hardcover. New York, Dutton, 6th PR., 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY ZELINSKY on title-page. Newbery Honor Book Sticker on front of dust jacket, cover and dust jacket completely illustrated, gorgeous full-page color illustrations. Very minor rubbing to dust jacket, pages clean, crisp and unmarked; a beautiful children's book in great condition.
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. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with short closed tears. Christmas story retold by the author/illustrator. Color illustrations throughout. Clean copy.
NY, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Anita Lobel. Previous owner's inscription on front paste-down endpaper. Price blacked out on dust jacket front flap. "In this fine book in which text and illustration build upon each other...cumulative verse unites with watercolor illustrations to convey the simple story of a garden's solitude being overturned by a fieldmouse, a cat, and a once-slumbering bee."--School Library Journal.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, reprint, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Cover boards clean and bright. Illustrated in color and b&w by Aldren Watson. Clean copy.
NY, Crowell, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Color illustrations by Aliki. Dust jacket price clipped. Aliki describes and illustrates the techniques and the reasons for the use of mummification in ancient Egypt.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1949, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Henry C. Pitz. Water stain to front cover. Light rubbing to spine, corners. Dust jacket with edgewear, soiling.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Candlewick Press, 1st thus, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. This ia a reprint of a 1954 book. Reformatted with color tints added to Peake's original b&w drawings. A game-like book where you can guess what the illustrations represent, answer key in rear. Clean copy.
Boston , Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Debby Atwell. In a humorous rendition of a famous Norwegian folktale, Hans challenges his wife, Gertrude, to exchange chores with him and soon learns how difficult housework really is.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped with dark green decoration. Color illustrations by Eric Von Schmidt. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by author. Alice tells her mother about her special room, where she can play with her cat who died, enjoy the warm beach in January, go sledding on a hot summer day, and do anything she has already done in the past.
Hardcover. NY, Crowell, 2nd pr., 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by the author. 109 pages. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping, rubbing and soil. Dust jacket price clipped.
Hardcover. New York, Lothrop Lee Shepard , 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Cloth boards. Illustrated by Vladimir Bobri. Light wear to cover edges and corners. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Megan Lloyd. In 1841 in Pennsylvania, Pippin Biddle, determined to get his three orphaned sisters out of the poorhouse, tries to earn a living as an itinerant painter, but he returns empty handed, only to find that he is not the only one in the family with artistic talents. Clean copy.
NY, Putnam, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Ed Young. Delamination, edgewear, soil, and tape residue to dust jacket. Small pen markings on title-page. In this reinvention of Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, images by Caldecott medalist Ed Young and new text by Eleanor Coerr come together to inspire children of all ages. In her novel Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, Eleanor Coerr told the moving story of Sadako and her brave struggle against leukemia, the "atom-bomb disease," which she developed when she was twelve, just ten years after the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. The novel became a classic, and when Sadako's story was to be made into a film, Caldecott medalist Ed Young was asked to do the illustrations. With love and commitment, he created hauntingly beautiful pastels which bring to life the spirit of Sadako, her courage and her strength.
Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, scarce true first printing with b&w drawings by Clara Skinner. 113 pages, blue cloth covers.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover on a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by McDermott. SIGNED BY McDERMOTT with a sketch on front fly leaf. Zomo the rabbit, a trickster from West Africa, wants wisdom. But he must accomplish three apparently impossible tasks before Sky God will give him what he wants. Is he clever enough to do as Sky God asks? "The tale moves along with the swift concision of a good joke, right down to its satisfying punch line."--Publishers Weekly "Wildly exuberant, full of slapstick and mischief, this version of an enduring Nigerian trickster tale, featuring a clever rabbit, is a storyteller's delight."--Booklist
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st US, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by the author. Bright, unclipped dust jacket. Verses are accompanied by illustrations of unusual situations such as a dog taking a little girl for a walk, a bird scolding a cat for scaring his friends, and a boy sitting calmly while a sheep shears his head.
NY, Philomel Books, 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Patrick Benson. Bright, unclipped dust jacket. Five episodes featuring Hob, a goblin, and the family he lives with and protects, though only the children can see him.
Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Barry Moser. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
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.
NY, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with mild edgewear. B&w photos and illustrations by the author. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, DK Ink, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. Light edgewear to dust jacket.
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, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Bob and Betty learn about life and work on the farm during a summer vacation they spend with their Uncle John and Cousin Ruben. Originally published in 1910. Foreword by Barbara Bader. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY , L. W. Singer Co., 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 48 pages. Illustrated in color by Caldecott winner Jerry Pinkney. One of his early and scarce titles. Light wear, rubbing to edges, else a clean, tight copy.
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, The Macmillan Company, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, chipped and price-clipped dust jacket. The adventures of a worm who devours words. Three-color illustrations by Arnold Roth throughout. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, INSCRIBED BY FEIFFER on half title page. Illustrated in color.
Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, color illustrations by Raul Colon. SIGNED BY COLON on title page.
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, 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, Viking Press, 1st, 1951, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover. Three-tone illustrations by Elizabeth Orton Jones. Foxing to endpapers. Previous owner's inscription on half-title page. Dust jacket with light edgewear, foxing.
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.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, reprint, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Unpaginated. Cover has light wear to corners, light soiling.
Hardcover. New York, Little Simon, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed brown covers with color illustrated pastedown. Non-Paginated. Full color illustrations by Kyte. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co. , 1st, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Color art by Stephen Harvard. A vain & lazy barnyard cat makes a coat of mouse-skins- the mice consider him their god & trust him to send them to heaven. An unusual, humorous tale with a happy ending. Bookseller stamp to front endpaper, name on front flap. clean internally.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 72 pages. Black & white illustrations by C. W. Anderson. Cover has light edgewear.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, Reprint, Circa 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR GARTH WILLIAMS ON TITLE PAGE. Illustrations in full color. Previous owners name and date (1960) at top right corner of front endpaper. Gray cloth covers. Dust jacket with missing small chunks of paper, closed tears along edges.
Hardcover. Boyds Mills Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Monica Vachula. A story of Sophia Smith, founder of Smith College. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Golden Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards, 61 pages. Color illustrations by Gene Biggs. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Dutton Children's Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. INSCRIBED BY JEAN CRAIGHEAD GEORGE ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Full color illustrations by Wendell Minor. Dust jacket shows light wear. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Wonder Books, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. Illustrated in color by William Moyers. Bright, clean copy.
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, Harper & Row, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover in a bright dustjacket. Full color illustrations by Charles Mikolaycak. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A collection of 6 hardcover "I Can Read Books", all illustrated by Syd Hoff. All Weekly Reader editions, bright and clean, no markings. A faint musty smell.
Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Full color illustrations by Ron Barrett. Clean, bright copy.