Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st, 1978, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket. Ex-lib with stamping and residue to endpapers. An elephant-seal pup is protected by his mother until the day when she and the other adults swim away from the Pacific island of Ano Nuevo, leaving the young seals to care for themselves. 62 pages illustrated in 2-colors by Cherryl Pape.
Hardcover. NY, Orchard Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, tan cloth stamped in blue. Color illustrations by the De Leeuws. Previous owner's signature in pencil front endpaper. Soiling to endpapers, covers. The tale of a Javanese boy who has dreams of becoming an acrobat performer.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset and Dunlap, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Naomi Averill. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st thus, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Uri Shulevitz. Honor Book sticker on dust jacket. Tight copy.
Hardcover. Flagstaff, AZ, Northland Publishing, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Bill Farnsworth. In a Native American buffalo jump, a hunter lures a herd of buffalo to follow him, rouses them to a stampede pace (he's on foot, by the way) and jumps off a cliff: while he drops safely onto a narrow ledge in the cliff wall, the buffalo plummet over his head to their deaths below. Here, a Blackfoot boy named Little Blaze wishes to lead the buffalo jump, an act of bravery that would earn him his adult name. When his older brother is chosen instead, Little Blaze is resentful, but the brother trips and Little Blaze dashes to the rescue. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NJ, Silver Burdett, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Alfonso Ruano. Light soil to covers.
NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in blue-green cloth with maroon lettering and drawing. Three-color, b&w illustrations by Margaret Van Doren. Front fly leaf gone, light soil, small mark to covers. Otherwise very good, clean. A spirited black puppy learns to make friends with two kittens in his new home.
Hardcover. NY, McElderry Books, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Erik Blegvad. Little Sister, a tiny girl who grows from an apple seed, helps her brother get home safely each time he strays on an errand in the wide world. Small paper scar to rear panel of dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Laminate covers with completely illustrated in color, full-page color illustrations by Jay Hyde Barnum. Rubbing and mild edgewear to cardboard covers; a neat, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hard cover. Black & white and two-tone illustrations by Babbitt. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping, some foxing. Clear plastic protective cover.
Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated throughout with De Mejo's fantastical primitive color paintings. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY MINOR ON half title-page. Color illustrations by Wendell Minor.
Hardcover. NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 127 pages. Color, black and white illustrations by Leslie Brooke. Dust jacket price-clipped. Clean.
Hardcover. NY, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Wonderful introduction to different styles of architecture. Illustrated in color by Devlin. Related notes & articles to various landmark houses laid-in. Dust jacket price clipped. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. SIGNED BY VAN ALLSBURG on title-page. Color illustrations by author. Dust jacket with light edgewear, rubbing and price clipped.
Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd., Reprint, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color, black & white illustrations by Caldecott. Decorative stamped front cover. Clean copy in a nice dust jacket.
NY , Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with black cloth spine. 40 pages illustrated in b&w and color by De Angeli. Light edgewear to boards, previous owner inscription inside front cover. No dust jacket.
NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Anita Lobel. "One of the greatest pleasures of this impressive collection of 12 Russian fables is Lobel's sophisticated artwork. She outdoes herself with watercolor-and-gouache paintings that are brilliantly colored and wonderfully composed. The details are just right....Heins' prose retellings of poems by Ivan Andreevich Krylov, "Russia's greatest fabulist,' are elegant." Clean copy.
NY, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1st US, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial boards, color illustrations by Hughes. Hoping that a surprise birthday party will help to cheer up neighbor and store owner Mr. MacNally, Alfie plans an additional, extra-special surprise and fears he cannot keep his plans a secret.
Hardcover. NY/Tokyo, Weatherhill, 3rd pr., 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Delightful illustrations depict the imaginative and illogical world of a fantasy circus where the musicians' instruments are matchsticks and kitchenware, and fierce lions turn into wooden toys.
Hardcover. NY, Kingfisher, 1st US, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Jean Claverie. Light edgewear to dust jacket.
London, Michael Joseph, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. Color illustrations by Marsh. Previous owner's signature front end paper. The Magic Island describes the adventures of Janet's two small children, Laura and Edmund,in the natural surroundings by their riverside home in Hampshire.It is a world of beauty,excitement - and danger. . . the evil pike who lives in the river wears a white linen table-napkin and thinks small boys make tasty snacks.Janet Marsh's breathtakingly beautiful illustrations also provide exceptionally detailed information on natural history.
Hardcover. NY, Callaway Editions, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Long, long ago, in a land far, far away, a little boy named Abdi was given a very big task -- to deliver the most precious necklace in the world to the queen. Color illustrations by Olga and Andrei Dugina.
Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 2nd, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginations. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ed Young. Clean, tight copy.
Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 32 pages. Three-color illustrations by Wiseman. Small wrinkle in front cover. Edgewear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Watercolor illustrations by Ted Lewin. A red-tailed hawk teaches Matthew to open his senses to the natural world in a special meadow cleared by Matthew's grandmother so she could have a place in the forest where a she could see the sky. Clean copy.
Garden City, NY, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white illustrations by the author. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping, and light soil. Illustrated endpapers. First book written by the notable illustrator, who went on to create the Rosy Cole children's series. A delightful tale of romance and culture in the city.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 2nd pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 37 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated in black & white by Joan Berg Victor. Dust jacket shows light wear at edges and sun fading on spine. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 4th pr., 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Illustrated in b&w by Geoffrey Moss. 47 pages. K-13, the best spy in the secret service, must retrieve the deadly Crumble-Bomb from the world's greediest man who is holding it for ransom. Library Ed.
New York, North-South Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 61 pages. SIGNED BY HAGUE on half title-page. Color illustrations by Michael Hague.
Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers , 1st, 1977, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Story retold by Haubensak-Tellenbach. Color illustrations by Erna Emhardt. Dust jacket with edgewear, soiling.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, reprint, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed pictorial covers, 314 pages illustrated in color by the Berestains. Six Berenstain Beginner Books in one volume: Bears in the Night, The Bears' Vacation, The Bears' Picnic, The Spooky Old Tree, The Bike Lesson, and The Missing Dinosaur Bone. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Tambourine, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Valery Vasiliev. Light edgewear to dust jacket. A young girl learns the secret of a strange whittler whose carvings magically come to life. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Unpaginated, charming color and b&w illustrations by Lillian Obligado. Illustrated cloth covers, previous owner's bookplate on inside cover, otherwise clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Hynerion, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. SIGNED BOOKPLATE BY WELLS LAID IN. Clean copy.
New York, Dutton, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ashley Wolff and SIGNED BY WOLFF on half title-page. In the rhyming follow-up to Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten, the students celebrate one hundred days with their teacher with projects made from one hundred popsicle sticks, beads, stickers, blocks, and more.
NY, North-South Books, 1st US, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Christa Unzner-Fischer. Dust jacket with slight wear at top of spine. A little girl loves to dance, and sometimes when she dances she forgets about everything else, including how to find the way home.
Hardcover. NY, Parker P Simmons, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light gray cloth stamped with a 2-color design of a little girl having tea with two bunnies, Illustrated throughout with b&w photos by Henry Whittier Frees. The rabbits are posed with dolls and dressed in costumes. Inscription on front fly leaf. Front hinge partially cracked but overall a very good, clean copy.
New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bight, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR. 28 pages. Color illustrations by Richard Egielski.
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&W illustrations by Victoria Chess. Illustrated library cloth binding. Clean and tight. The author has taken a favorite biblical legend and fashioned it into a dramatic story-poem. Chess's vigorous, exciting illustrations chart the hero's unusual journey.
Hardcover. NY, Exposition Press, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn jacket with fading to spine. B&w drawings by the author. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Janovich , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 28 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Color illustrations by Alice and Martin Provenson. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.
Hardcover. Philadelphia , David McKay, 1st US, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover.Torquoise cloth with gilt design, gilt dulled on spine. 30 color plates by Harold Copping. B&W frontispiece portrait of Dickens partially loose. Top edge gilt. Clean copy.
NY, Dutton, 1st, 1959, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 96 pages. Interior pages slightly age-tanned at the edges, but clean & tight. Dust jacket has only light edgewear. Illustrated with drawings by Sam Savitt. The stories of various pets in rresidence at the White House over the years.
New York, Scholastic Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dustjacket. Color illustrations by Ted Lewin. Unpaginated. Skinny as a beanpole and tall for his age, an awkward young boy learns that Abraham Lincoln was called "gorilla, baboob, backwards hick." Yet along with big feet and big hands, Lincoln had a big heart and the great ability to keep a nation together. And what the boy learns as he studies Lincoln opens his mind to great possibilities for his own future.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 48 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in 2-colors by Von Schmidt. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping, piece gone from bottom of spine.
Hardcover. NY, Lee & Low, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A beautifully rendered and colorfully illustrated account of the childhood of the great black writer and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston shows a young child triumphing over adversity and learning to pursue her dreams.
 "Elephant Seal Island (Science I Can Read Book) by: Evelyn S. Shaw, Cherryl Pape (Illust.)")
 "Mother Goose/ Nursery Rhymesby: Brian Wildsmith")
 "Year of No More Corn, Theby: Ketteman, Helen and Robert Andrew Parker")
 "Anim Runs Awayby: De Leeuw, Adele and Cateau")
 "The Story of the Modern Age by: Peattie, Donald Culross")
 "Soldier and Tsar in the Forest - A Russian Taleby: Lourie, Richard and Uri Shulevitz")
 "Treasure of Topo-El-Bampo, Theby: O'Dell, Scott, Lynd Ward")
 "Buffalo Jump, Theby: Peter Roop/Bill Farnsworth")
 "Mister North Windby: Mane, Carmen de Posadas")
 "The Black Pupby: Brooks/Margaret Van Doren, Anne")
 "Little Little Sisterby: Curry, Jane Louise")
 "Robinson Crusoe by: Defoe, Daniel and Jay Hyde Barnum")
 "Dick Foote and the Sharkby: Babbitt, Natalie")
 "Oscar de Mejo's ABCby: De Mejo, Oscar")
 "Grassroots (SIGNED)by: Sandburg, Carl")
 "Nonsense Poems of Edward Learby: Lear, Edward")
 "To Grandfather's House We Go - A Roadside Tour of American Homesby: Harry Devlin")
 "Stranger, The (SIGNED COPY)by: Van Allsburg, Chris")
 "Panjandrum Picture Book, Theby: Caldecott, Randolph")
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 "Dr. Anno's Magical Midnight Circusby: Mitsumasa Anno")
 "Julianby: Chapouton, Anne-Marie")
 "Magic Island, Theby: Marsh, Janet")
 "The Adventures of Abdiby: Madonna/ Olga and Andrei Dugina")
 "Birchesby: Frost, Robert and Ed Young")
 "Don't Make Fun!by: Wiseman, Bernard")
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 "A Metropolitan Love Story - In Words and Picturesby: Greenwald, Sheila")
 "Time to Go Houseby: Edmonds, Walter D.")
 "Agent K-13: The Super-Spyby: Teague/Geoffrey Moss, Bob")
 "Owl And The Pussy-Cat, The: And Other Nonsense Poems (SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR)by: Lear, Edward, Michael Hague")
 "Story of Noah's Ark, Theby: Haubensak-Tellenbach, Margrit")
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 "Ugh (SIGNED COPY)by: Yorinks, Arthur and Richard Egielski")
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 "Pets at the White House by: Carmer, Carl/Sam Savitt")
 "A. Lincoln and Meby: Borden/Ted Lewin, Louise")
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 "Zora Hurston and the Chinaberry Treeby: Miller, William, illustrated by Cornelius Van Wright and Ying-Hwa Hu")