Hardcover. Philadlephia, Lippincott, 1st, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 63 pages. hardcover with red lettering. Black & white illustrations by author. Cover has light edgewear.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by author. Hilda Louise, who lives in an orphanage, has many friends but longs for a family, until one day her longing sweeps her away, floating up and over the orphanage walls, high above Paris as she pursues what all humans need most.
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. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Unpaginated. Black & white illustrations by Leonard B. Lubin. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.
New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Unpaginated. Color photography by Christopher G. Knight. First-hand observations, personal reflections, and full-color photographs trace a family visit to the sites described in the "Little House on the Prairie" books.
New York, Philomel, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Unpaginated. Color illustrations by author. As she has so many times before, Polacco has drawn on her inspiration for an appealing picture book from a family story; this time, it's what might have happened at her bearded husband Enzo's Italian garden restaurant. The rhyming text begins: "This is the bee that stopped on a tree in Enzo's splendid gardens." A riotous chain of events is set into motion, including broken dishes, smashed deserts, and a cat tangled in spaghetti--all in Enzo's fancy outdoor eatery. The verse can be a bit forced, but it is always energetic. As usual, Polacco's distinctive artwork is wonderful. Her realistic portraits of a lively cast of characters are richly colored, expressively individualized, and humorously captured.
Hardcover. New York, Levine, 1st US, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Jean Claverie. Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Tight copy.
Hardcover. USSR, Raduga Publishers, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 25 pages. Translated from the Russian by Irina Zheleznova. Black & white illustrations by Ivan Bilibin. Minor soiling to covers.
Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne & Co., reprint, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 54 pages. "A Book of Old Rhymes With New Dresses. The Music by the Earliest Masters." 11 full page color plates. All pages color illustrated and decorated by Crane. Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans. Decorated endpapers. Pages are lightly age toned and there is some minor smudging and discoloration to endpapers. Reddish brown pictorial cloth with b/w illustration. Matching brown, black, and white pictorial dust jacket. Minor edgewear and some age soil.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay, na, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Preface by Mrs. Maxwell Scott. 389 pages including glossary. 12 color plates by Simon H. Vedder. Previous owner's bookplate. Maroon cloth, gilt decorated. Top edge gilt.
Chicago, M. A. Donohue, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong brown cloth with a color pastedown on the front cover. Color illusrations. by Richardson. previous owner's inscription on the front fly leaf. A reprint of the 1923 Volland Ed. Crease to last page.
Hardcover. NY , Jr. Literary Guild/Viking Press, Book Club, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers. B&W illustrations by Paul Lantz. Small ink #s on endpapers, some pages with light soil, lacks dust jacket, otherwise very good.
Hardcover. NY, Johny Gruelle Co. , 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color, B&W illust. by Gruelle. Color illustrated cardboard covers, red cloth spine. Previous owner's sticker front end paper. Otherwise very good.
Hardcover. Chicago, M. A. Donohue, 1st, 1924, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Color illustrations by Gruelle. Color illust. cardboard covers. Light wear to corners. Previous owner's writing on front end paper. Dust jacket shows heavy wear, with chunks missing from top and bottom spine, rear, and corners. Covered in plastic.
Hardcover. NY , F. A. Stokes, 2nd pr., 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with dust jacket. B&W drawings by Wyncie King. Ex-lib with stamping and marking, residue to end papers. Dust jacket shows chipping and chunks missing from top-bottom spine, all four corners. Gutter crack and light soil internally.
Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with color illustrated label on front cover. INSCRIBED BY BURGESS on front fly leaf. 8 Color plates by Harrison Cady. Green Forest Series
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 , Crown Pub., 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Hurd and SIGNED BY HURD on title-page. Library binding.
Hardcover. New York, Dodd Mead, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Thacher Hurd and SIGNED BY HURD on dedication page. Tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Harper & Row, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 24 pages. B&W pictures by Elizabeth Bridgeman. INSCRIBED BY BRIDGEMAN on front fly leaf. Some light soil to dust jacket, spine sunned.
Hardcover. Chicago, M. A. Donohue, 1st , 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket except tattered front panel of dust jacket laid-in. Illustrated in color, B&W by Gruelle. Previous owner's inscription on half-title page. Covers and spine faded. Tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Harper Collins, Reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 48 pages. Color illustrations by Ardizzone. Ginger is fed up with life on dry land. One morning, Charlotte and Tim wake to find a note saying he's run away to the high seas. They set off to find him, but with no money, the only way they can do it is to sign on with a ship's crew. A terrible fog surrounds their ship with disastrous results -- but the adventure is just beginning! Ardizzone's witty prose and illustrations form a lively portrait of the comical, but always exciting, escapades.Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , Viking, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 43 pages. B&W illust. by James Stevenson. Dust jacket unclipped, very good.
Hardcover. New York , Bantam Little Rooster, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Simont. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Nashville, Abingdon Press , 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover ina bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in color and 2-colors by Jane Snyder. Because nobody else in town likes pet alligators, the lady who owns one decides the best place to keep him is the zoo.
Hardcover. New York, Franklin Watts, 1st wraps, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color illustrated by Robert Bartelt. Discard stamp to end papers, otherwise Very Good. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping.
Hardcover. New York , Scholastic, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with minor wear to dust jacket edges. Illustrated in color by Marc Simont, one of our greatest children's book illustrators who keeps getting better with age. Tight copy.
New York , Harper Collins, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrated by Egielski and SIGNED BY EGIELSKI on title page.
Hardcover. New York , Hyperion, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 63 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrated by Brian Selznick. SIGNED BY BOTH WELLS AND SELZNICK. Tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Illustrated in color and SIGNED BY STONE WITH A SKETCH OF A BIRD & FLOWERS ON the front fly leaf. Bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Philomel, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Ashley Wolff and SIGNED BY WOLFF WITH A SKETCH OF DR. BIRD on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. New York, Creative Editions/Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Georges Lemoine. Tight copy.
New York, Dial Press, 1st , 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. B&W illustrations by Jerry Pinkney. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping.
New York, North-South Books, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ashley Wolff and SIGNED BY WOLFF with a SKETCH OF A ROOSTER on half-title page.
New York , Knopf, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrated by Marjorie Priceman. Fans of Poems of A. Nonny Mouse will rejoice in this effervescent sequel containing more than 50 wittily illustrated short verses. In an introductory letter, Ms. Mouse acknowledges that since the successful publication of her first volume, she's "been able to afford the occasional wedge of imported cheese" and "put away something for her old age." Along with traditional offerings, tongue twisters, limericks and four unlabeled poems by Prelutsky--identified as the editor of Ms. Mouse's scribblings--the book includes the familiar poem about infamous "Ooey Gooey," the worm who ends up squashed on a railroad track, and a subversive rendition of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" that concludes with "Throw your teacher overboard / And listen to her scream." Priceman's watercolors, like those she executed in Prelutsky's For Laughing Out Loud , are frolicsome and frisky, mischievously expressive.
New York, Dutton, 3rd pr., 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with yellow stamping, 142 pages. B&W illustrations by Elinore Blaisdell. A wealth of simple, authoritative information about America's greatest nature lover written for the junior age student. 12 full page illustrations about Audubon's early life.Clean copy, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrated by Daniel San Souci. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Philomel, 1st , 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.Color illustrations by Young.
Hardcover. Plattsburgh, NY, Tundra Books, 1st , 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Barry Moser. Clean, tight copy. Fragments of a handwritten letter have been discovered. Their author's name is Margaret, and in the letter she describes her memories of a summer of her girlhood long ago when the dippers came up from the Don River. It was 1912, and a summer full of odd happenings. The letter tells of Margaret's first encounter with her father, of her mother's worry that she might lose her job as a maid, and of her little sister's being overtaken by paralysis and disease. And, of course, there were the dippers moving up from the river to inhabit the neighbourhood - furry, ungainly, dog-like creatures with leathery wings - creatures unnerving but not dangerous, yet another fact of life to become adjusted to.
Hardcover. New York , G. P. Putnams, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Diana Cain Bluthenthal. Unclipped dust jacket.
New York, Abrams, 1st U.S., 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Retold and illustrated in color by the authors, with SIGNED BOOK PLATE BY BOTH LAID-IN. Tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Janovich , 1st Illlust.thus, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Blue covers with gilt titles, color illustrated dust jacket, color illustrations throughout by Michael Hague. Small ink mark (check) to top front left corner of dust jacket, very slight rubbing to dust jacket, spine stiff and tight, pages clean, crisp and unmarked.
Hardcover. New York , Doubleday, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustratrd glazed boards, no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Spier. Clean copy.In 1687, young Sietze Hemmes helps rescue a vessel foundering off the Dutch coast, and three hundred years later, another Sietze Hemmes takes part in a similar rescue, in parallel stories that explore the themes of heroism and selflessness.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st U.S., 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrated by Anthony Browne. Clean, tight copy.
New York, Dodd Mead & Co., 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a brigh, unclipped dust jacket. Ex-lib with light stamping, pocket on rear fly leaf. Endpapers scarred where dj was taped. B&W pictures by William Gropper.
Hardcover. New York , Harper Collins, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Dirk Zimmer. Clean, tight copy.
New York, Clarion Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Alexander Koshkin. SIGNED BY PATERSON on title-page.
Record # 301743
Price: $30.00
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