Vintage & Out-of-Print Children's Illustrated Books - pg. 39 including Meet My Staff by: Patricia Marx/Roz Chast

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1998, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Meet Walter.And better yet, turn the pages and --meet his staff. The Gum Guy, who archives his chewed-up gum. His Homework Helper who does...well, you know. A complete Dream Team, to do his sleeping for him...And thats only the beginning!This laugh-out-loud picture book is a dream come true for any kid who has ever wanted someone else to kiss Aunt Winnie or eat their lima beans. Author Patricia Marx and illustrator Roz Chast prove with hilarity that anyone can have the staff they need, if they have enough imagination. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Owings Mills, Stemmer House Publishers, Inc., 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 128 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated black and white woodprints and full color drawings. Clean unmarked text. Illustrated dust jacket with moderate edgewear, short closed tears. Unclipped.

Hardcover. NY, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Wonderful introduction to different styles of architecture. Illustrated in color by Devlin. Related notes & articles to various landmark houses laid-in. Dust jacket price clipped. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1st, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated cloth, illustrated in colors by Johnson. An attractive ex-lib copy of this story of a boy who requests advice from the animal kingdom as to what he should be when he grows up. Minor stamping and residue to endpapers. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by James. Book and dust jacket in excellent condition. n this free retelling of an old Scottish ballad, Jan, who is convinced her friend Tam is not dead but has only disappeared, follows the advice of a wise old woman and with the help of a red cloak releases him from capture by elves.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with short closed tears. Christmas story retold by the author/illustrator. Color illustrations throughout. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket with a small chunk gone from rear panel, unclipped. Harry, a little rabbit, does not know how to help his family prepare for winter but succeeds when he brings a summer song. An inspired picture book by an award winning author-artist. The charming, full-color art was produced from watercolor paintings. Unpaginated (approx. 28 pages).

Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Friso Henstra; a Russian folktale about a cow who's magical milk brings back youth to her owners; very good in a very good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1st, 1881, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial printed paper on the boards show some edge wear in the form of chipping and rubbing, 372 pages. Over 150 black & white engravings. Bottom front corner chipped, other wise a sound copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Childrens Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 48 pages. Illustrated in color and b&w by Phoebe Erickson.

Hardcover. NY, E P Dutton & Co., 1st US, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with 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. No dust jacket, Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Murdoch, an only mouse, learns to play croquet in this disarmingly sweet little picture-book tale with enchanting b&w pointillist drawings by D.H. ("a well-known artist who wishes to remain anonymous" reads the jacket flap.) Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. This is a pictorial memoir of Melisande, a most uncommon dog who becomes a famous opera singer. B&w cartoon illustrations by Roy McKie. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London/NY, F. Warne & Co., reprint, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 64 pages. Illustrated in color by Kate Greenaway. Boards are beige, with paste-down illustration on front. Edges are bright green. Price-clipped dust jacket is fresh and bright, with just a trace of soil. First published with the Greenaway illustrations in 1886. Small price sticker on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, short closed tears. B&w pictures by William Pene Du Bois. $8 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 137 pages. Drawings by Joan Berg Victor. Childrens book about a family of mice who move in and out of a summer home throughout the year as tenants move in and out. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NJ, Prentice-Hall, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 112 pages. Sepia-toned drawings by James Pearsall. In this intimate autobiography, a gorgeous Siamese feline pours her heart out to Douglass Parkhirst, who digs cat lingo purr-fectly. As the cat matures and goes out on her own, she describes her adventures in a bachelor's apartment, her jealous fits over one of her master's female admirers, her first encounter with a mouse, plus many other newsy tidbits that will delight sophisticated cat lovers. Clean copy.

Softcover. Keene, NH, J. A. Wright & Co., 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Full-color pictorial wrappers. Stapled binding. Thin, unpaginated pamphlet. Color illustrations by Vernon Grant, the artist who first designed Snap, Crackle and Pop for Kellogg's Rice Krispies. Tells the true story of a boy who saved a cow from a bog, and in doing so discovered a rare mineral ideal for cleaning silver.

NY , Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with black cloth spine. 40 pages illustrated in b&w and color by De Angeli. Light edgewear to boards, previous owner inscription inside front cover. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 2nd pr., 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Vigorously brings to life the story of a true folktale hero. Dramatic two-color drawings by Watson. 82 pages. Includes music & lyrics for Ballad of John Henry (at end of book). Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, reprint, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with illustrated yellow cloth. Vigorously brings to life the story of the western folktale hero. Dramatic two-color drawings by Watson. 177 pages. Only date is 1949 but titles listed in front were printed in 1950s so a reprint. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Garden City NY, Doubleday & Company,, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in worn dust jacket. First edition of Tony Palazzo's charmingly illustrated rendition of Aesop's Fables. 9 X 12 1/2" original illustrated boards, pictorial endpapers. Dust jacket with original price on flap ($2.50), chipped and short tears repaired on reverse. Clean, no marking.

Springfield, MA, Mcloughlin Bros., 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, large format 10x12", pictorial boards with a black cloth spine. The cloth has separated from the spine and the first signature is holding on by a thread or two, Except for this loose binding defect, the pages are clean and bright. No markings. A scarce title.

Hardcover. NY, George H. Doran, nd, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black boards stamped with gilt lettering, brown buckram spine with gilt lettering on spine badly faded. Pastedown illustrated on upper cover a couple on a horse. Endpapers design by Nielsen in black and gold ink. 24 tipped-in color plates by Nielson plus the color frontispiece along with b&w drawings throughout. The binding is fragile and the boards have edge wear and spotting, but the brilliant plates are all present. This volume is a mystery as it does not conform th other books described on various sites with yellow buckram covers with red lettering. No date anywhere.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth stamped in black with gilt title on front and spine. No date on title page but states Twenty-First Edition. 416 pages. An early printing of the second Uncle Remus book, illustrated with frontispiece and 19 plates by Frederick Church. While working for the Atlanta Constitution in 1876, Harris "invented Uncle Remus" He published Uncle Remus pieces regularly in the Constitution, and they were extremely popular. In 1880 he collected them into his first book. Remus was a composite of three elderly slaves he had known, the stories themselves were his retellings of old African American tales. He rigorously researched his material, often collecting several versions of the same story until he felt he had the most authentic one. Hinges cracked, but generally a bright, clean copy of this title.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally & Co, 1st, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth, pink, black and dark green pictorial design of crow on branch. Illustrated in color by Sanchi Ogawa. 80 pages, all with decorative borders, many with color illustrations. Shelf wear. front hinge partially cracked, sort tear to frontispiece at gutter, not affectin image. Otherwise clean, no markings.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Henry Altemus, 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 50 pages. Original white cloth over boards with gilt lettering, front cover decorative color illustration, color frontis. b&w plates. DJ moderately soiled w/ light chipping to edges. Scarce in DJ. Part of Altemus' beautiful stories series.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 2nd pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Color cartoon illustrations by Quentin Blake.

Hardcover. Akron OH, Saalfield Publishing, reprint, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth cover with pictorial design stamped in black and gilt. Color frontis plus b&w plates by Arthur DeBebian. Billy, our favorite goat, escapes from his comfortable farm home and causes absolute chaos in a travelling circus. Rescued by his master, he is then kidnapped and made to perform. Clean copy. Light shelf wear.

Hardcover. NY, Phaidon Press, reprint, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 32 pages illustrated in color by Ungerer. A reprint of the 1980 tale of an eight-legged hero who has twice as much courage and four times as many legs as most people - except, of course, other octopuses. When deep-sea diver Captain Samovar is attacked by a ferocious shark, Emile comes to his aid. Grateful to his rescuer, the Captain invites him to stay at his home, where Emile sleeps in a bathtub full of salt water. Emile turns out to be a fantastic octopus: he is a gifted musician (able to play three instruments simultaneously) and a great lifeguard, teaching children to swim and saving people from drowning. One day, Emile and the Captain, who works on a police launch, encounter a suspicious-looking boat in the ocean, with a dangerous group of smugglers on board... Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Lumos/Scholastic, reprint, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 160 pages. No dust jacket issued. The Tales of Beedle the Bard contains five richly imaginative stories of adventure, cunning, heartache, and, of course, magic. They are to the wizarding community what the tales of the Brothers Grimm are to Muggle families. This lush new illustrated edition has been translated from the ancient runes by Hermione Granger and is presented here with extensive commentary by Albus Dumbledore. And now Hans Christian Andersen Medalist Lisbeth Zwerger interprets these classic tales with beauty and tenderness (and wit), illuminating them for modern readers. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Barefoot Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 96 pages. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS on a tipped-in bookplate on the front fly leaf. Lovely color illustrations by Rebecca Guay. Let yourself be drawn into the magical world of the dance with this sumptuous anthology. Love, laughter, betrayal, adventure and tragedy intertwine to create stories that will reach deep into the heart and dreams of the reader. The story of "The Sleeping Beauty" will whisk you away to the thorny castle where Princess Aurora awaits her prince; the comedy and confusion of "Coppelia" will delight you, and the magical adventures of Clara in "The Nutcracker" will entrance you. Featuring a brief history of classical ballet, as well as historical details of each dance, composition, choreography and early performances, this book will captivate anyone with a love of this awe-inspiring art.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Barefoot Books, 3rd pr., 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Giovanni Manna. SIGNED BY MATTHEWS on a tipped-in bookplate on the front fly leaf. When young Tom of Warwick is sent away to a castle to learn about knighthood and chivalry, at first he finds the castle cold and unfriendly, but the action-packed stories of kindly Master William, the armorer, inspire Tom to work hard in the hope of one day becoming a real knight. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY/Tokyo, Weatherhill, 3rd pr., 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Delightful illustrations depict the imaginative and illogical world of a fantasy circus where the musicians' instruments are matchsticks and kitchenware, and fierce lions turn into wooden toys.

Hardcover. NY, Arthur A. Levine Books, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped ($29.99) dust jacket. B&w Illustrations by Mary GrandPre. Black half-cloth, purple boards with diamond embossed design, Year 6 printed at top of spine. First American edition, July 2005, printing line: ''10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 05 06 07 08 09 USA 23''. Error on page 100: ''eleven 'Outstanding' O.W.L.s.'', in later editions this was changed to ''ten'' O.W.L.'s'. Clean, collectible copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Candlewick Press, 1st thus, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. This ia a reprint of a 1954 book. Reformatted with color tints added to Peake's original b&w drawings. A game-like book where you can guess what the illustrations represent, answer key in rear. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Milwaukee, Bruce Publishing, 1st, 1956, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial boards. Color illustrations by Evans. Cardboard edges worn. The story of Mexican wood carver who creates a wooden Christ Child for the village church. Minor wear to spine.

Hardcover. NY, Joanna Cotler /HarperCollins, 5th pr., 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR on title page. Summary of the story: "A young worm discovers, day by day, that there are some very good and some not so good things about being a worm in this great big world". Clean copy.

Hardcover. Mankato MN, Creative Editions, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. In 1949, SPORT magazine published Lineup for Yesterday, a collection of poems by Ogden Nash celebrating the greatest big-league baseball players of the 1800s and early 1900s. Using an alphabetical approach, the famous wordsmith paid entertaining tribute to 24 legends of the diamond, encapsulating each in just 4 clever lines. Creative Editions is proud to present this masterpiece to a new generation of fans, reintroducing icons from the formative years of professional baseball. The masterful mixed-media illustrations of C. F. Payne portray these heroes of summer in their athletic primes in this, the first-ever picture book publication of Nash s classic. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Books of Wonder / HarperCollins Publishers, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 64 pages illustrated in color. Thirty favorite artists and writers celebrate one hundred years of Oz. Contributors include: Peter Glassman; Maurice Sendak; Janell Cannon; Tomie dePaola; Jerry Pinkney; Paul O. Zelinsky; Uri Shulevitz; Trina Schart Hyman; William Joyce; Richard Egielski; Diane Goode; Robin McKinley; Leo and Diane Dillon; Madeleine L'Engle; Mark Teague; Jules Feiffer; Ann M. Martin; Kinuko Y. Craft; Kay Chorao; Michael Foreman; Mark Beuhner; Natalie Babbitt; Peter Sis; Bruce Degen; Chris Van Allsburg; Michael Hague; Troy Howell; Richard Jesse Watson; Lloyd Alexander; Eric Carle. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Englewood Cliffs NJ, Prentice-Hall, 6th pr., 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth cover with gilt design, mild wear at corners. Lacks dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Miller. Green endpapers. Clean, bight copy, no markings.

Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. This is the story of one of the last remaining phone booths in New York City, the Phone Booth on the corner of West End Avenue and 100th Street. Everyone used it from ballerinas and girl scouts, zookeepers and birthday clowns, to cellists and even secret agents! The Phone Booth was so beloved that people would sometimes wait in line to use it. Kept clean and polished, the Phone Booth was proud and happy...until the day a businessman strode by and shouted into a shiny silver object, "I'll be there in ten minutes!" Soon everyone was talking into these shiny silver things, and the Phone Booth stood alone and empty, unused and dejected. Clean copy

Hardcover. NY, Flying Dolphin Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The acclaimed entertainer and bestselling author Steve Martin and the wildly clever New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast team up in a weird, wonderful excursion through the alphabet. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Garden City Publishing, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, pictorial boards in a edgeworn dust jacket, unclipped (1.00). Notable for the illustrations by Ralston Crawford. Ralston Crawford (1906-1978) was an American abstract painter, lithographer, and photographer. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Bodley Head, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Wonderful watercolor illustrations by Cox tell the story of a Balinese girl performing her first Legong dance. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Penguin Publishing, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. Illustrated in full color by David Cox. No dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong glossy boards. Color illustrations by Chwast. Bright, clean copy of a surprisingly uncommon first edition (stated). This unique format features a horizontal walk through the country. Flip the book over, and you find a vertical walk through the city. Short on words, but great on style. No dust jacket issued.

Hardcover. London, Andre Deutsch, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong glossy boards. Lovely Thurber-sque drawings by the author.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue-gray cloth with embossed design of hippo on cover, no dust jacket. Illustrated in color and b&w by Duvoisin. The friendship between Candy, a small kitten and Veronica, a huge hippopotamus, causes a series of merry antics on the Pumpkin and Applegreen farms. H stamp on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Callaway Editions, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Long, long ago, in a land far, far away, a little boy named Abdi was given a very big task -- to deliver the most precious necklace in the world to the queen. Color illustrations by Olga and Andrei Dugina.