Vintage & Out-of-Print Children's Illustrated Books - pg. 37 including Tales of Grandpa Cat, Theby: Lee Wardlaw / Ronald Searle

Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with edgewear. A grandpa cat tells his grandkittens some pretty tall tales, enlivened by Searle's wonderfully expressive drawings.

Hardcover. Brooklyn NY, Kane Miller, 1st US, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in color pictorial boards. Translation from German by Laura McKenna. Color illustrations by Renate Seelig. A young giantess discovers that being so big doesn't hinder her from having good friends in this delightful children's tale, originally written in German. Gorgeous artwork. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly edgeworn dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. Thin 4to, white linen, with circular pictorial label. Dj price-clipped and 10/70 on dust wrapper flap, 7 titles on the back flap. and the silver Caldecott Honor Book sticker on the front. Probable second printing as the first didn't have the sticker which was awarded in 1971.

New York , Harcourt, 2nd pr., 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by J. Otto Seibold. A PIG in a spigot? An AX in a taxi? An ELF in a belfry?It can mean only one thing. . . . Richard Wilbur has been playing with his words again! Aided and abetted by illustrator J.otto Seibold, Richard Wilbur reveals that words must be used carefully--because you never know what you'll find in them!

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Pictorial boards in a bright, edgeworn dust jacket. 28 pages illustrated in color and b&w by Rounds. Later printing, from the Story Parade Picture Book series, "selected from the most popular stories that have appeared in Story Parade Magazine." Whitey sets out to get a job as a cat skinner at a lumber camp, Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Pictorial boards with red cloth spine, 28 pages illustrated in color and b&w by Rounds. Later printing, from the Story Parade Picture Book series, "selected from the most popular stories that have appeared in Story Parade Magazine." How Whitey found a wild colt, how it survived wolves and a blizzard, and how Whitey trained it for his Sunday horse. Clean copy. Boards show mild edgewear.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial boards, 28 pages illustrated in color and b&w by Rounds. Later printing, from the Story Parade Picture Book series, "selected from the most popular stories that have appeared in Story Parade Magazine." How Whitey became a full edgewear. Corner and edgewear to boards, top of spine with spit to paper. Clean internally.

Hardcover. NY, R & S Books, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. One evening when Boris is watching television, he notices that the picture looks blurry. The repairman who comes over tells him that the problem is not the television but, rather, Boris's eyesight. A trip to the eye doctor confirms the diagnosis - Boris is an astigmatic. How important this sounds! When he gets his glasses, a whole new world unveils itself to him. Boris decides to get a job with his "talent" and starts work at the radio factory as a foreman. However, nothing turns out as Boris expects in this sweet story enlivened by Olof Landstrom's sprightly cartoon-like illustrations.

Hardcover. DK Publishing, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A thickly sentimental tale, told in graphic-novel-style frames, of a dying boy's metaphorical quest for courage.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. 80 pages illustrated by Hilary Knight. Sprinkled throughout this cheery volume of familiar poems are pictures of people readinga lady in a straw hat reading to a toddler on an old-fashioned porch, a kangaroo reading to babies in her pouch. True to the title, the poems collected are perfect for reading side by side. There are story poems; counting rhymes; verses about seasons, holidays and animals. Every page is filled with Knight's rollicking watercolors of exuberant, bright-eyed children. What will ensure this book's popularity, however, is the inclusion of poems many parents and grandparents will remember, including "A Visit from St. Nicholas," "The Three Little Kittens" and "The House that Jack Built." Clean copy.

Hardcover. Little Rock AR, August House, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Little Johnny must outwit a witch who's always trying to steal his milk when he takes it to market. Illustrated with charming color art by Jennifer Mazzucco. Based on an old English folktale. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harlin Quist, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a chipped and edgeworn dust jacket. B&w line cartoons by Stan Mack. "Violet, Slingsby, Guy and Lionel are the four little people who want to see their world. But what a world they see! Imagine the island of water surrounded by earth, and filled with veal cutlets and chocolate drops! Imagine the scroobious sound of the simultaneous sneezing of millions of mice! Imagine their boat bitten into fifty-five-thousand-million-hundred-billion bites by the ferocious Seeze Pyder!" Dj price-clipped. No markings.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BOTH TAN AND SHIELDS on the half-title page. On a rainy afternoon, a woman shares with three restless granddaughters her "earliest memory" from her childhood in China. Adapted from Tan's The Joy Luck Club , the haunting tale that unfolds is worthy of retelling--and of repeated rereading. The narrator, Ying-ying, recalls waking up at the age of seven on the morning of the Moon Festival; it was a steamy day, and "the sun drove rays through the bamboo curtains like knives." Filled with similarly vivid images, Tan's lilting text conveys Ying-ying's contagious excitement about the festivities. These include the appearance of the Moon Lady, who can fulfill one's secret wish. Later, celebrating with her family on a "floating teahouse," Ying-ying loses her balance and falls into the lake, where she is caught in a fisherman's net. He returns her to shore, where her secret wish is granted: she is found by her family, and thus learns a lesson about which kind of wishes come true. Tan has done a superb job of distilling this incident for young readers, who will be as mesmerized by the expressive narrative as by Schields's ornately detailed paintings, ablaze with luminous color.

Hardcover. NY, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR with a tiny sketch. Another graphically minimalist yet utterly effective picture book for the very young. "Snug inside her warm den, a polar bear cub wakes. Something in the moonlit stillness quietly beckons. What is it?" The tug of this gentle mystery will draw children into Thompson's simple bedtime story, and the hypnotic ebb and flow of her alliterative lines (on a night that's "keen and cold," little cub "sets out for the snow and sky and sea and ice") will keep children immersed as the young explorer encounters floating, dreaming sea creatures, and witnesses a meteor shower that further transforms the already exotic nighttime surroundings. As arresting as Thompson's language are Savage's powerful linocuts, which beautifully reference the textures and forms of Inuit stone carvings and evoke the arctic landscape in a few elemental colors per spread: glacial blues, grays, and sea greens; the pinks and lavenders of the aurora borealis.

Hardcover. NY, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR with a tiny sketch. Another graphically minimalist yet utterly effective picture book for the very young. "Snug inside her warm den, a polar bear cub wakes. Something in the moonlit stillness quietly beckons. What is it?" The tug of this gentle mystery will draw children into Thompson's simple bedtime story, and the hypnotic ebb and flow of her alliterative lines (on a night that's "keen and cold," little cub "sets out for the snow and sky and sea and ice") will keep children immersed as the young explorer encounters floating, dreaming sea creatures, and witnesses a meteor shower that further transforms the already exotic nighttime surroundings. As arresting as Thompson's language are Savage's powerful linocuts, which beautifully reference the textures and forms of Inuit stone carvings and evoke the arctic landscape in a few elemental colors per spread: glacial blues, grays, and sea greens; the pinks and lavenders of the aurora borealis.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Pohrt. Coyote-a creator, a messenger, and, above all, a trickster-is at his mischievous best in these adventures retold from Native American sources. Brilliant illustrations depict the playful character in four tales: "Coyote Creates a New World," "Coyote and Mice," "Coyote and Woodpecker," and "Coyote and the Buffalo Bull."

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Rumford. According to Herodotus, an Ancient Greek historian, a Phoenician named Cadmus brought the alphabet to Greece. In the ancient myths, Cadmus was a hero who fought a ferocious monster and founded the city of Thebes. Cadmus was so famous that his deeds were told and retold throughout the ancient world. In this modern retelling, James Rumford uses the alphabet that Cadmus brought to Greece to recount the hero's own story. Part truth, part fancy, this different kind of alphabet book takes its reader on a journey to the distant past, when our letters were not just marks to record sounds but were pictures of eyes and hands, doors and fences, giant teeth and . . . monsters.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Reynold Ruffins. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, reprint, 1936, Book: Good, Hardcover, pictorial boards in red and blue. Two-color illustrations by Marguerite and Willard Wheeler. Page for letter T has corner chip, not affecting illustration. Overall, clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. Illustrated in color by the author. In this lift-the-flap book, the mailman delivers Ruby's Fourth of July picnic party invitations to the correct people, but Max's letter to Santa is given to Grandma instead. Grandma misinterprets Max's meaning, and a few more misunderstood missives are misdelivered, but all works out well in the end. These various letters form the ''flaps'' part of the story.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Keith West.

Hardcover. NY, Franklin Watts, 1st US, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color pictorial cloth. Great illustrations by Wildsmith where children try to find hidden items. Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Clarion Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Caldecott Medal Winner for 2002. Gray covers with maroon cloth spine, gorgeous full page color illustrations. Small closed tear to bottom right corner of dust jacket, pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in excellent condition. Wiesner's second book to win the Caldecott Medal after his earlier "Tuesday".

Hardcover. UK, Oxford University Press, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glossy boards. 80 pages illustrated in color by Wildsmith. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers with white lettering. 90 pages illustrated in b&w by Slobodkin. No dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Lane Smith. Unpaginated. With complete number line. A 1993 Caldecott honor book - delightfully illustrated parodies of children's fairy tales. The entire book, with its unconventional page arrangement and eclectic, frenetic mix of text and pictures, is a spoof on the art of book design and the art of the fairy tale. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Dodd, Mead & Co., 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ashley Wolff and SIGNED BY WOLFF on front fly leaf. In very good condition. Tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins Publishers, 1st, 1995, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY ASHLEY WOLFF ON TITLE PAGE WITH ILLUSTRATED SKETCH. Blue board with black cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket, gorgeous full page color illustrations. Extremely slight rubbing to dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in excellent condition.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 48 pages illustrated in color by David Small. Annabelle Bernadette Clementine Dodd, Belle for short, is the child of wealthy parents who have no time for her. Even before the story begins, readers see her climbing down the stairs to kiss them good-bye, her father glancing at his watch all the while. But Belle has Beatrice Smith, a kindly housekeeper with whom she spends her days sharing Bea's chores (creating more havoc than help). While they have specific chores each day of the week, they always make time for delightful excursions to the beach. Then one day, Belle decides that she can go alone, with nearly disastrous results. The rhyming text describes the loving relationship between Bea and Belle, and the woman's infinite patience with her young charge. Small's cartoon watercolor-and-crayon illustrations, most of them spreads, depict a mansion on a hill overlooking the sea, Belle's grand bedroom, ornate parlors, and a time when wringer washing machines, clotheslines, and electric fans were the last word in luxury. The pictures of Bea hugging the little girl to her breast after nearly losing her, the woman's grief at what might have happened, and Belle's efforts to cheer her up are especially poignant.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards. Color illustrations by Lane Smith. Having been asleep when he was magically transformed into a boy, Pinocchio awakes to find that no one, not even his father, Geppetto, recognizes him now that he is not a puppet and so must now figure out how to live life as a real boy on his own.

Hardcover. NY , Doubleday, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, pictorial cloth in a worn and chipped dust jacket. Spier's illustrations accompany the words to our national anthem. Endpapers design shows evolution and various designs of American flag. Clean copy.

Hardcover. La Jolla CA, Green Tiger Press, 2nd pr., 1986, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards, no dust jacket. Rover and Coo Coo is a story in the traditional style of story telling, a story that was told to generations of the Hay family around an open fire in winter or on an open porch in summer. It takes place when Indiana was a frontier, and Charles Hay left his family in their log cabin and went to the distant mill to have his corn ground. The adventure takes place in the dark forest with a chase by hungry wolves, and Charles' faithful hounds saving the day. There are beautiful and clear descriptions of the surroundings in those pristine times. The illustrations of the highly acclaimed artist, Tim Soliday, bring it all alive. In the end Charles is safe with his wife and two small children, and he speaks of nature and how all creatures have a place in the larger picture of the oneness of the world.

Hardcover. Kenosha WI, John Martin's House, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrated boards. A Bonnie Book illustrated in color by Dolli Tingle. Light wear to top and bottom of spine. Otherwise clean and bright. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston, 4th pr., 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boars with green cloth spine. Unpaginated. Charming color illustrations by Diana Thorne throughout. Soiling to spine and light edgewear to cover boards. Internally very good.

Hardcover. Winchester MA, Faber & Faber, 1st US, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in laminated pictorial boards. Two young boys complain that nothing exciting ever happens where they live, while witty, stylish illustrations point to the contrary. Wonderful color art by Testa. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Golden Book, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 72 pages illustrated in color by Tenggren. No dust jacket issued. Like new.

Hardcover. NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In this amusing, eloquently told story, created by Katherine Paterson specifically for artist Vladimir Vagin to illustrate with his beautifully detailed watercolors, there was born a wise little princess who was different from everyone else. Miranda had been granted the gift of being wide awake all her waking hours. Thus, unlike those before her, she was able to see that the peasants of the kingdom were overworked and starving while the nobles lived in selfish luxury. Miranda, with confidence and determination, forms an innovative plan to help her people overcome their oppression, and in the process reveals the power of words to vanquish ignorance and bring about change.

Hardcover. NY, Dial Books, 4th pr., 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A collection of traditional tales from around the world each of whose main character is female. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards, no dust jacket. A little boy and his great-aunt live in the heart of Paris, and when the boy's uncles plan a visit, she sends little Emile to the market armed with a string bag, a cat and a series of rhymes to help him remember what to buy. Somewhere along the way, he gets mixed up and comedy ensues. Black & white and color wood block illustrations by the author. Clean, no markings.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset and Dunlap, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Naomi Averill. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Platt and Munk, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover. 12 color plates by Winifred Austen, many B&W drawings. Great cover design in 3-colors on orange cloth. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped, with faded stain to spine. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a nice, price-clipped dust jacket. 64 pages, Black & white illustrations by Donald Carrick. In a library binding, but NOT ex-library. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Clarkson N. Potter, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. 128 pages. Charmingly attired antique Steiff bears, presented and photographed as characters in the memoirs of Ophelia, a stuffed bear who worked in a Paris shop.

Hardcover. NY, Green Tiger Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Chi Chung.

Hardcover. NY, Young Scott Books, reprint, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Jean Charlot illustrations in colored lines. Almost new-looking, no dust jacket. The story of a Mexican Ghost named Teodoro and his adventures in his life with gold and with those who follow him in their earthly pursuit of it. The value of life and living and how greed of Gold Fever and what is really imporant in life is the story.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Black and red cartoon illustrations by Whitney Darrow, Jr. Library Edition with previous owner's stamp on front fly leaf. Dj with closed tear to rear panel.Otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, reprint, 1958, Hardcover, illustrated cloth covers, no dust jacket. Color and black & white illustrations by WarrenChappell. Rubbing to corners and spine. Light soiling to covers.

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 8th pr., 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial glossy boards, 61 pages illustrated in color by Quentin Blake. Who but Roald Dahl could think up such mouthwatering and deliciously disgusting foods as Lickable Wallpaper, Stink Bugs Eggs, and Eatable Pillows? Now there,s a practical guide to making these and other delicacies featured in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, and Dahl's other books, with easy, step-by-step recipes that range from the delectable to the truly revolting. Quentin Blake's illustrations combine with full-color photographs of the luscious results to perfectly capture Roald Dahl's wicked sense of fun.

Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston , 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping. Award sticker on the front of dust jacket. Color illustrations by Desmond Digby. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow & Co., 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by DyAnne DiSalvo-Ryan.