Vintage & Out-of-Print Children's Illustrated Books

Hardcover. Kenosha, WI, John Martin House , 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None , Color illustrations by Kippy. A twin book. Plastic spiral-bound. Heavy paper covers. Minor wear to edges.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. 'An I CAN READ BOOK'. Features full color illustrations by Mamoru Funai. Stated first edition. Price clipped dust jacket shows light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Eau Claire WI, Cadmus/ E. M. Hale, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial cloth binding, 48 pages. Wonderful period illustrations by Keith Ward of everyday workers, many doing jobs that don't exist anymore: Gas station attendants, elevator operators, conductors, crossing guards, etc. Pictires in b&w and 3-colors. Originally published in 1942 by Rand McNally, this undated but probably late 40s, early 50s. Clean. No dust jacket.

Birmingham AL, Crane Hill, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ernie Eldredge. Dust jacket with light edgewear.In this fantasy tale Billy Bobbity banishes his brother from their messy room but soon regrets his action and begins the search for the missing Henry. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead & Co, 1st, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Paul Brown. Fading to spine. Previous owners stamp on half title page. Foxing to spine. Foxing to front and back cover and end papers. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light yellow cloth stamped in blue. A humorous look at life from a baby's/toddler's point of view. Part of The Boston Children's Medical Center's Publications for Parents series. Illustrated throughout in two-colors with Marc Simont's humorous drawings. Clean, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR on title page. Clean, tight hardcover. In the summer of 1851, the clipper Flying Cloud made the journey from New York City to San Francisco in a record-breaking 89 days and 21 hours despite several setbacks and dangers along the way. Much of the credit for that voyage goes to Ellen Prentiss Creesy, the ship's navigator. Based on the true story of that voyage, this book expertly describes Prentiss's early life, her love for the sea and the science of navigation, her marriage to Captain Perkins Creesy, and their remarkable accomplishment. Readers will find this fictionalized account gripping and inspiring. McCully's excellent watercolor illustrations include a number of period details and add a sense of movement and drama to the already exciting text. An author's note gives the factual background for the story, and a brief glossary serves to familiarize readers with nautical terms.

Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, Reprint, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Previous owners inscription in pencil opposite half title page. Full color and black & white illustrations by Masha. Dust jacket with chipping along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover.

Hardcover. Joliet, P.F. Volland Company, 2nd Ed., 1927, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, color pictorial boards, 40 pages illustrated throughout in color by Ilona de Karekjarto. Part of Volland's Sunny Book Series. Some minor chipping to covers along spine, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York , North-South, 2nd pr., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 30 pages illustrated in color by Zwerger. SIGNED by Zwerger on title page.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st thus, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Richard C. Jones. Introduction by Jan Morris. Afterword By Samuel J. Rogal.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt & Company, 1st thus, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, color illustrations by Jonathan Allen. A new edition of the nineteenth-century classic contains the original text and full-color illustrations, all in a individually slipcased volume. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Meet the Dullards is a clever and irreverent picture book about a comically boring family, from bestselling author Sara Pennypacker and illustrator Daniel Salmieri. Their home is boring. Their food is plain. Their lives are monotonous. And Mr. and Mrs. Dullard like it that way.But their children--Blanda, Borely, and Little Dud--have other ideas. . . .Never has dullness been so hilarious than in this deadpan, subversive tale.

New York, Dial Books for Young Readers, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, unpaginated, color illustrations by Jerry Pinkney, sticker residue at top right front of dust jacket, very clean, tight copy, like new.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, reprint, 1881, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped with a maroon and gilt design on cover and spine. Tales and studies of outdoor life, hunting, fishing, living in the wilderness, etc. Profusely illustrated with wonderful engravings by the Harper stable of artists: Shepard, W.A. Rogers, Rinehart, Abbey, others. No date on title page so assumed an early reprint. No markings but the rear cover is badly scuffed, light corner wear to corners. Rear endpapers soiled. The interior of the book is tight and clean.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 65 pages. SIGNED BY HILARY KNIGHT on front fly leaf. Extensive color illustrations throughout. Includes scrapbook of photographs and drawings by Knight. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Hart Publishing Company, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 24 pages. Illustrations by Madeline Hall. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor fading on dust jacket spine.

Hardcover. Somerville MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy boards, 56 pages, illustrated in color by David Roberts. A tyrannical teacher gets her just due in a delightfully subversive, outrageously funny tale by Newbery Medal winner Paul Fleischman. Miss Breakbone hates kids. Especially the time-squandering, mindwandering, doodling, dozing dunderheads in her class. But when she confiscates Junkyard's crucial find, she finally goes too far. Enter Wheels (and his souped-up bike with forty-eight extra gears), Pencil (who can draw anything from memory), Spider (look up and you'll find him), and their fellow misfits in a spectacular display of teamwork aimed at teaching Miss Breakbone a lesson she won't soon forget. Roberts' drawings are hilariously appropriate. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover picture book, pictorial laminated boards. The Biblical creation story, retold and illustrated in color by Baynes. Clean.

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 2004, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, SIGNED BY PETER MCCARTY WITH ILLUSTRATED SKETCH ON TITLE PAGE. Acetate-protected dust jacket, gorgeous full page color illustrations. No sign of wear, dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in excellent condition.

Softcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 5th pr., 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Large softcover with pictorial wrappers. 26 full-page woodcuts by Mary Azarian. a beautiful clean, tight children's book in great condition. SIGNED BY AZARIAN on the title page.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, color illustrations by C.F. Payne, SIGNED by author. This inspirational picture book is based on the true story of Shoeless Joe Jackson and his bat, two of the greatest players in baseball history. Some say Shoeless Joe Jackson was the greatest hitter ever. But Shoeless Joe had a partner: his bat, Black Betsy. And if not for the faithful Black Betsy, Joe might never even have made it to the major leagues. Clean copy

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Yellow cloth covers, green dust jacket with color illustration, dust jacket acetate-protected, beautiful large full-color illustrations by Watson. Light chipping to front top edge of dust jacket, price-clipped, pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a lovely children's book in great condition.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, edgeworn dust jacket with $4.50 flap price, 0966 code on bottom of front flap. White cloth, gilt decorations border/front cover. 90 pages. A collection of short works from the from the winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize in Literature. Includes illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Small hole to spine of dust jacket, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Lee & Low Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated throughout in color by Ted Lewin. SIGNED BY BOTH author and illustrator. Describes the Mongolian terrain, people, culture, and day-to-day activities while focusing on Naadam, the annual summer festival.

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, reprint, n.d. (2002), Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR SENDAK ON TITLE PAGE. Dust jacket and covers completely illustrated, lovely full page tri-tone illustrations by Sendak. Extremely slight wear to dust jacket, dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in excellent condition.

Hardcover. Washington DC, Review and Herald , 1st, 1958, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 56 pages illustrated in color by the author. Ex-library with light residue, small stickers. When Chipmunk Willie wakes up from a long winter nap, he is eager to explore the world around him. He finds plenty of excitement when he hunts for food and takes care of his family. There's a surprise around every corner as he runs into an old tomcat, a sharp-eyed hawk, a weasel, and a snake. Join Willie as he scurries from adventure to adventure!

Softcover. New York , W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, SIGNED BY SMALL on half-title page. David Small, a best-selling and highly regarded children's book illustrator, comes forward with this unflinching graphic memoir. Remarkable and intensely dramatic, Stitches tells the story of a fourteen-year-old boy who awakes one day from a supposedly harmless operation to discover that he has been transformed into a virtual mute-a vocal cord removed, his throat slashed and stitched together like a bloody boot. From horror to hope, Small proceeds to graphically portray an almost unbelievable descent into adolescent hell and the difficult road to physical, emotional, and artistic recovery.

Hardcover. New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Cardboard covers, illustrated endpaper. One-color illustrations by Walton Brashears. Some edgewear and soiling to covers.

Hardcover. NY, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth. Illustrated in 3-colors by Harry Devlin. Gazing at the huge old oak tree next to his house, a boy speculates on what a great tree hoouse could be built there. Clean copy.

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. New York, Alfred A Knopf, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Illustrations by Bill Crawford, minor corner and edge wear and rub, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow & Co, 1st US, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 32 pages illustrated in color by the author. Translated from the German by Elizabeth Crawford. A man acquires a hat that grants his every wish. 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. New York, Chanticleer Press Inc., reprint, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 288 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. With drawings throughout by Mervyn Peake. Moderate fading and edgewear to dust jacket. Slight chipping to dust jacket spine. Light soiling to dust jacket. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Hardcover. Edinburgh, Floris Books, reprint, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with a red cloth spine. Emily wants to help her mama by watching Daisy the cow so she doesn't escape out the hole in her fence. On the way to the meadow, Emily meets a big dog, a boastful boy and an old man. But who will help Emily when she needs it? This is a delightful springtime story for young children about kindness and helping others from the world-renowned Swedish author--illustrator Elsa Beskow.

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. Kennebunkport ME, Applesauce Press, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Chwast, the artist and co-founder of the infamous Pushpin Studios, had an enormous influence on design and illustration everywhere. Now, he brings his unique perspective and spontaneity to the letters of the alphabet. With vibrant color and amusing scenarios, this creative book will capture the interests of children and adults of all ages as readers find the letter hidden in each scene. Clean copy.

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, Hurst & Company, reprint, 1914, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth with color label on front cover, Unpaginated, with a page decorated in color for each letter of the alphabet.

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, Henry Holt, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 40 pages illustrated in b&w by Andrew Glass. INSCRIBED BY HESSE on the title page. Codie is secretly sewing a blanket for her favorite aunt Alix's new baby. Will the blanket be "fully done" by the time the baby is "fully done"? Clean copy.

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. Chicago, Follett Publishing, 6th pr., 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 30 pages illustrated in color by Dagmar Wilson. Beginning to Read Series. Light school stamp to prelim page, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Dover Publications, reprint, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 48 pages illustrated in color by Gorey. A new approach to the ancient fables of Aesop features charming rhymes and winsome images by a beloved illustrator. Artist Edward Gorey sets the scenes for poet Ennis Rees's modern interpretation of Aesop's verses, which recount how animals with all-too-human failings receive their just desserts. Memorable renderings of familiar and lesser-known vignettes include the fable of the industrious ant, who prepares for the hardships of the coming winter, and the feckless grasshopper, whose laziness proves fatal. A mighty lion is amused at the notion of a tiny mouse coming to his rescue, a naive young crustacean admires the bright red shell of a boiled lobster, and a swarm of flies are undone by their attraction to a pool of spilled honey. These and other timeless tales provide humorous insights into the folly of greed and vanity and the rewards of virtuous behavior. Originally published in 1971 by Young Scott.

Hardcover. New York, Katherine Tegen Books, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR ON TITLE PAGE. Otherwise, clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, reprint, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 32 pages illustrated in color by Eleanor Corwin. Light edgewear to cover edges.

Hardcover. New York, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY PINKNEY ON TITLE PAGE. 40 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Full page color illustrations by Jerry Pinkney. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, E P Dutton & Co., 1st US, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with a bright dust jacket with matching pictorial boards, Illustrated in color by Derrick Sayer. First American edition. Delightfully witty and utterly absorbing tales about Nichols' three cats, Four, Five, and Oscar. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Somerville, MA, Candlewick Press, 1st US, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy with color illustrations by author throughout.