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

Hardcover. NY, Random House, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with gray cloth spine. Color illustrations by Masha. Small name on front fly leaf, light edge and corner wear to boards.

Hardcover. New York, Algonquin Book, 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 39 pages. Hardcover with laminated boards. Color illustrations by author. Previous owner's marking in front and rear. Moderate chipping to spine with chunk missing from bottom. Loose page block.

Hardcover. New York, P.F. Volland Company, 1st, 1920, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nonpaginated. Hardcover in decorative box. Color illustrations throughout. In good condition considering its age. Previous owner's dated inscription on title page. Bright yellow covers with illustration. Touch of foxing to covers and a few pages, but doesn't affect text or illustrations. Binding still quite tight. Beautiful old children's book.

Hardcover. London, Collins, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Macaulay. Lavishly illustrated Caldecott Honor book about the construction of an imaginary French Gothic cathedral. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, IL, P.F. Volland Company, 1st, 1921, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Illustrated by Katharine Sturges Dodge. Chipping to covers, spine. Previous owner's erased pencil markings on title page. Tight.

Hardcover. New York, Watts, 4th pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. hardcover with dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR BRIAN WILDSMITH on front fly leaf. Color illust. Light wear, rubbing to edges of dust jacket, closed tear to front cover.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, color illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Newly translated by Ralph Manheim. Bookplate on inside front cover, owner's inscription opposite.

Hardcover. New York, Willia Morrow and Company, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 142 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Illustrated by Mary K. Okheena.

Hardcover. Washington, DC, Encino Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Illustrated in black & white by Pat Oliphant, the award-winning editorial cartoonist. SIGNED BY OLIPHANT with his pequin sketch. Quarterbound w/green lined paper covered boards w/dark green cloth covered spine, no dj issued.

Hardcover. Templar/Candlewick Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, In this enthralling scrapbook that William Shakespeare compiled for his daughter, he looks back on his life as he retires from the theatre. Discover late-sixteenth- and early-seventeenth century stories of love, war, kings and queens, fellow playwrights and actors, explorers and life in London. An interactive book with lots of flaps, notes in envelopes, etc. Excellent condition.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black and white and yellow illustrations by Hilary Knight. Light soil on cover boards. Previous owner's name opposite title page. Spine shows moerate wear and bumping.

Hardcover. Akron, OH, Saalfield, 1st , 1934, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 90 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. 11 color plates by Diana Thorne (one repeated on cover). Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Spine loose, light soil to front cover.

Hardcover. Akron OH, Saalfield, reprint, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. "Rum Tum Tummy was a bold, bad elephant. he had no parents, which would have been bad to anybody but a bold, bad elephant in a very wild jungle. He didn't even have an aunt to say ... 'Brush your tusks!' He had nothing but a terrible appetite, and, as you shall see, he had a wild time !" Color illustrations by Holling. Back cover soiled, interior clean.

Hardcover. Brookfield, CN, Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Color illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. A kids' picture book introducing the Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st , 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy boards. Non-paginated. Color illustions by Craig. No dust jacket issued. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 14th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Story of the Santa Fe trail, presented in a charming production with full color plates and marginal line drawings presenting learning lessons on a variety of Western history subjects. Stated 14th printing, rear of DJ is review for just the Paddle to the Sea. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, reprint, 1956, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with laminate boards. No dust jacket. Moderate edgewear and soil to cover edges. small ding on bottom cover edge. Laminate paper rubbed off on corners and edges. Clean copy.

Softcover. London, George Allen & Unwin, 2nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color, black & white lithographs by Feodor Rojankovsky. #4 of Pere Castor's Wild Animal Books. Transl. by Rose Fyleman. Cardboard covers with dust jacket. Dust jacket with closed tear to rear panel.

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket with $4.95 on flap. 58 pages (unpaginated). Illustrated alphabet (featuring double-page illustrations of ordinary and fantastic animals). Text by Hosea Tobias and Lisa Baskin. 'First Edition' stated on copyright page. A Caldecott Honor book in 1973. Mild soil, edgewear to dj, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Minor wear to dust jacket. Light rubbing to covers, fading to spine. Illustrations by Wendy Watson.

hardcover. NY, Coward McCann & Geoghagan, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Sepia-toned illustrations by Stephen Gammell. Dust jacket with edgewear, closed tears.

Hardcover. Kenosha WI, John Martin's House, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 32 pages illustrated in color by Klara. Johnny was lonesome for a playmate. He went to heaven to tell St. Peter his wish and St. Peter promised to send him a baby sister. Just after Christmas his baby sister arrives. Previous owner's inscription on inside front cover, Light bump to top corner.

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 121 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE BY ILLUSTRATOR CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG. A clean and tight copy.

hardcover. Chicago, Follett, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. llustrated in color by Gioia Fiammengh. Front end paper, with sticker shadows. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. An inspired reboot from the brilliant pairing of horror master Stephen King and the late children's author-illustrator Maurice Sendak. The spooky art and text maintain the menacing atmosphere of the kids' perilous adventure. They've revitalized this old gem for a new generation of young readers. "This splendidly chilling variation of the Brothers Grimm story is built around costume and set designs that late Caldecott Medalist Sendak produced for a Humperdinck opera... While the narrative's characterizations and diction hew to tradition its horrors land with fresh force in an epic retelling that suits the illustrations' eerie magnificence." - Publishers Weekly. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with light to no wear on edges. Red Ribbon marker.

NY, Harcourt Brace Janovich, 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards illustrated in color. Color art by Errol Le Cain.

Hardcover. NY, Roaring Brook Press], 3rd pr., 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. This spare, poetic picture book follows a group of kids as they move through all the different phases of the water cycle. From rain to fog to snow to mist, author Miranda Paul and artist Jason Chin combine to create a beautiful and informative journey in this innovative nonfiction picture book. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Whitman Tell-A-Tale, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated cardboard covers, color illustrations by Ben Williams. Small sticker on first page otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus Giroux, 1st , 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color illust. by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping, small chunk gone from rear panel. Copyright page states first edition, Caldecott sticker on front.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace , 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Enjoying the annual baseball game between the married and single men in his community, twelve-year-old Willard Babson assists talented baseball star Babe Ruth when the latter's car accidentally slides into a ditch. Watercolors by Barry Moser. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman, 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated cardboard covers, 32 pages illustrated in color and b&w by the Disney Studio. Small tape repair at bottom of spine, previous owner's stamp inside front cover otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Charles Miklolaycak. Dust jacket price clipped.

Hardcover. New York, Platt & Munk, Co., reprint, 1933, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Blue cloth covers, front cover completely illustrated with pasted color plate, orange endpapers, profusely illustrated with color and b&w plates. Moderate rubbing and edgewear to covers, previous owner's small black ink signature to front endpaper, spine lightly faded and soiled, crisp and unmarked; overall a neat, tight copy of a lovely children's book

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light green boards, maroon cloth spine with gilt titles, color illustrated dust jacket, beautiful full page color illustrations by Jim McMullan. Very slight wear to dust jacket; a beautiful children's book in excellent condition.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Gretchen Schields. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR. Clean, tight copy in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Henry Altemus, 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 58 pages, illustrated with 27 color plates by J.L.G. (Johnny Gruelle). Red cloth spine with gray boards and a color label on front cover. Dust jacket has edgewear, chipping, small holes in spine. Previous owner's signature on end papers.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 32 pages, color illustrations by the author. Convinced that crossing the river on the back of Monty the alligator is too slow, the animals try to find a faster way to get their children to school.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st illust., 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Elizabeth Orton Jones. Light tanning, spotting to covers, else a neat, tight copy.

Hardcover. Shawnee Mission KS, Autism Asperger Publishing, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 37 pages, illustrated in color. Like new in a bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st thus, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated in color by Barry Moser.

NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, INSCRIBED BY JOSE ARUEGO WITH SKETCH OF ALLIGATOR ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Orange boards and cloth bound spine, color illustrated dust jacket, lovely full page color pictures by Jose Aruego and Ariane Dewey. Very slight rubbing to dust jacket, pages clean, crisp and unmarked; a beautiful book in great condition.

Hardcover. London, Raphael Tuck, na, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 96 pages, illustrated with 23 chromolithographs by E.M. and M.F. Taylor. Tan boards with a color label on front cover, green cloth spine. Text and illustrations printed on one side only. Previous owner's inscription on preliminary blank page dated 1909. Light edgewear to covers otherwise very good.

Hardcover. NY, Sea Star Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illust. by Kinuko Y. Craft. Tight copy with only minor wear to cover edges.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2nd pr., 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.Color illustrations by Chris K. Soentpiet. On a cold gray morning in 1683, Molly Walsh sat on a stool tugging at the udder of an obstinate cow. When she spilled the milk, she was brought before the court for stealing. Because she could read, Molly escaped the typicalpunishment of death on the gallows. At the age of seventeen, the English dairymaid was exiled from her country and sentenced to work as an indentured servant in British Colonial America. Molly worked for a planter in Maryland for seven long years. Then she was given an ox hitched to a cart, some supplies-and her freedom. That a lone woman should stake land was unheard of. That she would marry an African slave was even more so. Yet Molly prospered, and with her husband Bannaky, she turned a one-room cabin in the wilderness into a thriving one hundred-acre farm.

Hardcover. New York , Harper and Row, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by the author. Dust jacket with minor wear, bright, unclipped.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st thus, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 64 pages. New Yorker cartoonist (and creator of the altogether ooky Addams Family characters) Charles Addams tampers with tradition to great effect in The Charles Addams Mother Goose, first published in 1967, and now reissued as a deluxe edition. While Ms. Goose's original nursery rhymes remain unchanged, Addams casts his spell on a selected few poems with new visual twists. A less wholesome, more anemic Mistress Mary has never been seen, and her bare-lightbulb-lit basement garden of mushrooms and heads of "pretty maids all in a row" is quite unsettling. Jack Sprat and his wife are, of course, cannibals. Nine-day-old porridge is disgusting... so naturally a witch is the porridge preparer, and goblins are the only ones who would like it "nine days old." Humpty Dumpty's story, on the other hand, feels a little cheerier than the original: rather than leaving the egg irreparably broken, the illustrator shows a dinosaur hatching! Tee Addams, Charles Addams's wife, writes an insightful introduction for this lovely, oversized edition, and the book closes with a scrapbook of family photos and pictures of Addams's earlier work. Kids familiar with Mother Goose's rhymes will be delighted (and perhaps only slightly terrified) by Addams's playful interpretations.

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st thus, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Story & pictures by Garth Williams. His original black & white drawings (from 1951's Adventure of Benjamin Pink) colored by Rosemary Wells.

Hardcover. London/New York, Viking/Kestrel, Revised Ed., 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 408 pages, illustrated in b&w by Antony Maitland. Edited by Brian Alderson with his notes on the stories in the rear. Previous owner's handwritten note inside front cover otherwise clean with a bright dust jacket with light edgewear.

Hardcover. Saxonville MA, Picture Book Studio, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards with a black cloth spine. Color illustrations by Eve Tharlet, translation by Athena Bell. Children will be charmed by Bell's translation of the tale about the tailor who advertised his prowess by embroidering a sash proclaiming "Seven at a Blow." The narrative respects the original story; the text is not diluted, and it is lengthy. Vocabulary such as courtiers, contemptuously, and desperate adds to the vitality of the story. The settings and clothing in Tharlet's detailed and appropriate soft-toned watercolor washes suggest the Middle Ages.