Hardcover. Akron, OH, Saalfield, Rep., 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color pictures by Fern Bisel Peat. Light corner wear to illustrated cardboard covers. Previous owner's inscription in pencil on front fly leaf. Fraying to spine material.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color, black & white illustrations by Bettina Ehrlich. Excellent condition. Illust. cardboard covers with black cloth spine. Lacking dust jacket.
NY, Knopf, 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth covers with white cloth spine. Illustrated in color by Elizabeth Black Carmer. 244 pages. Previous owner's signature front end paper, light wear, spine a bit faded. A collecton of folk tales followed by a piece of music that was inspired by the story. Name on inside front cover. Otherwise clean.
NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, INSCRIBED BY JOSE ARUEGO WITH SKETCH OF ALLIGATOR ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Orange boards and cloth bound spine, color illustrated dust jacket, lovely full page color pictures by Jose Aruego and Ariane Dewey. Very slight rubbing to dust jacket, pages clean, crisp and unmarked; a beautiful book in great condition.
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Anita Lobel. Dust jacket price clipped. Light fade to spine. Once upon a time a cruel King decided to betroth his motherless daughter to an Ogre in exchange for fifty wagons filled with silver. When the Princess learns what her father has done, she is horrified. But she is as clever as she is beautiful. Quickly, the Princess devises a plan to escape and, relying on her own spunk and good sense, ultimately marries the man she chooses for herself.
Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2003, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Dust jacket and covers completely illustrated, acetate-protected dust jacket, lovely full page color illustrations. No sign of wear, dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in excellent condition.
Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AVI on front fly leaf., Black & white illust. by C.B. Mordan and SIGNED BOOKPLATE BY MORDAN laid-in. In the early years of the twentieth century, a Swedish family encounters separation and other hardships upon immigrating to New York City until the son is cast in a silent movie. Bold b/w illustrations, inspired by Charlie Chaplin's soulful expressions.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 95 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black & white line drawings by c. Illust. Library Binding Ed. (not ex-lib.) Light spotting on rear cover otherwise, clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges. Fraying on corners.
Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, rep., 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. End paper map, color illustrations by Cyrus Leroy Baldridge, pictorial boards with light edgewear & chip (about 1/2") to top of spine.
Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Introduction by Milne. Music by H Fraser-Simson, decorations by E.H. Shepard. A bright copy in the scarce dust jacket that's edgeworn, chipped.
Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, reprint, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 80 pages illust. in color and black & white by Hope Dunlap. Red cloth spine with illust. cardboard covers. F-20 code suggests 1920 printing. Smudges to rear panel. Light edgewear to covers, previous owner's bookplate otherwise nice.
Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. Clean, tight copy
Hardcover. NY, Sea Star Books, 1st, n.d. (2001), Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Barbara Cooney. A re-issue of a book originally published in 1984. Tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Sea Star Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illust. by Kinuko Y. Craft. Tight copy with only minor wear to cover edges.
Hardcover. NY, Phyllis Fogelman Books, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards. Color illustrations by Wilson-Max & full of pop-ups, pull-outs, 3-D glasses, map, etc. No dust jacket issued.
Hardcover. Moscow, Raduga, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated glossy boards. Color illustrations by Kirill Ovchinnikov. Three old Egyptian tales: Jedi The Magician, The Seafarer and The Snake, How the Thief Outwitted the Pharaoh. Clean copy.
Reading, MA, Addison-Wesley, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated with 2-color drawings by Jerry Joyner. Clean copy. Everything you need and don't need to know about mud including 'how mud acts'. Clean copy (no mud).
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st illus. thus, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Color illustrations by Steven Kellogg. Dust jacket with light edgewear, short closed tears.
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.
Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2nd pr., 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.Color illustrations by Chris K. Soentpiet. On a cold gray morning in 1683, Molly Walsh sat on a stool tugging at the udder of an obstinate cow. When she spilled the milk, she was brought before the court for stealing. Because she could read, Molly escaped the typicalpunishment of death on the gallows. At the age of seventeen, the English dairymaid was exiled from her country and sentenced to work as an indentured servant in British Colonial America. Molly worked for a planter in Maryland for seven long years. Then she was given an ox hitched to a cart, some supplies-and her freedom. That a lone woman should stake land was unheard of. That she would marry an African slave was even more so. Yet Molly prospered, and with her husband Bannaky, she turned a one-room cabin in the wilderness into a thriving one hundred-acre farm.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, Non-paginated. Color illust. by Elsa Eisgruber. In the scarce dust jacket with light soil and chipping. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. London, J.M. Dent, 1st wraps, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illustrations by Roberta F.C. Waudby. 28 pages. Blue paper covers with light wear. Fade to spine area and rear wrapper.
Hardcover. Chicago, Reilly & Lee, 1st , 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 12 color plates, black & white illust. by John R. Neill. Reddish cloth with bright cover label, illustration. Top quarter inch of spine cloth chewed otherwise nice. Yellow edges.
NY, Hurst & Co., reprint, n.d. (1880's), Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 557 pages. Many black & white engravings by Dore. With an essay on La Fontaine's life and work. Also, the life of Aesop, the Phrygian. Beautiful gilt and black design on green cloth. Sharp, clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Lee and Shepard, reprint, 1881, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Many wonderful black & white engravings. Green cloth with bright gilt & black decoration. 372 pages.Rear cover has a half-dollar size spot of soil, otherwise a clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Garden City Publishing, 2nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 20 pages illust. in color, black & white by Oscar Howard. Scarce in a nice dust jacket with moderate chipping to spine.
NY, Random House, 2nd pr., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A novelty alphabet book. Each letter has a flap that reveals who lives inside. A board book. Color illust. by Percy. Learning the shapes of all 26 letters of the alphabet has never been more exciting in this big fun-filled board book! Inside each letter-shaped house lives an appropriate person at work--from Andy the Astronaut in his "A"-shaped house to Zach the Zookeeper in his "Z." Peek inside the houses and see the sturdy board letters spring up from the page like magic! Preschoolers will love learning their letters in this ABC neighborhood.
hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1888, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 368 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Alice Barber (Stephens) - not credited. Decorated green cloth, gilt lettering. Light edgewear, rubbing to covers, else a clean, tight copy.
NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Dunrea. Bracken Van Eyck, a simple farmer who helps anyone in need, assists a trow-wife in finding her lost baby and in return she rewards him with a hen that lays golden eggs.
NY, Hyperion, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket Color illustrations by Jim La Marche. A delightful fantasy about the passenger pigeon.
NY, Hart Publishing, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. A reprint of a 1890's book. 6 color plates + black & white drawings. Clean copy.
NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Michael McDermot. Dust jacket price clipped. Carmina is afraid of her great-grandmother until the old lady plays the piano and Carmina discovers that the music makes a special bond between them. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, color illustrations by David A. Johnson. In a very good, unclipped dust jacket.
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. NY, Harper Collins, 1st thus, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Story & pictures by Garth Williams. His original black & white drawings (from 1951's Adventure of Benjamin Pink) colored by Rosemary Wells.
NY, Windmill Books/Simon & Schuster, 3rd pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Rockwell. Dust jacket with mild edgewear, light soil. Third printing but INSCRIBED "SINCERELY' AND SIGNED BY NORMAN ROCKWELL Previous owner's inscription also on front fly leaf at bottom of page. Scarce thus.
Hardcover. New York, Athenuem, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY MAHY on the title page by winner of 1982 & 1984 Carnegie Medal.
Hardcover. Toronto, McClelland and Stewart, reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 2-color Illustrations by Carol Jones, 92 pages. "Excitement and adventure pervade the mysterious Arctic as young Tuk experiences the thrill of killing his first bear; as beautiful Sedna commands the wrath of the seas; and as lovely Leealura wins the heart of Maleyato, the best hunter in the village." Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in color illustrated boards. library binding. Adapted by Benjamin Appel. Illustrations in color by J.K. Lambert. Summary: Taken from his royal parents at his christening by one fairy to escape the vengeance of another, a prince, thinking he is a commoner, sets out to win the hand of a beautiful princess. 58 pages, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Crowell, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY YOLEN on half-title pg. Color Illustrations by Mercer Mayer. Lovely copy.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Kalman. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Kimberly Bulcken Root INSCRIBED BY ROOT on title pg. Clean copy. Story of 1919 family moving to homestead near Yuma, Arizona. Larger, oblong book, beautiful color illustration of old car crossing desert, color-illustration on back of family and car at destination.
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. Cambridge, MA, Candlewick Press, 1st U.S., 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Angela Barrett.This British import depicts a little girl's exploration of the dark, mysterious woods surrounding her home. The quiet, poetic text, featuring subtle rhymes and emphatic phrasing, expresses the hidden drama of her simple quest. The child, safe and warm in her mother's kitchen, longs to discover "what's out there." As the sun sets, she creeps out into the snow and then into the woods. She finds the seemingly still forest alive with sprites, goblins, and eerie beasts. She emerges from her adventure to find her anxious mother waiting for her with outstretched arms.
Hardcover. New York, Philomel Books, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Kimberly Bulcken Root. INSCRIBED BY ROOT on title pg. Clean, tight signed copy.
Hardcover. New York, Tambourine Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover wth dust jacket. Illustrations in color by Kimberly Bulcken Root. SIGNED BY ROOT on title pg. Closed tear to front panel of dust jacket otherwise VG.
Hardcover. NY, Coward McCann, reprint, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, b&w, color Illustrations by Briggs. Library binding. dust jacket edgewear, chipped.
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Vintage & Collectible Children's Picture Books
This section brings together used, rare and out-of-print children's illustrated books, where the artwork matters as much as the story. Expect picture books, illustrated readers and treasuries from a range of decades and artists, such as W.W. Denslow's Denslow's Picture Book Treasury and Emily Arnold McCully's Crossing the New Bridge.
You will also find storybook favorites like Jan Wahl's A Gift for Miss Milo, Randall Jarrell's Fly by Night and Philippe Dumas's Caesar: Cock of the Village. Many titles are earlier printings or hard-to-find editions prized for their plates, endpapers and jacket art, and are described down to their condition and binding.
As with all used and rare stock, condition and availability differ between copies. Most are single copies, so order online while yours is listed.
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