Hardcover. Chicago, Childrens Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 48 pages. Illustrated in color and b&w by Phoebe Erickson.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st thus, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Oblong hardcover, pictorial boards, 54 pages illustrated in lovely watercolors by the Danish artist Johannes Larsen. Commemorating,the 150th anniversary of the birth of Hans Christian Andersen on April 2nd, 1805. Translated by R. P. Keigwin. Small stamp on inside front cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.311 pages, illustrated in b&w by David Small. A calico cat, about to have kittens, hears the lonely howl of a chained-up hound deep in the backwaters of the bayou. She dares to find him in the forest, and the hound dares to befriend this cat, this feline, this creature he is supposed to hate. They are an unlikely pair, about to become an unlikely family. Ranger urges the cat to hide underneath the porch, to raise her kittens there because Gar-Face, the man living inside the house, will surely use them as alligator bait should he find them. But they are safe in the Underneath...as long as they stay in the Underneath. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 286 pages, endpaper maps, 60 b&w and color illustrations by Eric Hosking. Dust jacket has edgewear and chipping. Book is very good, tight, clean.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, olive cloth with illustration of frog standing on his head on cover. two-color illustrations throughout by Wallace Tripp. Convinced he will never master the proper frog sounds, a young frog goes off to the woods where he meets a young owl in a similar predicament. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Villard Books, Random House, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 382 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with little to no wear to covers. Color pictures throughout.
Hardcover. NY, Parent's Magazine Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, illustrated in color by Enrico Arno. Here are the delightful adventures of a mouse who thinks he's a moose. It all begins one day when Farmer MacGuff--whose opinion everyone respects--calls the little creature a "wee moose." The mouse immediately goes in search of another animal just like himself. On the way he finally meets a real moose and sadly discovers that he's not a member of the same family. How his sadness turns to joy provides a happy ending to a happy story designed to keep children smiling. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, 3rd pr., 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright red cloth stamped in black. Endpapers map, b&w photographs. 410 pages. The widow of Carl Akeley, naturalist, tells the story back of the exhibits for which he was responsible in the Natural History Museum in New York. This is virtually a biography, with that as a focus; it is a record of the uphill struggle to get the chance to do the thing for which he was gifted and trained; the experiences securing his speciments, adventures in the wilderness, African jungles, the Belgian Congo, the Uganda frontier -- and the immense concentration on details to get the exhibits together and to present them with complete fidelity. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Methuen, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 256 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Ernest Howard Shepard was an English artist and book illustrator, best remembered for his charming illustrations of the beloved anthropomorphic animals in The Wind in the Willows and Winnie-the-Pooh. This fascinating study of Shepard, detailing his childhood, education and artistic development, is richly illustrated throughout with his works. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Viking / Madison Press Books, 2nd pr., 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Oversized hardcover with dust jacket, second (1986) printing, 168 pages. Selection of over 90 of Robert Bateman's wildlife paintings, reproduced in full color, together with his commentaries as a naturalist, plus an introduction based on extensive travels and interviews with the artist. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Illustrations by Nola Langner. 'Library Edition' specification printed on back cover of book. Light wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 44 pages. Color illustrations by Don Freeman. Green cloth with black monkey on cover, spine lettering in pink and black. Minor corner wear.
NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 128 pages. Black & white illustrations by Leonard Weisgard. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf. An unusual and unforgettable Christmas story set aboard a freighter bound for South America. Three companions -- a boy, a goat and a dog -- meet Domingo, a burro, and spend Christmas below the Equator.
Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1st Ed, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Unpaginated; color illustrations by Garth Williams throughout. Full-color cover with black-cloth binding, exhibits some edgewear. Bookplate on front endpaper and some pencil marks. Interior text clean. Dust jacket has edgewear, damp wrinkling, as well as soiling around edges, unclipped, but with adhesive marks from tape on top edges. Otherwise, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Clarion Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ILLUSTRATOR DAVID WIESNER ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations. Clean, bright copy. 2002 Caldecott Winner. First printing with no sticker.
Hardcover. New York , E. P. Dutton, 1st, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 45 pages, illustrated in b&w by the author. Green cloth spine with illustrated boards. Dust jacket with light edge wear, chunk gone from rear panel at top, smaller corresponding piece gone from rear board. Interior bright, clean.
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. New York, Blue Sky Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket, illustrated in color by Goode and SIGNED BY GOODE on title- page.
Hardcover. New York, Enchanted Lion Books, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non paginated. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations throughout by Yoohee Yoon. Illustrated end papers and paste downs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Young Scott Books / William R. Scott, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket. B&w illustrations by David Stone Martin. Story of a chicken who survived a hurricane and became a pet to a young boy and his father who helped him.
Hardcover. NY, Platt and Munk, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong format, green cloth covers with title and drawing of panicked cows. Color, black & white illustrations by Brook. No dust jacket. Clean copy.