Hardcover. New York, Schwartz & Wade Books, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Yumi Heo. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Australia, Child & Associates, 2nd pr., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy pictorial boards, 103 pages, 4 stories (poems): Possum Creek's Big Flood - The Great Possum Creek Bush Fire - The Great Possum Creek Earthquake - The Lost World of Possum Creek. Color illustrations by Yvonne Perrine. Clean copy.
hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, glazed boards. Color illustrations by Mark Entwiste. A tall tale about a Big Lie Contest at which a tale about a giant catfish becomes true and swallows its teller.
Hardcover. NY, Stewart Tabori & Chang, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Cream parchment over brown cloth-covered boards, illustrated in color by Gary Kelley, designed by Rita Marshall. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Los Angeles/NY, Intervisual Communications/Harper & Row, 1st, 1984, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 6 pop-up spreads, illustrated in color by Scarry. All in good shape. Center spread has light wear to moving slots.
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. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages, Illustrated in color by Mary Azarian.Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Early board book with Garth Williams' charming illustrations, 24 pages, clean copy. Glazed boards. J125125 code on inside cover at bottom indicating a reprint.
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. Chicago, Follett Publishing, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed pictorial boards. 28 pages illustrated in color and 2-colors by Mary Miller Salem. Front hinge cracked, otherwise clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Dodge Publishing Company, Reprint, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 164 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Deckled fore-edge. Tanning to pages and edges from age. Blue cloth bound cover boards, two-color illustration on front cover board, a good deal of paint has chipped off (see image), white title on spine, slightly faded. Some soil/wear to covers. A bump to front right bottom corner of cover board (see image). In beautiful condition inside, no pages missing, page 84 is partially disconnected. Illustrations by Bessie Pease Gutman) quite vivid.
Boston, Little Brown, 1st thus illus., 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Color illustrations by Tenggren. Chunk gone from half-title page and title page - not affecting text or illust.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Running Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, purple cloth with cover label. From dogs watching over the shepherds' flocks when angels appear, to a charmed cobra performing in Herod's court as the king tries to deceive the wise men, Wormell's trademark animal imagery brings a new perspective to the story of the first Christmas. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st illust. thus, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Steven Kellogg. Clean, like new.
Paperback. Bear Creek NC, Blackie Bear Corp., 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 58 pages, spiral-bound. B&W illustrations by the author throughout. Some rust on binding. Heavy paper cover exhibits some edgewear, bottom fore-edge corner bumped. Small water damage stain to the bottom corner of the spine. Large pencil mark on page 29. Otherwise clean edition. Sixth in a series of Blackie Bear books for children about anthropomorphized, clothes-wearing animals of the Smoky Mountain region. Blackie Bear introduces children to nature through his woodland antics and wildlife adventures.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ted Lewin. The survival adventure tale gets a desert setting in this picture book about a boy lost in the Sahara. Author and artist have traveled in the area, and they tell the story of sizzling sun and lonely darkness in realistic detail. Lewin's watercolor paintings are rich with story.
Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Laura Levine. Grammy promotional bookplate on front fly leaf otherwise VG, clean. Pinkerton's family decides he needs a friend, but is a cat named Rose really suitable? Clean copy.
Softcover. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 12 heavy paper sheets plus cover, bound together with blue cord in punched holes at top. One and two color illustrations by Shepard, verse for every month by Milne. Some light pin-size spotting to corner of cover, otherwise clean and bright.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 56 pages, red cloth covers with black decoration. Illustrated by Wendy Watson and SIGNED BY HER on the title page. Dust jacket is present but fair only with chips and wear.
Hardcover. NY, Golden Book, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrations by Greg & Tim Hildebrandt. 45 pages. Glazed cardboard covers. No dust jacket issued.
Hardcover. Berlin, Union Deutsche, 4th printing, n.d., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 105 pages, illustrated in color and b&w by Capek. White cloth spine with color illustrated boards. No date listed. German text. Cover edges with light wear.
Hardcover. NY, John Day Company,, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 100 pages, b&w illustrations and decorative page borders by Vera Bock. A collection of tales about India. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Phyllis Fogelman Books, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards. Color illustrations by Wilson-Max & full of pop-ups, pull-outs, 3-D glasses, map, etc. No dust jacket issued.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 44 pages, illustrated with color and b&w lithographs by Gannett. Red cloth spine faded, edges of cardboard covers show wear, light chipping to paper. Book is shaken, but solid with bright colors to covers, internally clean. Top and boom of spine bumped,frayed.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 2nd pr., 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards, illustrated in color by author.SIGNED BY DAY on the front fly leaf in her formal cursive style. No dust jacket issued. The rottweiler goes to a costume party.
NY, Hyperion, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket Color illustrations by Jim La Marche. A delightful fantasy about the passenger pigeon.
Hardcover. New York , Platt & Munk, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 40 pages, illustrated in color by Tasha Tudor. Glazed boards illustrated in color. Sharp, clean copy, no markings. No dust jacket issued.
Hardcover. Seattle WA, The Innovation Press , 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Daniel Rieley. Growing up in a family of immigrants, Ellen dreamed of becoming a professional flutist, but all of that changed when she discovered engineering in college. Though she was told that field of study wasn't for girls, the bright young scientist refused to give up--ultimately becoming a NASA astronaut who shattered barriers and rocketed to success!
Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Candlewick Press, 1st U.S., 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Angela Barrett.This British import depicts a little girl's exploration of the dark, mysterious woods surrounding her home. The quiet, poetic text, featuring subtle rhymes and emphatic phrasing, expresses the hidden drama of her simple quest. The child, safe and warm in her mother's kitchen, longs to discover "what's out there." As the sun sets, she creeps out into the snow and then into the woods. She finds the seemingly still forest alive with sprites, goblins, and eerie beasts. She emerges from her adventure to find her anxious mother waiting for her with outstretched arms.
Hardcover. New York , Hyperion Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color pictorial boards with saw tooth edges. Housed in a cardboard box. The small book is 18 pages, each with double-page color illustrations by Henrick Drescher, each with interactive parts. According to the story Beastie's fur is pulled, his pop-up eyes jiggled, his boot (removed from his pop up foot) is scratched & sniffed, his privacy intruded upon as his shower curtain pulled away, his boogers poked, his miniature book reveal beastie's fantasies of revenge, as finally Judy and Paul are swallowed up by poor beastie and a mirror reveals who may be the next naughty child to incur beastie's wrath. All of these interactive pull and poke activities can be performed by the reader. SIGNED on the front cover in silver ink, with his initials, by Henrick Drescher in the year of publication.
Hardcover. Joliet IL, P.F.Volland Co, 5th pr., 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, unpaginated (94 pages), illustrated throughout in color by Gruelle. Wear to edges of spine, mild crease to rear panel of covers. Previous owner' s signature to prelim page and half title page. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Boston, D. Lothrop Company, 1st, 1888, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Quarter cloth with floral-patterned paper over boards with gilt lettering. 29 b&w plates by Brookes including frontis self-portrait. Name on front fly leaf, chip to cover at bottom corner.
Hardcover. New York , Lancelot Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 40 pages illustrated in color by Tomi Ungerer. Color illustrated cloth covers, no dust jacket. Square, tight and clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, reprint, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards with light tan stains. 60 pages illustrated in color by Burningham. Previous owner's name on blank page opposite title page. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY QUIGG on front end paper. Black & white illustrations by Peggy Bacon. Some minor wear, dust jacket shows light chipping, but mostly nice and clean.
Hardcover. London, Collins, 1st, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Bound in green paper boards with red lettering on spine and front board and a circular picture of Hare holding a bag of shopping. A story of 63 pages with 14 charming illustrations in full color plus cover illustration. Edges and corner wear. Two thin red line on front cover, lightly worn overall. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 31 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated by Charles Mikolaycak. Dust jacket has staining along spine and chunk missing from top, 1" tear in back center. Otherwise, clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Burchard. Dust jacket shows some wear and chipping at edges, price-clipped. Hardbound.
Hardcover. Warsaw, Panstwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1st illust, thus, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Three hardcover volumes complete with edgeworn dust jackets, 212, 220 and 220 pages. Volume 1 has 24 brilliant color illustrations by Janusc Stanny, the Polish designer and painter best known for his mid-century Polish posters. He also created illustrations for over 200 books. Vol. 2 has 24 plates by Andrzej Strumillo and Vol.3 has 24 plates by Jerzy Jaworowski. Gray cloth covers, interiors clean, no markings. All TEXT IN POLISH. Translated from the Danish by Stefania Beylin and Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SIZE AND WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Translated from the Russian by Whitney. Color illustrations by Nonny Hogrogian. Minor wear to dust jacket, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket shows very minor wear otherwise clean and nice. Color illustrations by Whitney Darrow, Jr. Hardbound.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with a black cloth spine, 80 pages illustrated in 2-colors by Daugherty. Edge of paper covered boards chipped, corner wear, previous owner's stamp on endpapers, interior pages clean, two pages with small corner chips. Daugherty won a Caldecott Honor Medal in 1939 for this title, a modern retelling of the Androcles And The Lion common folktale about a young boy who loves to read about lions.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, illustrated in color and b&w by Roger Duvoisin, pattern of little vignettes in blue frames on endpapers. Gutter split at endpapers, spine reinforced with black tape. Internally the book is very good with bright art by Duvoisin, a scarce early work by the illustrator.
Hardcover. San Diego and New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Jane Dyer. Nice, clean condition. Hardbound, dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 10 color plates (including cover label), color illustrated title page, endpaper design and map by N.C. Wyeth. Gilt lettering on spine faded, previous owner's name on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. Adelaide AUS, Rigby Limited, reprint, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 79 pages illustrated in color and b&w. A collaboration between artist Ainslie Roberts & anthropologist Charles Mountford, who combined Ainslie Roberts outback paintings with his knowledge. Previous owner's inscription on the front fly leaf.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color and black & white illustrations by the Haders. Shows wear. Previous owner's signature front paste-down, some water damage to cover, edges and preliminary pages. Otherwise clean. Hardbound, no dust jacket.