Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, Revised Ed., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MACAULAY on the half-title page. The information age is upon us, baffling us with thousands of complicated state-of-the-art technologies. To help make sense of the computer age, David Macaulay brings us The New Way Things Work. This completely updated and expanded edition describes twelve new machines and includes more than seventy new pages detailing the latest innovations. With an entirely new section that guides us through the complicated world of digital machinery, where masses of electronic information can be squeezed onto a single tiny microchip, this revised edition embraces all of the newest developments, from cars to watches. Each scientific principle is brilliantly explained--with the help of a charming, if rather slow-witted, woolly mammoth. Autographed sticker on cover, a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Kestrel, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, color illustrations by Kalman. Nighttime is the best time for stories. And Lulu is the best storyteller. She knows about the three cross-eyed dogs at a fancy restaurant, about blue and green mountains where fish fly, about the family party where Maishel Shmelkin forgot to wear his pants, and of course about the noodle woman the pointy red nose. The stories, told by a sister to her little brother, are short and sweet and make you remember things and forget things. Maira Kalman paints a wondrous and humor-filled world in a child's-eye view. It is full of wild invention, people familiar and outlandish, bittersweet moments and flights of fancy. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Ginn and Co., reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with black lettering on cover. A bright reprint of the book originally printed in 1921. Color frontis and b&w drawings throughout by Herford. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday and Co., reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, paper covered boards with a black cloth spine. Lovely b&w drawings by Bennett illustrate this tale about a young boy and his pet goat. Two-color endpapers illustration. Cloth spine reinforced with clear tape. corner and edgewear to covers. No markings.
Hardcover. NY, Platt and Munk, Revised Ed., 1932, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with large cover label illustration featuring Humpty Dumpty. Illustrated in color and b&w by Eulalie and Lois Lenski. Copyright page states 30th Edition with the latest date being 1932. Covers worn, spine cloth frayed with a short tear to bottom edge. Binding a little loose, fragile. Inside illustrations bright and clean.
Hardcover. NY, Flying Dolphin Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color drawings by New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday and Co., reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, illustrations in 2-colors by Leonard Weisgard. Twelve poems reflect the author's feelings about various colors. A nice early printing ($3.95 on flap) of this classic first published in 1961.
Hardcover. NY, Versify/Houghton, reprint, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. a poignant and powerful ode to the resilience and strength of black life and history in America. Originally performed for ESPN's The Undefeated in 2016, the poem adopts a picture book format with a new title, accompanied by stunning oil paintings in Nelson's trademark photorealistic style. The evocative illustrations stand out against stark white backgrounds and vary in their composition. On some spreads, the focus is on a single expressive portrait; others feature collages of African American icons from various disciplines, or refer to significant historical moments. The art functions in perfect harmony with the poet's spare, striking verse to electrify the Black American experience, and to celebrate black athletes, writers, musicians, activists, and heroes. Clean copy. Caldecott Winner 2020
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, Henry Z. Walck, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 114 pages. Illustrated in b&w by Judith Gwyn Brown. Translated from the Russian by Fainna Glagoleva. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston, 1st illust. thus, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with color illustration on cover label, 274 pages. Two-color and b&w illustrations by Robert Lawson. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
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. London/NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st US, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. At the edge of the forest, Mrs. Fox looks out at her babies frolicking in the snow. Suddenly, the little ones stray too far away and in an instant Mrs. Fox loses sight of them. She embarks on a search for the missing kits, hampered by the dense trees and the deep snow. Can the reader help her find them? Mrs. Fox is a classic hide-and-seek story told through clever and beautiful paper cutouts and engaging illustrations. Young readers will enjoy finding the little foxes on the page as much as flipping through the large format, die cut pages. Illustrated in color throughout.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a badly chipped dust jacket, 73 pages. Illustrated in b&w and two-colors by Marc Simont. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean and bright inside.
Hardcover. NY, Morrow Junior Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 246 pages. B&w illustrations by Tom Newsom. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 315 pages. B&w drawings by Erna Pinner. Appears to be a 1950s reprint of the 1939 title. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan Publishing, BC Ed., 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 32 pages. When gray clouds cover the sky for three days, Mother Hen's chicks, aided by animals of farmyard, field, and forest and guided by moon and cloud, set out to find the sun. Color illustrations by Jose Aruego and Ariane Dewey. Book Club Edition, clean.
Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, BC Ed., 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 35 pages illustrated in color by Galdone. Adapted from the Brothers Grimm tale. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, BC Ed., 1950, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 32 pages illustrated by Duvoisin in color and b&w, Weekly Reader's Book Club. Clean copy
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace & World, BC Ed., nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 32 pages illustrated in 3-colors by William Lipkind and Nicholas Mordbinoff. NOT ex-library. Weekly Reader edition. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Company, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in color throughout by Emma Chichester Clark. When Cissy Lavender house sits for Mr. William Holly's cats and dog, she finds a multitude of things to do and write to him about.
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. NY, The Viking Press, 2nd pr., 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with green bards stamped with silhouette design, beige cloth spine. No dust jacket. Winner of the Caldecott Medal in 1980. Color illustrations by Barbara Cooney. Short inscription on front fly leaf otherwise a clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light beige cloth with blue lettering on spine and drawing on front cover, 96 pages illustrated in color and b&w by the author.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated in color by Jack E. Davis. Clean copy. A classic horror movie on TV inspires Morty and Ray to paint a picture of themselves for all the wrong reasons.
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. Middlebury VT, Vermont Folklife Center, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In rural Quebec in the 1830s, Jenny is hired to help a family by cooking and cleaning after her predecessor, the beloved Emily, has died, but Jenny is mysteriously prevented from completing one of her chores. Color illustrations by Lydia Dabcovich.
Hardcover. NY, Philomel Books, 2nd pr., 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 42 pages illustrated in color by Anno. The reader, with the help of two children, Tom and Hannah, two white hats, and three red hats learns about logic. Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow Books, BC Ed., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth. 32 pages illustrated in color by Chess. As he encounters animals from A to Z, Alfred learns the letters of the alphabet. Book Club edition, clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth with black stamping. 32 pages illustrated with bold colors by the author. A young Indian boy gives timely warning of a forest fire, saving both the wild animals and his people. Tape residue on covers where dj was taped to book, light stamp to front endpaper. Ex-lib. Interior clean.
Hardcover. NY, Lothrop Lee and Shepard, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 32 pages illustrated in color by Adrienne Adams. Weekly Reader Club Ed. Name on inside front cover, light wear to bottom of spine, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, BC Ed., 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, illustrate with 2-color linoleum cuts by Brown. Weekly Reader Book Club Ed. Name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Viking/Ariel, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 147 pages, color plates by Van Allsburg. Inscription on half-title page.
Hardcover. NY, Scholastic, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated by Vladimir Vagin. While poking about in the attic, Marvin and Joey discover old letters written by their great-great uncles, Henry and Timothy, whose correspondence with each other reveals to the youngsters the truths about being different and being brothers. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Seymour CT, Greenwick Workshop Press, reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 100 pages illustrated in color by Gustafson. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in red. Illustrated in color by Norma Welliver. INSCRIBED BY HARRIS on the half-title page. Clean copy, no dust jacket. A circus clown tells his story.
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. Boston, Little Brown & Co., 1st US, 1974, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 32 pages illustrated with color paintings by Bradley done in a primitive style similar to Grandma Moses. Ex-lib with some light stamping, bookplate on inside front cover.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf/Ariel, 2nd pr., 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 87 pages illustrated in color by Atkinson.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated in color by Brown. Clean copy.
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. Boston, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with black lettering on spine and drawing of Charlie on front cover, 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. No dust jaclet.
Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st, 1951, Book: Poor, Hardcover, oblong pictorial boards, 55 pages. Charming children's story of a cobbler with a cat, a dog, and a little mouse named Mr. T. T. Anthony Woo. There is no peace in the house with the cat and dog always chasing after the mouse and vice-versa, until the cobbler's sister moves in with her parrot and upsets things ever more. Illustrated throughout with wonderful full page Lithographs by the author. A Caldecott Honor Book Award Winner in 1952. Fair to poor only as the binding has separated from the black cloth spine. It's all there. no markings, a scarce first printing that's begging to be repaired. Edgewear ro boards.
Hardcover. NY, Dial Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. With Mama Cactus-Eared Rabbit down with the flu, her mischievous twins, Munchit and Crunchit, and their friends--Rufus Coyote and his grumpy sister, Greyer, and cousin Arnold the Armadillo--set out to cook Mama a perfect get-well meal. Color illustrations by the author. Clean.
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Price: $12.00
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.
 "The New Way Things Work (SIGNED COPY) by: David Macaulay")
 "Hey Willy, See the Pyramids by: Maira Kalman")
 "The Herford Aesop: Fifty Fables in Verse by: Oliver Herford")
 "Skookum and Sandy by: Richard Bennett")
 "MOTHER GOOSE RHYMES by: Watty Piper")
 "The Alphabet from A to Y With Bonus Letter Z! by: Steve Martin and Roz Chast")
 "Hailstones and Halibut Bones: Adventures in Color by: Mary O'Neill /Leonard Weisgard")
 "The Undefeated by: Kwame Alexander, Kadir Nelson (Illustrator)")
 "A Barrel of Laughs A Vale of Tears by: Feiffer, Jules")
 "Finzel the Farsighted by: Paul Fleischman/Marcia Sewall")
 "My Brother Plays the Clarinet: Two Stories by: Anatolii Aleksin")
 "The Prince and The Pauper by: Mark Twain/Robert Lawson")
 "I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild's Pocket Book by: Opie, Iona & Peter, Maurice Sendak")
 "Mother Fox and Her Cubs by: Amandine Momenceau")
 "The Wonderful O by: James Thurber/Marc Simont")
 "The Mystery of the Cupboard by: Lynne Reid Banks")
 "Bambi's Children by: Felix Salten")
 "Paulossie: An Eskimo Boy by: Robert C. Swim")
 "How the Sun Was Brought Back to the Sky: Adapted From A Slovenian Folk Tale by: Mirra Ginsburg/ Jose Aruego and Ariane Dewey")
 "The Frog Prince by: Galdone, Paul")
 "Petunia by: Roger Duvoisin")
 "The Little Tiny Rooster by: Will and Nicolas")
 "Iduna and the Magic Apples by: Mayer, Marianna/ Laszlo Gal")
 "Cissy Lavender by: Lockwood, Primrose / Emma Chichester Clark")
 "Galileo's Treasure Box by: Catherine Brighton, Dava Sobel (Introduction)")
 "Ox-Cart Man by: Donald Hall/Barbara Cooney")
 "Wind Island by: Hedvig Collin")
 "The Picture of Morty & Ray by: Daniel Pinkwater/Jack E. Davis")
 "Greencoat and the Swanboy by: Marlowe deChristopher")
 "The Ghost on the Hearth by: Susan Milord")
 "Anno's Hat Tricks by: Akihiro Nozaki/Mitsumasa Anno")
 "Alfred's Alphabet Walk by: Victoria Chess")
 "Little Owl Indian by: Hetty Burlingame Beatty")
 "The Easter Bunny That Overslept by: Priscilla and Otto Friedrich")
 "The Hat by: Tomi Ungerer")
 "Dick Whittington and His Cat by: Marcia Brown")
 "A City in Winter by: Mark Helprin/Chris Van Allsburg")
 "Dear Brother by: Frank Asch/Vladimir Vagin")
 "Favorite Nursery Rhymes from Mother Goose by: Scott Gustafson")
 "This Is My Trunk (INSCRIBED COPY) by: Steven Michael Harris")
 "On the Day You Were Born by: Debra Frasier")
 "Miss Carter Came With Us by: Helen Bradley")
 "Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes by: Allen Atkinson")
 "Pola-Bats and Octopus Slacks by: Calef Brown")
 "Charlie Malarkey and the Belly-Button Machine by: Kennedy, William J. and Brendan")
 "Buttons by: Tom Robinson/Peggy Bacon")
 "Charlie Malarkey and the Belly-Button Machine by: Kennedy, William J. and Brendan")
 "A Gift of Gracias by: Julia Alvarez/Beatriz Vidal")
 "Mr. T.W. Anthony Woo: The Story of a Cat and a Dog and a Mouse by: Marie Hall Ets")
 "Trouble for Breakfast by: Sandy Gullikson")
