New York , Harcourt, 2nd pr., 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by J. Otto Seibold. A PIG in a spigot? An AX in a taxi? An ELF in a belfry? It can mean only one thing. . . . Richard Wilbur has been playing with his words again! Aided and abetted by illustrator J.otto Seibold, Richard Wilbur reveals that words must be used carefully--because you never know what you'll find in them!
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light gray cloth with maroon stamping, 64 pages illustrated in 2-colors by Joy Buba. Covers with edgewear. A simple and direct little fact book about the characteristics and care of rabbits charmingly illustrated by Buba. Ex-lib with light marking, envelope in inside rear cover, clean internally.
Hardcover. New York, Clarion Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Caldecott Medal Winner for 2002. Gray covers with maroon cloth spine, gorgeous full page color illustrations. Small closed tear to bottom right corner of dust jacket, pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in excellent condition. Wiesner's second book to win the Caldecott Medal after his earlier "Tuesday".
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday , 2nd, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY JULIA AND ROBERT VAN NUTT opposite title-page. Illustrations by Robert Van Nutt.
Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead, and Co., 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, illustrated boards with black cloth spine, 74 pages. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Color and black & white illustrations. Purple illustrated endpapers. Edgewear, corners bumped and worn. Clean.
Hardcover. NY, Dial Books, 4th pr., 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A collection of traditional tales from around the world each of whose main character is female. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Bros., 1st thus, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 31 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Marc Simont. Clean, tight copy.
New York, Hawthorn Books, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound. Color illustrations by Rosemary Wells. Dust jacket with light edgewear, closed tears. Brodart cover.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Worth's poems take us from the first excitements of early December through the wistful farewells of Twelfth Night. Illus. by Caldecott winner Frasconi. Glorious woodcuts in bright colors enhance the poetry's spirit of festivity & wonder.
Hardcover. Chicago, M.A. Donohue and Co., 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with blue cloth spine.64 pages. Six full page color illustrations by Lone Wolf. Map on end papers. Edgewear rubbing to covers.
hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st thus, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. Illustrated with black & white drawings, frontispiece by Charles Livingston Bull and others. Dust jacket with light edgewear, closed tears, soil. Bright colored animal painting on front of dust jacket. Previous owner's name on ownership page. Scarce in dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Lothrop Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ann Grifalconi. Jasmine helps her mother prepare to sell fish and sugar cakes at their parlour, or market stand, on market day on the island of Trinidad. Review slip laid in.
Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Candlewick Press, 1st US, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 108 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY OPIE on front fly leaf. SIGNED BY WELLS on title-page. Color illustrations by Rosemary Wells. Corners a bit bumped. Tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Dodd Mead , 1st US, 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 201 pages. Black & white page illustrations by Harry Furniss and vignettes by Dorothy Furniss. Previous owner's inscription front end paper. Edgewear, corners bumped. Some browning to page edges. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, clothbacked pictorial boards with map endpapers, color and b&w illustrations by Tousey. Val lived at Robidoux Landing, on the Missouri River, when his family joined a wagon train to Astoria.
Hardcover. Boston, Joy Street/ Little Brown , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by the author. Tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf/Jr. Literary Guild, 1st Jr. Literary Guild, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 179 pages. Black & white drawings and color frontispiece by Erick Berry. Light spine fade, wear to edges.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1998, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Meet Walter.And better yet, turn the pages and --meet his staff. The Gum Guy, who archives his chewed-up gum. His Homework Helper who does...well, you know. A complete Dream Team, to do his sleeping for him...And thats only the beginning!This laugh-out-loud picture book is a dream come true for any kid who has ever wanted someone else to kiss Aunt Winnie or eat their lima beans. Author Patricia Marx and illustrator Roz Chast prove with hilarity that anyone can have the staff they need, if they have enough imagination. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Blue Sky, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY MOSER on title-page. Color illustrations by Barry Moser.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. Color illustrations by Browne. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. NJ, Prentice-Hall, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 112 pages. Sepia-toned drawings by James Pearsall. In this intimate autobiography, a gorgeous Siamese feline pours her heart out to Douglass Parkhirst, who digs cat lingo purr-fectly. As the cat matures and goes out on her own, she describes her adventures in a bachelor's apartment, her jealous fits over one of her master's female admirers, her first encounter with a mouse, plus many other newsy tidbits that will delight sophisticated cat lovers. Clean copy.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. SIGNED BY LEE LORENZ on title page.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Barefoot Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 96 pages. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS on a tipped-in bookplate on the front fly leaf. Lovely color illustrations by Rebecca Guay. Let yourself be drawn into the magical world of the dance with this sumptuous anthology. Love, laughter, betrayal, adventure and tragedy intertwine to create stories that will reach deep into the heart and dreams of the reader. The story of "The Sleeping Beauty" will whisk you away to the thorny castle where Princess Aurora awaits her prince; the comedy and confusion of "Coppelia" will delight you, and the magical adventures of Clara in "The Nutcracker" will entrance you. Featuring a brief history of classical ballet, as well as historical details of each dance, composition, choreography and early performances, this book will captivate anyone with a love of this awe-inspiring art.
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.Color illustrations by James Stevenson. Janetta's Grandaddy lives on a farm with chickens and a mule, and when he comes to visit her in Baltimore, Janetta is worried that he'll find the city boring. Griffith's narrative is neatly paired with Stevenson's gently humorous, altogether winning watercolor-and-black-pen illustrations, which alternately depict the urban setting and the beloved, rustic home Grandaddy invokes frequently in his conversations with Janetta.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by the author. Dust jacket with light edgewear. As the irrepressible Simpkin goes from warm to chilly, from sensible to silly, young readers can only be sure that he is up to no good..
New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 144 pages. Contains black & white and 2-color illustrations by Ardizzone. Remainder dot on top edge. Dust jacket with edgewear.
Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by author. When a young boy decides to challenge the popular old saying about stepping on cracks in the sidewalk, he comes to find out that it is a valid warning as a number of weird and strange things suddenly begin to happen in his life. Clean copy.
San Diego, Harcourt Brace , 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket6. Color illustrations by David Christiana. Small closed tear on dust jacket.
New York, William Morrow & Company , 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket.. Illustrated by Janet McCaffery. Cloth spine has small frayed/chewed area at top. Dust jacket has same, minor chipping along edges. Otherwise, clean, tight.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st US, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Vivid color illustrations by author throughout. A little boy who is not ready for bedtime runs to hide in a magic castle and finds some unusual friends there. Clean copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Dial, 3rd pr., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by the author. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Michael Paraskevas. The mother (Author) and son (Artist) team present another adventure in the life of the poor little rich boy.
Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Brace Janovich, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket.Color illustrations by Julie Vivas. When old Nurse Lugton falls asleep while sewing her multi-patterned curtain, the sky, huts, villagers, elephants, zebras, giraffes, penguins, and other animals on it come to life. Virginia Woolf's story, first in print in 1965 and republished here as a picture book, is indeed a small tale that flows with the rhythms of an accomplished prose writer. Vivas's watercolor illustrations flow across the pages like the prose, with parading animals and marching villagers costumed as if for Mardi Gras.
Hardcover. Chicago, Whitman Publishing , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with light edgewear. Primary school reader. Two-color illustrations by Dorothy Wheeler. No date but appears to be 1930s.
New York, Simon & Schuster , reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Hillary Knight and SIGNED BY KNIGHT on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Color illustrations by Brian Froud. No dust jacket issued. TIght copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston Company, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and soiled dust jacket. (60 cents on flap). Color and two-color illustrations throughout by the Petershams.
Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 48 pages. Color illustrations by Lobel. Clean. Lacks dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st , 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Couderc. Determined to become famous and escape his parents' fate as clothes washers, ambitious raccoon Raoul tries his hand at various careers, including that of a sailor, a pilot, and a New York City police officer.
Hardcover. NY, Cupples and Leon, 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, small format, gray boards printed in navy with color cover plate by John B. (Johnny) Gruelle, plus color frontis and 7 additional plates and line drawings by the artist. Mild soil along spine cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 27 pages Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Black & white illustrations by Michael McCurdy.
New York, Viking Press, 1st ed, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. Edgewear and wrinkling to covers. Dust jacket with chipping, rubbing, closed tear to front.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a chipped, edgeworn dust jacket, B&w drawings by Rita Fava. Collection of 9 French Canadian folk stories, told to told to children at the LeBlanc summer picnic in Vermont to remind them of their ancestors in French Canada; in the beginning they lived near Quebec city and wore long red sashes and later some moved to Montreal where the color was blue. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Jewish Publication Society, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Amy Schwartz. Unpaginated.
Hardcover. NY, Viking/Ariel, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 147 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Chris Van Allsburg. Like new in bright dust jacket. Tight copy.
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