Hardcover. NY, NYR Children's Collection, reprint, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 64 pages illustrated in 2-colors by Kunhardt. Originally published in 1933. Junket is a delicious custard and a lovely dessert. But why is the old man with a red beard and red slippers eating such an enormous bowl of junket, and what could he possibly be thinking about while he feasts? That's a good question! And one that the old man poses to the crowds and crowds of people that gather to watch him. In fact, almost everyone in the whole world wants to know the answer to this riddle. And only one little boy has the answer. This ingenious book of inspired nonsense was the very first from Dorothy Kunhardt, whose Pat the Bunny has delighted generations of young children. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday and Co., 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 64 pages, color designs by Al Nagy. SIGNED BY O'NEILL on front fly leaf. Stamp and name to rear endpapers, but no other sign of being ex-lib copy.
Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth with a color paste-down on cover, 263 pages, A collection of 35 Native American animal folklore tales. Wood-lore (or, the ways of wild things) are told in an engaging format - a wise old chief holds evening "story-time" sessions with his very curious grandson, Little Beaver. Running through the linked narrative is the little black bear Moween, of whom Little Beaver is particularly fond. Illustrated with 8 color plates, a color title page and an endpapers drawing by Paul Bransom. Light shelf wear.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green boards stamped with decorative design, 36 pages with Martin's striking artwork. Light shelf wear, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, Marcus Ward and Co., 1st Edition, 1883, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 56 pages; color llustrated boards with brown cloth spine with colored plates by the authors throughout. Verses by Felix Leigh. Cover exhibits edgewear, heaviest at the corners of the boards, which are bumped and have the underlying cardboard exposed. Back cover has a bump at the fore-edge and another at the bottom. Both covers slightly spotted. Interior: binding cracked at page 9; missing between front fly leaf and dedication page (evidence of something tipped in with glue and later removed along reverse of front fly leaf)-- however, the book is otherwise intact. All illustrations present in this edition: lovely plates depicting life in Victorian England, interior very clean.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Henry Altemus, Unknown, 1907, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 70 pages. Grey cloth illustrated cover, heavily soiled. B&W plates by the author throughout, one color plate. Heavy edgewear, smudging and some crayon marks throughout. Stamped and inscribed by previous owner. Binding cracked. Scarce edition. Illustrated throughout with clever line drawings which hide an additional item. Clues are given below each picture. An answer page describing the location of each hidden picture is included at the rear.
Paperback. Bear Creek NC, Blackie Bear Corp., 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 58 pages, spiral-bound. B&W illustrations by the author throughout. Some rust on binding. Heavy paper cover exhibits some edgewear, bottom fore-edge corner bumped. Small water damage stain to the bottom corner of the spine. Large pencil mark on page 29. Otherwise clean edition. Sixth in a series of Blackie Bear books for children about anthropomorphized, clothes-wearing animals of the Smoky Mountain region. Blackie Bear introduces children to nature through his woodland antics and wildlife adventures.
Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1st Ed, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Unpaginated; color illustrations by Garth Williams throughout. Full-color cover with black-cloth binding, exhibits some edgewear. Bookplate on front endpaper and some pencil marks. Interior text clean. Dust jacket has edgewear, damp wrinkling, as well as soiling around edges, unclipped, but with adhesive marks from tape on top edges. Otherwise, clean copy.
Hardcover. Joliet IL, Volland, 1st, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Large format, 48 pages, illustrated in color and b&w by Rae. Illustrated cardboard covers worn along edges and at corners. Some soiling or darkening to areas of cover. Paper chipping to spine. Internally very good.
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. Paris, Domino Press, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 16 pages, blue cloth spine with illustrated cardboard covers. Bright color lithographs throughout. French language edition. Light soiling to covers otherwise very good, clean and tight.
Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrations throughout by Tudor and INSCRIBED BY HER on front fly leaf and dated 1977. Book is in excellent condition except for a slight musty odor. Issued without a dust jacket.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Henry Altemus, 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 58 pages, illustrated with 27 color plates by J.L.G. (Johnny Gruelle). Red cloth spine with gray boards and a color label on front cover. Dust jacket has edgewear, chipping, small holes in spine. Previous owner's signature on end papers.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages, illustrated in color and b&w by Kurt Wiese. Illustrated cardboard covers with black cloth spine. Light wear to corners otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Little Brown and Co., 5th pr., 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages illustrated in color by Nolan and INSCRIBED BY BOTH AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR on the title page. Dust jacket with light edgewear, unclipped.
New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Tony Chen. Dust jacket with closed tear.
Hardcover. Paris, Maison Alred Mame, 1st thus, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages, illustrated in color and b&w by JOB, featuring 16 gorgeous color plates. Blue cloth spine, color illustrated boards. French text. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, very good.
Hardcover. New York, Cupples and Leon, 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 48 pages, illustrated in color and b&w by Richard Hudson. In the scarce dust jacket with mild soil, edgewear.
Hardcover. New York, Lodestar Books/Dutton, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages, illustrated in color by Eileen Christelow. Very good in bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Scholastic Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 6 double-page color pop-ups, engineered by Reinhart, text by Yorinks, art by Sendak. Like new condition, no dust jacket issued. While looking for his mother in a haunted house, a little boy plays pranks on the monster inhabitants.
Hardcover. New York, Scholastic Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 6 double-page color pop-ups, engineered by Reinhart, text by Yorinks, art by Sendak. Like new condition, no dust jacket issued.
Softcover. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 12 heavy paper sheets plus cover, bound together with blue cord in punched holes at top. One and two color illustrations by Shepard, verse for every month by Milne. Some light pin-size spotting to corner of cover, otherwise clean and bright.
Hardcover. Boston, Damrell & Upham, 1st, 1892, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 117 pages. lllustrated throughout with b&w reproductions of original woodcuts. Super condition in red cloth with bright gilt design. With the scarce dust jacket in white with a red design that mimics the cloth cover. There is edgewear and tiny holes in the paper along the spine, otherwise all there. A blue ink check mark in the top corner of the front fly leaf is the only internal mark.
Softcover. London, Raphael Tuck & Sons, reprint, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 16 pages, illustrated with 5 color lithographs (including cover) and several line drawings. Heavy paper covers, nice clean condition. No date, appears circa 1890-1900.
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. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1st, 1917, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 125 pages, illustrated with 8 color and 8 b&w plates plus a decorative title page by Alice Carsey. Green cloth covers with color pastedown on front (repeated as a plate inside). Previous owner's inscription on a blank preliminary page. Page 9 (the first page of text) has a small paper scar to about an inch square which caused the previous owner to hand-letter the text in the area. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 32 pages illustrated in 2-colors by Bridgman. In a lightly edgeworn dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. Shawnee Mission KS, Autism Asperger Publishing, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 37 pages, illustrated in color. Like new in a bright dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday and Co., reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 76 pages, illustrated in color and b&w by De Angeli. Color illustrated map on end papers, color boards with an edgeworn dust jacket with short, closed tears, price-clipped. Appears to be a 1960s reprint.
Hardcover. New York, Platt & Munk, reprint, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 62 pages illustrated with 29 color plates by Ver Beck. Red cloth covers with color label on front, black lettering and design. A reprint of the 1926 Altemus book. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Co., 1st, 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 48 pages with color and b&w illustrations by Slobodkin. Ex-library but with minimal stamping and remnants of tape where dust jacket was attached to cover.
Hardcover. New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 32 pages. Color illustrations by Say. Minor edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, attractive copy. One morning eight-year-old Martin looks in the mirror and sees a stranger. Overnight, he has changed. His parents take him to one doctor after another, only to be told that there is nothing wrong with their son. At school his teacher asks, "What have we here, trick or treat?" His classmates will not play with him. At home his family tries to treat him as if he were the same child. But things now are different. Martin has grown very old in the space of one day. His world will never be the same again.
Hardcover. New York, Books of Wonder/Morrow, 1st thus, 1994, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 64 pages, illustrated in color by Michael Witte. The first edition with illustrations by Witte and SIGNED BY BOTH JUSTER AND WITTE on the title page. Like new.
Hardcover. Chicago, M.A. Donohue and Co., reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 96 pages illustrated in color by Gruelle. Bright cardboard covers in color, wear to corners. Light tape shadow to front endpaper illustration, otherwise clean internally.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, reprint, 1971, Book: Good, Unpaginated, color illustrated boards with light soil, corners worn, Internally clean. Back cover references 32 books by Seuss ending with The Lorax in the first group. Yellow box present with Rudolf Flesch quote, but no reference to Lake Erie.
Hardcover. New York, Barse and Hopkins, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 184 pages plus publisher's ads, 4 color plates and many b&w drawings by uncredited artist (but appears to be Campbell). Appears to be collected material from earlier books so copyright date make be earlier than published date. Bright blue cloth covers with red lettering, color illustration label on front. Previous owner's gift inscription in pencil on front fly leaf with 1927 date. A clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Silver Burnett, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 320 pages illustrated mostly in color by Dorothy Bayley. Illustrated cloth covers. Previous owner's inscription opposite title page, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Berlin, Union Deutsche, 4th printing, n.d., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 105 pages, illustrated in color and b&w by Capek. White cloth spine with color illustrated boards. No date listed. German text. Cover edges with light wear.
Hardcover. New York, Friendship Press, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 62 pages, color illustrations by Wood. Red cardboard covers with black lettering and drawing of African child. Front fly leaf missing, otherwise very good.
Hardcover. New York, Cassell & Co., unknown, 1888, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 28 pages illustrated with b&w illustrations by Various artists, frontispiece by Charlotte Weeks. Cardboard covers with color illustration on front, publishers ad on rear. Light edgewear to boards, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages illustrated in color by Vladimir Vagin. SIGNED BY PATERSON on bookplate glued to front fly leaf. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in 2-colors by Low. In a bright, unclipped dust Jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st illustrated thus, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 127 pages illustrated in color by Michelle Wiggins. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, Raphael Tuck, na, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 96 pages, illustrated with 23 chromolithographs by E.M. and M.F. Taylor. Tan boards with a color label on front cover, green cloth spine. Text and illustrations printed on one side only. Previous owner's inscription on preliminary blank page dated 1909. Light edgewear to covers otherwise very good.
Hardcover. Chicago, Reilly & Britton Co., 1st, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated (16 pages), pictorial boards by C.A. Sieber and inside pages illustrated in color by J.R. Bray. Fragile, with light chipping to spine and rubbing to covers.
Hardcover. New York, Windmill Books, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, illustrated in 2-colors by Hoff. Light soil to cloth covers. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise very good.
Softcover. New York, Platt & Munk, reprint, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 16 softcover volumes, 12 pages each, all illustrated in color and b&w by Eulalie. In the original cardboard box with a color design. There are tears to top edges of box and two small inked words otherwise very good. The 16 booklets are clean, stapled.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 64 pages illustrated in color by Adrienne Adams. Dust jacket worn with chipping, some tanning. Flap is price-clipped (has mandatory "A" on title page). Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, last page with dog-ear crease to top corner. Otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Unpaginated (46 pages), color illustrated boards with blue cloth spine. Illustrated with color and b&w lithographs by the D'Aulaires. True first with $2 on front flap. Dust jacket is poor with big chunks gone, closed tears. Spine of the book has fraying to top and bottom. Previous owner's inscription on illustrated front fly leaf. Otherwise clean, very good.
Record # 405277
Price: $60.00
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