Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. NY, Kestrel / Viking, 1st thus, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy pictorial boards. Six pop-up scenes unfold to show children visiting the elephants, lions, tigers, fishes, monkeys, and bears, during a day at the zoo. This is a 1980 reproduction of an antique book originally published in 1890 by J. F. Schrieber of Esslingen, Germany. It unfolds into one long panorama, showing different animals in their zoo cages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne & Co, reprint, nd, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 88 pages. Hardcover with clipped dust jacket. Illustrated in color and black and white by Randolph Caldecott. Dust jacket has minor wear. No. 4.

Hardcover. Chicago, Whitman, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pgs w/ color & 2-color Illustrations throughout by Eleanor Mussey Young. Small blemish to back boards otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Books for Young Readers, 2nd pr, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Text and pictures portray the activities of woodland animals on a snowy night. 32 pages illustrated with San Souci's exquisite watercolors. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Margaret K. McElderry Books, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Warwick Hutton. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Platt & Munk, reprint, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 24 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. illustrated in color, black & white. Dust jacket with chipping, wear along spine but very attractive.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial glossy boards, 48 pages illustrated in 2-colors by Seuss. As topical today as when it was first published in 1938, The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins is the story of a young boy and his unjust treatment at the hands of a king. Written in unrhymed prose, The 500 Hats is one of Dr. Seuss's earliest works, and while it may not be as well-known as his other stories, the book addresses subjects that we know the good doctor was passionate about throughout his life: the abuse of power, rivalry, and of course, zany good humor. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Janovich , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 28 pages. Color illustrations by Alice and Martin Provenson. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 7th pr, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Multi-color woodcut illustrations by Brown. Nice copy of her Caldecott Book. Medal sticker on dj, price clipped, spine chipped top & bottom.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with the gold foil Caldecott Medal on the front. SIGNED BY HALL on the title page. Cooney's award-winning color paintings throughout. Also laid in: A signed typewritten note from Hall on his stationery and a newspaper article about the author. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Orange covers, dust jacket completely illustrated in color and protected with acetate-covering, lovely full-color illustrations by Steig. Very light edgewear to dust jacket, very small area of sticker residue to upper right corner of acetate dust jacket covering, pages and covers clean, crisp and unmarked; a lovely children's book in great condition.

Hardcover. NY, Bluesky/Scholastic, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 65 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustby Barry Moser. Clean tght copy.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow & Company, Book Club Ed., 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards,, 32 pages illustrated in color by Janet McCaffery. The story of a bad witch who runs a cattery specializing in magical black cats for sale to other bad witches. One day, she is horrified to discover that one of her new kittens is yellow---a good witch cat. Frightened that her business will be ruined, she tries everything she can to get rid of the kitten; but in the end, good triumphs over bad, and "now good witches and fairy godmothers" get their magical cats from Hissing Hill. Corners with light wear, clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Ariel Books/Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages. Hardcover with dark blue covers. No dust jacket. Color illustrations by Chris Van Allsburg. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace & World, 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, Illustrated in color by French. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping.

Hardcover. Edinburgh, Floris Books, reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, oblong format. Originally published in Swedish in 1899. This is a revised version of the first English edition, published by G.P. Putnam's Sons of New York in 1974 with text translated from Lennart Rudstrom's 1968 adaptation of Larsson's original words. The paintings in this book depict Larsson's home in the village of Sundhorn in western Sweden, where he lived with his wife Karin and eight children. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1947, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Moderate to heavy soil on covers. Spine ripped on top and small stain on front bottom corner and rear.

Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st US, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Gay. Library Edition (NOT ex-lib.). Dust jacket flap clipped. A cheerful story about a baby penguin and his arctic friends.

Softcover. Watertown MA, Charlesbridge Publishing, 1st pbk, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oblong format. A cowboy poet who can't rope, whip, or ride? who ever heard of that? Slim knows he could be a real cowboy if the ranch hands would just give him a chance. Action-filled color drawings by Apple capture the excitement of a cattle run to Dodge City. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Rand McNally & Company and Phillips Publishers, Inc. , 1st Edition, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nonpaginated. Hardcover with decorated gift box (some light wear--see image). Some slight tanning to pages, but still quite bright. Color illustrations throughout. Also included is directions insert (see image). Decorative cover boards, back cover board has two small holes (see image), otherwise in good shape. Novelty childrens book from mid-19th Century.

Hardcover. New York, Sea Star Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustration by Hague & SIGNED BY HAGUE on title-page. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Platt and Munk, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong format, green cloth covers with title and drawing of panicked cows. Color, black & white illustrations by Brook. No dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Sion & Schuster, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Ziegler. Having laughed at the friendly, talkative old man who tells comic stories, a group of children is shocked when the man is hurt in an accident and begins to accept him and laugh with him instead. Illustrations by the noted New Yorker cartoonist enliven this unusual intergenerational story.

hardcover. NY, Coward, McCann & Gegoghegan, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Tom Allen

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket that is taped to the book covers, color illustrations. Charming Christmas story about a stray cat who finds a new family at Christmastime. Tasha Tudor's illustrations and her daughter's tale. Dust jacket with sticker on spine from publisher, "Crowell Quality Reinforced Binding". No marking.

Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards, 39 pages illustrated in color by Bernie Fuchs. No dust jacket. Clean, bright copy.

NY, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards. Color illustrations by Jack Kent. "There was once a prince who longed to live a simple life. He was tired of idle foolishness and fancy dress balls." Name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Little Brown and Co., 5th pr., 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages illustrated in color by Nolan and INSCRIBED BY BOTH AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR on the title page. Dust jacket with light edgewear, unclipped.

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

Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Gennady Spirin. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 32 pages. Color illustrations by Say. Minor edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, attractive copy. One morning eight-year-old Martin looks in the mirror and sees a stranger. Overnight, he has changed. His parents take him to one doctor after another, only to be told that there is nothing wrong with their son. At school his teacher asks, "What have we here, trick or treat?" His classmates will not play with him. At home his family tries to treat him as if he were the same child. But things now are different. Martin has grown very old in the space of one day. His world will never be the same again.

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Crowell, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket. Color illustrations done in comic book style by Wendy Watson and SIGNED BY WENDY WATSON on the title page. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Chicago, Rand McNally, Rep., 1995, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, A collection of earlier Nursery favorites by Brice reprinted here in a larger format. Covers worn, botton 2" of cloth gone from spine.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Unpaginated (46 pages), color illustrated boards with blue cloth spine. Illustrated with color and b&w lithographs by the D'Aulaires. True first with $2 on front flap. Dust jacket is poor with big chunks gone, closed tears. Spine of the book has fraying to top and bottom. Previous owner's inscription on illustrated front fly leaf. Otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. NY, Longmans, Green, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth covers with black stamped decoration. Mild fade to spine. 315 pages, Blue endpapers design and b&w drawings by Henry Pitz. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st , 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Diane de Groat. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Knopf, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 42 pages illustrated in color by Wiktor Sadowski. Color illustrated boards, no dust jacket issued for this library edition. NOT ex-library, clean and bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 40 pages illustrated in color by Egielski. When a homeless rat named Slim is forced into a life of crime, he encounters a kind young mouse named Jim, who's willing to take him in and give him a chance. But when Slim's checkered past catches up to him, their friendship is put to the test. Together they must do battle with the evil villain Buster, relying upon their faith in one another -- and their yo-yos. In this Oliver Twist for tots, Richard Egielski tells a tale of true friendship and creates characters as memorable as Fagin, Bill Sikes, and the Artful Dodger.

Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Anatoly Ivanov. Light soil to cover/dust jacket. TIght copy.

Hardcover. New York , Viking Press, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 152 pages, blue cloth covers with dark blue design. Illustrated in b&w by Lawson. . Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping, not price clipped ($2.50).

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Henry Altemus, reprint, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Probable Second Printing, as an 1898 edition is mentioned on copyright page. 253 pages. Front cover is decorated with the boy and his grinning fiddling bear. With white lettering and design elements on pink-orange hardcover. Illustrated throughout with 35 b&w drawings by Frank Verbeck. White 'E" on cover faded as is spine lettering. Some fraying to bottom of spine. name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Detroit, Wayne State Univ., 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white, color illustrations. 211 pages. This catalog was compiled to document the complete holdings of the Detroit Public Library's Kate Greenaway Collection. Over 400 items catalogued here. 9 color plates + numerous black & white illustrations. Selected bibliography. 10" high X 7" wide.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally & Co., reprint, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 112 pages, 10" by 13" folio. Green cloth with color paste down on front cover. Gorgeous color illustrations throughout by Milo Winter. Clean, tight copy with only mild wear. Hinges are starting to crack slightly.

Hardcover. Moscow, Raduga, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated glossy boards. Color illustrations by Kirill Ovchinnikov. Three old Egyptian tales: Jedi The Magician, The Seafarer and The Snake, How the Thief Outwitted the Pharaoh. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Harper and Brothers, reprint, 1958, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 64 pages, hardcover with laminated boards, illustrated in color and 2-colors by Hoff. Dust jacket with chipping, light wear, price-clipped. Very early edition but not a first printing, no black cloth spine, code on dust jacket rear No. 5963, rear flap has reviews of Little Bear, Harper Blue Ribbon sticker on spine.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color pictorial boards with yellow cloth spine and black lettering, black and white illustrations throughout in art deco style by Frank MacIntosh. Coatsworth won the Newbery Award in 1931. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean and bright. No dust jacket.

NY, Hart Publishing, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. A reprint of a 1890's book. 6 color plates + black & white drawings. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages illustrated in color by Burningham. In a lightly edgeworn dust jacket that's unclipped.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers , Prob 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 65 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations by Maurice Sendak. No dust jacket. Cardboard cover corners show wear otherwise very good.