New York, Dial Books for Young Readers, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, unpaginated, color illustrations by Jerry Pinkney, sticker residue at top right front of dust jacket, very clean, tight copy, like new.
Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 149 pages, illustrated by Doris Lee. Dust jacket edge wear, creases and rub, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Lothrop Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Carried off to a frozen land by the giants to be their king, Lord Buckley misses the delights of summer and spring. Color illustrations by Hawkes.
Hardcover. Philadlephia, Lippincott, 1st, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 63 pages. hardcover with red lettering. Black & white illustrations by author. Cover has light edgewear.
Hardcover. London, George Routledge, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Green cloth hardback with gilt borders and green lettering to the front and spine. Color frontis, black & white line drawings in text. Corrected and revised by Cecil Hartley, originally published in 3 volumes, 1783-89. This is a modern reprint, probably the 1920s.Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. London, UK, Frederick Warne , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 446 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Red leatherette, silver lettering to spine, top edge with red cosmetic stain. Pictorial, price clipped dust jacket. Slight wear to edges and spine, light scratching to covers, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. London, UK, Frederick Warne , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 446 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Red leatherette, silver lettering to spine, top edge with red cosmetic stain. Pictorial, price clipped dust jacket. Slight wear to edges and spine, light scratching to covers, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.
New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 63 pages, hardcover. Illustrated in color by Geoffrey Hayes. Bottom corners lightly bumped. Dust jacket very good and placed in protective plastic cover.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Co., 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 48 pages. Full color and black & white illustrations by Charles Fox Phillips. Dust jacket shows minor wear. Clean, tight copy.
Chicago, Follett Publishing, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Leonard Shortall. A Beginning to Read book about the Prehistoric Stone family. Nice dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, McLoughlin Brothers, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial beige cloth. Color lithograph frontis of Santa peeking at sleeping toddler. Approx. 150 pages with b&w line illustrations. Each page with a red decorative border. Front fly leaf present but loose, pencil name and date (1905) on a blank prelim page. Otherwise clean copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth covers stamped in blue. Illustrated with 12 color plates, b&w drawings by Bonnibel Butler. Previous owner's signature on front paste-down, otherwise bright and clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , Jr. Literary Guild/J.B. Lippincott, Book Club Ed, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 359 pages, 348 b&w drawings and photographs by the authors. Scarce in the bright orange dust jacket, light edgewear and chipping.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1955, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 32 pages illustrated in color and b&w by the Haders. Paper covered boards have light soiling, chipping and edgewear. Interior clean, very good.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribners Sons, 2nd pr., 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 346 pages, 48 b&w drawings by James. Classic piece of Western literature, recalling life on the fictional Seven X ranch, presenting a realistic depiction of cowboys, their work and the land in which they live. Date on title page and copyright page match, publisher's seal present but no "A", so assumed 2nd printing.
Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ashley Wolff and SIGNED BY WOLFF on half title-page.
Hardcover. Seattle WA, Laughing Elephant, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Beloved Swedish artists Carl and Karin Larsson made their home a living testament to their aesthetics. They designed, built and decorated the furniture, wove and embroidered all the textiles, and painted the walls of the lovely cottage where they and their children lived in great happiness. The Larssons inspired a uniquely Scandinavian design style that was, and is, hugely influential. Carl's paintings captured the beauty and happiness of their home, and these illustrate this volume. Welleran Poltarnees' text considers the truths of home and family, and the resultant book is a loving testimony to the transformative powers of art and love. 26 pages in color, clean copy.
Springfield, MA, Mcloughlin Bros., 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, large format 10x12", pictorial boards with a black cloth spine. The cloth has separated from the spine and the first signature is holding on by a thread or two, Except for this loose binding defect, the pages are clean and bright. No markings. A scarce title.
Hardcover. NY, Crown, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Searching for the perfect wife who will help him clean up his act as well as his filthy home, the untidy Hoover falls in love with and marries Elektra, a vivacious vacuum cleaner, who runs away with a lawnmower during their honeymoon. Color illustrations by Small.
Hardcover. NY, Crown, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Searching for the perfect wife who will help him clean up his act as well as his filthy home, the untidy Hoover falls in love with and marries Elektra, a vivacious vacuum cleaner, who runs away with a lawnmower during their honeymoon. Color illustrations by Small.
Hardcover. New York, Rand McNally & Company and Phillips Publishers, Inc. , 1st Edition, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nonpaginated. Hardcover with decorated gift box (some light wear--see image). Some slight tanning to pages, but still quite bright. Color illustrations throughout. Also included is directions insert (see image). Decorative cover boards, back cover board has two small holes (see image), otherwise in good shape. Novelty childrens book from mid-19th Century.
Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, board book, unpaginated, color illustrations by Magda Moses, very clean, tight copy. Die-cut boards that show a smiling Hopsi as her surroundings change throughout the day.