Hardcover. New York, Lothrop, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED ON BY WISNIEWSKI on title-page. Color illustrations by author. Tight copy.
1986, Coffee House Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Spine lightly faded on dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Rhonda McClun. A dandelion in the garden of an autocratic rose-fancier triumphs over the threat of extinction.
NY, Golden Press, 1st, 1956, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glazed boards. Color Illustrations by Garth Williams. Illustrated end papers. Edgewear and soil to covers. Bottom of spine torn.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY JIM AND KATE MCMULLAN on half title-page. Color Illustrations by Jim McMullan. TIght copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 9 x 11", illustrated in color and protected with brodary, lovely full-color illustrations by Steig. Pages, dust jacket and covers clean, crisp and unmarked, spine stiff and tight; a lovely children's book in excellent condition. Zeke Pippin, the pig, finds a harmonica in the street which he soons believes has magical powers. This is the charming story of his adventures. Steig has won both Caldecott & Newbery Medals.
Hardcover. NY, Philomel, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations Charles Mikolaycak. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket.
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.
NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Marcia Sewall. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping. Tape and tape residue on covers. Dust jacket with edgewear, small tears and spine sun fade.
NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1992, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Dust jacket pristine. Color illustrations by Brusca. A familiar folktale motif is that of the clever man who outwits the devil. In this zesty retelling, based on an Argentinian source, that man is Juan Pobreza, a poor blacksmith who reshoes a mule belonging to St. Peter and charges nothing for the job. Touched, St. Peter asks the man to name three wishes. Juan, sure that Peter is not who he claims to be, makes three seemingly senseless wishes that help him out later when he must deal with the agents of the devil. In the twist at the end, Pobreza finds himself barred from both heaven and hell.
NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author.
New York, Simon & Schuster , 1st thus, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY KNIGHT on front end paper pastedown. Color illustrations by the author.
Hardcover. NY, Clarion, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by the author. Light edgewear and creases to dust jacket. All rivers in India are sacred, and the Ganges most of all. Every year, more than one million Hindu pilgrims journey to Benares to renew themselves in its waters. Caldecott Honor medalist Ted Lewin joined the pilgrims at the river's edge for an experience he describes as one of the most unforgettable of his life. His luminous watercolors and simple, evocative text brilliantly capture the traditions, beliefs, and colorful pageantry of the devout and their ancient city.
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.
Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. In a timeless Swahili tale, Leopard and Sungura the hare unknowingly build houses on the same hill, and they eventually meet, and one outwits the other. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. SIGNED BY VAN ALLSBURG on title-page. Color illustrations by author. Dust jacket with light edgewear, rubbing and price clipped.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY VAN ALLSBURG on title-page. Light edgewear and rubbing to covers. Color illustrations by the author.
Hardcover. Boston , Godine, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by the author. Light edgewear to dust jacket.Tim is so discouraged and bored by life at home and school that he seizes a chance to join a circus, not knowing what really awaits him. Clean copy.
NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. Light edgewear to dust jacket. As they play video games inside, children miss out on a world of activity just outside their window.
NY, Harper Collins , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. Book review laid in. SIGNED BY JOYCE WITH A DOODLE OF AN ELF'S FACE. "Art Atchinson Aimesworth--inventor, crime fighter, and all-around whiz kid--receives a mysterious summons from Santa Claus and shares a Christmas adventure with his sister Esther that brings them closer together." Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt , 1st Thus, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Susan Jeffers. A young readers version of Knight's 1938 classic. SIGNED BY JEFFERS.
Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st thus, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color photos by Cindy Sherman. Light edgewear to dust jacket.
NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white and color illustrations by the author. Each page shows us angels romping through the celestial alphabet. All around them in glorious profusion are line drawings of butterflies, ladybugs and rabbits, all utterly charming and rendered with equisite detail. 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.
NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Light edgewear and soil to the dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Gail Owens. A Parisian mongrel successfully leads a double life until both of his "owners" enter him in the same dog show. Clean copy.
NY, Potter, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrations by Helen Craig. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Lightly bumped corners. When Angelina Ballerina sees old Mr. Bell all alone at Christmastime, she decides to bring him some holiday cheer. Cousin Henry doesn?t want to help until he finds that there?s a real Santa Claus living in their town!
Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 32 pages, boards. Story of a little black fish, the only one left from an entire school. 1964 Caldecott Honor Book. Color illustrations by the author. Small brown stain on front of dust jacket. Dust jacket edgewear and chipping.
Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Small closed tear to dust jacket. Black & white woodcut illustrations by the author.
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. New York, Harper & Row, 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Cloth spine with pictorial boards. Black & white illustrations by Paul Flora. Light edgewear, chipping and soil to covers. No dust jacket.
NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Anita Lobel. "One of the greatest pleasures of this impressive collection of 12 Russian fables is Lobel's sophisticated artwork. She outdoes herself with watercolor-and-gouache paintings that are brilliantly colored and wonderfully composed. The details are just right....Heins' prose retellings of poems by Ivan Andreevich Krylov, "Russia's greatest fabulist,' are elegant." Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Dial, 1st US, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 31 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Shirley Tourret. Embossed cover with gilt lettering. Clean, tight copy.
NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Anthony Bacon Venti. Illustrated end papers. Long before Cornwall was inhabited by humans, it was home to a myriad of mysterious creatures. This collection of stories shares the secrets of the giants, Spriggans, Knackers, and changelings who inhabited and ruled the moors, mountains, and seacoasts of Cornwall. Each shivery tale is preceeded by an introduction to Cornwall's wondrous inhabitants, and is followed by helpful tips on what to do should you encounter one of these unearthly creatures.
London, Hamish Hamilton, 1st UK, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Edgewear, rubbing and sticker residue to dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. Light sticker residue, small closed tears to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Photos and illustrations by the author. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping.
Hardcover. NY, McElderry Books, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations James Stevenson. Dust jacket unclipped, very good.
Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Drahos Zak. A retelling of the classic story finds the town of Hamelin plagued by rats until its citizens hire a piper to play a sweet tune that will lure away the pests, but when the people refuse to pay him, he also lures away their children. This magnificent picture book--originally published in Australia--is as tall and creepy as illustrator Drahos Zak's personification of the Pied Piper himself. Clean copy.
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.
NY, Grosset & Dunlap , 1st, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Berthold. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Illustrated end papers. Edgewear and chipping to covers. Tears at the bottom and top of spine.
Hardcover. San Diego, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, SIGNED BY NORMAN AND LEO AND DIANE DILLON on title-page. Color illustrations by Leo and Diane Dillon. like-new condition.
New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, SIGNED BY COONEY on bookplate on front fly leaf. Color illustrations by the author.
Hardcover. NY, Putnam, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. Light edgewear to dust jacket. ABC book illustrating words that contain "ant" in them.
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, Clarion Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Ted Lewin. Light edgewear and small tears in dust jacket. Illustrated end papers.In Cincinnati in 1927, paperboy Willie Brinkman attempts to sell extra copies of the special edition covering the Dempsey-Tunney fight in his working-class neighborhood.
Hardcover. NY, Kingfisher, 1st US, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Jean Claverie. Light edgewear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. Light edgewear and chipping to dust jacket. Dust jacket price clipped. Illustrated end papers.
NY, Golden Book, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. Color illustrations by the author. Step right up and see the dazzling displays and sensational sights of the brightest circus parade ever. From the golden calliope wagon to the proud pachyderms, each page of detailed delights will keep readers rapt. A treat for both young and old; no one will want to miss the clowns in cars and penguins in pools; ferocious felines and aerial artistry--everything that's marvelous and magical about the legendary big top! So get yourself some peanuts and cotton candy and settle in for the greatest parade on earth.
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Price: $20.00
Vintage & Collectible Children's Picture Books
This section brings together used, rare and out-of-print children's illustrated books, where the artwork matters as much as the story. Expect picture books, illustrated readers and treasuries from a range of decades and artists, such as W.W. Denslow's Denslow's Picture Book Treasury and Emily Arnold McCully's Crossing the New Bridge.
You will also find storybook favorites like Jan Wahl's A Gift for Miss Milo, Randall Jarrell's Fly by Night and Philippe Dumas's Caesar: Cock of the Village. Many titles are earlier printings or hard-to-find editions prized for their plates, endpapers and jacket art, and are described down to their condition and binding.
As with all used and rare stock, condition and availability differ between copies. Most are single copies, so order online while yours is listed.
 "Secret Knowledge Of Grown-Ups (SIGNED COPY) by: Wisniewski, David")
 "Tale Of Dan De Lion, The by: Disch, Thomas M.")
 "My Big Golden Counting Book by: Moore/Garth Williams, Lilian")
 "Papa's Song (SIGNED COPY) by: McMullan, Kate and Jim")
 "Zeke Pippin by: Steig, William")
 "Dwarf Nose by: Hauff/Lisbeth Zwerger, Wilhelm")
 "Nine Crying Dolls, The by: Pellowski, Anne and Charles Mikolaycak")
 "Mummies Made In Egypt by: Aliki")
 "Squire's Bride, The by: Asbjornsen/Marcia Sewall, P.C.")
 "The Blacksmith and The Devils by: Brusca, Maria Cristina and Tona Wilson")
 "Noisy Giant's Tea Party, The by: McMullan, Kate and Jim")
 "Twelve Days Of Christmas, The (SIGNED COPY) by: Knight, Hilary")
 "Sacred River by: Lewin, Ted")
 "Dreamer, The (SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR) by: Rylant, Cynthia and Barry Moser")
 "Sungura and Leopard - A Swahili Trickster Tale by: Knutson, Barbara")
 "Stranger, The (SIGNED COPY) by: Van Allsburg, Chris")
 "Wretched Stone, The (SIGNED COPY) by: Van Allsburg, Chris")
 "Dr. Blackfoot's Carnival Extraordinaire by: Chatalbash, Ron")
 "Out Of Sight! by: Lapointe, Claude")
 "Santa Calls (SIGNED COPY) by: Joyce, William")
 "Lassie Come-Home (SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR) by: WELLS, ROSEMARY and Susan Jeffers")
 "Fitcher's Bird by: Grimm. Cindy Sherman")
 "Gift Angel by: Thomsen, Airdrie")
 "Day Hans Got His Way, The by: Atwell, David Lewis")
 "Jaky Or Dodo? by: Carlson/Gail Owens, Natalie Savage")
 "Angelina's Christmas by: Holabird, Katharine")
 "Swimmy by: Lionni, Leo")
 "Thump, Thump, Rat-a-Tat-Tat by: Baer, Gene and Lois Ehlert")
 "Hannah's Farm - The Seasons On an Early American Homestead by: McCurdy, Michael")
 "A Weekend In The Country (SIGNED COPY) by: Lorenz, Lee")
 "The Lively Adventures Of A Burly Woodcutter, A Pint-Sized Inventor, Two Pretty Pastry Cooks, And A Gang Of Desparate Criminals by: Janzarik/Paul Flora, Hilde")
 "Cat And The Cook, The - And Other Fables Of Krylov by: Heins/Anita Lobel, Ethel")
 "Town In The Library, The by: Nesbit, E.")
 "Magic and Mischief Tales From Cornwall by: Climo, Shirley")
 "Rook by: King, Deborah")
 "Pouring Iron - A Foundry Ghost Story by: Weitzman, David")
 "Adam And Eve - The Bible Story by: Hutton, Warwick")
 "Mrs. Donald's Dog Bun And His Home Away From Home by: Maxwell/James Stevenson, William")
 "Pied Piper Of Hamelin, The by: Holden/Drahos Zak, Robert")
 "Pied Piper Of Hamelin, The by: Holden, Robert")
 "Tavern At The Ferry, The by: Tunis, Edwin")
 "Wonderful Dog Show, The by: Mace, Katherine")
 "Girl Who Dreamed Only Geese, The - And Other Tales Of The Far North (SIGNED COPY) by: Norman, Howard")
 "Eleanor (SIGNED COPY) by: Cooney, Barbara")
 "ANTics! An Alphabetical ANThology by: Hepworth, Cathi")
 "Grandaddy's Stars by: Griffith/James Stevenson, Helen V.")
 "Paperboy by: Kroeger/Ted Lewin, Mary Kay and Louise Borden")
 "Julian by: Chapouton, Anne-Marie")
 "Hattie and the Wild Waves by: Cooney, Barbara")
 "Circus Is Coming, The by: Knight, Hilary")