animals

NY, Platt & Munk, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth covers. Color, black & white illustrations by Brook. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 137 pages. Drawings by Joan Berg Victor. Childrens book about a family of mice who move in and out of a summer home throughout the year as tenants move in and out. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound. Illustrated by Guy Brown Wiser. Previous owner's signature and review stamp front end paper. Light soiling to endpapers. Soiling to covers. Corners a bit bumped. Covers with slight bend. Small tear in front pastedown. Pink cloth cover.

Hardcover. London, Phaidon Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover, photographs and afterword by Ferdinando Scianna. 124 pages; full-page duo-toned b&w plates throughout; 10 x 12.5 inches. Biography, bibliography. Since he began taking photographs in the 1960s, journalist and Magnum photographer Ferdinando Scianna has been fascinated by the sight of sleepers. Over four decades Scianna has captured thousands of images of people and animals sleeping in the countryside, in cities, in deserts, on street corners, in moving trains, and in their own homes.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Keith West.

Hardcover. Morton Grove IL, Albert Whitman & Co, 1st US, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. When Tom, a young panda, goes to his very first day of kindergarten, his whole family stays and plays and wishes they could be in kindergarten too. David Legge's fun-filled watercolors are as infectious as Australian author Wild's lively tale about adults rediscovering the satisfaction of creative play.

Hardcover. New York, Century Co., 1st, 1915, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 290 pages. Hardcover. Features 48 black & white illustrations by Harrison Cady. Mustard colored cloth covers with green and orange illustrations, Light wear along edges. Spine cocked. Clean, unmarked text.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1896, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 322 pages plus 4 pages of ads. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Albert D. Blashfield. Rear hinge cracked. Light rubbing to cover corners. Slight cock to spine. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a nice, price-clipped dust jacket. 64 pages, Black & white illustrations by Donald Carrick. In a library binding, but NOT ex-library. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Calcutta, Thacker, Spink & Co., 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers stamped in black. 127 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Barse & Hopkins, Reprint, 1915, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, cloth boards wth color label on front showing two bears dressed in top hats and long coats. 60 pages plus ads. Full color frontis with Traveling Bears meeting Buster Brown and Tige. Foxing to borders of front endpapers. Most pages clean and bright. Front hinge cracked top to bottom. Rear hinge paper intact but weak. Covers worn with bumped corners and chipping to paper in spots.

Hardcover. New York, Barse and Hopkins, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 184 pages plus publisher's ads, 4 color plates and many b&w drawings by uncredited artist (but appears to be Campbell). Appears to be collected material from earlier books so copyright date make be earlier than published date. Bright blue cloth covers with red lettering, color illustration label on front. Previous owner's gift inscription in pencil on front fly leaf with 1927 date. A clean, bright copy.

NY, Pantheon Books, 1st US, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Green cloth binding with brown cloth spine. Illustrated with b&w woodcut drawings by Margaret Wetherbee. 124 pages. Story of a year in the life of a village schoolboy and his dominant elder brother - both are poachers and bird trappers, but both have a certain devotion to their victims. Through the eyes of these boys we see the change of seasons, the habits of birds and animals. Clean copy. No dust jacket.

NY, Coward-McCann, 1st US, Nd , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 154 pages. Black & white illustrations by Grace Huxtable. Light edgewear and soil to dust jacket. Translated by Rose Fyleman. Originally published in Switzerland under the title Muck: Lebenstage eines Alpenhasen. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 200 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2008, Hardcover, 40 pages illustrated in color. TURTLE IS SO excited by the book about penguins that his dad reads him at bedtime that he decides he wants to be a penguin. So the next morning, he creates a penguin costume, grabs his book, and heads for the schoolbus. This delightful picture book from Valeri Gorbachev celebrates both the power of books, and the joys of imaginative play in all its dress-up-box glory. And, with the extra penguin facts at the end of the book, this is a perfect blueprint for teachers planning penguin days of their own.

Hardcover. New York , Knopf, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Bayley. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1st, 1892, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1000 pages. Black cloth cover, worn and soiled. Corners and edges of spine are bumped. Minor foxing on front endpaper. Front flyleaf has small tear, but no part of the page is missing. Pages untrimmed. Diverse topics include the history of sheep husbandry in the U. S. and a record of the sheep industry in Eastern and Western states. Inside is bright and clean, with 96 b&w plates depicting various sheep breeds and farms, also b&w statistic charts throughout. A nice copy.

Hardcover. Boston, L.C. Page, rep, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, 271 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A Book of animal life in the Guiana Wilds, 59 plates by Bull. Dj with wear, chunks missing from top and bottom spine, front bottom, and rear bottom. Gutter cracked in several spots.

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 223 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY WHITE on front fly leaf. Illustrations in black & white by Don Freeman. Dust jacket has light edgewear, chips.

Softcover. NY, Artists and Writers Guild, 1st US, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, color pictorial paper wrappers. 6 full-page three-color illustrations and several b&w illustrations by Aldin. Light worn at edges, some light wear to covers, else a clean, tight copy without dust jacket as issued. First US edition. A charming story of a young girl and her dog, a little black Scotch Terrier puppy named Smut, as they go about their lives, encountering other dogs, policemen, and even horses. Cecil Aldin was a British artist best known for his paintings and sketches of animals and rural life, all of which is magnificently captured in this delightful tale. Small worm hole to fore-edge, paper tanning, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1944, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped with yellow lettering, 72 pages, b&w illustrations by Bill Crawford. Everyone was happy when Valery, the calf, came to live with the Whippes, for she made a charming house pet. Their troubles began when Valery grew up to be a very large cow-like cow. How they solved this gigantic problem, or rather, how Valery solved it for them, is the climax of this amusing book. Corners worn, frayed.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, 1st US, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color pictures by Sigrid Heuck. Transl. from German by Theodore McClintock. Dust jacket with edgewear, closed tears.

Hardcover. London, Faber And Faber , 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 91 pages. B&w drawings by Michael Lyne. The story of the developing friendship between the author and a little orphaned vixen. Clean copy.