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

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 256 pages, illustrated with 4 color plates, many b&w drawings by Margaret Freeman. Blue cloth covers with red design, spine faded. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean, very good internally.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 3rd pr., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards, SIGNED BY DAY on the front fly leaf in her formal cursive style. No dust jacket issued. Join beloved babysitting Rottweiler Carl in author/artist Alexandra Day's perfectly joyous holiday children's picture book, Carl's Christmas . After helping baby decorate the family tree, Carl and his charge share an adventure-filled Christmas Eve complete with window shopping, giving to the needy, and a visit with Santa Claus. Like new.

Hardcover. NY, Clarion, 1st , 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ted Lewin. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , Holiday House, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Lobel. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Evan Turk. As an observant child growing up in Lithuania, Ben Shahn yearns to draw everything he sees--and, after seeing his father banished by the Czar for demanding workers' rights, he develops a keen sense of justice, too. So when Ben and the rest of his family make their way to America, Ben brings both his sharp artistic eye and his desire to fight for what's right. As he grows, he speaks for justice through his art--by disarming classmates who bully him because he's Jewish, by defying his teachers' insistence that he paint beautiful landscapes rather than true stories, by urging the US government to pass Depression-era laws to help people find food and jobs. In this moving and timely portrait, award-winning author Cynthia Levinson and illustrator Evan Turk honor an artist, immigrant, and activist whose work still resonates today: a true painter for the people.

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Lettimore. In a carefully researched, lavishly illustrated original tale of long ago, Deborah Nourse Lattimore transports readers back through time to a land where Shoguns rule and mythical creatures abound. Focusing on one of her favorite periods in history--Japan's Edo period--Lattimore writes of a poor birdcatcher named Hideo who is banished from his village when he is accused of being the evil bandit who steals from Shogun and villager alike. Finding shelter under the boughs of a tree, Hideo hears a rustling and makes a catch beyond his wildest dreams. Painted in the art style of the Edo period, each spread is breathtaking in its detail; every page is awash in shimmering and vibrant color.

Hardcover. Natick MA, Picture Studio Studio, 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 30 pages illustrated in color by Zwerger. Previous owner's signature inside front cover, minor wear to board edges.

Hardcover. Chicago, Johnny Gruelle Co., reprint, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, color illustrated by Gruelle's son, Worth Gruelle. Large chunk gone from top inside of title page. Cardboard covers with edgewear, light marking to one page in rear of book. Previous owner's sticker on front end page otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Universal Budget Systems, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations by Erika throughout. Decorated cover boards. Boards have a touch of agewear (see images). Pages are slighted tanned from age. Previous owner's inscription on title page.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay, reprint, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 143 pages, blue cloth covers with gilt design and lettering. Color frontispiece, 10 color plates and many b&w drawings by Harold Copping. No date but appears to be 1920s. Edited by Percy Fitzgerald. Clean, bright copy.

NY, Philomel, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Learn to count with the #1 New York Times bestselling artist of The Day the Crayons Quit and his hilarious cast of Hueys!"Is none a number?" you might ask. I'm glad you did. The answer is Yes! For example, how many lumps of cheese do you see next to you? The answer, depending on where you are, is likely "none." Counting with the reader all the way up to ten, the Hueys explain numbers as only they can. Such as: The number 4 is the number of tantrums thrown by Dave every day. 7 is the number of oranges balanced on things. And 9 is the number of seagulls who attacked Frank's French fries. Together they make quite a spectacle. But when you take away all of these fun illustrations in the book? You're left with none!

Hardcover. Chicago, Illinois, Albert Whitman & Company, 1st US, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Ex-library copy, minor stamping. Book shows some wear. Color illustrations by Bannon. Hardbound, bright, clean dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York , Treasure Books/ Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards, 28 pages. Color drawings throughout by Art Seiden. Light cover wear.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket. Pink & black & white illustrations by Geisert. Dust jacket shows very minor wear, mostly nice condition. A follow-up to the artist's Oink. More adventures of his favorite pig family. A wordless picture-book.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Nice, clean condition. Color illustrations by Chorao. Hardbound, dust jacket.

Hardcover. Springfield MA, McLoughlin Bros., 1st, 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrated boards, spiral bound, color art by McKean. Seven color spreads feature moveable sliding frames with pull-ribbons. All functional and attached. The red plastic spiral binding needs repair. The top 3 rings have on ring missing and the bottom three rings are missing. All the holes are intact, untorn and appear repairable. Good plus condition, fragile, clean.

Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Armenian folk tale retold by Kherdian. Color illustrations by his wife, Nonny Hogrogian. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Nice color illustrations by Etienne Delessert. Great, new-looking condition. Hardbound, dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth stamped in black, 126 pages, line drawings in brown by Paul Brown. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, light shelf wear, tanning to endpapers, otherwise clean. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., 1st, 1881, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards. With color title-page, fourteen leaves of color plates, and b&w drawings by Hopkins. Covers worn at edges, corners, paper spine gone. There is some pencil marking to front endpapers but interior pages and all color plates are bright and clean.

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Colorful collage illustrations by Lois Ehlert. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Ward Lock and Co., 6h Ed., nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with color label on cover, 256 pages. illustrated with 12 color, 250 b&w illustrations. Light soil, chipping to covers, otherwise very good. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 95 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white line drawings by Uri Shulevitz. Library Binding Ed. (not ex-lib.) Light spotting on rear cover otherwise, clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.

Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Gay. Morrow Eagle Library Edition. Minor wear to dust jacket. Hardbound. Make-believe and reality are beautifully intertwined when a toddler invites first a butterfly and then others to go for a ride on his stroller. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Clarion Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Caldecott Winner, beautifully illustrated by author. Very clean and tight copy. Complete number line with "1". No award sticker on jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st illust., 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red embossed covers with gilt decoration of two children in profile. One volume from the publisher's 10 volume series, 381 pages. Notable for the full color plates by Henry Pitz, 16 in all. Illustrated endpapers of young children in field of flowers (by another artist). Interior clean, very good.

Hardcover. New York, Dutton, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY ALEXANDER half title-page. Color illustrations by Trina Schart Hyman. Small tear to front dust jacket cover but otherwise lovely, new-looking, clean condition. States First Edition but number line starts with 2.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Illustrated by the author throughout, minor dust jacket edge wear, else, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Ars Edition, 1st US, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glazed boards. Approximately 5 3/4" x 4 3/4", 18 pages. English version by John Theobald. Bohatta was a Austrian writer/artist whose titles were republished in the U.S. in small printings. Charming color illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 54 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Dorothy P. Lathrop. Shows some wear and age.

Hardcover. NY, Lothrop Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. Kael, a black timber wolf, is captured & performs for a circus, until he has the opportunity to escape. Haunting story of a wild Wolf & the gentle man who trains him. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Putnams, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 74 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY DE PAOLA on title-page. Illustrated in B&W by De Paola. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. US, Holiday House, 1st, 1988-09-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, illustrated throughout in color by Anita Lobel. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

NY, Bloomsbury, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Tim Raglin.Poor Bill! He is a bull with a passion for fine china. But, as we all know, bulls and china don't really go together too well - or is that just prejudice? In fact, Bill is a perfect collector of the most charming china cups, and only starts to break things when he is made to feel nervous. This is a delightful book about a bull, a china shop and three very kind old ladies. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Parent's Magazine Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Wendy Watson. Cover with some markings, edgewear, otherwise very good.

Hardcover. New York, Blue Sky Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 111 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations by Barry Moser throughout. Gilt titles on spine and cover. Some edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

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, Harper & Rone, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Joyce. Illustrated in the retro-modern style of a 50's sf pulp, A DAY WITH WILBUR ROBINSON is filled with fun things including an Ellington-Armstrong with frogs music band, an individual fly-able jet-pack, an anti-gravity machine, and is the fun story of the search for Grandfather Robinson's false teeth. An eye-catching color illustration faces every page of text. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NorthSouth Books, 3rd pr., 2022, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated in color by Hopman. All the famous ladies want a Givenchy dress--actresses, opera singers, princesses and the wife of a president. When Audrey Hepburn has to figure what to wear for her next movie, she approaches Givenchy, but he's too busy to design something just for her. When encourages her to try on clothing from within his collection, they're both stunned by what they discover. Philip Hopman brings us a stylish and compelling picture book about fashion and friendship that fits like a glove! Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, blue cloth covers stamped with design and title. Worn dust jacket with a small sticker on front. Calligraphy and silhouette drawings by the author showing children's adventures in NY city. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Blue Sky/ Scholastic, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, color illustrations by the Dillons. SIGNED BY LEO AND DIANE DILLON on title-page. In their fortieth picture book, two Caldecott Medalists bring to vivid life the most famous verses from the biblical book of Ecclesiastes through imaginative paintings reflecting the world's various cultures, accompanied by a full-color explanatory glossary.

Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1st, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 89 pages. Illustrated by Zhenya Gay. Light soiling to contents page. Previous owner's signature front endpaper. Stain to bottom corner of cover. Corners bumped. Dust jacket with chipping, creases. Small chunks missing top & bottom of spine. Brodart cover.

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, Scribner's , 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Brown cloth covers with gilt titles, dust jacket completely illustrated in color and acetate-protected, lovely color illustrations by Uri Shulevitz. Slight wear to dust jacket edges, pages and covers clean, crisp and unmarked; a clean, tight copy in beautiful condition.

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow, 1st, 1955, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 46 pages. Color and black & white illustrations by Tracy Sugarman. Rear hinge cracked. Chipping to edge of front endpaper. Dust jacket with soiling, edgewear, chipping, spine fade. Brodart cover.

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. NY, Dial, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginanted. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Color illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. Fairy love story by the actor Richard Burton's Welsh father.

Hardcover. Boston, L. C. Page, 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 369 pages. B&W illustrations by Howard Pyle, others. Dark green cloth with heavy fading to spine. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Gilt decorated cover.

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.