illustrated endpapers of young children in field of flowers (by another artist). Interior clean, very good.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st illust., 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red embossed covers with gilt decoration of two children in profile. One volume from the publisher's 10 volume series, 442 pages. Notable for the full color plates by H.I. Bacharach, 16 in all. Illustrated endpapers of young children in field of flowers (by another artist). Owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise interior clean, very good.
Hardcover. NY, Seymour Lawrence/Delacorte, 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with closed tears. Illustrated in color by Balet. ist published in Germany in 1966.
Softcover. La Jolla CA, Star and Elephant Books, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A small book illustrated in color by Michael R. Hague. Softcover. Spine sunned. Hague's first illustrated book.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color art by Lionel Kalish. Clean copy. Three siblings have a bout with the chicken pox, and their father comes down with a bad case as soon as they recover. It's their turn to help nurse him back to health in a nicely done role reversal. He misses his daughter's ballet recital and has to bathe in oatmeal to help the itching. The kids are worried, but things pick up as he recuperates and all ends well.
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