Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 5th pr., 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glazed boards with a die-cut cover. Tails are irresistible to toddlers -- though most are beyond the reach of small hands. But now there's reason for tail fans everywhere to rejoice: a colorful collection of tails created just for those eager toddlers to tug, pat, and even scratch and sniff! Matthew Van Fleet's lovable menagerie features furry tails, spiny tails, shiny tails, and tails that wag -- all designed to inspire and withstand hours of interactive play. While pulling tabs and opening gatefolds, those tail tuggers can also learn to count from one to ten. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing Co., 1st thus, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 140 pages. Red cloth with color pastedown to front cover. An uncommon illustrated edition of Child's Garden of Verses including 7 color plates and 8 b&w plates by Josephine Wheeler Weage. Size: 8vo. No date but inscription on front fly leaf dated Dec. 25, 1916. Color frontispiece attached at gutter with tape on verso as it had become loose. Otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 32 pages with illustrations by Garland. Colorful paintings inspired by Magritte complement the story of a young boys' escape from boredom to the house of his neighbors, Rene Magritte and his wife, and the world they share with Salvador Dali and other artists. The full-page oil paintings that tell the visual tale are based on the work of the 20th-century Belgian artist. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. On a sweltering summer day in Brooklyn, the local firemen spray a group of bored city kids with cool water from their hoses. In the water-drenched moments that follow, the children make the most of this unexpected treat. Lawrence Ferlinghetti's poem comes alive with charming and exuberant woodcuts by David Frampton, creating an adventure that readers of all ages will enjoy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st thus, 1911, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in black cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and an illustrated, color paper label on the front board. The top edge of the text block is gilt. 273 pages of text and illustrated with end sheets, color title page, and 14 color plates by N. C. Wyeth each separated with printed tissue guards. This is the first Wyeth illustrated edition with the 1911 date on the title page in Roman numerals. Front hinge tender, rear hinge cracked. NOTE: Most descriptions call for a map proceeding Chapter 1. Missing here, but no sign of extraction. Previous owner's bookplate on a blank prelim page Despite map issue, a good plus copy of this scarce first printing.

Hardcover. NY, Books of Wonder, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 304 pages. With twelve glowing color plates and over one hundred black-and-white drawings by Oz artist John R. Neill, this is a beautiful reproduction of the rare 1915 first edition. Afterword by Peter Glassman.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Candlewick Press, 1st US, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with scarred dust jacket, 160 pages. Color illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Clean, tight copy. Front panel of dj has scuff leaving white paper. Otherwise a super clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Schwartz & Wade, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 40 pages. Newbery Honor-winning author McKissack and Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator Pinkney have outdone themselves in this heart-warming picture book infused with humor and the true spirit of Christmas.Christmas always comes to Nella's house, but Santa Claus brings gifts only once in a while. That's because it's the Depression and Nella's family is poor. Even so, Nella's hoping that this year she and her two sisters will get a beautiful Baby Betty doll. On Christmas morning, the girls are beside themselves with excitement! There is Baby Betty, in all her eyelash-fluttering magnificence. "Mine!" Nella shouts, and claims the doll for herself. But soon she discovers that Baby Betty isn't nearly as much fun as her sisters. SIGNED BY PINKNEY.

Hardcover. NY, Philomel, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket. Color paintings throughout by the author. A swanherd loses his flock but gains a princess in this French fairy tale. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Candlewick Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. Discover the wonders of ancient Egypt through a fascinating journal from a lost expedition -- a treasure trove of fact and fantasy featuring a novelty element on every spread. Who can resist the allure of ancient Egypt -- and the thrill of uncovering mysteries that have lain hidden for thousands of years? Not the feisty Miss Emily Sands, who in 1926, four years after the discovery of King Tut's tomb, led an expedition up the Nile in search of the tomb of the god Osiris. Alas, Miss Sands and crew soon vanished into the desert, never to be seen again. But luckily, her keen observations live on in the form of a lovingly kept journal, full of drawings, photographs, booklets, fold-out maps, postcards, and many other intriguing samples.

Hardcover. Boston, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover with a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket, a story by the author of Ironweed and his son, Brendan. Illustrated in color by Glen Baxter. Through ingenuity, determination, and sheer grit, Charlie Malarkey and his friend Iggy must stop Ben Bubie and his diabolical machine from stealing belly-buttons in Albany, New York. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Clarion Books, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY WIESNER ON TITLE PAGE. Crisp, tight copy. Very good condition with only minor rubbing to edges.

Hardcover. Grand Rapids MI, Zonderkidz , 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 32 pages illustrated in color by David McPhail. When a bunny is born in spring, he sees the world as green and new and full of hope. But as the seasons change, the bunny worries that the earth may be dying. Sally Lloyd-Jones' picture book celebrates the Easter season and rebirth. Award-winning artist David McPhail's whimsical illustrations reflect the beauty of the world around us, No dust jacket. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Four Winds Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 34 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Steven Kellogg. Clean, tight copy with only minor rubbing to edges.

Hardcover. NY, Platt & Munk, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth covers stamped in black. The kindness and determination of the Little Blue Engine have inspired millions of children around the world since the story was first published in 1930. Cherished by readers for over ninety years, The Little Engine That Could is a classic tale of the little engine that, despite her size, triumphantly pulls a train full of wonderful things to the children waiting on the other side of a mountain. Illustrated in color by George and Doris Hauman. Clean, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Harpers Collins, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Illustrated by Roz Chast. Minor wear to edges.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, BC Ed., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 32 pages illustrated in color by Kahl. An adventurous boy is warned about giants when he sets out to see the world that lays beyond his home in the forest. Weekly Reader Book Club Edition.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, 47 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket shows heavy chipping and wear. Illustrations by Louis Slobodkin. chipped laminated boards. Large chunk missing on rear dust jacket.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Candlewick Press, 1st US, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket, 160 pages. Color illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, color illustrations by Nancy Winslow Parker. Amy watches as everyone leaves the house and as neighbors are busy in the street, but when Grandpa finally comes Amy goes out too. Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown and Company, reprint, 1918, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 111 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. An early reader with 3-color illustrations throughout text. Fraying to spine and edges. Clean, binding slightly shaken.

Hardcover. Akron, OH, Saalfield, 1st thus, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Profusely illustrated in b&w by Frances Brundage. A bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. Candlewick Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 32 pages. Discover the wonders of ancient Egypt through a fascinating journal from a lost expedition -- a treasure trove of fact and fantasy featuring a novelty element on every spread. Who can resist the allure of ancient Egypt -- and the thrill of uncovering mysteries that have lain hidden for thousands of years? Not the feisty Miss Emily Sands, who in 1926, four years after the discovery of King Tut's tomb, led an expedition up the Nile in search of the tomb of the god Osiris. Alas, Miss Sands and crew soon vanished into the desert, never to be seen again. But luckily, her keen observations live on in the form of a lovingly kept journal, full of drawings, photographs, booklets, fold-out maps, postcards, and many other intriguing samples.

Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne & Co, reprint, unk., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 88 pages. Hardcover with clipped dust jacket. Illustrated in color and black and white by Randolph Caldecott. Dust jacket has minor wear. No. 1.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich , 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color Illustrations by Michael Hague. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. The beautiful Keeper of the Forest helps a gentle, reclusive youth when he most needs it and gives the world a bird with a beautiful voice.

Hardcover. NY, Dial Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Color art by Max Ginsburg. A biography of the fifteen-year-old Iowa teenager who helped avert a train disaster in 1881 and became a national heroine. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Jozef Wilkon. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, David Godine, 1st , 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Ted Harrison. Dust jacket with closed tear otherwise very good.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 78 pages illustrated in 2-colors by Seuss. Here is the true story about the Godiva family, and the seven sisters who are each far too intelligent to waste time worrying about frivolous things like doing their hair, makeup, or you know, clothes. When their father is killed by a horse, they take it upon themselves to discover seven Horse Truths, one from each sister, before any of them will ever know true love. What follows is a clever, funny and sometimes touching story that is a little different from your average Dr. Seuss book. Originally published in 1939. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Green cloth covers with gilt titles, color illustrated dust jacket, color illustrated endpapers, profusely illustrated with lovely color plates. Small clipped color illustrated article from unknown publication on Maurice Sendak included. Slight edgewear to dust jacket, very faint small brown stain to bottom right front corner of dust jacket, pages clean, crisp and unmarked; a very nice, clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st , 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Bruce McNally. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with maroon lettering, drawing on font cover, no dust jacket. Bright color illustrations by Nicole Rubel. Though best friends, Maggie and Chester must separate as she prefers to live in the North and he, the South. Scarce title. Light discoloration to edge of front cover, otherwise bright and clean.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to covers and edges. 2nd printing. Illustrated by authors. Light fraying to corners.

Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Robert Rayevsky. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to dust jacket edges.

Softcover. Beijing, Zhaohua Publishing House, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 40 pages. Lovely color illustrations throughout by Zhu Chengliang. Clean copy. An adventure story set in old China.

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 43 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ronald Himler. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st , 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with glazed boards. Color illustrations by Ehlert. Light wear. Clean, tight copy. Top Cat rules the house until an unexpected box from the humane society arrives with someone new--and cute--inside. At first, Top Cat doesn't want to share his house and favorite things, but soon he learns that two cats can be lots more fun than one.

Hardcover. NY, Lothrop Lee & Shepard , 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Lovely color illustrations by Jan Ormerod. One winter morning Jenny discovers a hawk has come to the farm, and she develops a rapport with the graceful sky dancer. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Dial Books for Young Readers, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Illustrations by Friso Henstra. Minor wear to covers. Dust jacket price-clipped.

Hardcover. NY, Crown, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Burningham. Dust jacket price clipped. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Books House for Children, 2nd pr., 1927, Book: Very Good, Light blue textured covers with gilt titles to front and spine, set-in circular color illustrated plate with gilt embossed border, decorated endpapers, profusely illustrated with lovely color plates by Maud and Miska Petersham. Pages crisp and unmarked; a lovely collection of nursery rhymes. Illustrated title page. Each leaf with a color illustration. Part of the My Travelship series. First published in 1925, this is the 1927 reprint.

Softcover. Aakron, OH, Saalfield, 1st Edition, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 16 pages. Softcover, textured pages. Vivid, full-color illustrations. Some chipping to wrapper at spine and crease to top right corner of front cover and top left corner of back cover. Some light tanning to covers and pages from age. Staple bound. Adorable childrens book with sheet music included in illustrations.

Hardcover. NY, Lion Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 46 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. 2-color wash drawings by Palazzo. Ink price on front paste-down. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY BROWNE on the front endpaper. First edition with Browne's illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards. Tells of the true adventures of Ibn Battuta, a fourteenth-century traveler who, like Marco Polo, set forth on a seventy-five thousand mile journey of discovery through many lands, including Tanzania, China, Russia, and Morocco. Rumford's simply written adaptation is often surprisingly eloquent. For example, Ibn Battuta comments on his voyage: "Traveling-it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller." "Traveling-it had captured my heart, and now my heart was calling me home." On each page, a portion of the text appears within its own bright white narrow road crossing elegantly bordered illustrations that shine with generous amounts of gold, red, and deep blue. This text also flows into and out of larger frames. The artist adorns many of these illustrations with Arabic and Chinese calligraphy, providing translations for the longer phrases at the end of the book. A few maps are included and they are executed with the same attention to presentation. A glossary of names, places, and important words provides essential information in an accessible format.

hardcover. NY, Philomel Books, 2nd pr., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Ted Lewin. Clean.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay Co, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover. Brown cloth covers with embossed black titles, color plate pasted to front board, color-illustrated dust jacket, 11 full-page color plates by Jessie Willcox Smith. Edgewear and chipping to dust jacket, two 2" tears to dust jacket top front cover, otherwise dust jacket still makes neat presentation with acetate protective covering, pages crisp, clean and unmarked; overall a very neat copy.

Hardcover. San Diego, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, SIGNED BY NORMAN AND LEO AND DIANE DILLON on title-page. Color illustrations by Leo and Diane Dillon. like-new condition.

NY, Collins World, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ed Young. Dust jacket with light edgewear, closed tears.

Hardcover. New York, Cupples and Leon, 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 48 pages, illustrated in color and b&w by Richard Hudson. In the scarce dust jacket with mild soil, edgewear.