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

Hardcover. NY, Random House, reprint, 2016, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 306 pages. Everyone's favorite bear family is back in this collection of seven classic Berenstain Bears Bright and Early books. Written and illustrated by the beloved husband and wife team of Stan and Jan Berenstain, this one-of-a-kind treasury--featuring a story that has been unavailable for fifteen years--includes The Berenstain Bears on the Moon; The Bear Detectives; Bears on Wheels; He Bear She Bear; Inside Outside Upside Down; The Bear Scouts; and Old Hat New Hat. A perfect addition to your collection for those just learning how to read . . . or those just starting to read all on their own.

New York, Lothrop Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth. Color illustrations by Robert Quackenbush. 32 pages. No dust jacket. Pete Pack Rat must act quickly to save Pebble Junction's Christmas Eve celebrations when the Gila Monster Gang escapes from jail and steals the Christmas pinata. Owner's name on title page, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Rhee. Clear plastic protective cover.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrated cloth covers, 64 pages illustrated in 2-colors and full color by Hoff. Believed to be first printing, only 2 title by Hoff opposite title page (Danny and the Dinosaur, Sammy the Seal), and no ISBN. No dust jacket. Light edgewear to covers.

New York, Viking, 2nd PR., 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY ILLUSTRATOR COONEY ON TITLE PAGE. A Caldecott Medal winner with sticker on front panel. 35 pages. Color illustrations by Barbara Cooney. Dust jacket has a few very small tears.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row , 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Montresor. Some edgewear. Dust jacket with soilng, small tears.

Hardcover. NY, Vanguard Press, 1st, 1077, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The Catfish Bend series, set in Mississippi, is both a gentle comic satire and a fascinating tale of eccentric animals. Here after a lapse of eleven years, are a new band of silly creatures: a Sherlock Holmes type Bloodhound, the Prophet Crows etc. B&w drawings by Alice Caddy. No markings.

New York, Knopf, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 29 pages. Color illustrations by Nicola Bayley. Laminated boards, no dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in b&w by cartoonist James Stevenson. Dust jacket price-clipped otherwise very good.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , reprint, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, Remains of Caldecott sticker on front panel. No date on title page so assumed early reprint. 1953 Caldecott winner. A delightful story about Johnny and the bear he finds as a cub. Illustrated in soft brown tones by the author.

Hardcover. New York, Four Winds, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Unpaginated. Color illustrations by Stephen Kellogg. Dust jacket has several closed tears.

London, Macmillan, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations done in comic book style by Wendy Watson.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, edgeworn dust jacket. !4 humorous situations with children celebrating the joys of sharing. B&w illustrations by Simms Taback (1932-2011) who later won the Caldecott Medal in 2000. Dj priceclipped. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by author. Hilda Louise, who lives in an orphanage, has many friends but longs for a family, until one day her longing sweeps her away, floating up and over the orphanage walls, high above Paris as she pursues what all humans need most.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 3rd pr., 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, color illustrations by Barry Blitt. Dust jacket unclipped.

Hardcover. Akron, OH, Saalfield, 1st , 1933, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 90 pages. Pictorial boards with no dust jacket, blue cloth spine. 12 gorgeous color animal plates by Diana Thorne. Light edgewear to covers, frontis with mild creasing, some crayon marking to the reverse side. Plates ate bright, binding solid.

New York , Harper & Row, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, short, closed tears. B&W illustrations by Ronald Himler.

Hardcover. New York, Abelard-Schuman, 1st US, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Adapted by E. J. Pelgrave. Color illustrations by Fulvio Testa. Bottom corner of front flap of dust jacket clipped. Light markings to dust jacket.

NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with flaps glued to inside covers. 145 pages, b&w drawings by David Stone Martin. An engaging chronicle that concerns three generations of cats and their provider, Ann, a single woman with a ground-floor apartment and a back yard. Ex-lib with light stamping, residue.

Hardcover. New York, Philomel, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Ashley Wolff and SIGNED BY WOLFF WITH A SKETCH OF DR. BIRD on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. New York, Wonder Books, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Non-Paginated. Full color illustrations by Jane Flory. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. NY, Dial Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Elsie Fay ventures into the deep, dark woods, meets a troll, and attempts to outsmart him. Illustrated in color by the incomparable James Marshall. Clean.

New York, Dodd Mead & Co., 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a brigh, unclipped dust jacket. Ex-lib with light stamping, pocket on rear fly leaf. Endpapers scarred where dj was taped. B&W pictures by William Gropper.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-Paginated. SIGNED BY NANCY WILLARD AND JERRY PINKNEY ON TITLE PAGE. 1st edition/1st printing. Full color illustrations by Jerry Pinkney. Not ex-library. A bright, clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Platt & Munk Co., 1st thus, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. A fresh, clean, well bound copy. 6 leaves (12 pages) including the cover. Color illustrated front cover with interior of alternating spreads of color and black and white. Illustrations by Eulalie Banks. Stapled binding. Pages are clean and bright.

New York, Philomel, 1st U.S., 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Anno.

Hardcover. New York, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a pristine dust jacket. Non-paginated. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR BRIAN SELZNICK ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. Book is very good, blue boards stamped in black. Lovely b&w photos by the author illustrate this volume celebrating the wildlife found in a brook. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Janovich , 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Julian Bell. Bright, unclipped dust jacket. Victorian tale centers on a poor elderly widow who, while journeying to claim an inheritance left by her miserly brother, learns that kindness to animals can bring surprising rewards.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, reprint, circa 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards with a black cloth spine. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak in b&w. A beautiful reprint of the classic 1960 edition. No dust jacket, clean. (Imprint is Harper & Row, so not a first. No ISBN so mid-or late 1960s).

Hardcover. New York, Young Scott Books, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. 2-color illustrations by Leonard Weisgard. Ex-lib, but clean except for rear end paper residue.

Hardcover. Honesdale, Boyds Mills Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 31 pages. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR BARRY MOSER ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset and Dunlap, reprint, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in rust tweed binding, worn and chipped dust jacket with closed tears. Reprint edition, "printed in large, easy-to-read type." B&w illustrations by Harrison Cady. Clean copy inside.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Illustrated in color by the Petershams. A clean, crisp baby book with nothing written in. In a poor slipcase wih some partial splitting to 2 edges, and heavy chipping to edges.

Hardcover. New York, Seabury Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations by Clement Hurd. Dust jacket with darkening to spine, light wear to edges. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust dacket with light fading to spine. Jeremiah, a middle- aged proboscis monkey feels life is passing him by. Wonderful black and white illustrations by the author. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Children's Press, 1st , 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Lillian Owens. Ex-school library, but only one stamp, light notation, otherwise very good. Light abrasions on cover with white residue on rear cover.

Hardcover. Garden City, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs by Dare Wright. Previous owners name and address at top right corner of front endpaper. Dust jacket with surface stain at back of doll image, interior tape repairs - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam, Book Club Ed., 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, illustrated in color and b&w by Gramatky. Number four in the Little Toot series- this time the tugboat sets out on a daring mission when the Mississippi River floods.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt and Co. , 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR on half title page. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. As a boy, Edward Hopper knew exactly what he wanted to be when he grew up: on the cover of his pencil box, he wrote the words EDWARD HOPPER, WOULD-BE ARTIST. He traveled to New York and to Paris to hone his craft. And even though no one wanted to buy his paintings for a long time, he never stopped believing in his dream to be an artist. He was fascinated with painting light and shadow and his works explore this challenge. In this striking picture book biography, Robert Burleigh and Wendell Minor invite young readers into the world of a truly special American painter (most celebrated for his paintings "Nighthawks" and "Gas").

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1988, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Full color illustrations by Helen Craig. Covers with some light abrasions, minor soiling. Some small spots on a few pages. Clean, unmarked text.

Hardcover. Joliet IL, P. F. Volland Company, 1st, 1920, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color pictorial boards, illustrated throughout including endpapers by Gruelle. No other printings or editions mentioned so assume first printing. One page with a mild smudge, some chipping to top & bottom of spine. A pencilled name on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. New York , North-South, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 20 pages illustrated in color by Zwerger. SIGNED by Zwerger on title page.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace & World, 1st illust thus, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 40 pages. Illustrated in 2 and 3-colors by Jacqueline Ayer.

Hardcover. Joliet IL, Volland, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan and beige pictorial boards with a brown cloth spine, 96 pages. Decorations and designs by Ellery Friend. Wilbur Dick Nesbit (1871-1927), also known by the pen name Josh Wink, was an American poet and humorist. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Picture book master Frank Viva does it again, this time with astounding die-cuts that transform both words and pictures in delightful ways, while telling the story of a young boy spending his birthday at Coney Island, in search of his heart's desire. Through his innovation of design and content, he continues to expand our expectations of what a picture book can accomplish Step right up! Step right up! Take a trip to Coney Island and discover the grandest amusement of all-die-cuts that work like magic, transforming words and pictures in the most astonishing ways!

New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, unpaginated, color illustrations by Jon Agee, very clean, tight copy, like new.

Hardcover. Somerville MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A trio of misbehaving, mango-loving monkeys have a close call as the author/artist gives readers a taste of vicarious adventure. Three little monkeys and their big monkey are sitting high on a branch in the forest canopy. "OK, monkeys! I'm off," says the big monkey. "Remember . . . Whatever you do, do NOT go down to the mango tree. There are tigers down there." Brilliantly designed storybook by the award-winning Haughton. Clean copy.

Hardcover. US, Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non paginated. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR on title page. Extensive illustrations by Patrick McDonnell throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York , Lothrop Lee & Shepherd Books, 1st , 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Unpaginated. Color illustrations by June Amos Grammer. Bookseller stamp on back cover. Very clean.