Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st , 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 95 pages. Black & white line drawings by Bianco. Light soil to title-page. Light soil to book covers, stain to spine,
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, Charles Scribner's Sons, 5th pr., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Brown. Ex-lib with stamping on half-title page, remnants of pocket, date due on back endpaper, dust jacket flaps with chunks gone where pasted to boards. Dust jacket with light edgewear, closed tears.
Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. Pen and ink illustrations in 2-colors by Brown. Bright dust jacket, unclipped. The world's most famous trapeze duo stuns their audience with a never-before-seen act.
NY, Atheneum, 1st US, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Quentin Blake. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st , 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Tim Bowers. During the summer at his grandparents' farm, Fritz stumbles across some unusual rabbits. He follows their footsteps to their home in the middle of a grassy hill. One of the rabbits sees Fritz peering in their window and informs him that the other rabbits are out looking for a new meeting place. Fritz offers his grandfather's shed if they let him become a member, which they do.
NY, Villard, 1st , 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 86 pages + paintings from Botkin's portfolio. Illustrated with black & white photos and color paintings by Botkin. Text compiled by Botkin's daughter Marina Schweitzer. Foreword by Greg King. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Dutton Children's Books, 1st , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 64 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Charming color illustrations by Chorao. SIGNED BY CHORAO on back of front endpaper. Tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Blackie & Son Ltd. , 1st , 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Jean Claverie. Toy book with cut-outs, pop-ups, movable parts. Bright laminated illustrated boards.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1st , 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 48 pages. Color illustrations by Charles Bragg. Previous owner's signature, address on front paste-down endpaper. Dust jacket with tape repaired tears to corners, back top edge.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st , 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Steven Guarnaccia. Dust jacket with light rubbing, edgewear.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color cartoon illustrations by Lorenz. In glossy boards with mild spine fade. No dust jacket. Tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Astor-Honor, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Lionni. Light soil, wear to boards.
NY, Platt & Munk, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth covers. Color, black & white illustrations by Brook. No dust jacket.
NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Conover. Purple cloth cover with minor water damage to lower front corner. Dust jacket with closed tears, chips to spine edges.
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. NY, Macmillan , 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with color, black & white illustrations by Donald Carrick. Dust jacket 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.
Washington, DC, National Geographic Society, 1st US, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover.Color illustrations by Bert Kitchen. Dust jacket with 1 inch closed tears to spine bottom, back flap. On Christmas eve 1910 on the Shakleton expedition, a sailor's pet rabbit needs a cozy place to sleep. Based on expedition diaries.
NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 80 pages. Color Illustrations by Gerald McDermott. Dust jacket with closed tears, edgewear.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Color Illustrations by Richard Floethe. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. Price clipped dust jacket with light soil, closed tear at top back edge.
Hardcover. NY, Garden City Pub. Co., 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Musty. Color illustrations by Einar Nerman. Paper covered boards with wear to back bottom edge. Last two pages with ink marks on bottom edge. (done in printing). Dust jacket with light edgewear closed tears. Light ripple to page block.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations, map by Letizia Galli. A beautiful gown forms the focus of activity for the zany characters that introduce young readers to the Commedia del l'arte and the history of comic theater, along with a map, a list of stock characters, and historical notes.
NY, Doubleday & Co., 1st , 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 188 pages. New translation by Erik Haugaard. Color, black & white illustrations by Michael Foreman.
Hardcover. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gold-color lettering. Wonderful ink and charcoal drawings by Joy Buba on cream color paper throughout. Clean, bright copy. Lacks dust jacket.
Hardcover. Racine, WI, Whitman Publishing, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial boards, 40 pages. Color, black & white illustrations by the staff of the Walt Disney Studios. Previous owner's inscription on front paste-down endpaper. Tanning to pages. Color illustrations on front and back of paper covered boards. Light edgewear to bottom edges, corners. 4" separation of back spine paper.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrations by Seymour Chwast. Fold-out format. Color illustrated laminated covered boards. The book unfolds into a long strip from which one can read of all the adventures Sister missed by sleeping during a boat ride.
Hardcover. Mankato, MN, Creative Education, 1st thus, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Georges Lemoine. Laminated paper covered boards with color illustration on front cover.
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.
NY, Dutton Children's Books, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Judith Byron Schachner. Previous owner's inscription on front endpaper. Dust jacket with light wear to top edges, price clipped. When Mother Holly leaves to do errands, she warns Cat to behave himself. But faster than a cat can pounce, he is up to his whiskers in trouble! One crazy mishap leads to another, until the little cottage is in a very messy state. Cat is busily tidying up when he hears Mother Holly coming up the path. He spies a tiny piece of corn on the floor and quickly swallows it. But it's no ordinary corn, and suddenly Cat notices that he is making a very curious rumbling sound.
Hardcover. Baltimore, MD, Claster Enterprises, 1st, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 43 pages. Cardboard covers. No dust jacket. Full color illustrations by Gordon E. Nichols. Previous owner's signature front endpaper. Soiling, rubbing to covers. Cracking at spine. Edgewear.
Hardcover. Cambridge England, Cambridge University Press, 1st UK, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards. Watercolor illustrations by Balzola. Light soiling to covers. When Munia wakes up in a bad mood and sees her well-behaved sister, she decides to spend the day being wicked. When she begins to worry that her family will not forgive her, she dons a hat and a new name. Mrs. Blincoand drops in on them to test the waters. Her discovery? They still love Munia but fear she no longer loves them. In a second story, Munia's teeth are falling out, and she is afraid that they won't grow in. That night, crocodiles snap at her in her bedroom and she feels defenseless until a little orange crocodile, also toothless, joins her.
Hardcover. New York, Bantam, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Color illustrations by Seymour Chwast. Excellent condition. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf , 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth with red and blue stamping. Color and black & white illustrations by Brock. Previous owner's signature front end paper. Small tear to rear endpaper. Rubbing to corners and spine. No dust jacket. Tale of Mrs. Fiddlefinger, of the three chins and many aprons, and her private island that flew off over Blue Kettle Lake on its own during a wind storm, to land on the other side.
Hardcover. New York, Holiday House, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Rounds. Dust jacket with rubbing, minor chipping.
Hardcover. London, Pavilion, 1st combined ed., 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY FOREMAN on bookplate opposite title-page - #772/5000. Combines Foreman's stories War Boy and After the War was Over. Color illustrations by Foreman. Minor rubbing to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Derrydale Books, reprint , 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 88 pages. Retold from the stories of Joel Chandler Harris. Color illustrations by Harry Rountree and Rene Bull. Soiling, scratching to covers. Corners rubbed. Spine a little bumped.
Hardcover. Hungary, Petofi Printing House, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial laminated boards. Color illustrations by Emma Heinzelmann. Spine and corners rubbed. Translated by Judith Elliott. Covers slightly splayed. The Terrible Seven cats terrify nine dogs, all called Louis in what was perhaps the most frightful conflict since cat and dog wars began.
Hardcover. New York, Parents' Magazine Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Anita Lobel. An old Japanese man brags so much about his fine heifer, the master clog maker and his apprentice decide to teach him a lesson. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Bradbury Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY SCHWARTZ on title-page. Color illustrations by Schwartz. Dust jacket with light edgewear, minor chipping at top of spine.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 125 pages. Illustrated with color stage and costume designs by Maurice Sendak. New english translation by Tom Stoppard. Both endpapers illustrated with Sendak's storyboard scenes. Linen binding illustrated front and back with red illustrations, gold lettering on spine.
Hardcover. New York, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1st , 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 56 pages. Two-color pictures by Trina Schart Hyman. Front endpaper bottom corner creased. Pictorial cover onlaid front and back on heavy paper covered boards.
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.
NY, Harmony Books, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 26 pages. Color illustrations by Coco Dupuy. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Phoebe's parents, who are magicians, forbid her to enter the magic room where they work, until an accident shrinks them to tiny size and they need her help in returning to normal.
Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Lee Lorenz. Bottom corners and spine a bit bumped. SIGNED BY LORENZ on title page.
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Price: $30.00
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