Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. In this playful story inspired by the impossible buildings of the artist M. C. Escher, Mauk's master is building a grand Palazzo. When something strange and wonderful happens, Mauk is catapulted into a topsy-turvy world. The author draws us into an astounding world where the reader turns Mauk on his head and sends him all the way back to his story's beginning in a dazzling endless loop.
Hardcover. New York, McCall Publishing, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by Ronni Solbert. INSCRIBED/SIGNED BY AUTHOR JEAN MERRILL, ILLUSTRATOR RONNI SOLBERT, AND COMPOSER GWYNETH WALKER on front endpaper. Program from original performance laid-in. Price clipped dust jacket with a few tape repaired tears along edges. Clean, unmarked pages.
Hardcover. Chicago/NY, Rand McNally, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket. The story of how the well ordered life of Mrs. Peabody Fitch is disrupted when her niece and favorite pet come to stay. Wonderfully fanciful illustrations by Lubell on every page. INSCRIBED BY LUBELL on the front fly leaf (signed WINNIE).
Hardcover. US, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, tight copy. A young boy named Bobby has the worst teacher. She's loud, she yells, and if you throw paper airplanes, she won't allow you to enjoy recess. She is a monster! Luckily, Bobby can go to his favorite spot in the park on weekends to play. Until one day... he finds his teacher there! Over the course of one day, Bobby learns that monsters are not always what they seem. Each page is filled with "monstrous" details that will have kids reading the story again and again. Peter Brown takes a universal and timeless theme, and adds his own humorous spin to create another winner of a picture book.
Hardcover. New York, Whittlesey House, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Previous owners inscription in pencil on front endpaper. Full color illustrations by Donald McKay. Dust jacket with some chipping and paper loss along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Akron OH, Saalfield Publishing Company., reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Illustrated in color and some b&w by Janet Laura Scott. 123 pages, pictorial boards with red cloth spine. Front fly leaf clipped at the corner otherwise clean. A lovely, bright reprint edition of this 1928 Volland title.
Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 64 pages illustrated by Wallace Tripp with sepia drawings. Dust jacket with light edgewear, closed tears. Library edition, NOT ex-lib.
Hardcover. LaJolla CA, Kane Miller, 1st US, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Julie Vivas. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York , Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. One sunny day, a little boy heads outside for a swim, but his pool is already taken . . . There's a big whale in the water and it's not budging! The boy tries everything to get the whale to leave. Nothing seems to work. Not fetch. Not tag. Not even offering his allowance. What's a boy to do? Luckily, he comes up with the perfect solution: he decides to chill out on a spray of water over the whale's spout.
New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, unpaginated, color illustrations by Giselle Potter, very clean, tight copy, like new. Quentin Fenton Herter Third always does exactly what he should, from closing his mouth when he chews to putting away his toys. But Quentin Fenton has an awfully naughty shadow, who calls himself Quentin Fenton Herter Three. Three interrupts, stays up late, and never flosses. How do these two feel about each other? "They loathed each other cordially,/ did Quentin Third and Quentin Three." Strangely enough, though, they also envy each other "--a bit." And when good little Third has the opportunity to be bad one day, guess who steps in to take his place as a perfect gentleman?Amy MacDonald's clever rhymes are nicely complemented by Giselle Potter's unusual, naive-style illustrations.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Preston and his wife, Ruth, own Ellington Lodge. Preston is a checkers-playing fiend and is known around the neighborhood as the greatest checkers player in the world. When a small dog named Marley shows up at Ellington Lodge, Preston at first thinks he's harmless, and Ruth is delighted because Marley helps out with chores that Preston has no time for, due to his checkers games. Ever-helpful Marley soon seems to cast a spell over everyone at the lodge with his cooking talent, amazing storytelling, speed painting, and magic tricks. Color art by Egan. Dust jacket has some wrinkling, book is clean.
Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 3rd pr, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non paginated. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR on frontispiece. Extensive color illustrations by Christian Robinson on every page. Illustrated frontispieces, end papers and fly leafs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York , Row, Peterson and Company, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages. Illustrations by John Holmgren. Dust jacket faded, front edge starting to fray. Some foxing on end papers, pages clean. Price sticker inside dust jacket. Adventures of Peter and Penny and their Newfoundland dog on Nantucket Island.
Hardcover. NY, Little Simon, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. View Brooklyn's famous past and present landmarks--including the Prospect Park Carousel, Coney Island, and the Brooklyn Bridge--in this lively pop-up book. Brooklyn Pops Up" celebrates the diverse borough of Brooklyn with 8 pop-ups by the world's best illustrators and paper engineers. In this dimensional tour of Brooklyn icons you will find Brooklyn Children by Maurice Sendak * Brooklyn Brownstones by David A. Carter and Tor Lokvig * Grand Army Plaza & Brooklyn Public Library by Bruce Foster * Brooklyn Museum of Art & Brooklyn Children's Museum by Robert Sabuda * Brooklyn Botanic Garden by Ken Wilson-Max and Keith Finch * Prospect Park & the Carousel by Biruta Akerbergs Hansen * Brooklyn Bridge by Iain Smyth * Flavors of Brooklyn by Kees Moerbeek and Carla Dijs * Coney Island by Chuck Murphy. Remainder line through ISBN number on rear cover, otherwise clean, in excellent working order.
Hardcover. NY, The Blue Sky Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED WItH A SKETCH BY DESIMINI. Delia and Ophelia are witches. They're cooking up a particularly naughty spell for Halloween, and the main ingredient is super-stinky socks. That night, when the neighborhood children go trick-or-treating, the only words they can say are "Smell my feet!" Of course, no one gives them any candy, much to the delight of the two witches. The fun comes to an end when a mysterious ingredient causes the potion to backfire--returning the children to normal, and putting the witches in a very strange situation!
Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY THATCHER HURD ON TITLE PAGE. Pictorial covers, gorgeous full page color illustrations. No sign of wear, spine stiff and tight, dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in excellent condition.
Softcover. Chicago, Reuben H. Lilja , 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 16 pages including covers, verse and color illustrations by Milo Winter. Charming die-cut polka dot "bow tie" is featured on every page, taking different forms with different animals, which include Rabbit, Kitty, Puppy, Duck, Mouse, Chicks, etc. The "bow tie" becomes a sash, package decoration, dress sash, etc.
Hardcover. NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by illustrator McCully opposite title page.
Hardcover. Garden City NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket and covers completely illustrated, acetate-protected dust jacket, gorgeous full page color illustrations by Ed Young. Dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book.
Hardcover. Boston/London, Walker Books, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Haunting and deeply moving - a beautifully illustrated, fictionalized account of a formative time in the life of the teenage girl who wrote our most enduring horror story. Long before Mary Shelley published her Gothic masterpiece, Frankenstein, in 1818, at the age of nineteen, she shared fireside ghost tales at the home of family friends in Scotland. It was there that the headstrong girl - orphaned by her mother, spurned by her stepmother, and sent away by her father - spent two of her happiest teenage years. The brooding Scottish landscape and warm family atmosphere so influenced the author's life and art that some believe her famous novel took root there. To illuminate this period in Mary Shelley's life, Sharon Darrow skillfully spins fiction from fact. Her words are masterfully matched by Angela Barrett's exquisite, atmospheric, authentically detailed illustrations. The result is a rich tapestry of stories within stories - those told, those written, and more extraordinary, those lived. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , Atheneum, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by author. SIGNED on title page, also INSCRIBED on copyright page by Lewin. A look at Brazil's Pantanal marsh describes the various types of creatures who inhabit it, from the South American caiman, to the world's largest rodent, to storks, egrets, and herons.
Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead & Co, 1st, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Blue boards with gilt titles to front and spine, endpapers decorated with orange monotone illustrations, 4 full-color tissue-protected illustrated plates including frontispiece, 10 full page and 41 small b&w plates, all by De Bosschere. Mild soiling to covers, slight wear to cover edges and corners, previous owner's pencil inscription to front endpaper; overall a very neat, tight copy in great condition.
Hardcover. NY, Parents' Magazine Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 40 pages illustrated in color by Tom Vroman. It was bedtime. Chris and his father sat down side by side on Chris's bed. They talked of Chris's friend Alexander, the red horse with green stripes. "Alexander was a pretty bad horse today," Chris said. "He wouldn't eat his cereal. He wouldn't sit up at the table and he spilled his milk." "That's too bad," said Chris's father. "What else happened?" The ensuing conversation of Alexander's bad day makes for an entertaining read, along with its priceless ending. Mild shelfwear. name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York , Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY HILLARY KNIGHT. What's this--a new Eloise, never before seen or published? News doesn't get better than that. Kay Thompson first wrote Eloise Takes a Bawth in Italy in the 1960s with Hilary Knight and pal Mart Crowley; it has been marinating until now for a release with all-new drawings by Hilary Knight. Of course, this time Eloise is not in Moscow, not in Paris, she is simply in the bawth at home in the Plaza Hotel. With Eloise, though, nothing is simple. Perhaps especially the notion of taking a bath, where you have to "skibble into the bathroom and take off all your clothes," then strike a pose and look in the mirror, and splawsh, and sing, and bathe with turtle Skipperdee and dog Weenie. And pretend to be the "loosest cannonball in all the Caribbean" and "Little Miss Mermaid but let's keep that between us." But what's this? Could Eloise's bathtime shenanigans be causing a drip that "has begun to drop within the walls and hallowed halls of the stately old Plaza?" Drenching the elite at the Venetian Masked Ball in the Grawnd Ballroom, no less? Fabulously decadent scenes of Eloise enacting wild battles and undersea dives in the bathtub on the "tip top floor" of the Plaza contrast deliciously with the resulting swampy splendor of the ballroom. Extended fold-out cross-sections of the hotel's plumbing system and a spectacular, colorful, double gatefold illustrating the underwater ball ("the sensation of the social season" thanks to Eloise!) add drama and silliness as well.
Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 2nd, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Unpaginated. Color illustrations. Light edge wear, rubbing to covers and spine. Covers and end papers slightly soiled; else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, Benefic Press, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth with Squeaky on front cover. Illustrations in 3-colors by Edward Miller. Clean copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. We all know the joke. We've all told it. Kids love to tell it over and over and over again, with as many different punch lines as possible. And now we've found out that famous award-winning artists love to tell the joke too--and they have some wacky and downright hilarious ideas about why that chicken really did cross the road. Mo Willems's chicken confesses his motives to a police officer; David Shannon's chicken can drive a car; Marla Frazee's chicken is looking for a more luxurious coop; and Harry Bliss's chicken encounters aliens. And this is just the beginning. One thing is for sure--you won't cross this book without a good laugh!
Hardcover. London, Folio Society, 4th Printing, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 239 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. color paintings by Detmold throughout, gilt decorated cover and spine, red slipcase. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Golden Press, 1st thus, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Two titles reprinted and combined in one book. Little Peewee illustrated by J.P. Miller, Sylvester illustrated by N.M. Bodecker. Name on title page otherwise clean. Weekly Reader Edition.
Hardcover. New York, Beach Lane Books, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon and SIGNED BY BOTH DILLONS. In a time long past, in a land far away, a family has suffered an unspeakable loss. But a lonely goblin has been watching. And he knows what to do to help them heal. From internationally acclaimed picture book masters Mem Fox and Leo and Diane Dillon, here is a rich and moving original fairy tale about family, friendship, and the power compassion has to unite us all.
Hardcover. New York, Fred A. Stokes Co., 1st US, 1924, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 379 pages, hardcover. Stamped and illustrated boards. Illustrated endpapers and color frontispiece. Heavy soiling and age toning to boards. Heavy bumping to all corners. Moderate age toning to text block edges. Previous owner's inscription on half title page. Front hinge cracked. A fair reading copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Dramatic true story (in picture book format) of how one determined woman helped saved the Basra (a port city) Central Library's books during the invasion of Iraq. 30,000 books saved by librarian Alia Muhammad Baker.
Hardcover. NY, Blue Apple Books, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, SIGNED by illustrator Kreloff and performer Brian Stokes Mitchell on CD. Tony Award winner and Broadway icon, Mitchell, brings star power to this Broadway treasury. With entries such as "audition," "box office," "marquee," and "understudy," kids will discover Broadway from A to Z. Elliot Kreloff's energetic and dynamic illustrations come from someone who clearly knows theater from first-hand experiences.
Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 94 pages, color illustrations by Peggy Turley. In this delightful children's tale, an American boy, Kenny Strange, moves to the quiet Mexican town of Taxco with his parents and strikes up a friendship with young Juanito Perez, a Taxco native. The two boys are brought together by an enchanting toy, the pasteboard bandit Tito. Chosen by Juanito at a town fair from among the other pasteboard toys, Tito, with his colorful clothes and bright eyes, becomes Juanito's and Kenny's constant companion, and the threesome share many adventures in and around the town's rolling green hills. The boys' growing friendship, Kenny's introduction to a culture unlike his own, and Tito's witty reflections on being a toy will be recognized instantly by anyone young or old who has ever made a friend or imagined that a toy might be real. Originally written in 1935, but never before published, The Pasteboard Bandit grew out of several trips Langston Hughes made to Mexico during his lifetime. Hughes first went to the town of Toluca at age 5 to visit his father, and again when he was older. During these visits, Hughes met many writers and artists, and it is their influence that informs the story of The Pasteboard Bandit--a story of two cultures meeting. When Hughes left Mexico for the last time, at age 32, he was carrying the first draft for The Pasteboard Bandit. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated in color by Shulevitz and SIGNED BY HIM. In this charming story about imagination and adventure, told with Uri Shulevitz's signature playfulness and style, a little boy learns how to be courageous, both on the high seas and at home. The tale is based on a childhood memory from the time when the author/illustrator and his family lived in Warsaw on the eve of World War II.
Hardcover. NY, Beach Lane Books, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated in color by Wolff. When night falls, the sweet and curious black bear cub and his mother go looking for food. Mama hunts and Baby Bear explores. "'Where, oh where, is Baby Bear?' calls Mama." Readers won't worry, because Wolff has hidden Baby Bear in the spread for them to find. "Here I am, Mama," he replies each time. The sky subtly darkens as they make their way through their world, each page featuring creatures that share the habitat with the bear family: the placid owl, a faun, raccoons, and otters. Here too are the mushrooms, ferns, and cattails of a woodland life, providing young viewers with a window into nature. The scope of their adventure is recalled at the end of the story, as Wolff shows the pair making their way back through the meadow, around the pond, across the river, between the birch trees, down the cliff, and into their den. Clean copy.
Hardcover. UK, Transedition Books, 1st US, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 400 pages. Large type, beautiful illustrations, various authors. Grimms, Andersen, Perrault, etc. Beauty and the Beast, Tom Thumb, Cinderella, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and many more. Book is very clean & tight.
Hardcover. Somerville, MA, Candlewick, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by AUTHOR, Elizabeth Bluemle. Illustrated by G. Brian Karas. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Somerville, MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations by Benji Davis throughout. Illustrated end papers and paste downs. At the bottom of Syd's garden, through the gate and past the tree, is Grandad's house. Syd can let himself in any time he likes. But one day when Syd comes to call, Grandad isn't in any of the usual places. He's in the attic, where he ushers Syd through a door, and the two of them journey to a wild, beautiful island awash in color where Grandad decides he will remain. So Syd hugs Grandad one last time and sets sail for home. Visiting Grandad's house at the bottom of the garden again, he finds it just the same as it's always been -- except that Grandad isn't there anymore. Sure to provide comfort to young children struggling to understand loss, Benji Davies's tale is a sensitive and beautiful reminder that our loved ones live on in our memories long after they're gone.
Hardcover. NY, Parents' Magazine Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, oblong format, color illustrations by Steven Kellogg. Energetic full-page pictures depict the old standard, written by Edward Bangs, who was a Minuteman at Lexington during his sophomore year at Harvard the year (1775) he adapted the song. Mild musty odor. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 182 pages, b&w drawings by Lilian Hoban. Dust jacket with no printed price, reviews on rear of dust jacket. Assumed Book Club. About the journey of a mechanical mouse and his son to find a home of their own. Illustrated by Lillian Hoban. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Morrow Junior Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 48 pages, illustrated in color by Stanley. In an unclipped dust jacket with mild fading to spine.
Hardcover. London, Collins, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Reprints two charming tales in one book: "Spring Story" and "The High Hills". Illustrated by the author. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Books of Wonder Sea Star Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with matching dustjacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Color illustrations by Christine Davenier. Tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Parents' Magazine Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth boards, 40 pages illustrated in color by Aldren Watson and SIGNED BY WATSON on the title page. Farmer West is getting old and finding taking care of his farm hard, but when he decides to sell, he doesn't like what all the buyers will do with it. What is he to do? Clean copy, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, George Routledge and Sons, unknown , nd., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, A small book, illustrated by Kate Greenaway. Soiling to spine & covers. Edgewear. Corners rubbed, bumped. Previous owner's bookplate and booksellers label front pastedown. Some soiling throughout, otherwise good. Spots on spine.