children illustrated

Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1st, 1891, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black, gilt lettering on spine, 288 pages plus an illustrated catalog of the author's books in rear. Frontis with tissue guard plus b&w plates by Jessie McDermot. Susan Chauncey Woolsey was an American children's author who wrote under the pen name Susan Coolidge. Beginning in 1872, she wrote five children's novels about Katy and the fictional Carr family, with the family modeled after her own relations, and Katy based on the author herself. Red cloth with some discoloration, light soil. Overall, a tight, clean copy, good plus.

Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1st, 1891, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, mustard cloth with brown stamped decoration, 288 pages plus publisher's ads in rear. Dark gray endpapers, b&w illustrations. The 5th and last volume in the Katy Did Series. Light soil and shelf wear, white smudge to rear cover, previous owner's signature on blank prelim page.

New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Tony Chen. Dust jacket with closed tear.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Good+ clothbound hardcover with a color plate mounted to the front with overall light soiling to the covers, blunting to the tips, and light signs of handling; lacking dust jacket. 1970 Caldecott Honor book.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly edgeworn dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. Thin 4to, white linen, with circular pictorial label. Dj price-clipped and 10/70 on dust wrapper flap, 7 titles on the back flap. and the silver Caldecott Honor Book sticker on the front. Probable second printing as the first didn't have the sticker which was awarded in 1971.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, reprint, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Unpaginated. Cover has light wear to corners, light soiling.

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 313 pages. Red pictorial cloth with gilt titles to front and spine. Light fading to spine and small scratch to rear cover, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 40 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Illustrations by Thereza Rowe. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Full page color illustrations throughout. Tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Griffith Faqrran & Co., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in gilt and 2-colors, 343 pages. Illustrated with 19 b&w plates, illustrator uncredited. All edges gilt. Previous owner's inscription on inside front cover (dated 1895). A story set during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. The story follows two British brothers, Dick and Ned Warrender, who are the sons of an officer in the local garrison. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Astor-Honor, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Lionni. Light soil, wear to boards.

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Paintings in color by Patricia Neville. A story of the great nineteenth century clown. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Los Angeles, CA, Marvel Comics Group, 1st , 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Laminated boards. Color illustrated throughout with moveable parts. Small 5-1/2 x 6" size. Clean, tight copy

Hardcover. New York, Platt & Munk, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 60 pages. Color-illustrated boards, lovely color illustrations in margins, decorated endpapers. Edgewear to covers; a very neat, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1st, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 123 pages. Black & white illustrations by John Polgreen. Previous owner's stamp front endpaper. Light soiling endpapers. Dust jacket with chipping. Brodart cover.

Hardcover. Chicago, M.A. Donohue and Co., 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with blue cloth spine.64 pages. Six full page color illustrations by Lone Wolf. Map on end papers. Edgewear rubbing to covers.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Co., 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black. 126 pages. Illustrated in b&w by Phyllis Rowand. Red cloth cover. Child's name printed on front endpaper. Cover bumped at spine and corners. Clean copy. An imaginative dialogue between father and son interspersed in a story the father is creating about the two of them arriving in preColumbian America. Kind of an odd take on "Redskins" but an interesting book.

Hardcover. Boston, Lothrop Lee and Shepard, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with a bright dust jacket, 261 pages, 8 plates illustrated by Florence Liley Young in two colors. Translated from the Norwegian by Emilie Poulsson. Bright , clean copy.

Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 192 pages. Illustrated with black & white photos. Foreword by J. Edgar Hoover. Dust jacket with chunks gone from top and bottom front cover, closed tears, spine wear, fade.

Hardcover. NY, Harper, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In this breathtaking picture book Neil Gaiman's lyrical poem guides a novice traveler through the enchanted woods of a fairy tale--through lush gardens, a formidable castle, and over a perilous river--to find the way home again. Illustrated in full color by Charles Vess, Instructions features lush images of mythical creatures, magical landscapes, and canny princesses. Its message of the value of courage, wit, and wisdom makes it a perfect gift, particularly for graduation.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR MATT TAVARES ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Montreal?, Bedrick/Blackie, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Pauline Baynes. Shows some very minor wear, but really, almost new-looking. Laminated boards, no dust jacket issued.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 48 pages. Previous owner's inscription front paste-down. Color illustrations by Marc Brown. Dust jacket shows some soiling and a small tear, unclipped.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 32 pages illustrated in color by Kaufman and inscribed by him with a large b&w drawing covering the front endpapers.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 170 pages. During her first term at boarding school, fifteen-year-old Flanders tries to cope with a variety of unusual people and situations and come to terms with her conflicting emotions about her recently separated parents. Clean copy.