animals

Hardcover. New York, Clarion, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Christelow and INSCRIBED by her on half title page. Dust jacket with light edgewear.

Hardcover. London, Chatto and Windus, 1st, 1951, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages illustrated in color by Patricia Turner. Paper covered boards starting to fray, small fragile book, several early pages dog-eared. One of several titles in the Brown Burrows Series. Scarce.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 199 pages illustrated in color. Sphinxes, hydras, chimeras, dragons, unicorns, griffins, sirens, and centaurs--fantastic animals can be found in works from Greek vases to paintings by Bosch, Goya, and Picasso, from folk art to comic strips, advertising, and Hollywood movies. Here Be Dragons is a lavishly illustrated compendium of the marvelous menagerie of imaginary animals that humans have conjured up over the ages. Ariane and Christian Delacampagne take us on a visually and intellectually riveting journey through five thousand years of art, examining the symbolic meanings of such creatures and what they say about the unconscious life of the human mind. Clean copy.

Hardcover. San Francisco, McSweeney's Publishing, reprint, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket that unfolds to become a poster. A unique collaboration between two artists- one Russian, one American- joined forces to create this marvelous picture book. In the story, a single mouse runs around shouting "HERE COMES THE CAT!" again and again--in both English and Russian--until everybody he knows is worried sick. Just when the tension can't get any tenser, the cat arrives... with a giant wheel of cheese! A big party breaks out... Originally published in 1989. Clean copy. INSCRIBED BY CO-ARTIST ASCH on the front fly leaf.

Hardcover. Waseca MN, Herter's Inc, 7th Ed., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth with black stamping. 446 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Clean copy.

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. London, Collins, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The 7th title in the series featuring the mice from Brambly Hedge, charmingly illustrated in color by the author. Wilfred and Mr. Apple have to face the dangers of unfamiliar territory. It requires all Wilfred's ingenuity and skill to get them home safely to Brambly Hedge. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Vanguard Press, 1st, 1077, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The Catfish Bend series, set in Mississippi, is both a gentle comic satire and a fascinating tale of eccentric animals. Here after a lapse of eleven years, are a new band of silly creatures: a Sherlock Holmes type Bloodhound, the Prophet Crows etc. B&w drawings by Alice Caddy. No markings.

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. London, Black & Son, 1st, 1862, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volume set. Introduction dated 1862, title page 1862, so presumed 1st illust. thus. 38 hand-colored plates of wild animals & birds. Bright & clean, 3/4 leather marbled boards. Raised band spine with gilt design. One color plate with repaired tear, not detectable. Handsome set.

NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Illustrated with color watercolor pictures by Ted Rand. This slim volume includes 19 poems about nature, including 8 about birds, all of which are illustrated with bold, realistic watercolor paintings. The poems describe animal appearance and behavior in natural, clear images that any nature-watcher can understand. The cardinal, for example, ``Tries not to look conspicuous/ In red, but doesn't quite know how,'' and the spaniels have ``Periscope tails and hairy feet.'' Several poems such as ``The Beaver, Alas'' are wry commentaries on human attitudes toward nature. The few poems which try for an arch tone (``Slothful the sloth is certainly noth'') are less successful. Rand's detailed close-up paintings of individual birds and animals and his more humorous montages of animals for poems such as ``At the Zoo'' balance beautifully with the text.

Hardcover. NY, Nick Lyons Books, reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 259 pages, b&w illustrations. Originally published in 1960. With a new introduction by the author. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 30 pages. Hardcover with laminated boards. Vintage Children's Picture Book with stories and poems about horses and beautifully illustrated throughout by Feodor Rojankovsky.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 90 pages. Hardcover. Brown cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine and front cover. Red quarter cloth. Bumps to corners of covers, top and bottom of spine has some light fraying. Pages have a touch of tanning.

Softcover. Greendale WI, Reiman Publications, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 252 pages, an amazing collection of vintage and antique photos of horses in harnesses. Working horses get their respect in this softcover book covering nearly every category of horse drawn carriage, cart, wagon. Logging to fire to coal to breweries. Also includes many images of harnesses, hitching posts, sleighs. Shows men and women who cared for working horses, from farms to cities. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. London, Wm. H. Allen and Co., 1st, 1863, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright green pebbled cloth stamped with a gilt design of an Arab horseman standing next to his horse, gilt title on spine. Commentaries by The Emir Abd-El-Kader, translated from the French by James Hutton. Clean and bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket with $4.95 on flap. 58 pages (unpaginated). Illustrated alphabet (featuring double-page illustrations of ordinary and fantastic animals). Text by Hosea Tobias and Lisa Baskin. 'First Edition' stated on copyright page. A Caldecott Honor book in 1973. Mild soil, edgewear to dj, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bound in the publisher's gray paper covered hardboards with blue title lettering to front board. This is the rare first printing of Alison Uttley's second book. 109 pages,color illustrations by Margaret Tempest. Light chipping to paper on spine. A couple smudged pages, binding firm, a penciled name on half-title page, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Scholastic, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 72 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by David Shannon. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan Publishing, BC Ed., 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 32 pages. When gray clouds cover the sky for three days, Mother Hen's chicks, aided by animals of farmyard, field, and forest and guided by moon and cloud, set out to find the sun. Color illustrations by Jose Aruego and Ariane Dewey. Book Club Edition, clean.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. embossed blue cloth in a lightly worn dust jacket, unclipped. Mild fading to spine. B&w illustrations by Rick Schreiter. Ex-lib with stamping, residue to endpapers, otherwise clean. Wonderful whimscal traditional short stories that detail how various animals got their name. It all starts in God's workshop where he fashions shapes out of clay and breathes life into them. What is interesting is that Hughes gives the animals free will to choose themselves - both in terms of what they will eat, how they will live, what they will do and what their name will be.

Hardcover. NY, Coward-McCann, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth covers stamped with blue design, 60 pages. Illustrated in b&w by Leonard Shortall. Mild soil to yellow boards, no markings. Six-year-old Stephen discovered a new sign on the Museum, "Animal Lending Library," a place which lent animals to children who were at least seven years old. During the next few weeks, Stephen thought about nothing except how he could borrow a small, brown rabbit.

Hardcover. St Paul MN, Minnesota Historical Society , 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. In this book lush, life-like illustrations by natural history artist Laurie Caple accompany Cheryl Blackford's poetic imagining of a year in the life of an urban coyote. Across the pages, Coyote sneaks, skulks, and scurries in his constant quest to feed himself and his growing family. While Coyote hunts nearby, people enjoy a city park. At the lake, in the marsh, among the trees, children jump, twirl, and play, oblivious to his secret life. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Souvenir Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 260 pages. Blue cloth boards, gilt titles to spine, illustrated dust jacket, photographs by Pierre Tairaz. Rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket, otherwise a very clean, tight copy.