Hardcover. NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by author. Alice tells her mother about her special room, where she can play with her cat who died, enjoy the warm beach in January, go sledding on a hot summer day, and do anything she has already done in the past.
Hardcover. NY, Platt & Munk, reprint, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bound in green cloth with full color paste-down on front cover. 10" x 12", former owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise unmarked. Vivid color illustrations throughout along with b&w drawings by Eulalie, Lois Lenski and others.. Contains nine traditional stories: Little Red Riding Hood, The Story of Peter Pan, Dick Whittington and His Cat, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, The Three Bears, Puss in Boots, Tom Thumb and Jack and the Beanstalk.
Hardcover. Sandusky OH, The American Crayon Company, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 61 pages. A child's book on Elsie the Cow, the centerpiece of Borden's milk commercial advertising during the 1940s, 50s and 60s. Two-color illustrations throughout by Walter Early. Edgewear, mild chipping to cardboard covers, name inside front cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Bright color illustrations by Lilo Fromm. Winner of the German Children's Book Prize in 1967. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY KAUFMAN on front endpaper. 32 pages illustrated in color by Kaufman and inscribed by him with a large b&w drawing on front fly leaf. Nothing seems to be going right for poor Farmer Foster, who has lost everything he has except for a strange rock that suddenly develops a crack from which milk keeps bubbling.
Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 32 pages illustrated in color by Kaufman and inscribed by him with a large b&w drawing covering the front endpapers.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st US, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with gray cloth spine. Rojan (Rojankovsky) illustrations in color and black and white. A baby rabbit's experience. Delicate landscapes of woodland and meadow, some labeled diagrams, black and white lithos in text. Corners bumped, worn.
Softcover. Paris, DIANE SELLIERS, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover, in a pictorial dust wrapper, 395 pages. Color illustrations by Pat Andrea give a whole new surrealistic look to the classic tales. FRENCH TEXT.
Hardcover. NY, Universe Publishing, reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. First published in 1946, Munro Leaf's How To Behave And Why gives touchingly sincere yet gently funny lessons in Honesty, Fairness, Strength, and Wisdom. Originally intended for the very young, but with meaning for us all, How To Behave and Why is a true classic, charmingly illustrated with childlike drawings, and with a timeless message. It is a sure guide for teaching children (and adults) how to behave.
Hardcover. Stockholm, Albert Bonniers, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong pictorial boards with green cloth spine. Beautiful color plates by Beskow. SWEDISH TEXT. Small sticker on inside front cover, otherwise a clean copy.
Hardcover. Stockholm, Albert Bonniers, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong pictorial boards with green cloth spine. Beautiful color plates by Beskow. SWEDISH TEXT. Small sticker on inside front cover, otherwise a clean copy.
Hardcover. Stockholm, Albert Bonniers, reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong pictorial boards with green cloth spine. Beautiful color plates by Beskow. SWEDISH TEXT. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Dial Books, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Gregory Manchess. In a risky plan to free her kidnapped lover, Oonagh cleverly solves the evil pirate king's riddles, unites the princess Ethne with her lover, and invents sails. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by author. When a young boy decides to challenge the popular old saying about stepping on cracks in the sidewalk, he comes to find out that it is a valid warning as a number of weird and strange things suddenly begin to happen in his life. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Illustrated in 2-colors by the author. An ABC book with funny names from Annabelle to Zephyr. Inside pages clean and tight. Overall in very good condition 24 pgs. Alphabet blocks on the left hand side of page spell out the children and animals name used in the story that is told and Illustrated on the right side. Clean, unsigned bookplate on inside front cover.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Watercolor illustrations by Ted Lewin. A red-tailed hawk teaches Matthew to open his senses to the natural world in a special meadow cleared by Matthew's grandmother so she could have a place in the forest where a she could see the sky. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Megan Lloyd. In 1841 in Pennsylvania, Pippin Biddle, determined to get his three orphaned sisters out of the poorhouse, tries to earn a living as an itinerant painter, but he returns empty handed, only to find that he is not the only one in the family with artistic talents. Clean copy.
NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Four traditional Irish tales are woven throughout this touching story of Donal O'Donnell, who has kept his heart closely guarded since the death of his son, as he is unexpectedly captivated by the stories of three peddlers, which are filled with hope, healing, and magic. Color illustrations by Loren Long.
Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally & Company, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering and color pastedown illustration. B&w drawings and 10 full-page color illustrations by James McCracken. NOTE: 8 of the first smaller drawings have been colored in crayon. Front endpapers with library stamp, otherwise clean. Appears to be a 1925 reprint of the 1918 edition.
Hardcover. Menlo Park CA, Lane Book Co.,, 1st, 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 64 pages. Contains black & white photography by Martin Litton and Frances Coleberd. A Sunset Junior Book. Tim and Maria Black live at Oak Valley Ranch, where their days pass in a gay mixture of fun and work. They go on hayrides, search for wildflowers, and at one point in the story Maria gets lost! Buck, a blacksmith, comes to work at Oak Valley. Buck discovers there is a great deal to learn from the children about the ranch. In return, he explains his trade to them and helps them care for their horses. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping. Some tape residue to covers and dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price=clipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Kilmeny & Deborah Niland. The dream of a lowly store clerk in Sydney comes true when a huge balloon arrives from France to promote an advertising campaign, but without a balloonist. Clean copy.
Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. Covers and dust jacket illustrated in color, gorgeous full page color illustrations by Nascimbene. Very slight rubbing to dust jacket, spine stiff and tight, covers and pages clean, unmarked and crisp; a beautiful children's book in excellent condition. Two children, separated by great distances both of miles and of social class, grow up dreaming each other's dreams. By incredible chance they meet not just once, but twice, and live happily ever after.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Catharine O'Neill. A zany tale about a woman trying to knit a sweater surrounded by meddlesome pets. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Charlottesville VA, Thomasson-Grant, Inc., 1st thus, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, unpaginated, color illustrations by the author, clean, tight copy. A much-loved Danish illustrator, a 1972 Andersen medalist, takes up a problem that seems to be world-wide: kids who feel abandoned by their busy parents. Caroline, realistically pictured in the book's first half during a typical lonely day, wakes up next morning to transcribe a dream: the children band together to build a parent trap that's baited with films, videos, and free popcorn--once caught, an adult would ``never run away'' but, rather, be available for companionship and solace. In the end, Caroline's friends admire her story and do help build a playhouse-trap--with the happy implication that some adults may get the point.
Hardcover. NY, Margaret K. McElderry, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by John O'Brien. A collection of limericks about Uncle Switch, an eccentric who does everything topsy-turvy. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Buffalo NY, Annick Press, 1st US, 1994, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, laminated pictorial boards. No dust jacket. Color illustrations by Bernard Oberdieck. No dust jacket. A rare white owl who has always lived in a cage in a travelling circus is bought by the gardener at a nearby castle, who lets her out of her cage in the attic to scare the mice. When the opportunity for escape presents itself, the owl hesitates. Freedom means taking responsibility and risks. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Lothrop Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ormerod. Touring the zoo, two children pet, ride, and observe a variety of animals. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with mild edgewear. A story in the best Norse fairy-tale tradition, in which the youngest of three brothers rescues the others,with fiddle. Illustrated in color by award-winning Swedish author/artist Nygren. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Barrons, 1st thus, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color reproductions of Edmund Morin's 19th century Illustrations, very clean and tight copy. One of Perrault's most haunting fairy tales. Here, Josephine Poole's evocative new text accompanies the exquisite artwork of nineteenth-century French artist Edmund Morin, to make a captivating picture book for all ages. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st US, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Vivid color illustrations by author throughout. A little boy who is not ready for bedtime runs to hide in a magic castle and finds some unusual friends there. Clean copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Three-color illustrations by Myers. Sally and her father are inventors. They build their inventions out of scraps and old parts they find in junkyards. Dad mistakenly turns into a giant chicken. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 4th pr., 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Illustrated in b&w by Geoffrey Moss. 47 pages. K-13, the best spy in the secret service, must retrieve the deadly Crumble-Bomb from the world's greediest man who is holding it for ransom. Library Ed.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover on a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by McDermott. SIGNED BY McDERMOTT with a sketch on front fly leaf. Zomo the rabbit, a trickster from West Africa, wants wisdom. But he must accomplish three apparently impossible tasks before Sky God will give him what he wants. Is he clever enough to do as Sky God asks? "The tale moves along with the swift concision of a good joke, right down to its satisfying punch line."--Publishers Weekly "Wildly exuberant, full of slapstick and mischief, this version of an enduring Nigerian trickster tale, featuring a clever rabbit, is a storyteller's delight."--Booklist
New York, Clarion Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket., 32 pages, illustrations by Emily Arnold McCully, very clean, tight copy, like new. From skiing in January, to surfing in July, to giving in December, two energetic piglets romp through the months of the year in this delightful calendar in verse.
Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Nola Langner Malone. I want them. I need them. I love them. Beautiful earrings. Glorious earrings. What will a young girl do to get her ears pierced? Will she walk the dog for a year? YES! Will she clean her room every day for a year? YES! Will she be nice to her brother for a year? YES! Well, maybe for six months. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket with the 295/295 flap price (2nd state). 1955 stated on copyright page and the list of books on rear cover and rear dj from Horton Hears a Who to And to Think I Saw it on Mulberry Street. Binding and hinges are strong. Illustrated endpapers are clean, no marking. Several small tape repairs to verso of dj. If you think the alphabet stops with Z, you are wrong. So wrong. Leave it to Conrad Cornelius o'Donald o'Dell (with a little help from Dr. Seuss) to create an entirely new alphabet continuing from Z! This rhyming picture book introduces twenty new letters and the creatures that one can spell with them. This book was recently withdrawn from publication by the steward of Geisel's literary legacy, Dr. Seuss Enterprises, due to certain stereotypes featured in one of the images in the book. One of six now-banned Dr. Seuss titles, this one for its portrayal of The "Nazzim of Bazzim" a human of apparent Middle-Eastern origin, mounted upon a Camelid Dromedary called a Spazzim.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly edgeworn dust jacket with the 295/295 flap price. 1959 stated on copyright page and 'Yertle the Turtle' and 'The Cat in the Hat Comes Back' are printed last on the dual lists on the back dust jacket flap. No markings.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, reprint, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in laminated boards with illustrations on both the front and rear boards and not the Guild edition with only an illustration to the front cover. The first printing had blue covers, they were changed to red for later printings. " Assumed second or 3rd printing with rear cover illustration. In this Caldecott Honor-winning picture book, join Bartholomew Cubbins in Dr. Seuss's classic tale of one king's magical mishap. Bored with rain, sun, fog, and snow, King Derwin of Didd summons his royal magicians to create something new and exciting to fall from the sky. What he gets is a storm of sticky green globs called Oobleck, which soon causes a royal mess. But with the assistance of the wise page boy Bartholomew, the king (along with young readers) learns that the simplest words can sometimes solve the biggest problems." Clean, no markings. Light wear to corners and top of spine.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Red illustrated boards, no dust jacket, lovely full page color illustrations. Pages crisp, clean and unmarked. Early printing, mid-50s, 16 titles on rear cover starting with Yertle the Turtle. This is the tall 12x9 retail edition; not the smaller book club edition. Copyright page has the Redbook reference that was removed in the bookclub editions. This copy has the original illustration of 2 Seuss characters with a black complexion from the fictional African island of Yerka; which has since become objectionable; also stereotypical drawings of Asian characters. The top 2 inches of the cardboard spine is missing. Binding sound. One of the six discontinued Seuss titles.
Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow , 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket with light edgewear. Thirty full-color reproductions of paintings by a world-famous artist provide the basis for an allegory of love involving the quest of the white tiger for the tigress of his dreams. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Browndeer Press/Harcourt, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards. No dust jacket. Color illustrations by Emily Arnold McCully. Monsieur Lapin and Monsieur Blanc own the Spinach Main, a restaurant in the south of France famous for its fresh vegetables and excellent cuisine. Business is good until the day Monsieur Reynard, the fox, walks in. "Such tasty patrons--I mean portions," he says. "I plan to eat here often." The restaurant empties. What can Monsieur Lapin and Monsieur Blanc do? They have given up their pirate ways and are now rabbits of peace, but the fox is not easily discouraged. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, reprint, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn and chipped dust jacket with 2.95 price on flap, blue cloth covers stamped in black with title and moose face on front. 40 pages illustrated in 3-colors by Seuss. Later issue, with the 7-line copyright notice. The story of a moose who was too hospitable for his own good told in humorous verse.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ron Parker. A look at the bears of Tennessee's Smoky Mountains depicts them foraging for nuts and berries, readying a den for hibernation, and waking and sleeping with the rising and falling temperature during the long winter.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Michael Paraskevas. The mother (Author) and son (Artist) team present another adventure in the life of the poor little rich boy.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Michael Paraskevas. In triumph and disaster, Junior Kroll has a comical way of altering the course of events. He plays in a kazoo quartet, frees the dinner party lobsters, steals one neighbor's roses as a present for another, and decorates Grandfather's birthday cake with "little chocolate flies." Michael Paraskevas's zany illustrations bring these offbeat, bittersweet poems to life.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, reprint, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed pictorial covers, 314 pages illustrated in color by the Berestains. Six Berenstain Beginner Books in one volume: Bears in the Night, The Bears' Vacation, The Bears' Picnic, The Spooky Old Tree, The Bike Lesson, and The Missing Dinosaur Bone. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Parragon, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. This is a mix between a picture book and I Spy book. Each page features a simple sentence like "Find Little Bo Beep's lost sheep." or "Find the dish that ran away with the spoon." The pictures are beautifully illustrated and it is a perfect book to read at bedtime. Clean copy.
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Price: $18.00
Vintage & Collectible Children's Picture Books
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