Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. Chicago, Johnny Gruelle Co., reprint, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, illustrated in color and b&w by Gruelle's son, Worth Gruelle. Color illustrated cardboard covers with blue cloth spine, light edgewear, back panel with rubbing and white spotting to blue color. Inside front cover has some wrinkles to pastedown. Internally clean, very good.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Small hardcover, 62 pages. Color illustrations by Field. Plain yellow cloth. Light scuff to top of boards at spine. Previous owner's signature to front fly leaf. Gutter crack on title page.

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. Garden City NY, Garden City Publishing, 1st, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth spine with illustrated boards. Unpaginated (50 pages) illustrated in color & b/w throughout with preliminary sketches and actual scenes of the movie. The title page spread has a long, closed tear on the left side. The book's cardboard edges show wear. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf.

Watertown, MA, Charlesbridge Publishing, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Matt Faulkner. Scatterbrain Sam is the distant down-home cousin of "Morgan and the Pot of Brains," a Welsh tale told by Ellen Pugh. This adaptation is a funny, folksy tall tale filled with exaggeration and sly humor. It is set in mid-20th-century America, and Jackson has freely updated and modified the old story. Sam is so scatterbrained, "he didn't know nothing about nothing," so he asks Widder Woman to help fix his brains. She offers a glue-stew remedy for which the young man must provide the flavoring with things that he loves. When that proves to be too difficult, he is given riddles to solve and only with the help of Maizie Mae, a golden-haired aviatrix with her own stunt plane, does Sam begin to find the solution. When Maizie falls into the sticky concoction, Sam follows the glue flood through town and finally realizes what he truly loves. He takes the Widder's advice and marries Maizie and they fly off together into the sunset. This is a rollicking good tale with exuberant cartoonlike watercolor-and-gouache paintings.

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, Pantheon Books, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Unpaginated. Watercolor art by Joe Servello. End papers also illustrated. Dust jacket has minor wear and soil, cover lightly soiled.

hardcover. Joliet, P.F. Volland, 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 40 pages. Illustrations in color, b&w by Maginel Wright Barney. Front fly leaf missing, front hinge cracked, light edgewear to some pages.

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.

Softcover. Boston, United Church Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled pictorial wraps, 48 pages. Notable for being one of Trina Schart Hyman's earliest picture books. Only date is 1964. Color illustrations on every page by Hyman. A tale emphasizing the religion in Christmas. Super clean condition.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace , 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, B&w illustrations by James Daugherty. Spine cloth faded otherwise very good.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 10 color plates (including cover label), color illustrated title page, endpaper design and map by N.C. Wyeth. Gilt lettering on spine faded, previous owner's name on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Barbara Garrison and SIGNED BY GARRISON on the title page. Like new. When an apple-shaped birdhouse is placed in the tree, a curious frog thinks that it may be a home meant just for him and so moves in, but other animals have the same idea and soon the frog has a whole cast of interesting visitors dropping on by his unique abode.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illustrations by Victor G. Ambrus. Boards show some minor wear and very light soiling. Hardbound. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Hyperion Books, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR JUSTER on front fly leaf. Caldecott winner. Very clean and tight copy. Illustrated in color by Chris Raschka.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Janovich, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by David Gentleman. Dust jacket shows some minor wear, chunk gone from top of spine, rear panel.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Nice, clean, almost new-looking condition. Color illustrations by Donald Carrick. Hardbound, dust jacket.

Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Children's Books, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED WITH AN ILLUSTRATION by the author and illustrator on front fly leaf, minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight.

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, 517 pages. Notable for the full color plates by Martin Robinson, 16 in all. Illustrated endpapers of young children in field of flowers (by another artist). Interior clean, very good.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Ray Cruz. Shows minor wear, otherwise nice condition. Hardbound, dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Scholastic , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page spread. Illustrated by Ted Lewin. Clean, tight copy. A celebration of the Christmas season features a family's century-old candy making tradition based on the author's own family stories.

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 June Head. Eight brief poems written from the various points of view of eight different dogs. Austrian children's author and artist Ida Bohatta (sometimes published as Ida Bohatta-Morpurgo) produced quite a few of these miniature picture-books during the course of her long career (which began in the 1920s), each containing approximately eight poems, with eight accompanying color illustrations. Color illustrations in the style of Thornton Burgess. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrated by Antonio Frasconi. Dust jacket shows some minor wear. Hardbound. Translated from the Yiddish by the author and Elizabeth Shub. The winner of the 1970 National Book Award for children's literature retells a Hebrew legend with vivid simplicity and an internationally respected artist interprets it with a sincerity and fresh vision reminiscent of medieval art.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by author on title page.

Hardcover. NY, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrated boards. Color illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. Tangrams are ancient Chinese puzzles that are still used today by adults as well as children. Author became intrigued by the challenge of the puzzles and began making up her own tangrams and stories about them. Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston , 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket. Two-color illustrations by Nonny Hogrogian. Shows wear, tanning to dust jacket, internally clean.

Hardcover. Boston, HMH Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 2nd pr., 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 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. No dust jacket. Light wear to edges, corners of cover. Owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. The story of a moose who was too hospitable for his own good told in humorous verse.

Hardcover. NY, Junior Literary Guild, reprint, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 69 pages. Hardcover with illustrated cloth, no dust jacket. Color and black & white illustrations by Dorothy P. Lathrop. Shows some wear and age.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1958 , Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound. 48 pages. Illustrated by Leonard Weisgard. Soiling to endpapers. Edgewear. Dust jacket with two small chunks missing from spine. "Harper Blue Ribbon Book" sticker on front of dust jacket. Bottom of front flap clipped, but not price clipped.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial boards, 28 pages illustrated in color and b&w by Rounds. Later printing, from the Story Parade Picture Book series, "selected from the most popular stories that have appeared in Story Parade Magazine." How Whitey became a full edgewear. Corner and edgewear to boards, top of spine with spit to paper. Clean internally.

Hardcover. New York , Greenwillow, 1st , 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.Illustrated in color by Anita Lobel. SIGNED BY LOBEL on title page.

Hardcover. New York, Parent's Magazine Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound. Color illustrations by Weiss. Dust jacket with chipping, rubbing, yellowing. Brodart cover.

Hardcover. NY, Franklin Watts, 1st US, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color pictorial cloth. Great illustrations by Wildsmith where children try to find hidden items. Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Tokyo, Japan, Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 101 pages, black and white Illustrations by Yoshie Noguchi. Dust jacket with small rips, tears and creases, otherwise in good condition.

Hardcover. NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 48 pages. Black & white photos by Richard Hewett. Like new.

Hardcover. NY, Golden Book, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 72 pages illustrated in color by Tenggren. No dust jacket issued. Like new.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Janovich , 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half title page, illustrated in color by Mikolaycak, light wear to dust jacket spine and corners.

Chicago IL, Albert Whitman & Co., 1st, 1944, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color and black & white illustrations by Margaret Ayer. 128 pages. Orange cover with green writing. Mild soiling to covers, edgewear. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. San Diego, Gulliver Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Laura Forman. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Orchard Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. Clean, tight copy.

NY, Viking Press, 3rd pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Black and white drawings by Harold Berson. The story of Camilla, a camel who dances.

Hardcover. NY, St Martins Press, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Peter Barrett. Gyp, a cheerful but always silent sheep dog, startles everyone with uncharacteristic behavior during the championship sheep dog trials. Clean copy.

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. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. Color illustrations by Browne. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston , 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Michael Hague. 162 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A collection of tales including "The Snow Queen," "The Little Mermaid," "The Little Match girl," "Thumbelina," "The Elfin Hill," "Little Ida's Flower," "The Ugly Duckling," "The Wild Swans," and "The Emperor's New Clothes."

Hardcover. NJ, Silver Burdett, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Alfonso Ruano. Light soil to covers.

Hardcover. Mankato, MN, Creative Education, 1st thus, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Georges Lemoine. Laminated paper covered boards with color illustration on front cover.

Hardcover. Joliet, P. F. Volland, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial boards. Color illustrations by Herman Rosse, paper chips to cardboard covers, minor foxing to first few pages. Previous owner's name in pencil on copyright page.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Laminate covers with completely illustrated in color, full-page color illustrations by Jay Hyde Barnum. Rubbing and mild edgewear to cardboard covers; a neat, tight copy.