children illustrated

Softcover. New York , W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, SIGNED BY SMALL on half-title page. David Small, a best-selling and highly regarded children's book illustrator, comes forward with this unflinching graphic memoir. Remarkable and intensely dramatic, Stitches tells the story of a fourteen-year-old boy who awakes one day from a supposedly harmless operation to discover that he has been transformed into a virtual mute-a vocal cord removed, his throat slashed and stitched together like a bloody boot. From horror to hope, Small proceeds to graphically portray an almost unbelievable descent into adolescent hell and the difficult road to physical, emotional, and artistic recovery.

Hardcover. Mankato, MN, Creative Editions, 1st, 2004, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 40 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Gary Kelley. Like new, clean and tight.

Grand Rapids MI, Eerdmans, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Hall. A native Alaskan folktale tells about a raven who punishes humans for destroying nature by blocking out the sun to make Earth cold and dark, but a woman finds a feather from the bird that may have the secret to saving the planet.

Hardcover. Sydney, Austalia, P.I.C., 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 48 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Robert Ingpen. Clean, tight copy. This children's picture story, a detective mystery, is about a Siamese white elephant, en route from Siam to Britain as a gift to the Queen, and which disappears in New Jersey. This is one of the author's most hilarious, but overlooked, masterpieces for any child or adult to enjoy. The life-like illustrations are by international illustrator, Robert Ingpen. The literature classic was originally published in 1882 as a short story.

Hardcover. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Bradbury Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket, 106 pages, illustrations by Donald A. Mackay throughout. Dust jacket edge wear and minor tear on top edge. Clean and bright pages and tight binding. Story of a young boy who feels out of place in his own family. Gus Oliver lives with his several siblings and parents in rural upstate New York. He is nicknamed "the stone face boy." Gus is a strange and awkward boy but likable. When a stray dog is befriended by his sister, he doesn't take an immediate like to him. When the dog goes missing one night, it appears only Gus can find him before the dog is hunted or trapped in the cold winter night.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 225 pages. Black & white illustrations by Bronson. Color illustrated endpapers. Review copy stamp on half-title page. Corners bumped, rubbed. Soiling to covers. A tale of two adolescent Native American boys on islands off the coast of Spanish-conquered Mexico. 47 illustrations by the author.

Hardcover. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 120 pages. Illustrated by Jean Harper;

Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w cartoons by Frank Modell. Clean, unmarked copy with light wear to dust jacket. Frank Modell was a well known New Yorker cartoonist from 1945 to 1997. He studied at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and illustrated the children's books on "Marvin and Milton".

Hardcover. Milan, Mondadori, 1st, 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 6 unnumbered pages including the inside of both covers. Publisher's thick pictorial boards backed in white cloth-patterned paper & saddle stapled. Lightly soiled, edges slightly rubbed, otherwise very good. A nice example with all flaps and concealed color illustrations in perfect working order. Three stories of birds each with it's own open-the-flap text and graphic art. Laid in is a typed English translation of the text. Bruno Munari was "one of the most celebrated names in twentieth century Italy in graphic designing who fundamentally altered the landscape of many fields of visual arts, futurism and modernism He is credited for his contribution to industrial design, sculpture, painting, literature, film and concrete art." A collector's copy of this scarce title.

Softcover. New Haven CT, S. Babcock, reprint, 1845, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 64 pages, 4 1/2 X 5 1/2", illustrated with b&w engravings. Forward by author dated 1845, noting that this book is a shorter version of a "somewhat larger book" printed several years earlier (1832). Wrapper worn with red design and lettering: "Stories About Whale Catching/Toils and Perils of Whalers". Yellow endpapers. Half of paper on spine missing, light foxing and minor staining to several pages.

Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Acclaimed British children's author and artist Shirley Hughes presents a selection of poetry and prose in this winter-time collection, with text accompanied by her atmospheric illustrations. The nine selections here include six poems and three stories, one of them wordless. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Lothrop , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Nice color illustrations by Hughes. Lovely, clean illustrations. Hardbound, dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Dial Press, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 353 pages. Hardcover with pictorial front cover. Illustrated by Edna Cooke. Previous owner's name and bookplate near front. Tight copy. Spine faded.

Hardcover. NY, Platt & Munk, reprint, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bound in green cloth with full color paste-down on front cover. 10" x 12", former owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise unmarked. Vivid color illustrations throughout along with b&w drawings by Eulalie, Lois Lenski and others.. Contains nine traditional stories: Little Red Riding Hood, The Story of Peter Pan, Dick Whittington and His Cat, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, The Three Bears, Puss in Boots, Tom Thumb and Jack and the Beanstalk.

Hardcover. NY, Barse & Co., 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color pictorial boards, illustrated with 6 full color plates and spot illustrations by Millicent Sowerby. Light tape reinforcement to spine where paper has chipped. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Toronto, Groundwood Books , 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 144 pages with color illustrations by Gary Clement. Lottridge uses her storyteller's ear to bring ancient stories from the Hebrew Bible to a young audience, tailoring them to make them more age appropriate. Sometimes blending several stories together, she introduces the familiar characters--Adam and Eve, Abraham and his kin, Moses, Daniel--and writes about them in ways that bring them near. The numerous, well-drawn ink-and-watercolor illustrations are reminiscent of Warwick Hutton's work. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Somerville MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, color illustrations by Gwen Millward. What may appear to be an abandoned garden is actually home to an unusual array of insects. Meet a ladybug who prefers making mud angels to acting like a lady, a roly-poly bug who loves to roll ("wa-hoo!"), a cricket who dreams of grand adventures, and a whole neighborhood of bugs gazing up at a fireworks show of flowers bursting into bloom. These inviting vignettes are sure to have readers seeing bugs in a whole new light. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Calla/Dover, reprint, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 328 pages. For over 150 years, the enchanting fairy tales of Danish author Hans Christian Andersen have delighted people all over the world. This beautifully designed treasury gathers his most beloved tales in a gilt-stamped, hardcover edition, illustrated with 28 full-color images by Golden Age artist Edmund Dulac. Filled with such favorites as "The Snow Queen," "The Nightingale," and "The Emperor's New Clothes," this masterful collection will excite the senses of book lovers everywhere. Originally published in 1911 by Hodder & Stoughton.

Hardcover. Akron, OH, Saalfield, 1st , 1934, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 90 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. 11 color plates by Diana Thorne (one repeated on cover). Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Spine loose, light soil to front cover.

Hardcover. Chicago, American Colortype Company, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with red cloth spine. 96 pages illustrated in 2-colors by Dorothy Wagstaff. 22 short stories of a stereotypical black boy done in the style of the time. Chipping and wear to paper on the covers, interior clean, solid binding.

Hardcover. Morehouse Publishing, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket. 56 pages illustrated by Tony Morris. Small inscription to front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. London, Hutchinson's Books for Young People, 1st, unkn., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 176 pages. Hardcover with clipped dust jacket. Illustrations by C. Gifford Ambler. Dust jacket shows minor wear, covers good. Internally, previous owner's name on front fly leaf. tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 188 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated with drawings by James Fuller and photographs by the author. Dust jacket with some wear, light chipping. Soil mark on bottom page block. Light page darkening.

Hardcover. London, Bodley Head, reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in brilliant color by Wiese. Dust jacket has soil, edgewear, chipping. Book itself is near fine with color illustrated boards very bright.