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

Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color by both Vera and Jennifer Williams. Clean, tight copy. Dust jacket has creases and light staining.

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. NY, Macmillan, 2nd pr., 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial orange cloth, 185 pages illustrated with 2-color drawings and b&w photographs. A school reader emphasizing healthy habits and safety. Clean copy.

Softcover. Akron, OH, Saafield Publishing Co., 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 16 pages. Booklet with light edgewear to paper wrappers. Illustrated color/Black and white plates by Fern Bissell Peat. Square 12mo. Very good, scarce.

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.

Hardcover. NY, Houghton Mifflin Company, reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Originally published in 1947, this is a quality reprint of that Caldecott Honor book. Silver medal on dj, clean copy. 123 pages with fifteen original ballads of Robin Hood with exquisitely detailed b&w illustrations by Virginia Lee Burton.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to covers and edges. 2nd printing. Illustrated by authors. Light fraying to corners.

Hardcover. New York, Dial, 1st , 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY JEFFERS on title page. and illustrated in color by Jeffers. There is a production flaw to the corner bottom paste-down in front (hidden by the dust jacket flap) otherwise VG.

Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 2nd pr., 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 40 pages illustrated in color by Steven Kellogg. A fantastic book about the math of saving money featuring Marvelosissimo the Mathematical Magician.

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 43 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ronald Himler. Clean, tight copy.

hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Reg Cartwright. Clean, tight copy. Fourteen carefully constructed rhymes begin with a mouse in a quiet house and end with a farmyard full of animals that runs directly into the middle of two armies having a battle in the hills.

Hardcover. NY, Sterling, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with a maroon cloth spine. 12 pages with 6 color pop=ups. Paper-crafting genius Sam Ita gives Jules Verne's engrossing undersea story a unique and amazing presentation. Ita literally takes graphic novels into another dimension with breathtaking designs that pop, flaps that lift, parts that move, and art that astonishes. There's nothing like it out on the market. You won't believe your eyes as you join Captain Nemo on an unforgettable adventure: submarines, sea monsters, and even the lost city of Atlantis (complete with ancient artifacts, temples, and columns) rise from the page as if emerging from the waves. Take a 3-D look inside Jules Verne's visionary submarine; sit with the sailors at their lobster-laden table; pull a lever to move the diving gauge; and face a giant squid as its slippery tentacles attack the Nautilus and her crew. Clean copy with no flaws to the paper cut-outs.

Hardcover. New York, Dial Books for Young Readers, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Illustrations by Friso Henstra. Minor wear to covers. Dust jacket price-clipped.

NY, Scribners, 9th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, Color illustrations by Shulevitz. Light edgewear, closed tears to dust jacket. As the boy who lives in a tenement looks out the window on a rainy day, he begins a story about a king, a queen and a little price who visited him, but he was not home. Then, as the story progresses, more days and more characters are added on to the ensemble until on Sunday, when the cast of characters is complete, the little boy is home to greet his company. And, the reader discovers that the little boy's imagination allowed him to invent his company while he was playing with a deck of cards.

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 302 pages with index. (observations)... on New England People, Birds, Flowers, Herbs, Weather, Customs and Cookery of Yesterday and Today. Color and B&W illustrations by Tasha Tudor. Blue cloth covers with flecking (chipping to surface color). Clean copy.

Softcover. Aakron, OH, Saalfield, 1st Edition, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 16 pages. Softcover, textured pages. Vivid, full-color illustrations. Some chipping to wrapper at spine and crease to top right corner of front cover and top left corner of back cover. Some light tanning to covers and pages from age. Staple bound. Adorable childrens book with sheet music included in illustrations.

NY, Atheneum, 1st , 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Black & white drawings by Norman MacDonald. Dust jacket with light edgewear, closed tear. What happened when two parades met--half the book is printed rightside up; the other half upside down, so of course the parades collide!

Hardcover. New York, Arthur A. Levine / Scholastic, 3rd pr., 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. First state printing with all points of issue satisfied: $17.95 price on front flap, no #2 on spine of DJ or book, raised diamond pattern on dark blue boards, and raised silver letters for title and author name on DJ. Third printing with 10-3 number line and '37', and first American edition June 1999. An attractive and collectible copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards. Tells of the true adventures of Ibn Battuta, a fourteenth-century traveler who, like Marco Polo, set forth on a seventy-five thousand mile journey of discovery through many lands, including Tanzania, China, Russia, and Morocco. Rumford's simply written adaptation is often surprisingly eloquent. For example, Ibn Battuta comments on his voyage: "Traveling-it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller." "Traveling-it had captured my heart, and now my heart was calling me home." On each page, a portion of the text appears within its own bright white narrow road crossing elegantly bordered illustrations that shine with generous amounts of gold, red, and deep blue. This text also flows into and out of larger frames. The artist adorns many of these illustrations with Arabic and Chinese calligraphy, providing translations for the longer phrases at the end of the book. A few maps are included and they are executed with the same attention to presentation. A glossary of names, places, and important words provides essential information in an accessible format.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 3-color illustrations by Kaethe Zemach. Dust jacket edgeworn, repaired tears, chipped.

Hardcover. New York, Richard Jackson Book/Antheneum Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Covers and dust jacket completely illustrated in color, acetate protective covering to dust jacket, lovely full page color illustrations by Schwartz. Very slight rubbing to acetate covering, otherwise dust jacket, covers and pages crisp and unmarked, spine stiff and tight; a beautiful book in superb condition.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Leo and Diane Dillon. A history of slavery in America, written for children, and focusing on those who escaped slavery and on the Underground Railroad. Includes stories of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Josiah Henson, and others.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace, 1st , 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, olor illustrations by George Booth. The 1st children's picture book by the New Yorker artist. Very good in an unclipped dust jacket. Neglected by his television-entranced mother, a little boy finds his mythical Irish town overflowing with trouble when the bathtub faucet gets stuck and causes a flood with which not even the navy cannot help.

Hardcover. London, Marcus Ward and Co., 1st Edition, 1883, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 56 pages; color llustrated boards with brown cloth spine with colored plates by the authors throughout. Verses by Felix Leigh. Cover exhibits edgewear, heaviest at the corners of the boards, which are bumped and have the underlying cardboard exposed. Back cover has a bump at the fore-edge and another at the bottom. Both covers slightly spotted. Interior: binding cracked at page 9; missing between front fly leaf and dedication page (evidence of something tipped in with glue and later removed along reverse of front fly leaf)-- however, the book is otherwise intact. All illustrations present in this edition: lovely plates depicting life in Victorian England, interior very clean.

Hardcover. Honesdale PA, Boyds Mills, 2nd pr., 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Luminous watercolor art by Ted Lewin. When Adam's family leaves Russia for America, Grandfather gives him an ancient prayer shawl that has been passed down from generation to generation, and in time, an older Adam passes the prayer shawl down to his own grandson.

Hardcover. NY, Philomel, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Richard Egielski and SIGNED BY EGIELSKI. Tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Scholastic Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 6 double-page color pop-ups, engineered by Reinhart, text by Yorinks, art by Sendak. Like new condition, no dust jacket issued.

Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, illustrated throughout by Marc Simont in blue & black. Stated First Printing. In a lightly soiled dust jacket that's price-clipped. Small scar to front endpaper otherwise clean

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustration in color, black & white by Erik Blegvad. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Barse and Hopkins, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 184 pages plus publisher's ads, 4 color plates and many b&w drawings by uncredited artist (but appears to be Campbell). Appears to be collected material from earlier books so copyright date make be earlier than published date. Bright blue cloth covers with red lettering, color illustration label on front. Previous owner's gift inscription in pencil on front fly leaf with 1927 date. A clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Benefic Press, reprint, 1964, Hardcover, 61 pages illustrated in color by Jack Merryweather. Library stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Story of a skunk who makes friends with cowboys on a western ranch. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Sea Star Books, 1st, n.d. (2001), Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Barbara Cooney. A re-issue of a book originally published in 1984. Tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Thomas Crowell, 1st, 1893, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 79 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. B&w illustrations by F.G. Attwood. Blue and cream cloth covers with black and gilt design. Newspaper article pasted into front end papers, previous owner's name on end paper, moderate soil to cover boards. Rear gutter cracked on end paper.

Hardcover. NY, Crowell, 2nd pr., 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, oblong, 83 pages. Black & white & red woodcut illustrations by Leo & Diane Dillon. Dust jacket price-clipped, shows some wear and chipping at edges.

NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Dunrea. Bracken Van Eyck, a simple farmer who helps anyone in need, assists a trow-wife in finding her lost baby and in return she rewards him with a hen that lays golden eggs.

Hardcover. New York , Clarion Books, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color by the author. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY/Oakland, Triangle Square, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated by Ed Young. Told in haiku-based American Sentences and pictures, Yugen is the story of a boy and his mother, inspired by the profound concept of "yugen," a Japanese word for the mystery and beauty of the universe and of human experience. The second collaboration between Caldecott-winning illustrator Ed Young and Mark Reibstein after their award-winning 2008 debut, Wabi Sabi, Yugen is a book of longing and remembrance that is unequaled in its beauty and poetic simplicity.

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Kimberly Bulcken Root INSCRIBED BY ROOT on title pg. Clean copy. Story of 1919 family moving to homestead near Yuma, Arizona. Larger, oblong book, beautiful color illustration of old car crossing desert, color-illustration on back of family and car at destination.

Hardcover. New York , Holt Rinehart Winston , 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 44 pages illustrated in color by Watson. Illustrated cloth covers. Clean.

Hardcover. Chicago, Johnny Gruelle Co., reprint, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, illustrated in color and b&w by Gruelle's son, Worth Gruelle. Color illustrated cardboard covers with blue cloth spine, light edgewear, back panel with rubbing and white spotting to blue color. Inside front cover has some wrinkles to pastedown. Internally clean, very good.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Nonpaginated. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Previous owner's name written on front flyleaf. Dust jacket unclipped. Blue cover boards, gilt title on spine. Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages clean, unmarked. Very good condition.

New York , Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 185 pages, b&w illustrations by Peter Spier, Bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf, note card from author also laid in.

Softcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color pictorial stapled wrappers. With the "fuzzy" material on cover and on the "pup" throughout book.

Hardcover. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Some very light wear to cover but internally clean and nice with beautiful illustrations in color and black & white, by Ambrus. Hardbound, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York , Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth stamped with red decoration. Ex-library with bookplate and mild residue to rear end papers. The story of a Chinese boy who starts school, attractively illustrated in black and white with soft drawings by Laura Bannon.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket. Pink & black & white illustrations by Geisert. Dust jacket shows very minor wear, mostly nice condition. A wordless picture-book about pigs.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrations by Brown. Decorated library binding. Hardbound, no dust jacket. Clean.

Hardcover. New York, Harper and Row, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, illustrated boards with black cloth spine, 32 pages illustrated in 3-colors by Lillian Hoban. Copyright page states 1964 but also has an ISBN which means it's probably early 1970s. Previous owners 2-line notation on inside cover, otherwise clean. Tattered dust jacket included.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, unpaginated, color illustrations by Dee Huxley, dust jacket covered with acetate, very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Very nice condition, some very minor wear to dust jacket but otherwise new-looking. Nice color illustrations by Demi.