children illustrated

Hardcover. New York, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1st, 1959, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 80 pages. Hardcover with lightly worn dust jacket. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR, Aldren A. Watson, on TITLE PAGE. Cover boards show moderate rubbing and edge wear, tight binding.

Softcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 93 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light edgewear and rubbing to wrappers. Small red stain to fore-edge, else a clean, tight copy. 74 full page black and white photographs. First edition, first printing. "One day in the early 1970s, Robert Adams and his wife saw from their home a column of smoke rise above the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant." (blurb). This series is the result of Adams attempt to document what stood to be lost in case of a nuclear disaster.

Hardcover. NY, D. Appleton-Century Company, reprint, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Green cloth boards with white illustration on cover, white lettering on spine. 226 pages, b&w drawings by Peggy Bacon. Charming story of the little girl, Miss Boo, and her adventures. Reviews on rear of dust jacket suggest this is a reprint.

Hardcover. London, Augener Ltd., First Edition, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non paginated. Blue cloth boards with oval paste down illustration. Toning to board edges & spine. Oval full color illustrations by H. Willebeek Le Mair throughout, most in very good condition. Light foxing & fingerprints to a few pages. Moderate foxing to preliminary pages. Otherwise clean & unmarked.

Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 64 pages illustrated by Marion Downer. "Learn to make animals, flowers, birds, people and all sorts of amusing objects by tying knots in a handkerchief." Dust jacket is edgeworn, book is bright and clean.

NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. Light edgewear to dust jacket. As they play video games inside, children miss out on a world of activity just outside their window.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 78 pages. Yellow spine cloth with aqua & white flower pattern covers. Spine label intact. Previous owners stamp on front endpaper. Illustrated with black & white drawings by Elizabeth Montgomery. Some darkening to covers. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Illust. with black & white line drawings by Elizabeth Montgomery. 77 pges. Browning to front and back end-papers. Dust jacket with wear to corners, spine edges. Dust jacket with color illustration on cover. Scarce.

Hardcover. NY - Ind., Bobbs Merrill, 1st , 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Bill Tinker. Three stories -- one based on a Scottish ballad, another on a Japanese folktale, and the other on Greek mythology, with the common thread that the character in each story is taken out of this world, then back again.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st US, 1900, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 346 pages plus publisher's ads. Blue cloth with red shirt loading a musket on front board. 8 b&w plates by William Rainey (1852-1936) was a noted landscape painter and figure artist who regularly illustrated books for Henty. Hinge cracked at title page. Moderate shelf wear. No markings.

Hardcover. NY, Philomel Books, 1st US, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated with a double-page map and several in-text drawings by Allan Curless. The eighth book in the "Redwall" series. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Wisconsin, Whitman Publishing Company, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 213 pages. hardcover. Deckled edge. Pages yellowed with age, Dust jacket shows some age wear, but still intact. Pages and edges yellowed with some foxing. Adolescent/teen reader of some age and in good shape.

Hardcover. n.p., L.T. Myers, unknown, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers, 3 color lithographs, many black & white illustrations. Color label on decorated cover. No publisher indicated,(C) by L.T. Myers. Areas of cover show fading, soil.

Hardcover. London, Collins, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Reprints two charming tales in one book: "Spring Story" and "The High Hills". Illustrated by the author. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Dial, 1st , 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY MCCULLY on prelim-page. Color illustrations by McCully

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2015-04-14, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Picture book master Frank Viva does it again, this time with astounding die-cuts that transform both words and pictures in delightful ways, while telling the story of a young boy spending his birthday at Coney Island, in search of his heart's desire. Through his innovation of design and content, he continues to expand our expectations of what a picture book can accomplish Step right up! Step right up! Take a trip to Coney Island and discover the grandest amusement of all-die-cuts that work like magic, transforming words and pictures in the most astonishing ways!

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Picture book master Frank Viva does it again, this time with astounding die-cuts that transform both words and pictures in delightful ways, while telling the story of a young boy spending his birthday at Coney Island, in search of his heart's desire. Through his innovation of design and content, he continues to expand our expectations of what a picture book can accomplish Step right up! Step right up! Take a trip to Coney Island and discover the grandest amusement of all-die-cuts that work like magic, transforming words and pictures in the most astonishing ways!

Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth with a color paste-down on cover, 263 pages, A collection of 35 Native American animal folklore tales. Wood-lore (or, the ways of wild things) are told in an engaging format - a wise old chief holds evening "story-time" sessions with his very curious grandson, Little Beaver. Running through the linked narrative is the little black bear Moween, of whom Little Beaver is particularly fond. Illustrated with 8 color plates, a color title page and an endpapers drawing by Paul Bransom. Light shelf wear.

Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1918, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth with a color paste-down on cover, 263 pages, A collection of 35 Native American animal folklore tales. Wood-lore (or, the ways of wild things) are told in an engaging format - a wise old chief holds evening "story-time" sessions with his very curious grandson, Little Beaver. Running through the linked narrative is the little black bear Moween, of whom Little Beaver is particularly fond. Illustrated with 8 color plates, a color title page and an endpapers drawing by Paul Bransom. Light shelf wear.

Hardcover. NY, Pegasus Books, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Inspired by the twenty-three 'tales', Matthew Dennison takes a selection of quotations from Potter's stories and uses them to explore her multi-faceted life and character: repressed Victorian daughter; thwarted lover; artistic genius; formidable countrywoman. They chart her transformation from a young girl with a love of animals and fairy tales into a bestselling author and canny businesswoman, so deeply unusual for the Victorian era in which she grew up. Embellished with photographs of Potter's life and her own illustrations, this biography will delight anyone who has been touched by Beatrix Potter's work. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Lothrop & Co., 1st, 1878, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrated boards with a black cloth spine, 247 pages, b&w illustrations. Introduction by Leonard Waldo of Harvard College Observatory. An introductory study of Astronomy for the young reader. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf otherwise clean. Corner chip to paper on bottom of front cover A fragile binding but still solid.

Hardcover. London, G. Bell and Sons, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear, 111 pages. B&w drawings by the author. Hodges' version of a true story of the Lynmouth lifeboat crew which hauled their boat over Exmoor to Porlock, the next harbour along the coast, during a raging storm in 1899. Clean.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Oblong hardcover, glazed pictorial boards. Color illustrations by Dines. Cover shows minor wear. Clean.

New York, North-South Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 61 pages. SIGNED BY HAGUE on half title-page. Color illustrations by Michael Hague.