Hardcover. New York , Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, illustrated in color by Burkert, folding poster laid in. Very good in a bright dust jacket. Traveling players act out a folk play about twin brothers separated at birth, one raised by King Pepin and the other by a bear.
Hardcover. New York, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1st, 1981, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on opposite title page. Illustrated by Michael J. Deraney; a retelling of a Yom Kippur story. Heavy age toning to text block edges. Moderate soiling, staining, and rubbing to dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription to front endpapers. A tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Seven entertaining stories for young readers by Moore with Lobel's zany illustrations throughout in 2-colors. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York , Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in abright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MCCLINTOCK. A delightful picture book loosely based upon the Charles Dickens story The Magic Fishbone.When Molly's fairy godmother tells her that she will find a magic fishbone that will grant her but one wish, all her brothers and sisters want to know what Molly will wish for. There are many things Molly would like, and so many ways in which a wish would come in handy, but she decides to wait until she knows exactly what she wants.Enchanting, old-fashioned illustrations depict a wondrous nineteenth-century London alive with elegantly clad cats, pigs, goats, birds, and other two- and four-legged creatures in Barbara McClintock's delightful reminder that patience and practicality are rewarded.
Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, reprint, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 36 pages illustrated in color and b&w by Tousey. Paper covering gone from spine. Otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York , Hyperion Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. SIGNED BY JEFFERS. A small board book. A new installment in this engaging series follows the lovable Westie dog named McDuff who in this holiday tale falls asleep while waiting for Santa to arrive on Christmas Eve only to be awakened by a loud thump and a new arrival.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth. 32 pages illustrated in color and b&w by Duvoisin. Veronica is bored on Mr. Pumpkin's farm, but it turns out there is plenty to do, and adventures to be had. Library bindindg NOT ex-lib. Small stamp on inside front cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York , Abrams Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 40 pages with color illustrations. SIGNED by illustrator. Oops! follows a family through the streets of Paris as they try to get to the airport for their vacation. Back at their apartment, their house-sitting aunt slips on some soap, setting off a chain reaction of events that create some extreme roadblocks for the family's trip. A movie shoot, a parade, policemen, rampaging bears, aliens, and much more collide in this remarkable new picture book adventure. The book includes a gatefold page at the end that explains in detail the train of chaos on the previous pages.
Hardcover. NY, NYR Children's Collection, reprint, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with red cloth spine. "Once upon a time, in fact it was Tuesday," the Bear went into the woods to settle in for his long winter nap. But when he awoke what had happened? The trees were gone, the grass was gone, the flowers were gone, and in their place were buildings, cars, a fenced-off courtyard. The Bear had no idea that he was in the middle of a factory. "Get back to work!" a man yelled out of the blue. "I don't work here," said the Bear, "I'm a bear." The man laughed and laughed. "Fine excuse for a man to keep from doing any work--saying he's a bear." And so it began and so it went, with the Bear protesting his bearness all the way from the Third Vice President to the First, and no one willing to believe that he wasn't just a silly man in a fur coat who needed a shave. How the bear endured and how he finally prevailed are the subject of this delightful modern fairy tale--beautifully illustrated with the author's inventive line drawings--about sticking up for yourself, no matter how many Foremen, General Managers, Vice Presidents, or even Company Presidents stand in your way. Reprint of this classic originally published in 1946.
Hardcover. NY, Schwartz & Wade, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY ZELINSKY on title page. Dust Devil received four starred reviews and was named a New York Times Notable Children's Book of the Year and an Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Winner. Children will be captivated by the beauty and exaggerated humor of Paul Zelinsky's American primitive-style paintings and the wit and energy of Anne Isaacs's unparalleled storytelling. Here is an original folktale starring an extraordinary gal who is as feisty as she is funny and as courageous as she is kind.
Hardcover. NY, Rinehart & Co., 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with half the spine missing, Blue cloth with silver and black eagle on cover and silver and black lettering. Black lettering on spine. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated in b&w and 3-colors by Charles Child. Biographical rhyming verse: Columbus to Woodrow Wilson, some generic categories. Name on page opposite half-title, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York , Scholastic, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 400 pages. SIGNED BY 12 ILLUSTRATORS plus editor, in book and on bookplate. More than 140 folktales, folk songs, poems, and essays, placed in historical context are brought together with over 300 original illustrations from 11 Caldecott Medal and 4 Caldecott Honor book artists.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust with light wear and a small closed tear, color illustrations by Deborah Zemke. Best friends Becky and Molly get into a ferocious fight when Becky refuses to trade dolls with Molly. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color cartoon illustrations by George Booth. The other hens in Farmer Brown's Tennessee henhouse think that Starlight LaPoule - (hush! Her real name is Ethel Fae Klucksworth) - is short a few feathers. They may be right. For Starlight is a chicken with a ridiculous dream. She wants to become a high-fashion model in Paris or Milan. And with the surprise help of her very own chicken fairy godmother, anything is possible. Or is it? With antic illustrations by renowned cartoonist George Booth, Harry Allard's funny story about a hen with outsize expectations is sure to crack up even the most hard-boiled of readers.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, 2nd pr., 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 48 pages. Illustrated with Dare Wright's b&w photos featuring a doll with her teddy bears and a live duckling. No dust jacket, Clean and bright, no markings.
Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins Publishers, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color and black and white illustrations by Maurice Sendak. SIGNED BY SENDAK. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, Phaidon Press, reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 120 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Another classic title from world-renowned cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempe, this illustrated children's book, originally published in French in 1969, tells the story of Martin Pebble, a little boy who has something unusual the matter with him: he keeps blushing all the time for no particular reason.
Hardcover. London, Frances Lincoln Children's Bks, reprint, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 56 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Some wear and light bumping to corners, otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to boards.
Hardcover. NY, Checkerboard Press, reprint, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, no dust jacket. Beautifully illustrated in color by Tasha Tudor. A book of inspirational quotes- Thoreau, Hugo, Emerson, Whitman, Shakespeare, etc.
Hardcover. New York, Sterling Children's Books, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Full page color illustrations by Teagan White. Tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1899, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original cloth-backed color pictorial boards. Full-page color frontispiece with five full-page color plates and numerous black-and-white line illustrations throughout. [19] leaves, printed recto only. Cloth spine gone leaving both covers detached, covers edgeworn, especially corners. Interior of book sound, clean with bright plates.
Hardcover. New York, Bloomsbury USA, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 176 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to edges. A tight copy. Color illustrations throughout by Roz Chast
Hardcover. NY, Hastings House, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with black stamping. 24 pages illustrated in 2-colors by Cooney. Copyright page says 1964 but ISBN number indicates a reprint. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, Windmill Books, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket covered in protective plastic. Small chips on rear of dust jacket. Light rubbing to edges of cover boards. Color illustrations throughout.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, After her grandfather's death, eight-year-old Sophia fulfills his last request and journeys to Greece with her mother to see the land where her roots are. Color art by Karen Barbour.
Hardcover. New York, Little Simon, 5th, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, unpaginated. Hardcover no dust jacket. This masterpiece of 3-D Paper Engineering by Sabuda has all parts and pieces working smoothly. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear cover boards.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Illustrated in color and two-colors by Antony Groves-Raines. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR ALDREN WATSON ON TITLE PAGE. Cover boards show moderate edgewear/soil, and corners lightly frayed/soiled. EX-LIBRARY with usually stamps and adhesive residue. Rear end paper has paper pasted in for due dates.
Hardcover. Prague, Brown and Watson / Artia, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. 10" x 8", 6 double page pop-ups of scenes telling the story of Puss-in-Boots. All 6 pop-ups seem to be working & sharp; illustrated with Kubasta cover; ; Treasure Hour Pop-Up Book. Clean copy. NOTE: The scarce original Prague edition in 1960 had 8 pop-ups.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 206 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Moderate wear to cover board edges. Illustrated by Harrison Cady.
Hardcover. Racine WI, Albert Whitman & Co., 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with a paste-down cover illustration, 127 pages illustrated with 2-color drawings by Hazel Fraser. Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean and bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 48 pages illustrated in color by the author. This is a facsimile of the original 1933 0versized edition that introduced the iconic elephant to American audiences. In a bright dust jacket that matches the laminated boards.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 64 pages illustrated in 3-colors by Joan Sandin. Every day is the same for Pablo's father. Then one afternoon the ground growls, hisses smoke, and swallows up his plow. A volcano is erupting in the middle of his cornfield! The story is based on reports of the eruption of Paricutin volcano on Feb. 29, 1943. It came up in the Mexican state of Michoacan, in the cornfiled of a Tarascan Indian Named Dionisio Pulido. No one was killed, but more that 2000 people are said to have lost their homes. An I Can Read History Book. Light stamp on rear endpaper, otherwise a bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Dutton Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. SIGNED BY SUSAN JEFFERS ON TITLE PAGE.
Hardcover. NY, Neal Porter/Holiday House, 1st, 2019, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, color illustrations by the author. It can be a little scary to be small in a big city, but this child has some good advice for a very special friend in need.Winner of the Ezra Jack Keats Award for Writer! A New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Book of the Year. The first book both written and illustrated by award-winning artist Sydney Smith spins a quiet, contemplative tale about seeing a big world through little eyes. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, reprint, 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in lightly worn pictorial boards, 64 pages illustrated in color by Lopshire. A tale of two competitive lizards trying to outdo each other. An I CAN READ Book. Clean, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Phaidon Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 48 pages. In this imaginative tale from master storyteller Tomi Ungerer, two young siblings find themselves cast away on mysterious Fog Island. No one has ever returned from the island's murky shores, but when the children begin to explore, they discover things are not quite as they expected.Ungerer's captivating drawings evoke the eerie beauty and magic surrounding this timeless adventure. Selected by both The New York Times and Publishers Weekly as one of the year's best children's books, Fog Island is destined to become a modern classic.
Hardcover. NY, Wonder Books, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 20 pages illustrated in color by Ruth Wood. Wonder Books #550, 39 cents. This lovely vintage children's book circa 1950 tells the story of an old school bus named Busby driven by Joe the driver and his many adventures. Ownership page with name, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, HMH Books for Young Readers, 1st thus, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 368 pages. Like all best friends, George and Martha do everything together--go to the movies, play at the beach, and just hang around not doing much of anything. George and Martha teach each other (and adoring readers) that even in a close friendship, privacy is important, practical jokes can sometimes backfire, and among other things, pouring split pea soup into your loafers to spare the chef's feelings is not the best-laid plan. A man with a talent for friendship, James Marshall defined its very essence in his stories about the world's two best friends. In this volume, all thirty-five episodes are brought together to celebrate friendship and two of the most lovable characters ever created. Each of these brief tales is filled with humor, and James Marshall's drawings are guaranteed to spark feelings of empathy, delight, and self-recognition. This collector's edition includes 35 stories, an introduction by Maurice Sendak as well as appreciations by some of the top authors and illustrators working in children's publishing today. It is a true testament to James Marshall as an author, as an artist, and as a person that his work and his life inspired such a diverse and immensely talented group. Noted children's book historian Anita Silvey provides an afterword.
Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 180 pages. Hardcover with a bright dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Books of Wonder, reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 304 pages. The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum is the 7th novel set in the Land of Oz. Characters include the Woozy, Ojo "the Unlucky", Unc Nunkie, Dr. Pipt, Scraps (the patchwork girl), and others. The book was first published on July 1, 1913, with illustrations by John R. Neill, all wonderfully reproduced in this facsimile edition. Afterword by Peter Glassman.
Hardcover. NY, Walker & Co., 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Virginia's famous father, Galileo, sleeps during the day and studies the sky at night. While he is sleeping, Virginia discovers a box on his desk with five objects inside - four pieces of glass and a feather - that reveal the world to her in new and wonderful ways.Using the rich colors and lush textures of the Renaissance, Catherine Brighton recreates Galileo's world. This child's-eye-view gives young readers an enchanting introduction to the accomplishments of Galileo, and delightfully celebrates the magic of science.An introduction by Dava Sobel, author of the best-selling adult book Galileo's Daughter, further illuminates the life experience of Galileo's daughter, Virginia. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. Illustrated by Mary Azarian. The journey begins for a young immigrant named Miss Bridie. It is a journey of hope and uncertainty, a journey that will take her to a new land, a new home, and--if she has chosen wisely--a good life. With elegant woodcuts, Caldecott medalist Mary Azarian brings to life Leslie Connor's spare story of a life rich with blessings, yet not without challenges. Here is a lyrical tribute to the millions of immigrants who left their homes to begin anew in America--and an enchanting look at how one woman carves out a life with the help of a common shovel.
Hardcover. San Diego/NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. In simple words and radiant collages, Debra Frasier celebrates the earth and extends an exuberant welcome to each member of our human family. Travel across our round planet as the moon pulls, the tides rise, the rain falls, and then a baby is born.
Hardcover. New York, Century Co, 1st, 1918, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 246 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Illustrations by Cox throughout. Large Brownie embellished letters at begining of each chapter. Page 167 corner tip chip. Green cloth with color label of frolicking Brownies centered on front cover. Titles on front cover and spine printed in blue. Minor wear. Ligth soil on covers. Previous owner's writing on piliminary page. Gutter cracked in multiple places, but still intact.
Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 40 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w illustrations by Wendy Watson. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to edges. Light gutter crack.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Sir Cedric's vacation in Jerusalem with his family and servants is interrupted when his wife, Lady Matilda, and daughter, Edwina the Fair, are kidnapped by evil Abdul the Heavy. Color illustrations by Gerrard. Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.