Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. New York, Crown, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 80 pages. Color illustrations by Mary Grand Pre. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a very good dust jacket. Non-paginated. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR WENDELL MINOR ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, T. Y. Crowell , 5th pr., 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated cloth covers. Small picture book with color illustrations by Lois Lenski. Endpapers have child's crayon marking, interior is clean.

Hardcover. USSR, Raduga Publishers, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 25 pages. Translated from the Russian by Irina Zheleznova. Black & white illustrations by Ivan Bilibin. Minor soiling to covers.

Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 40 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY PRELUTSKY AND ZELINSKY ON TITLE PAGE. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Garden City Publishing Co., 1st, 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with a green cloth spine. An alphabet and number book illustrated in reds and blacks, with dashes of yellow and blue. Illustrated by Nerman. Spine has fraying to top and bottom of spine. Pencil name inside front cover otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Four Winds Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY ARNOSKY on title page. ALSO INSCRIBED BY ARNOSKY to children's book author and illustrator Edith & Clement Hurd WITH A SKETCH OF A JUMPING FISH on front fly leaf. Color, B&W illustrations by Arnosky.

Hardcover. London, Methuen & Co. Ltd., Reprint, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Previous owners inscription on inside front cover. Full color illustrations by Tomi Ungerer. Dust jacket with dime size piece of paper missing at top of spine, light chipping along edges. Jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Cleveland, World Publishing Co., 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and soiled dust jacket. Illustrated cloth covers. This is the library binding edition (NOT ex-lib) and has tape residue on outside covers and inside endpapers where brodart was once attached. Ink name on front fly leaf, interior clean.

New York, Dutton, 3rd pr., 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with yellow stamping, 142 pages. B&W illustrations by Elinore Blaisdell. A wealth of simple, authoritative information about America's greatest nature lover written for the junior age student. 12 full page illustrations about Audubon's early life.Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Seabury Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations by Clement Hurd. Dust jacket with darkening to spine, light wear to edges. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY/Cleveland, World Publishing Company, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. First American edition 8.25 x 7.75". Unpaginated [52 pages]. Essentially an artists' book created by the noted Italian futurist, Munari, widely regarded as one of the most influential book-designers of the 20th century. Illustrations feature translucent overlays and brightly colored pages with die cut edges and windows. Voted the New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book 1969 winner. Previous owner;s inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston , Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.SIGNED BY AUTHOR. B&W woodcut illustration by Michael McCurdy.

Hardcover. Garden City, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs by Dare Wright. Previous owners name and address at top right corner of front endpaper. Dust jacket with surface stain at back of doll image, interior tape repairs - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear, price-clipped. Here is a story of Salem and the frightening time of the Witch Hunts emphasizing the role of John Alden, one of the unjustly accused "witches." Beautiful b&w illustrations throughout by Charles Mikolaycak.

Softcover. Akron, OH, Saalfield, Unknown, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with blue cloth spine. Tipped-in color frontis (by Frances Partridge). B&W drawings by Helene Nyce. Blue

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1988, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Full color illustrations by Helen Craig. Covers with some light abrasions, minor soiling. Some small spots on a few pages. Clean, unmarked text.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset and Dunlap, reprint, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in rust tweed binding, lightly worn and chipped dust jacket. Reprint edition, "printed in large, easy-to-read type." B&w illustrations by Harrison Cady. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Illustrated in color by Hilary Knight and SIGNED BY KNIGHT on half-title page. Additional material by Mart Crowley. Hardcover with dust jacket. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 64 pages illustrated by Wallace Tripp with sepia drawings. Dust jacket with light edgewear, closed tears. Library edition, NOT ex-lib.

Hardcover. Somerville MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Joey loves to fold thing so he becomes fascinated when he sees a friend making a paper crane doing origami. Pretty soon he's trying to do origami but is having a hard time. Witty book on sticking with crafts until you succeed. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton, 1st U.S. , nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color lithograph illustrations by Jane M. Dealy. Light wear to edges of covers. Front and rear hinge cracked and fragile.

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, unpaginated, color illustrations by Giselle Potter, very clean, tight copy, like new. Quentin Fenton Herter Third always does exactly what he should, from closing his mouth when he chews to putting away his toys. But Quentin Fenton has an awfully naughty shadow, who calls himself Quentin Fenton Herter Three. Three interrupts, stays up late, and never flosses. How do these two feel about each other? "They loathed each other cordially,/ did Quentin Third and Quentin Three." Strangely enough, though, they also envy each other "--a bit." And when good little Third has the opportunity to be bad one day, guess who steps in to take his place as a perfect gentleman?Amy MacDonald's clever rhymes are nicely complemented by Giselle Potter's unusual, naive-style illustrations.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, reprint, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Illustrated in 3-colors by Margaret Bloy Graham. No dust jacket. Children's Choice Book Club Edition. Clean, bright copy.

Topsfield, MA, Salem House, 1st U.S. , 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, B&W, color illustrations throughout by Steadman. Light edgewear to dust jacket, minor rubbing to silver dust jacket. This book brings together in a single volume Steadman's three previous Lewis Carroll titles illustrated with his uniquely stunning drawings. In addition to the original published illustrations, Steadman has added many in color for the first time along with fourteen completely new illustrations.

Hardcover. New York , Row, Peterson and Company, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages. Illustrations by John Holmgren. Dust jacket faded, front edge starting to fray. Some foxing on end papers, pages clean. Price sticker inside dust jacket. Adventures of Peter and Penny and their Newfoundland dog on Nantucket Island.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers stamped with black lettering. Illustrated with b&w photographs and drawings. Fine text for children on the principles of democracy. First printing with "I" on copyright page. "Review Copy" stamped on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. US, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 1ST, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. A young boy named Bobby has the worst teacher. She's loud, she yells, and if you throw paper airplanes, she won't allow you to enjoy recess. She is a monster! Luckily, Bobby can go to his favorite spot in the park on weekends to play. Until one day... he finds his teacher there! Over the course of one day, Bobby learns that monsters are not always what they seem. Each page is filled with "monstrous" details that will have kids reading the story again and again. Peter Brown takes a universal and timeless theme, and adds his own humorous spin to create another winner of a picture book.

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY THATCHER HURD ON TITLE PAGE. Pictorial covers, gorgeous full page color illustrations. No sign of wear, spine stiff and tight, dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in excellent condition.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A collection of fairy folklore and folk tales, bibliography, glossary. Color illustrations by Arthur Rackham, Richard Doyle, Edmund Dulac, William Blake, and George Cruikshank. Glossy illustrated boards. Clean copy.

Softcover. New York , Neugebauer/North-South, 4th Ed., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated, color illustrations, text in German and English. SIGNED BY ZWERGER on half title page. Softcover with an acetate dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 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, John Day Company, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong pictorial cloth, 64 pages illustrated in two-colors by William Arthur Smith. SIGNED BY BUCK on the title page. Originally published 1n 1942, this is the 17th printing and was most likely signed in 1969 by Buck in Danby, Vermont, where she lived in her later years. Bright, clean copy, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. US, Piggy Toes Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Clean, tight copy. In this technical tour de force, father and daughter combine origami-style figures and intricate pop-up effects into six spreads and a double gatefold of paper magic. The art evokes common materials, from a whirl of newspaper doves or passport pages made into sailboats to legal-pad-paper ducks swimming in a desktop "pond" of spilled coffee and, for a spectacular finish, an array of Chinese take-out menus and cartons falling prey to a hungry dragon's attack. The figures are mostly made of precut and glued pieces, but many of the beaks and noses, at least, are actually folded.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY MATTEO PERICOLI ON TITLE PAGE WITH ILLUSTRATED SKETCH. Two-sided book with drawings of the Manhattan skyline: "Matteo Pericoli began his drawings of the Manhattan skyline in 1998. More than two years, fifteen hundred buildings, and nineteen bridges later, he finished two continuous scrolls, one of the West Side and one of the East Side, each thirty-seven feet long." Hard blue and red covers with white titles and yellow graphic illustration, full page b&w illustrations. Very slight rubbing to covers, pages clean, crisp and unmarked, binding stiff and tight; an excellent copy of a beautiful and unusual book.

Hardcover. Templar, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Wonderfully quirky illustrations in color by the Australian artist. An enormous black dog and a very tiny little girl star in this offbeat tale about confronting one's fears. When a huge black dog appears outside the Hope family home, each member of the household sees it and hides. Only Small, the youngest Hope, has the courage to face the black dog, who might not be as frightening as everyone else thinks. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Dial Books, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 48 pages. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Illustrations by Daniel Salmieri. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. London, John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Scarce in dust jacket. 242 pages, 19 full-color plates. Red top edge. Chipping, tears, small pieces missing from dust jacket; in brodart. Some pages still uncut. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Praha (Prague), statni nakladatelstvi detske knihy, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, white boards with maroon line drawing, white cloth spine. In a bright dust jacket with mild soil, edgewear. 101 pages illustrated in color by Adolf Kaspar. Text in Czech/Slovak. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Toon Books/ Raw Junior, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR. Lilly is a spunky little girl who delights in the unexpected pleasures of each season, peering inside shells in the summer and tasting different kinds of apples in the fall. In this charming and subtle book by one of France's premier children's book authors, Lilly learns more about the outdoors, and introduces the youngest readers to the colors, words, and shapes that arise in nature. Silly Lilly's intimate monologues deftly capture a child's sense of wonder, in five whimsical episodes that cycle through the calendar from Spring back to Spring again

Hardcover. New York , Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 147 pages, illustrated throughout in red and black. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on prelim page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, HarperFestival, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 12" X 9 3/4". Interactive 3-D pop-out castle model measuring 8 1/4" X 16 1/2" X 8 1/4" is clean, functional, and unworn. Very mild shelf wear to 24-page story book. Includes 38 press-out figures that have not been punched out. Landscape mat is present and clean. A highly presentable and apparently complete pop-up castle playset of Baron Swarthy's Castle with accompanying fact-filled book that tells of a murder and invites readers to look for clues to discover the villain's whereabouts before the king arrives. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins/Books of Wonder, 1st thus, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 442 pages, color illustrations by Don Freeman. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally & Company, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 118 pages, hardcover. Retold and pictured by Margaret Evans Price. Decorated blue boards with gilt titling to spine and front panel. Moderate rubbing and edgewear to boards. Light soiling/age toning to front panel. Bumping to corners, light fraying to lower fore edge corner. Previous owner's inscription to front flyleaf in pencil. Illustrated endpapers. Light fading and age toning to prelim pages. A tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Crown Publishers, reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 48 pages with color illustrations by Harold Berson. Weekly Reader Book Clud Ed. A young girl makes a ship from a walnut shell and imagines that she is the captain and her dog and toys, the crew. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , HarperCollins, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by Kate and James McMullan.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 48 pages illustrated in 3-colors bu Kushkin. Library binding, NOT ex-lib. Name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, First printing of the revised Harper Collins edition (the title was originally published in 1960) in virtually As New condition in alike dust-jacket. SIGNED by illustrator Maurice Sendak on the title page; Ruth Krauss' legendary book of good and useful things to know, such as what kind of face to make when you say please. Masterfully illustrated by legendary illustrator Maurice Sendak; 48 pages.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2nd pr., 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with small tape repair. Caldecott Honor stickeron front. 32 pages illustrated in color by Peter Parnell. Simple text and illustrations describe the characteristics of the desert and its plant, animal, and human life.

Hardcover. New York , Hyperion Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 96 pages illustrated by Nelson. SIGNED BY NELSON on title page. Featuring nearly fifty iconic oil paintings and a dramatic double-page fold-out, an award-winning narrative, a gorgeous design and rich backmatter, We Are the Ship is a sumptuous, oversize volume for all ages that no baseball fan should be without. Using an inviting first-person voice, Kadir Nelson shares the engaging story of Negro League baseball from its beginnings in the 1920s through its evolution, until after Jackie Robinson crossed over to the majors in 1947.