Hardcover. New York, Capital Publishing Co., 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 22 pages illustrated in color with oversize die-cut cardboard covers. Features a piece of felt that can be buttoned to dog's face at the nose - which is an actual button. Green plastic spiral binding, light crease to back cover,dog head reinforced in rear, otherwise very good. Story by Terrus, design and pictures by Plowitz.
Hardcover. New York, Dutton, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages illustrated in color by Stadler. SIGNED WITH A DRAWING OF A PIG BY ARTIST on front end paper. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.
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. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 256 pages, illustrated with 4 color plates, many b&w drawings by Margaret Freeman. Blue cloth covers with red design, spine faded. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean, very good internally.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 44 pages, illustrated with color and b&w lithographs by Gannett. Red cloth spine faded, edges of cardboard covers show wear, light chipping to paper. Book is shaken, but solid with bright colors to covers, internally clean. Top and boom of spine bumped,frayed.
Hardcover. New York /London, Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1st thus, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 104 pages, 12 color plates and many in b&w. Maroon cloth spine over glazed boards illustrated in color. No date given, but circa 1900. Various illustrators contributed including Frances Brundage and Harold Copping. Frontispiece loose but otherwise good+, light edgewear to covers.
Hardcover. New York , Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st US, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 32 pages illustrated in color by Browne. Bright, unclipped dust jacket. Browne's wry fractured fairy tale sets the Goldilocks story in a contemporary urban neighborhood and tells it from the dual viewpoints of a lost little girl and a baby bear. The girl's story, shown on left-hand pages, is wordless; sepia-toned pictures show a bespectacled, blond kid who gets lost in the city streets, enters a house with an open door, eats porridge, breaks a chair, and snuggles up to nap. On each facing page, Baby Bear tells his parallel story, illustrated in full color, of walking in the park with Daddy and Mommy and then coming home to find his breakfast gone, his chair broken, and someone asleep in his bed.
Hardcover. New York , Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st US, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages illustrated in color by Browne. Browne's wry fractured fairy tale sets the Goldilocks story in a contemporary urban neighborhood and tells it from the dual viewpoints of a lost little girl and a baby bear. The girl's story, shown on left-hand pages, is wordless; sepia-toned pictures show a bespectacled, blond kid who gets lost in the city streets, enters a house with an open door, eats porridge, breaks a chair, and snuggles up to nap. On each facing page, Baby Bear tells his parallel story, illustrated in full color, of walking in the park with Daddy and Mommy and then coming home to find his breakfast gone, his chair broken, and someone asleep in his bed.
Hardcover. New York , Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Theft protection sticker on front fly leaf. Clean, tight copy otherwise. Color illustrations by Sis.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 32 pages illustrated in color by Grifalconi, Bright, unclipped dust jacket. Sissy, a pensive, round-faced, soft-eyed little black girl, mopes around her Georgia farm feeling neglected, lonely and "all grumpy-like." She is missing her father, who ". . . had died back when I was a baby girl." But her understanding uncle emerges from the fields, sees her sadness, and makes her feel better by reminding her that "we all be family." Uncle Dan knows that, just like his crops, she needs a little watering, a little love , and a little attention to shake off her blues. Sissy's Uncle Dan is able to cheer the little girl up when he takes her into the corn fields and points out to her how each and every one of the ears of corn is different from the other.
Hardcover. New York , Harper and Row, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by the author. Dust jacket with minor wear, bright, unclipped.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages illustrated in color by author. This copy SIGNED BY VAN ALLSBURG on the title page. Tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Henry Z. Walck, 2nd pr., 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 39 pages illustrated in color and b&w by Jane Paton. Bright dust jacket with light wear.
Hardcover. New York, Philomel, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 32 pages illustrated in color by the Dillons and SIGNED BY BOTH on title page.
Hardcover. New York , Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 48 pages, illustrated in color by 43 illustrators. SIGNED BY SIX OF THE ARTISTS ON PUBLISHER'S BOOKPLATE PASTED OPPOSITE TITLE PAGE: STEVEN KELLOGG, LANE SMITH, ALICE PROVENSEN, TRINA SCHART HYMAN, BARRY MOSER, NATALIE BABBITT. Wraparound cover band present.
Hardcover. New York , Knopf, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 42 pages illustrated in color by Wiktor Sadowski. Color illustrated boards, no dust jacket issued for this library edition. NOT ex-library, clean and bright copy.
Hardcover. New York , Harper & Row, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 64 pages illustrated in color by Hoban. Bright, unclipped dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
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. New York , Holiday House, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Lobel. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York , Platt & Munk, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 40 pages, illustrated in color by Tasha Tudor. Glazed boards illustrated in color. Sharp, clean copy, no markings. No dust jacket issued.
Hardcover. Springfield MA, McLoughlin Bros., reprint, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated (64 pages), illustrated with 6 color plates and many other b&w drawings by Chloe Preston (not credited). Color pictorial boards, end paper drawing. Clean, minor wear at corners, top and bottom of spine.
Hardcover. Akron OH, Saalfield Publishing, reprint, 1913, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 147 pages, illustrated by Arthur Debebian in b&w and 6 color plates. Blue cloth spine, color illustrated boards. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Fragile binding but all there and holding. Vol. 5 in this series.
Hardcover. New York , Viking Press, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Unpaginated, illustrated in b&w by Robert Lawson. Color illustrated boards with yellow cloth spine. Corner wear to covers otherwise very good. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. Kansas City MO, Tell-Well Press, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 28 pages, illustrated in color. Color illustrated boards with a bright dust jacket with minor edgewear, price clipped.
Hardcover. New York , Dutton, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages illustrated in color by Wolff. INSCRIBED BY WOLFF with her color rubber stamps of a rabbit and turtle on title page, dated 1994.
Hardcover. London/New York, Viking/Kestrel, Revised Ed., 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 408 pages, illustrated in b&w by Antony Maitland. Edited by Brian Alderson with his notes on the stories in the rear. Previous owner's handwritten note inside front cover otherwise clean with a bright dust jacket with light edgewear.
Hardcover. London, Bodley Head, reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in brilliant color by Wiese. Dust jacket has soil, edgewear, chipping. Book itself is near fine with color illustrated boards very bright.
Hardcover. New York , Macmillan, reprint, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages , illustrated in color by Jose Aruego and Ariane Dewey. Clean, bright copy. Probably a Book Club as the dust jacket has no price.
Hardcover. New York, Philomel, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated in color by Small. So you want to be an explorer? What does it take, you ask? To find out, take a look at Judith St. George and David Small's witty collection of some of the best explorers the world has ever known.You know Marco Polo and Christopher Columbus, but what about Mary Kingsley, who studied cannibals in Africa, or cowboy Jim White, who, by mistake, found Carlsbad Caverns? Full of boundless energy and illustrations you won't forget, this historical jaunt will inspire the explorer in all of us, young and old.
Hardcover. London, Chatto and Windus, 1st, 1951, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages illustrated in color by Patricia Turner. Paper covered boards starting to fray, small fragile book, several early pages dog-eared. One of several titles in the Brown Burrows Series. Scarce.
Hardcover. New York , Crowell, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated with color paintings by Wendell Minor and SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY MINOR on front fly leaf. Dust jacket has some light sunning to front edge, clipped.
Hardcover. New York , Viking Press, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 152 pages, blue cloth covers with dark blue design. Illustrated in b&w by Lawson. . Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping, not price clipped ($2.50).
Hardcover. NY, Golden Press, 2nd pr., 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Glossy illustrated boards, color illustrations by Leonard Weisgard. Small inscription opposite title page. Otherwise tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , Holt Rinehart Winston , 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 44 pages illustrated in color by Watson. Illustrated cloth covers. Clean.
Hardcover. Natick MA, Picture Studio Studio, 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 30 pages illustrated in color by Zwerger. Previous owner's signature inside front cover, minor wear to board edges.
Hardcover. New York , Hyperion Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color pictorial boards with saw tooth edges. Housed in a cardboard box. The small book is 18 pages, each with double-page color illustrations by Henrick Drescher, each with interactive parts. According to the story Beastie's fur is pulled, his pop-up eyes jiggled, his boot (removed from his pop up foot) is scratched & sniffed, his privacy intruded upon as his shower curtain pulled away, his boogers poked, his miniature book reveal beastie's fantasies of revenge, as finally Judy and Paul are swallowed up by poor beastie and a mirror reveals who may be the next naughty child to incur beastie's wrath. All of these interactive pull and poke activities can be performed by the reader. SIGNED on the front cover in silver ink, with his initials, by Henrick Drescher in the year of publication.
Hardcover. New York , Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 28 pages, illustrated in b&w and color by Lenski. Blue cloth spine over illustrated boards. Light bookplate residue to blank page otherwise clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Ariel Books, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 49 pages, illustrated in color and b&w by Tasha Tudor. Bright yellow cloth with blue lettering and drawing of rooster on front. This copy SIGNED BY BOTH McCREADY & TASHA TUDOR on title page. Dust jacket with darkening to edges, chipped at top of spine, Book is clean, bright.
Hardcover. New York , Marie Chardin/privately printed, 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 64 pages illustrated in 2-colors and full color by Bess Bethell. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Red cloth with black type and drawing of a penguin on front. Fraying to top of spine, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Dust jacket worn, chipped. A children's reader, number and alphabet book, all in French.
Hardcover. New York, Clarion, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Christelow and INSCRIBED by her on half title page. Dust jacket with light edgewear.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown and Co., 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Tasha Tudor. First printing with all numbers present. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York , Dial, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 32 pages, color illustrations by Jerry Pickney.
Hardcover. New York , Farrar Straus Giroux , BC Ed,, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 64 pages illustrated in b&w by Garth Williams. No price on dust jacket so assumed Book Club Edition.
Hardcover. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 113 Pages. White cloth beautifully decorated in pale green and gilt to front cover. Pale green end papers. 10 tipped-in paper-guarded richly colored plates by Edmund Dulac. A tale from The Arabian Nights retold by Housman. Spine and corners bumped. Cloth is slightly grubby and the spine is a little bit browned. Previous owner's name on front end paper, previous owner's sticker on rear end paper. Light wood smoke odor. Tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay, reprint, 1918, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Oblong hardcover, 28 unnumbered pages. Previous owner's name and date on front end paper, binding cracked. Stamped cloth covers with dark blue lettering. Illustrated cover. Illustrated by author. Reduced in size from the French and Century Co. editions with fewer illustrations. This edition with 10 pages in full color.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Pretty soft green covers stamped center front with an unnoticeable flower design. Gilt lettering on spine. Spine is sunned at both ends. A wonderful story of seven brothers who each use their special magic powers to win the hand of Helena of Boozan Island for their King. Beautifully and elegantly illustrated.
Hardcover. New York , Knopf, 1st, 1955, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 241 pages, pink cloth covers with blue and black design. End paper drawing and b&w illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Light wear, ex-library with residue on end papers, small ink price on front fly leaf, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally & Co., reprint, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 112 pages, 10" by 13" folio. Green cloth with color paste down on front cover. Gorgeous color illustrations throughout by Milo Winter. Clean, tight copy with only mild wear. Hinges are starting to crack slightly.
Hardcover. New York , Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 57 pages, illustrated in b&w by Ilonka Karasz, title page and end papers decorated in pink and black. Black cloth covers stamped with with stars and type design. Mild soiling to covers, previous owner's inscription on blank prelim page. No dust jacket.
Record # 408801
Price: $30.00
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