children illustrated

Hardcover. Gardiner ME, Tilbury House, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Illustrated in color and b&w by the author. As twelve-year-old Sarah prepares for the town's annual sailboat race, working on the boat her grandfather has given her and learning the secrets of navigation, readers are schooled in tacking, coming about, compass reading, and other maneuvers. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a chipped, edgeworn dust jacket, B&w drawings by Rita Fava. Collection of 9 French Canadian folk stories, told to told to children at the LeBlanc summer picnic in Vermont to remind them of their ancestors in French Canada; in the beginning they lived near Quebec city and wore long red sashes and later some moved to Montreal where the color was blue. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, unpaginated, color illustrations by Dindga McCannon, library edition, price clipped, very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 122 pages. Hardcover. Features 3 illustrations by Maitland De Gogorza. Fading to spine with moderate rubbing along edges. Title paste down on cover intact. Clean, unmarked text.

New York , Macmillan , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Dennis Nolan. Romantic tale about family & tribal devotion, which captures the spirit of the gypsy people. Rich, classical paintings complement this captivating tale. Savina, the Gypsy dancer, captivates everyone with her remarkable dancing. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Romantic tale about family & tribal devotion, which captures the spirit of the gypsy people. Rich, classical paintings complement this captivating tale. Savina, the Gypsy dancer, captivates everyone with her remarkable dancing. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 4th pr, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Sweetness was determined not to go back to scrubbing the orphanage floor with a toothbrush, so ran away to the desert, foiled an outlaw, and found a Pa (the sheriff) for herself and the other seven orphans. Interesting pictures in gouache, acrylic, and pencil by Karas. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 4th pr, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Sweetness was determined not to go back to scrubbing the orphanage floor with a toothbrush, so ran away to the desert, foiled an outlaw, and found a Pa (the sheriff) for herself and the other seven orphans. Interesting pictures in gouache, acrylic, and pencil by Karas. Clean copy.

Hardcover. San Diego CA, Gulliver Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 52 pages. signed by both author and photographer on the dedication page. Beginning with an eloquent introduction to the Everglades, this collection of 20 poems transports readers to that unique place and challenges them to look at it intently, often through the eyes of creatures living there. Striking, full-color photographs by Ted Levin provide glimpses of a wide variety of animals, plants, and landscapes. Each poem appears on a double-page spread along with one full-page photo and one or more smaller ones. The voice of the verse varies. Some are in third-person narration: "Some rivers rush to the sea. They push and tumble and fall / but the Everglades is a river / with no hurry in her at all." Other poems are from the animals' viewpoint, like this from the otter: "But there are gators where I swim. / My life is not all play. / Sometimes I am the hunter. / Sometimes I am the prey." Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Full-color illustrations follow a day in the life of a country veterinarian as he deals with examinations, innoculations, and emergencies at his office; makes rounds in his truck; and returns to his office to check his patients. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 64 pages. Pictorial boards with black cloth spine. Full color and black & white illustrations by Marguerite Kirmse. Faint foxing along hinges on preliminary pages. Rubbing along cover edges and spine, upper right corners with shallow bump. Clean, unmarked text.

Hardcover. NY, Franklin Watts, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 288 pages illustrated in b&w and color by Jenny Williams. Light chipping, edgewear to dust jacket, clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Reilly & Lee, Reprint, 1915, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 286 full pages (last pages missing). Brown cloth, pictorial paste down, rubbing with faded spine. Black & white illustrations by John Neill. Previous owner's name on book belongs to page. Front fly leaf missing. Hinge cracked.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan , 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth with red desgn, lettering, 198 pages, with color frontispiece, b&w illustratons by Elizabeth Orton Jones. Minor edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan , 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth with red desgn, lettering, 198 pages, with color frontispiece, b&w illustratons by Elizabeth Orton Jones. Minor edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 198 pages. Color frontis, black & white illustrations by Elizabeth Orton Jones. Dust jacket unclipped, edgeworn, chipped. Nickle-size paper scar to front of dj above title. Clean copy. A mystery surrounding Joseph Bonaparte, former King of Spain, and brother to the exiled Napoleon, living in exile himself in the United States.

Watertown, MA, Charlesbridge Publishing, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Matt Faulkner. Scatterbrain Sam is the distant down-home cousin of "Morgan and the Pot of Brains," a Welsh tale told by Ellen Pugh. This adaptation is a funny, folksy tall tale filled with exaggeration and sly humor. It is set in mid-20th-century America, and Jackson has freely updated and modified the old story. Sam is so scatterbrained, "he didn't know nothing about nothing," so he asks Widder Woman to help fix his brains. She offers a glue-stew remedy for which the young man must provide the flavoring with things that he loves. When that proves to be too difficult, he is given riddles to solve and only with the help of Maizie Mae, a golden-haired aviatrix with her own stunt plane, does Sam begin to find the solution. When Maizie falls into the sticky concoction, Sam follows the glue flood through town and finally realizes what he truly loves. He takes the Widder's advice and marries Maizie and they fly off together into the sunset. This is a rollicking good tale with exuberant cartoonlike watercolor-and-gouache paintings.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st thus, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, color illustrations by McCully. SIGNED BY MCCULLY. Delightful wordless tale about a curious little mouse who decides to find out what school is all about. This story about a curious young mouse's first visit to school was published nearly two decades ago. Now featuring text and larger illustrations in Caldecott Medalist Emily Arnold McCully's signature ink-and-watercolor style, this read-aloud edition will capture the hearts of a new generation of picture-book readers.

Hardcover. London, B.T. Batsford, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 136 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacekt. illustrated with drawings by Edward Ardizzone. Blue cloth covers with light fading to spine

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 239 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Eight two-color illustrations plus dust jacket art in color by Thomas (Hart) Benton. True account of a young school teacher in the Tennessee mountains. With a bright, unclipped dust jacket with light edgewear. Scarce in this condition.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, John C. Winston , 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 120 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Dust jacket has chipped and fraying edges, covered in acetate brodart. Previous owner's name and date on front fly-leaf. Illustrations by Decie Merwin.

Hardcover. Berlin, Union Deutsche, 4th printing, n.d., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 105 pages, illustrated in color and b&w by Capek. White cloth spine with color illustrated boards. No date listed. German text. Cover edges with light wear.

Hardcover. Lyons Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 142 pages illustrated in color. For many children of the sixties, the gift of a Schwinn was a ticket to freedom, a chance to feel the wind on their face and the steady rotation of rubber at their feet. The Schwinn took many through their childhood adventures, with memories filled of after school, free-range bike rides around the neighborhood with friends, the late afternoon sun shining off of the gleaming painted frame and stainless steel fenders. The 1960s and 70s saw a boom of Schwinn Sting-Rays, which appealed to young riders who had to have the hottest 'muscle' bike in town, and sold like hotcakes to parents everywhere scrambling to get the best Christmas present ever for their kids. From its early years dominating the youth market with Sting-Rays to the teen-friendly Varsity and Continental models to its most recent parent-friendly iterations of the Easy-Steer and Roadster Trikes, the Schwinn weaves itself through 120 years of American history. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York , Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 147 pages, illustrated throughout in red and black. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on prelim page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.