Hardcover. NY, Thomas Nelson, 2nd pr., 2008-09-02, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 243 pages, photos in color and b&w. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Kenosha WI, Samuel Lowe Co., 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated cardboard covers, a Bonnie Book, 16 pages illustrated in color. A novelty book with a die-cut and a moveable wheel. Turn it and all the animals get dressed up, changing the faces & clothing of the animals. Pirate animals & shipmates: Monkey, Lion, Bear & Tiger characters. Light soil, wear along top edge otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Chicago, Follett Publishing, 5th pr., 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 32 pages in color by Erickson. Light wear to text pages at top corner. A lost puppy gets directions from various animals to find his way home. A Follett Beginning-to-Read Book. Small note on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Garden City, Garden City, 1st Thus, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 249 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Full color and black & white illustrations by J. M. Gleeson and Paul Bransom. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Ray Cruz. Very minor wear to dust jacket. Hardbound.
Hardcover. NY, Duell Sloan Pearce, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 83 pages, illustrated in b&w by Polly Hecathorn. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped, large chunk gone from rear panel at top. The story of a pack rat named Klepty and his pals.
Hardcover. Camden ME, Down East Books, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, color illustrations by Dawn Peterson. Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. East Petersburg PA, Fox Chapel Publishing, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Cigar box labels in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were not only amusing and beautiful to admire, they were a testament to the printing process of chromolithography and an important precursor to today's methods of product advertising. Labeling America: Popular Culture on Cigar Box Labels showcases the unique collection of John Grossman which covers 90 years of cigar box labels and bands printed by four generations of George Schlegel Lithographers. What makes this archive unique is that the Schlegel Company kept meticulous sample albums and files showing an unbroken record of American graphic style evolution. The work of many other lithographers of that era either destroyed or irreversibly dispersed their work.Now housed at the Winterthur Museum in Delaware, the carefully cataloged Grossman collection gives a glimpse into life at the turn of the century, when over 5 billion cigars were being sold in the United States via boxes with colorful labels depicting everything from women, animals, and sports icons to actors, heroes, and political figures. This book takes these beautifully printed slices of American culture and combines them with the history of chromolithography into an interesting story of America's changing tastes. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Robin Preiss Glasser. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 127 pages. Hardcover with cloth covers. Moderate soil to covers. Internally clean except previous owner's name and bookplate near front. Light foxing to end papers.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, illustrated in color. SIGNED by illustrator Minor on title page. Bestselling duo Jean Craighead George and Wendell Minor team up to show young readers the natural world. The Last Polar Bear is a poignant tale about a boy desperate to save one of the last polar bears in the rapidly changing Arctic environment. Can Tigluk and his grandmother help the young cub who lost his mother?
Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. INSCRIBED BY JEAN CRAIGHEAD GEORGE ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy in a bright dust jacket.
Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 536 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Light edgewear to dust jacket with small tear to upper edge of front cover. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Paris, Des Deux Coqs D'or , reprint, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 12 pages stapled. Illustrated in color by Richard Scarry. French language book, art probably lifted from Animals of Farmer Jones published in the US in the 1950s. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Cleveland, World Publishing, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with black stamping, 62 pages. French and English edition. Illustrated throughout in 2-colors. The mischief-maker in this dual-language picture book is a cat who is si vilain that he spends all of his time playing tricks on other animals in the garden. Tired of being outwitted, the animals decide to unite against him. But the daytime and nighttime animals find it hard to get together and things get out of hand- until a little mouse restores peace in a way that astonishes all. Clean copy, no dustjacket.
Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket, 224 pages. Color and b&w photos. A memoir by the wife of Toni Harthoorn, one of the best-known vets and animal scientists in Africa. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by author. Greenwillow Library Edition sticker on dust jacket spine, otherwise clean. Dust jacket price clipped. Unpaginated.
NY, Morrow, 1st , 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Ted Lewin. Light edgewear to dust jacket. A twelve year old boy tries to return the mountain lion he's raised from a cub to her native habitat in the Idaho mountains.
Hardcover. NY, Dover Publications, reprint, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 48 pages illustrated in color by Gorey. A new approach to the ancient fables of Aesop features charming rhymes and winsome images by a beloved illustrator. Artist Edward Gorey sets the scenes for poet Ennis Rees's modern interpretation of Aesop's verses, which recount how animals with all-too-human failings receive their just desserts. Memorable renderings of familiar and lesser-known vignettes include the fable of the industrious ant, who prepares for the hardships of the coming winter, and the feckless grasshopper, whose laziness proves fatal. A mighty lion is amused at the notion of a tiny mouse coming to his rescue, a naive young crustacean admires the bright red shell of a boiled lobster, and a swarm of flies are undone by their attraction to a pool of spilled honey. These and other timeless tales provide humorous insights into the folly of greed and vanity and the rewards of virtuous behavior. Originally published in 1971 by Young Scott.
Hardcover. NY, Dover Publications, reprint, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 48 pages illustrated in color by Gorey. A new approach to the ancient fables of Aesop features charming rhymes and winsome images by a beloved illustrator. Artist Edward Gorey sets the scenes for poet Ennis Rees's modern interpretation of Aesop's verses, which recount how animals with all-too-human failings receive their just desserts. Memorable renderings of familiar and lesser-known vignettes include the fable of the industrious ant, who prepares for the hardships of the coming winter, and the feckless grasshopper, whose laziness proves fatal. A mighty lion is amused at the notion of a tiny mouse coming to his rescue, a naive young crustacean admires the bright red shell of a boiled lobster, and a swarm of flies are undone by their attraction to a pool of spilled honey. These and other timeless tales provide humorous insights into the folly of greed and vanity and the rewards of virtuous behavior. Originally published in 1971 by Young Scott.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 243 pages. Bright green cloth over boards stamped in gilt and silver, with 28 black-and-white drawings by Francis Lee Jaques. A first edition of the author's second book. "The book has prose that is close to poetry. The discerning eye of the naturalist is in every page. The color, breath, and sounds of the North Country are here in vivid form. Sigurd Olson is our modern Muir and Thoreau. He writes with depth and with feeling. This book of quiet adventure is hard to put down." - Justice William O. Douglas.
Hardcover. London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1st, 1887, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, torquoise cloth covers with 2-color plus gilt design. 48 b&w engravings of animals.159 pages. Previous owner's inscription on blank prelim page. Corners lightly bumped.
Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, black cloth spine over matte pictorial boards. Illustrated with 3-color drawings throughout by Maurice Sendak. Meets all points in Hanrahan although the flap has been price-clipped. First title in the Little Bear Series. There is a inked name on the front flap and several light tan stains to front panel. Top of dust jacket spine has light chipping. The book itself is bright and clean.