children illustrated

NY, North-South Books, 1st US, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Lisbeth Zwerger. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping. Black & white and color illustrations by Fuku Akino. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf.

New York, Philomel Books, 1st imp, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ron Lightburn. Farm boy Robin loves to watch the eagles soaring over his father's farm but one day, he finds a badly injured eagle and tends to it's wounds rather than put it to sleep. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Oblong hardcover. Color title page plus 23 full-color plates by Smith. Beige cloth spine with paper covered boards, color illiustration on cover. Hinge shows stress just after front fly leaf, otherwise very good with minor nicks to cardboard edges.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace , 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, B&w illustrations by James Daugherty. Spine cloth faded otherwise very good.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Nola Langner Malone. I want them. I need them. I love them. Beautiful earrings. Glorious earrings. What will a young girl do to get her ears pierced? Will she walk the dog for a year? YES! Will she clean her room every day for a year? YES! Will she be nice to her brother for a year? YES! Well, maybe for six months. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 88 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Minor wear to covers. Delightfully illustrated work filled with color pictorial maps by Helene Carter, and written by Jannette Lucas, the assistant librarian of Vertebrate Paleontology of the New York Museum of Natural History.

Hardcover. NY, Calla/Dover, reprint, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 208 pages. These Scandinavian fairy tales have had many interpretations through the years, but never have they been so beautifully illustrated as in this sumptuous edition. Golden Age artist Kay Nielsen, a master of fantasy, lavished the text with 25 intricately detailed color and numerous black-and-white images that glow with his phantasmagorical style. With 15 stories that include the popular "Billy Goat's Gruff," this is one of the most stunning children's books ever produced. A Calla Edition, originally published by George H. Doran Company, New York, 1914.

Hardcover. NY, George H. Doran, nd, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black boards stamped with gilt lettering, brown buckram spine with gilt lettering on spine badly faded. Pastedown illustrated on upper cover a couple on a horse. Endpapers design by Nielsen in black and gold ink. 24 tipped-in color plates by Nielson plus the color frontispiece along with b&w drawings throughout. The binding is fragile and the boards have edge wear and spotting, but the brilliant plates are all present. This volume is a mystery as it does not conform th other books described on various sites with yellow buckram covers with red lettering. No date anywhere.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, 64 pages illustrated in color by Daniel San Souci. Nine poems and stories about Easter and Bunnies, including The Velveteen Rabbit and The Easter Bunny that Overslept. Previous owner's name on the 'belongs to' page. Otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, IL, Rand McNally Co, 1st, 1911, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 134 pages. Hardcover with moderate soil on covers. Gutter cracked on multiple pages. Some separation to bottom of rear pages. Short open tears to bottom middle pages. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Bright illustrations by Katherine Merrill.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket. Edith and Little Bear try to clean up New York City. Illustrated with black and white photos by Wright, endpapers are a panoramic of NYC which includes the Twin Towers. Light musty odor, sun fading to spine edge, otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. Garden City, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs by Dare Wright. Previous owners name and address at top right corner of front endpaper. Dust jacket with surface stain at back of doll image, interior tape repairs - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, 2nd pr., 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 48 pages. Illustrated with Dare Wright's b&w photos featuring a doll with her teddy bears and a live duckling. No dust jacket, Clean and bright, no markings.

NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Michael Foreman. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Illustrated end papers.

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, no publication date listed, circa 1916. Beige front boards with decorations in slate blue and black. Boards are in very nice condition, with only minor wear. Decorative endpapers and text pages are clean. 15 beautiful full color tipped in plates including frontispiece by Edmund Dulac. Previous owner's signature on detached title page. Light wood smoke odor.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, illustrated in color by the author. SIGNED BY MCPHAIL opposite half-title page. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A boy learns to read and becomes immersed in the adventures described on the pages of his books.

Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 276 pages illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Gray cloth with dark green title to spine. Pictorial dust jacket. Beautiful copy. Like new. Edward Hicks (1780-1849), itinerant Quaker preacher and painter of coaches, signs and his own pictures, viewed Paine and Spinoza as devils, considered slavery a moral but not a political issue, and abhorred the temperance movement. When not torturing himself with guilt for being an artist or for leaving his wife and children in order to preach, he produced some masterpiecesnotably The Peaceable Kingdom, whose 50 or so variants dramatize Isaiah's biblical prophecies. Fifty color plates and 100 halftones show Hicks's folk renditions of William Penn, Noah's ark, David and Jonathan, along with his pastoral landscapes.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt and Co. , 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR on half title page. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. As a boy, Edward Hopper knew exactly what he wanted to be when he grew up: on the cover of his pencil box, he wrote the words EDWARD HOPPER, WOULD-BE ARTIST. He traveled to New York and to Paris to hone his craft. And even though no one wanted to buy his paintings for a long time, he never stopped believing in his dream to be an artist. He was fascinated with painting light and shadow and his works explore this challenge. In this striking picture book biography, Robert Burleigh and Wendell Minor invite young readers into the world of a truly special American painter (most celebrated for his paintings "Nighthawks" and "Gas").

Boston, Little Brown , 1st , 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color paintings by McPhail. Edward, who learned to read in Santa's Book of Names, and fanned his passion for adventure in Edward and the Pirates, is off on another storybook-inspired flight of fancy, this time with none other than the Lord of the Jungle himself, Tarzan! Losing himself in a book one day, Edward suddenly and most urgently requires the services of Tarzan. After being whisked away from the jaws of an enormous crocodile, Edward takes a few lessons from his hero, and soon has an opportunity to put his new skills to use. David McPhail's thick, jungle-hued paintings of apes, giraffes, lions, and antelopes will capture the imagination of young readers, as will his thrilling tale of the power of reading.Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Playmore Publishers, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy boards with 4 pop-up spreads. Pages are very clean and bright with no markings. All pop-outs work fine. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st US, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Burningham. Dust jacket, very clean and tight copy. With a few words and clear, spacious line-and-watercolor pictures, award-winning British author-artist Burningham expresses a small child's rebellion against overwhelming grown-ups. Edwardo is sometimes a little untidy, cruel, clumsy, noisy, and rude. But when adults overreact and tell him he is the roughest and nastiest of boys, he becomes much, much worse. Then one day, completely by accident, he starts to make good things happen, and everyone loves him.

Hardcover. Candlewick Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. Discover the wonders of ancient Egypt through a fascinating journal from a lost expedition -- a treasure trove of fact and fantasy featuring a novelty element on every spread. Who can resist the allure of ancient Egypt -- and the thrill of uncovering mysteries that have lain hidden for thousands of years? Not the feisty Miss Emily Sands, who in 1926, four years after the discovery of King Tut's tomb, led an expedition up the Nile in search of the tomb of the god Osiris. Alas, Miss Sands and crew soon vanished into the desert, never to be seen again. But luckily, her keen observations live on in the form of a lovingly kept journal, full of drawings, photographs, booklets, fold-out maps, postcards, and many other intriguing samples.

Hardcover. Candlewick Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 32 pages. Discover the wonders of ancient Egypt through a fascinating journal from a lost expedition -- a treasure trove of fact and fantasy featuring a novelty element on every spread. Who can resist the allure of ancient Egypt -- and the thrill of uncovering mysteries that have lain hidden for thousands of years? Not the feisty Miss Emily Sands, who in 1926, four years after the discovery of King Tut's tomb, led an expedition up the Nile in search of the tomb of the god Osiris. Alas, Miss Sands and crew soon vanished into the desert, never to be seen again. But luckily, her keen observations live on in the form of a lovingly kept journal, full of drawings, photographs, booklets, fold-out maps, postcards, and many other intriguing samples.