Hardcover. San Diego, Gulliver Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Laura Forman. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 44 pages. Color illustrations by Don Freeman. Green cloth with black monkey on cover, spine lettering in pink and black. Minor corner wear.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Worth's poems take us from the first excitements of early December through the wistful farewells of Twelfth Night. Illus. by Caldecott winner Frasconi. Glorious woodcuts in bright colors enhance the poetry's spirit of festivity & wonder.
Hardcover. Grand Rapids MI, Eerdmans, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A brief collection of seasonal poems for young readers based on the author's experiences living in Lancaster County, PA. Beautifully illustrated in color by Bill Farnsworth.
Hardcover. Flagstaff, AZ, Northland Publishing, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Bill Farnsworth. In a Native American buffalo jump, a hunter lures a herd of buffalo to follow him, rouses them to a stampede pace (he's on foot, by the way) and jumps off a cliff: while he drops safely onto a narrow ledge in the cliff wall, the buffalo plummet over his head to their deaths below. Here, a Blackfoot boy named Little Blaze wishes to lead the buffalo jump, an act of bravery that would earn him his adult name. When his older brother is chosen instead, Little Blaze is resentful, but the brother trips and Little Blaze dashes to the rescue. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 3rd, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by the author. Hardcover with dust jacket. non-paginated. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Peter M. Fiore. In new condition.
Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Fourteen gods and goddesses of the ancient Norse legends are examined in detail, including their accomplishments, their parentage, their deeds, and their powers and strengths. Color illustrations by Leonard Everett Fisher. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Brace, 1st US, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Michael Foreman. Light edgewear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Dial Books, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Little Bear, whose family performs in the Papagini Circus, longs to take part, and one night, through a series of accidents, he becomes featured in a way he never imagined. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Cleveland/NY, World Publishing Co., 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, red cloth covers with eagle logo on front cover, 319 pages, spectacular color illustrations by James Daugherty "The Rainbow Book of American History" is a storybook, written in a narrative format with the author telling his children the story of our country. The book covers the time period from Leif Erickson to the dropping of the atomic bomb of World War II. To enhance the text James Daughtery has created memorable illustrations which are gorgeous and enhance the text. Dust jacket has light chipping to edges, otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, 2nd pr., 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Scott Cook. Nettie Jo is eagerly anticipating her cousin's wedding until she is told that her beloved doll and constant companion, Annie Mae, is too "scraggly-looking" to go. Nettie Jo's mother manages to find a scrap of leftover lace to make a new dress for the doll, but no one in the busy family has a spare sewing needle. Determined to go to the wedding and to take her doll, Nettie Jo sets out in search of a needle. Dust jacket with small repaired tear to rear.
Hardcover. NY, Hyperion Books, Book Cub Ed., 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Showing compassion for one's neighbor brings bountiful reward in this original tale based on Guatemalan folklore. Gently imparts a timeless message.--Publishers Weekly. Illustrated in bright, crisp colors of Hispanic folk art by Czernecki.
Hardcover. NY, Harlin Quist, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Oblong hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Twenty-eight striking color illustrations by sixteen different artists evoke a children's perspective and complement each free verse poem by Cullum. Each poem in this collection expresses a different inner thought and feeling of children in real situations. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, St Martins Press, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Peter Barrett. Gyp, a cheerful but always silent sheep dog, startles everyone with uncharacteristic behavior during the championship sheep dog trials. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Scarsdale NY, Bradbury Press, 2nd pr., 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Paul Goble. Two young Sioux join in a raiding party to capture horses from some neighboring Crows. Front endpapers with stamp inside front cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Lothrop Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ann Grifalconi. Jasmine helps her mother prepare to sell fish and sugar cakes at their parlour, or market stand, on market day on the island of Trinidad. Review slip laid in.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Glossy boards, illustrated in color and b&w by Gertrude Elliott Espenscheid. Copyright page states 1955 but ISBN tells us it's a probable 1970s reprint. Owner's signature on iside front cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, McElderry Books, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Erik Blegvad. Little Sister, a tiny girl who grows from an apple seed, helps her brother get home safely each time he strays on an errand in the wide world. Small paper scar to rear panel of dust jacket.
Softcover. NY, Children's Universe, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A package that contains scored heavy paper for constructing blockhead characters. Cardboard covers. These are the blockheads, a wacky crew that includes a pirate, clown, space cadet, cowpoke, baseball player, and lifeguard. This punch-out activity book is in As New condition, complete, unused, and never opened. It contains six heads on figures that you assemble yourself.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset and Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in red, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A nice reprint of a book first published in 1914. The story of Virgie Cary who helped rescue her father who was captured by the Yankee troops in the Civil War. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth covers stamped in blue. Illustrated with 12 color plates, b&w drawings by Bonnibel Butler. Previous owner's signature on front paste-down, otherwise bright and clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Gerrard. In this rowdy adventure, the narrator and her parents and neighbors embark on a wild journey on the Oregon Trail, hoping to find rich green land out West. These hardy pioneers and their trusty leader, Buckskin Dan, fight off outlaws near Fort Laramie, rescue a lost Indian boy, and raft down the rocky Columbia River, eventually starting new lives in the fertile Willamette Valley. Readers young and old will relish Roy Gerrard's rollicking verse and distinctive illustrative style.
Hardcover. Boston, David Godine, 1st thus, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 42 pages. Cloth with giltdesign printed on front; dust jacket. Color plates by George Gershinowitz. "Her sister's love saves Laura from the poison of the fruit she bought from the goblins in the haunted glen." Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glossy boards, illustrated in 2-colors by Mordicai Gerstein. When the words Werewolf Power mysteriously appear on the school blackboard, all the children are frightened. Only days before Halloween there are terrifying screams and haunting sounds surrounding the classroom. Jill and Gwen know there's something queer happening. This is their spookiest case ever. What will the detectives discover? Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Illustrated with b&w drawings by Lillian Hoban. A young girl describes her adventures with her unusual friend, Lily Boop, who keeps a pet slug and eats raw eggs for lunch. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Joanna Cotler Books, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Small leash marker. Felted illustration on a page, fold out dog's tail. etc. Illustrations by Spiegelman.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston Co., 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth stamped in brown. Sperry's 1936 novel offers a different take on the "settlers going West" story by presenting it through the eyes of 15-year-old Jonathan Starbuck, who leaves Missouri with a wagon train heading to the west. 276 pages. llustrated by the author with b&w line drawings, and with endpapers in color. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, reprint, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket with half the spine missing. Illustrated in color and b&w by the Haders.
Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston , 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Michael Hague. 162 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A collection of tales including "The Snow Queen," "The Little Mermaid," "The Little Match girl," "Thumbelina," "The Elfin Hill," "Little Ida's Flower," "The Ugly Duckling," "The Wild Swans," and "The Emperor's New Clothes."
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards. Filled with dragon lore, this oversized pop-up fantasy book explores the mystical and frightening worlds of the Chinese Dragon, the Amphiptere, the Lindworm, the dreaded Wyvern, and the famous Dragon of Saint George. Paper engineering by Keith Moseley.
Softcover. La Jolla CA, Green Tiger Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, has very little wear. The title on the title page is: The History of Photogen and Nycteris (A Day and Night Marchen). Illustrated wit h b & w drawings and 15 tipped-in color plates by Lyn Teeple. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, clothbacked pictorial boards with map endpapers, color and b&w illustrations by Tousey. Val lived at Robidoux Landing, on the Missouri River, when his family joined a wagon train to Astoria.
Hardcover. NY, Hyperion , 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 192 pages illustrated in color by Loretta Krupinski. Collects fifty-six poems and stories by the author of Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny and includes entries arranged under such themes as Love and Friendship, Bedtime, For a Rainy Day, and Nonsense.
Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated throughout with De Mejo's fantastical primitive color paintings. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Morrow Junior Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Diane de Groat. Nice condition: clean and new-looking.
Hardcover. NY, Four Winds Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Bruce Degen.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, reprint, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 192 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated by Marguerite de Angeli in color and black & white. Dust jacket worn with small chunks missing at top and bottom of spine, and corners.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Three-color pictures by Whitney Darrow, Jr. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Pantheon Books, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 43 pages. Black & white pictures by Whitney Darrow, Jr. An "I Am Reading" book. Library binding. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Colorado Springs, Chariot Victor, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Greg Dearth.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, unclipped. Yorinks' and Egielski's 1st book together. Black & white illustrations by Egielski. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Viking, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Stasys Eidrigevicius.
Hardcover. Joliet, P. F. Volland, 11th Ed., 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial boards. Color illustrations by Herman Rosse, paper chips to cardboard covers, minor foxing to first few pages. Previous owner's name on copyright page.
Hardcover. Joliet, P.F. Volland Company , 4th Ed., 1927, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 94 pages. Illustrated in color by Marie Honre Myers. Illustrated endpapers.
Hardcover. Joliet, P. F. Volland, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial boards. Color illustrations by Herman Rosse, paper chips to cardboard covers, minor foxing to first few pages. Previous owner's name in pencil on copyright page.
Hardcover. NY, Frederick Warne, 1st, 2009, Pictorial boards, 16 pages with 8 interactive spreads, all using Barker's art from her Flower Fairies series. What happens when a little girl moves into a new house and discovers a tiny door? One day she manages to open it . . . and her world is forever changed when she gets her fi rst peek at the homes and the magical world of the Flower Fairies. As she starts to explore her neighborhood with a friend, they discover that there are more doors--all leading to the most secret of fairy places. Filled with gorgeous paper ephemera, pop-ups and special interactive features on every spread, this beautiful novelty book leads the reader to eight fairy doors to open and investigate. Each door has its own individual shape, color and characteristics-- some are decorated, others have little signs or notices, a set of footprints leading up to it, or magical fairy glitter at the doorstep. As the book progresses, more of the fairies and their world are revealed, culminating in an exciting and secret fairy nighttime ball.
Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st US, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, no dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout by Reg Cartwright. A man who wants to live forever manages to hold out for several hundred years, but Death eventually tricks him into going away with him. Clean.
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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.
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