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

Hardcover. NY, Platt & Munk, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth covers stamped in black. The kindness and determination of the Little Blue Engine have inspired millions of children around the world since the story was first published in 1930. Cherished by readers for over ninety years, The Little Engine That Could is a classic tale of the little engine that, despite her size, triumphantly pulls a train full of wonderful things to the children waiting on the other side of a mountain. Illustrated in color by George and Doris Hauman. Clean, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt, 3rd, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 232 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Michael Hague. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.

Hardcover. New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 88 pages. Colorful illustrations by Lynn Munsinger throughout accompanying short humorous poems by various poets. Clean inside and out, in great shape!

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, BC Ed., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 32 pages illustrated in color by Kahl. An adventurous boy is warned about giants when he sets out to see the world that lays beyond his home in the forest. Weekly Reader Book Club Edition.

Hardcover. New York, Wonder Books, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Previous owner's name on front end paper. Tight copy. Illustrations by Irv Gershen.

Hardcover. London, Hutchinson, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 358 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. True UK 1st. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, color illustrations by Nancy Winslow Parker. Amy watches as everyone leaves the house and as neighbors are busy in the street, but when Grandpa finally comes Amy goes out too. Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York , The Viking Press , 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 83 pages, black & white drawings by David Hockney. Cover slightly stained, otherwise a very good copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Co., 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 48 pages. Full color and black & white illustrations by Charles Fox Phillips. Dust jacket shows minor wear. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Candlewick Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 32 pages. Discover the wonders of ancient Egypt through a fascinating journal from a lost expedition -- a treasure trove of fact and fantasy featuring a novelty element on every spread. Who can resist the allure of ancient Egypt -- and the thrill of uncovering mysteries that have lain hidden for thousands of years? Not the feisty Miss Emily Sands, who in 1926, four years after the discovery of King Tut's tomb, led an expedition up the Nile in search of the tomb of the god Osiris. Alas, Miss Sands and crew soon vanished into the desert, never to be seen again. But luckily, her keen observations live on in the form of a lovingly kept journal, full of drawings, photographs, booklets, fold-out maps, postcards, and many other intriguing samples.

Softcover. US, Platt & Munk, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover with light to minor wear to paper wrappers. Abraision to front cover. Illustrated by H. Cady. Previous owner's markings on some pages.

Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Margot Tomes. Dj price clipped. Small closed tear to spine.

Hardcover. NY, Dial Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Color art by Max Ginsburg. A biography of the fifteen-year-old Iowa teenager who helped avert a train disaster in 1881 and became a national heroine. Clean copy.

Softcover. New York, Sam Gabriel Sons, 1st, 1911, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover with minor wear to paper wrappers. Illustrated by author in color. Wrappers show chipping and fraying. tight copy. Previous owners markings on front end paper.

NY, Holiday House, 1st , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Robert Sauber. Frolya, a talking dove, weaves a beautiful rug for the archer Frol, which leads to a series of exciting adventures for the archer when the wicked czar covets the dove, adventures that lead Frol to the magical Land of I-Know-Not-Where.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 78 pages illustrated in 2-colors by Seuss. Here is the true story about the Godiva family, and the seven sisters who are each far too intelligent to waste time worrying about frivolous things like doing their hair, makeup, or you know, clothes. When their father is killed by a horse, they take it upon themselves to discover seven Horse Truths, one from each sister, before any of them will ever know true love. What follows is a clever, funny and sometimes touching story that is a little different from your average Dr. Seuss book. Originally published in 1939. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, North-South Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. From the gospel of Luke, illustrated by Eleonore Schmid. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.

Hardcover. NY, Four Winds Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. hardcover with dust jacket. Illust. in color by Stanley. Dust jacket with chip, light soil to rear. Tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with maroon lettering, drawing on font cover, no dust jacket. Bright color illustrations by Nicole Rubel. Though best friends, Maggie and Chester must separate as she prefers to live in the North and he, the South. Scarce title. Light discoloration to edge of front cover, otherwise bright and clean.

Hardcover. Racine, WA, Western Publishing/Little Golden Book, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket issued. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by James Stevenson. New Yorker cartoonist's first children's book of many to follow. Dust jacket with soil, edgewear, chip to bottom 1" of spine, small price sticker.

Softcover. Beijing, Zhaohua Publishing House, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 40 pages. Lovely color illustrations throughout by Zhu Chengliang. Clean copy. An adventure story set in old China.

Hardcover. New York, Patheon/Random House, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by author. Dust jacket shows moderate wear. Adhesive residue on front. Internally clean and bright.

hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st , 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Say. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Lothrop Lee & Shepard , 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Lovely color illustrations by Jan Ormerod. One winter morning Jenny discovers a hawk has come to the farm, and she develops a rapport with the graceful sky dancer. Clean copy.

Softcover. New York, Raphael Tuck & Sons Co, 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 12 unnumbered pages. Soft cover with stapled binding. Color and black and white Illustrations. Moderate creasing and chipping to booklet. Light soil to rear wrapper.

Hardcover. NY, Golden Press, 1st , 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color pictures by Ronald Himler. Previous owner's bookplate opposite title-page.

Hardcover. Chicago, Books House for Children, 2nd pr., 1927, Book: Very Good, Light blue textured covers with gilt titles to front and spine, set-in circular color illustrated plate with gilt embossed border, decorated endpapers, profusely illustrated with lovely color plates by Maud and Miska Petersham. Pages crisp and unmarked; a lovely collection of nursery rhymes. Illustrated title page. Each leaf with a color illustration. Part of the My Travelship series. First published in 1925, this is the 1927 reprint.

Hardcover. NY, Wonder Books, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy boards, color illustrations throughout by Mars. Clean copy. Wonder Book # 651.

Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st , 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardocver with dust jacekt. Color illust. by Robert Rayevsky. Tales told in verse by Paxton. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY BROWNE on the front endpaper. First edition with Browne's illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 109 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR ON TITLE PAGE. Vibrant color illustrations throughout. small dent on front cover bottom, otherwise tight copy. This retrospective volume is not intended to illustrate a particular story, but to display the full range of her abilities, and it is arranged according to the seasons she celebrates in her art. There are fifty of her hand-colored woodcuts in full color and an equal number in black and white. The book is large format because that is the way she works and that's what does her work justice. The text, written by her friend Lilias Hart, discusses not only her work, but also what life is like in the rigorous reaches of Northern Vermont.

Hardcover. NY, Wonder Books, Reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial cardboard covers. Originally published in 1958. Color illustrations by Bud Sagendorf.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay Co, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover. Brown cloth covers with embossed black titles, color plate pasted to front board, color-illustrated dust jacket, 11 full-page color plates by Jessie Willcox Smith. Edgewear and chipping to dust jacket, two 2" tears to dust jacket top front cover, otherwise dust jacket still makes neat presentation with acetate protective covering, pages crisp, clean and unmarked; overall a very neat copy.

Hardcover. Mankato MN, Creative Education, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Glazed boards illustrated in color, 32 pages, color art by Roland Topor.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st US, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Beisner. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Intriguing illustrations highlight this collection of visual and verbal puzzles, with cats providing the center of focus. Riddles and rhymes lead readers from page to page, challenging children's perceptions as well as their imaginations. Some spreads involve spotting differences; others ask viewers to find identical matches. The most captivating pages ask readers to find feline shapes amid landscapes or hidden among the branches of a bare tree.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally , reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 344 pages, 10 color plates by Milo Winter. Blue cloth covers with paste-on cover label and gilt decoration.

Hardcover. NY, Philomel, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Young. Doko is only a simple basket. It is not only grain from the field that he carries--he has also carried his master's child, and wood for the fire. He was there when the child became a man and married. And he very nearly had to carry the grandfather away forever. Luckily, someone wise beyond their years spoke up and made it possible for Doko to carry the grandfather home again instead. As ever, Ed Young has taken a simple fable and made it into a masterpiece of stunning illustration and expert storytelling. This beautiful and unique book celebrates the generations with great originality.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 2nd pr., 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Illustrated in 2-colors by Bright. Ex-lib with light stamps, residue to rear paste-down. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Cleveland, World Publishing Co., 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 48 pages illustrated in color by Schulz. In the scarce dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Hart Publishing, 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 56 pages. Two-color illustrations by Ronald Ferns. Previous owner's inscription on back of front endpaper. Dust jacket with light edgewear. Story of a cat and her kittens moving into a new town.

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.

Hardcover. Chicago, Benefic Press, reprint, 1964, Hardcover, 61 pages illustrated in color by Jack Merryweather. Library stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Story of a skunk who makes friends with cowboys on a western ranch. No dust jacket.

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. New York, Thomas Crowell, 1st, 1893, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 79 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. B&w illustrations by F.G. Attwood. Blue and cream cloth covers with black and gilt design. Newspaper article pasted into front end papers, previous owner's name on end paper, moderate soil to cover boards. Rear gutter cracked on end paper.

Hardcover. NY, Crowell, 2nd pr., 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, oblong, 83 pages. Black & white & red woodcut illustrations by Leo & Diane Dillon. Dust jacket price-clipped, shows some wear and chipping at edges.

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.

Hardcover. New York , Clarion Books, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color by the author. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY/Oakland, Triangle Square, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated by Ed Young. Told in haiku-based American Sentences and pictures, Yugen is the story of a boy and his mother, inspired by the profound concept of "yugen," a Japanese word for the mystery and beauty of the universe and of human experience. The second collaboration between Caldecott-winning illustrator Ed Young and Mark Reibstein after their award-winning 2008 debut, Wabi Sabi, Yugen is a book of longing and remembrance that is unequaled in its beauty and poetic simplicity.

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.