children illustrated

Hardcover. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Bradbury Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, b&w illustrations by Arnold Lobel. Dust jacket shows very minor wear, small tear to front cover. Clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 166 pages, illustrated in b&w by Marvin Friedman. Small previous owner's stamp on front fly leaf otherwise very good in a bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Young Scott Books, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. 2-color illustrations by Leonard Weisgard. Ex-lib, but clean except for rear end paper residue.

Hardcover. New York, Seabury Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations by Clement Hurd. Dust jacket with darkening to spine, light wear to edges. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran , 1st, 1941`, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 277 pages. Black & white drawings by Armstrong Sperry. Bright dust jacket with closed tears to top and bottom edges, spine edgewear.

Hardcover. Honesdale, PA, Caroline House, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Tomie dePaola. A reprint of a book orig. pub. by Holiday House in 1982. Light wear, sticker residue to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 64 pages. INSCRIBED BY DENNIS LEE ON TITLE PAGE. Illustrations in full color and black & white by Frank Newfeld. Dust jacket with minor wear. Clean, tight copy. A collection of thirty nonsense poems including the tale of Nicholas Knock and his friendship with a silver honkabeest.

Hardcover. NY, Dominic Books, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial glossy boards. When a jazz-loving kitten named Nicky meets a legendary trumpet player, he learns how to play jazz and word travels fast--soon all the top musicians hear about this jazz cat and want to play with him. This charming story is illustrated with photographs of Nicky with jazz greats Roy Eldridge, Lionel Hampton, Lena Horne, Quincy Jones, Abbey Lincoln, and Gerry Mulligan as they meet and make friends. The colorful graphics and rhyming text--call and response conversation between Nicky and his new musician friends--reflect the humor, rhythm, and spirit of jazz itself. Nicky the Jazz Cat teaches children about the magic of jazz, the value of friends and mentors, and the power of imagination and originality. Children and adults alike will delight in his journey from curious jazz kitten to acclaimed jazz cat. This is the true first edition published 2 years before the poerHouse edition.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press/Junior Literary Guild, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, blue cloth covers, 64 pages, illustrated in b&w by the author. Dust jacket illustrated in color, light rubbing and edgewear. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front cover, light edge stain to front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, reprint, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, pictorial boards in a shelf-worn dust jacket. 1954 reprint of this charming title in the Nicodemus series, written in southern Black dialect by the illustrator of Epaminondas. One-color drawings by Hogan throughout. Dust jacket with light tan stain to front panel. Otherwise clean.

New York, Knopf, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 29 pages. Color illustrations by Nicola Bayley. Laminated boards, no dust jacket. Clean copy.

NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Wendy Watson and INSCRIBED BY WATSON WITH A SKETCH OF A MOUSE on the half title page. Bright unclipped dust jacket, hardcover.

Hardcover. New York, Frederick Warne, 1st, 1981, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 150 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Black & white illustrations by Trina Schart Hyman. Foxing to edges. Dust jacket worn with foxing, short closed tears along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. New York, Clarion Books, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY WIESNER on title-page. Black & white illustrations by David Wiesner.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st U.S., 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrated by Anthony Browne. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st U.S., 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrated by Anthony Browne. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Philomel, 1st , 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.Color illustrations by Young.

Hardcover. New York , North-South, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 20 pages illustrated in color by Zwerger. SIGNED by Zwerger on title page.

Hardcover. New York, Phyllis Fogelman Books, 2nd pr., 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Jerry Pickney and SIGNED BY PICKNEY on half-title page.

Hardcover. Natick, MA, Picture Book Studio, 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Lisbeth Zwerger. Translated from Danish by Anthea Bell.

Hardcover. New York, Random House , 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, llustrated by Beni Montresor, minor dust jacket edge wear and price clipped, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Hardcover. New York, Abelard-Schuman, 1st US, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Adapted by E. J. Pelgrave. Color illustrations by Fulvio Testa. Bottom corner of front flap of dust jacket clipped. Light markings to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 1st , 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 92 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket illustrated and black & white frontispiece by Jerry Pickney. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth stamped in black with gilt title on front and spine. No date on title page but states Twenty-First Edition. 416 pages. An early printing of the second Uncle Remus book, illustrated with frontispiece and 19 plates by Frederick Church. While working for the Atlanta Constitution in 1876, Harris "invented Uncle Remus" He published Uncle Remus pieces regularly in the Constitution, and they were extremely popular. In 1880 he collected them into his first book. Remus was a composite of three elderly slaves he had known, the stories themselves were his retellings of old African American tales. He rigorously researched his material, often collecting several versions of the same story until he felt he had the most authentic one. Hinges cracked, but generally a bright, clean copy of this title.