Vintage & Out-of-Print Children's Illustrated Books

Hardcover. NY, Four Winds Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Jack Kent. Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Softcover. NY, John Martin's Bookhouse Dodd Mead, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A collection of stories and verse illustrated in black and red by various artists. In unusually sharp, clean condition. Illustrated cardboard covers with very minor wear to corners.

Hardcover. NY, Hyperion Books, Book Cub Ed., 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Showing compassion for one's neighbor brings bountiful reward in this original tale based on Guatemalan folklore. Gently imparts a timeless message.--Publishers Weekly. Illustrated in bright, crisp colors of Hispanic folk art by Czernecki.

hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Black & white photos by Ylla. Light edgewear to dust jacket and rubbing. Shelf wear to covers.

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st UK, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 41 pages. Color illust. by Beisner. Laminated boards with crisp finish, illustrated in color front and back.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, reprint, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket with half the spine missing. Illustrated in color and b&w by the Haders.

Hardcover. NY, McElderry Books, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by James Watts. Clean, tight copy. Retelling of a wry Chinese folk tale, charmingly illustrated.

Hardcover. NY`, Child's Play Ltd., 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Meyrick. Laminated covered boards with color illustrations. Small dings on top edge.

Hardcover. Joliet, P.F. Volland Company , 4th Ed., 1927, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 94 pages. Illustrated in color by Marie Honre Myers. Illustrated endpapers.

NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1992, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Dust jacket pristine. Color illustrations by Brusca. A familiar folktale motif is that of the clever man who outwits the devil. In this zesty retelling, based on an Argentinian source, that man is Juan Pobreza, a poor blacksmith who reshoes a mule belonging to St. Peter and charges nothing for the job. Touched, St. Peter asks the man to name three wishes. Juan, sure that Peter is not who he claims to be, makes three seemingly senseless wishes that help him out later when he must deal with the agents of the devil. In the twist at the end, Pobreza finds himself barred from both heaven and hell.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color cartoon illustrations by Lorenz. In glossy boards with mild spine fade. No dust jacket. Tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. This is a pictorial memoir of Melisande, a most uncommon dog who becomes a famous opera singer. B&w cartoon illustrations by Roy McKie. Clean copy.

NY, Potter, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrations by Helen Craig. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Lightly bumped corners. When Angelina Ballerina sees old Mr. Bell all alone at Christmastime, she decides to bring him some holiday cheer. Cousin Henry doesn?t want to help until he finds that there?s a real Santa Claus living in their town!

NY, Random House, 1st US, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. llustrated with color pictures and diagram of Excursion Steamer. Translated from the French by Merle Haas. Color illustrated paper covered boards with edgewear to corners, edges.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 2nd pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Color cartoon illustrations by Quentin Blake.

NY, Grosset & Dunlap , 1st, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Berthold. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Illustrated end papers. Edgewear and chipping to covers. Tears at the bottom and top of spine.

Hardcover. Hungary, Petofi Printing House, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial laminated boards. Color illustrations by Emma Heinzelmann. Spine and corners rubbed. Translated by Judith Elliott. Covers slightly splayed. The Terrible Seven cats terrify nine dogs, all called Louis in what was perhaps the most frightful conflict since cat and dog wars began.

Hardcover. NY, Garden City Publishing, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, pictorial boards in a edgeworn dust jacket, unclipped (1.00). Notable for the illustrations by Ralston Crawford. Ralston Crawford (1906-1978) was an American abstract painter, lithographer, and photographer. Clean copy.

NY, Putnam, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Ed Young. Delamination, edgewear, soil, and tape residue to dust jacket. Small pen markings on title-page. In this reinvention of Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, images by Caldecott medalist Ed Young and new text by Eleanor Coerr come together to inspire children of all ages. In her novel Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, Eleanor Coerr told the moving story of Sadako and her brave struggle against leukemia, the "atom-bomb disease," which she developed when she was twelve, just ten years after the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. The novel became a classic, and when Sadako's story was to be made into a film, Caldecott medalist Ed Young was asked to do the illustrations. With love and commitment, he created hauntingly beautiful pastels which bring to life the spirit of Sadako, her courage and her strength.

Hardcover. Chicago IL, Albert Whitman & Co, reprint, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 160 pages. Color and black & white illustrations by Eleanore Mineah Hubbard. Previous owner's bookplate and signatures on front end paper and front fly leaf. Top corners bumped. Wear to covners and spine. Scribbling in pencil on rear endpaper. Some soiling to covers.

Hardcover. Stockholm, Albert Bonniers, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong pictorial boards with green cloth spine. Beautiful color plates by Beskow. SWEDISH TEXT. Small sticker on inside front cover, otherwise a clean copy.

NY, Knopf, 1st US, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glossy boards. Color illustrations by the author. Light edgewear and rubbing to covers. No dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom-edge.nspired to test Alfred's love, Susie dresses up as a princess and plays "damsel in distress," but Alfred is too busy to come to her aid, until she is confronted by a real dragon.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, reprint, nd , Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 147 pages. 12 color illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Red cloth covers with gold lettering and decoration. Spine faded. Rubbing to corners, spine. Light soiling to covers. Previous owner's stamp on front end paper.

Hardcover. Buffalo NY, Annick Press, 1st US, 1994, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, laminated pictorial boards. No dust jacket. Color illustrations by Bernard Oberdieck. No dust jacket. A rare white owl who has always lived in a cage in a travelling circus is bought by the gardener at a nearby castle, who lets her out of her cage in the attic to scare the mice. When the opportunity for escape presents itself, the owl hesitates. Freedom means taking responsibility and risks. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by the author. Dust jacket with light rubbing and price clipped. First re-issue. Clean, tight copy.

New York, Harcourt Brace , 3rd pr., 1994, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by David Diaz. Winner of the Caldecott Medal with sticker on dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow , 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket with light edgewear. Thirty full-color reproductions of paintings by a world-famous artist provide the basis for an allegory of love involving the quest of the white tiger for the tigress of his dreams. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.Black & white illustrations by Michael McCurdy.

Hardcover. NY, Century Co., 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 246 pages, illustrated with b&w photographs and drawings. Illustrated cardboard covers, Fair map on front end paper. Previous owner's inscription in pencil, otherwise exceptional condition.

Hardcover. NY, Golden Press, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, laminated boards. Color illustrations by Feodor Rojankovsky. First published in 1949, this appears to be a 70s reprint, code letters inside rear cover stop at J. A big elephant leaves the circus, builds a house, helps the townspeople, and finds happiness. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Garden City Publishing Co, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations. Illustrated end papers. Covers with light edgewear and chipping to boards. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Previous owner's stamp on front end paste-down. Internally very good.

Hardcover. Boston , Houghton Mifflin , unknown, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Kurt Wiese. 68 pages. Decorated light tan cloth binding. Previous owner's inscription on front pastedown. A solid G+ copy of this fragile book. No date on title page, assume reprint.

Hardcover. NY, Child Guidance Books, 1st, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Includes five pages with moving figures under cellophane (figures move automatically as book is opened or pages are turned.) Illustrated by Liz Dauber. Oblong format. Very good in glossy illustrated boards. No markings. No date but appears to 1970s.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, INSCRIBED BY FEIFFER on half title page. Illustrated in color.

NY, Philomel Books, 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Patrick Benson. Bright, unclipped dust jacket. Five episodes featuring Hob, a goblin, and the family he lives with and protects, though only the children can see him.

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Based on a tale by Nathaniel Hawthorne, here retold in verse. Black and white drawings and silhouettes by Marc Brown. Dust jacket with closed tear, edgewear at top of cover.

New York, Lothrop Lee Shepard, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 30 pages. Color illustrations by Alexi Natchev. A long-suffering man who tries to please his crabby and demanding wife is bested by a sly fox in this Hungarian folktale. In the dead of winter, an old peasant woman insists that her husband rustle up some succulent fish to eat. Obsessed, she embroiders fish patterns on the napkins and hums fish songs until she drives her husband batty. In June he finally embarks on a fishing expedition and hauls in a great catch. Outfoxed by a fish-loving fox, the man returns home empty-handed, surely to endure more henpecking. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 47 pages. Three-color illustrations by Paul Galdone. Dust jacket price clipped. Creases, rubbing, edgewear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman, 5th pr., 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth with color illustrated pastedown on front cover. Color illustrations by Lindman. Ex-lib with light stamping, marking, residue to end papers. Mild red stain to left bottom corner of cover plate.

Hardcover. NY, Michael di Capua Books, unk, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 48 piece puzzle with a book of clues to help solve the mystery. As new in box in original shrink wrap. 16 3/8'' x 11 1/8''

Hardcover. La Jolla CA, Green Tiger Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 33 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Tipped-in color illustrations by Frederic Clement. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover, previous owner's inscription on blank pelim page. Nice dust jacket (also with a paste-on color illustration).

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 6th pr., 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 96 pages illustrated with spectacular watercolor-splashed pages by Meilo So. Here in one gloriously illustrated volume are 211 wonderful poems that represent the best this century has to offer. From sibling rivalry, school, monsters, food, and just plain silliness, to such ageless themes as the seasons, Who am I?, and the many moods of childhood, this is a collection that begs to be read aloud and shared with the whole family. The poems, from every decade of this century, showcase 137 famous poets.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st US, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Unpaginated. Color illustrations by Browne. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Young Scott Books / William R. Scott, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket. B&w illustrations by David Stone Martin. Story of a chicken who survived a hurricane and became a pet to a young boy and his father who helped him.

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 42 pages. hardcover with dust jacket. Color and black & white illustrations by Bryan. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.

NY, Bloomsbury, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Tim Raglin.Poor Bill! He is a bull with a passion for fine china. But, as we all know, bulls and china don't really go together too well - or is that just prejudice? In fact, Bill is a perfect collector of the most charming china cups, and only starts to break things when he is made to feel nervous. This is a delightful book about a bull, a china shop and three very kind old ladies. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, color illustrations by Steig. Pete is a young boy who is in a bad mood because it's a rainy day so he decides he would like to be a pizza. His parents play along with his make-believe game until the sun comes out and "the pizza" decides it's time to go out to play with his friends.

Hardcover. London, Hutchinson & Co., 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 279 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. 16 color plates, b&w drawings by H.M. Brock. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, two-color pctorial boards. 2-color illustrations by Rockwell. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar and Rinehart, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated green cloth with drawing of woodchuck on front cover. B/w illustrations by Sharon Stearns. Light soil, marking to endpapers, interior clean.