Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY JIM AND KATE MCMULLAN on half title-page. Color Illustrations by Jim McMullan. TIght copy.
Hardcover. Joliet, Volland , 2nd, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Gruelle. 2 pages have tears. Small loss of paper & type, illustrated cardboard covers. Cover boards have edge wear and fraying to spine.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Small. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. New York , Abrams, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Eight colorful plates by Chwast to cut out, fold and assemble. Still in publisher's shrink wrap. Presents instructions for making a menagerie of paper animals, from Apollo the dog to Lana Banana the monkey.
Hardcover. NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Ted Lewin. Light edgewear and small tears in dust jacket. Illustrated end papers.In Cincinnati in 1927, paperboy Willie Brinkman attempts to sell extra copies of the special edition covering the Dempsey-Tunney fight in his working-class neighborhood.
Hardcover. New York, Dial Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations by Steven Kellogg. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Coward-McCann, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 239 pages, with b&w drawings by Kurt Wiese. Minor edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustration in color, black & white by Erik Blegvad. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Kestrel, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 128 pages. A collection of stories by the celebrated young adults author woven around the theme of bedtime, and superbly illustrated by the Polish artist Pienkowski. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Wonder Books, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrations by Joe Oriolo. Illustrated cardboard covers with minor edgewear, otherwise very good, clean.
Hardcover. New York , Hyperion Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color pictorial boards with saw tooth edges. Housed in a cardboard box. The small book is 18 pages, each with double-page color illustrations by Henrick Drescher, each with interactive parts. According to the story Beastie's fur is pulled, his pop-up eyes jiggled, his boot (removed from his pop up foot) is scratched & sniffed, his privacy intruded upon as his shower curtain pulled away, his boogers poked, his miniature book reveal beastie's fantasies of revenge, as finally Judy and Paul are swallowed up by poor beastie and a mirror reveals who may be the next naughty child to incur beastie's wrath. All of these interactive pull and poke activities can be performed by the reader. SIGNED on the front cover in silver ink, with his initials, by Henrick Drescher in the year of publication.
Hardcover. Chicago, Reilly & Lee, 1st, 1913, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 340 pages plus 5 page addenda in rear. Blue cloth with the title in black and a vignette of Woozy in black and red on the spine, and the title and an illustration of Scraps in red, black and yellow on the front board. Illustrated profusely in b&w and color by John R. Neill, including color illustrated endpapers. Both hinges, front and rear, cracked. Previous owner's bookplate on half title page. There is a clear tape repair to front fly leaf, and the cloth spine at one time was loose, but now reglued. A fair copy only but clean and attractive internally.
Hardcover. NY, Duffield and Green , 1st, 1933, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in green cloth stamped in black. Unpaginated. Black-and-white silhouette illustrations throughout. Ex-lib with light residue, stamping to endpapers. Irish fantasy, in which young Patsy O'Flaherty plans to make a fortune capturing leprechauns.
Hardcover. Boston, Haughton Mifflin, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 45 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Illustrated in black and white by Helen Rhodes. Cover faded.
Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 223 pages, b&w illustrations with red accents by Valenti Angel, previous owner's inscription and book plate, tears and chipping to dust jacket. Mylar cover, clean, tight copy. Spine cocked. Charming story about a girl from an mill town on Lake Michigan around the turn of the last century.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 40 pages. Color illustrations by Nonny Hogrogian. Shows wear, some stains to dust jacket, internally clean. Hardcover.
Hardcover. NY, Golden Press, 1st , 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color pictures by Ronald Himler. Previous owner's bookplate opposite title-page.
Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1st US, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 127 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Gilt decoration of peacock on front. Moderate wear to edges. Tight copy. Illustrations by C. Lovat Fraser.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st , 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket.Color illustrations by Atwell. Debby Atwell does a lovely job of conveying the sweep of history. The book's two narrative threads--the histories of the United States and of six generations of Pearl's family--intertwine neatly. The pictures are a delight, and their folk art style lends a nice sense of continuity to the book.