children illustrated

Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, library edition (NOT ex-lib). B&w illustrations by William Sauts Bock. Tales of the Fox sisters and horses that wore charms. This collection of true tales of spiritualism in America is a rare read. The stories are as entertaining as Sleepy Hollo, the only difference is that many of these strange tales are thought to be true. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Color illustrations by Brian Froud. No dust jacket issued. TIght copy.

Hardcover. New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 32 pages. Color illustrations by Say. Minor edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, attractive copy. One morning eight-year-old Martin looks in the mirror and sees a stranger. Overnight, he has changed. His parents take him to one doctor after another, only to be told that there is nothing wrong with their son. At school his teacher asks, "What have we here, trick or treat?" His classmates will not play with him. At home his family tries to treat him as if he were the same child. But things now are different. Martin has grown very old in the space of one day. His world will never be the same again.

Hardcover. New York, Young Scott Books, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 72 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Black & white illustrations by Julio de Diego. Edgewear. Dust jacket with fade to spine, small chunk missing from top of spine. Clear plastic protective cover.

Hardcover. New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. SIGNED BY VAN ALLSBURG on title-page. Color illustrations by author. Dust jacket with light edgewear, rubbing and price clipped.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, Book Club Ed., 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket.158 pages. Black & white illustrations by Jamie Wyeth. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color by both Vera and Jennifer Williams. Clean, tight copy. Dust jacket has creases and light staining.

Hardcover. New York , Lippincott /Junior Literary Guild, 1st Ed., 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 307 pages. Hardcover with dust jaccket. illustrated in B&W by Marguerite de Angeli. Small chip on dust jacket, creases, otherwise very good.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 2nd Ed., 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Second Edition stated, 10-5 L-U, (November 1945), the classic children's novel, 131 pages. Tan cloth binding with illustration in dark green and white on front cover. Garth Williams drawings. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean, very good. Lacks dust jacket.

Hardcover. US, HMH Books for Young Readers, 1st US, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-pagintated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Signed book plate laid in. Minor rubbing to illustrated boards, else clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Writers and Readers , 1st UK, 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy boards. From two Italian authors, this tale of female baby elephants who rebel against their allotted role is an early example of challenging sexist stereotyping in children's books. 32 pages in color. Top 1" of spine worn, front fly leaf torn away. The rest of the book clean and tight.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow Books, 1st , 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Martin. Dust jacket with closed tear, light soil.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2nd pr., 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 97 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Light soil to dust jacket. Tight copy. Illustrated with Marshall's b&w humorous cartoon drawings.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2005, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A poetic interpretation of the summer evenings of childhood. Seizing their moment, the children steal away from the dinner table to play out of doors, until it's too dark to see the ball and their mothers call them home. Finely wrought oil paintings, beguiling and dreamlike in their detail, give a free-spirited interpretation of the poem. Together, words and pictures evoke the lush scents, sounds, and feel of the full lingering days of summer, when outside and inside is lost in the doorways. INSCRIBED BY ILLUSTRATOR WITH A SKETCH on front fly leaf.

New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Gibbons and SIGNED BY GIBBONS on prelim page. Simple language and bold illustrations make this a fun and informative book about the sun.

Hardcover. New York , Harper and Row, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by the author. Dust jacket with minor wear, bright, unclipped.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, illustrated in 2-colors by Hilary Knight. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York , Dial, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 32 pages, color illustrations by Jerry Pickney.

Hardcover. Shawnee Mission KS, Autism Asperger Publishing, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 37 pages, illustrated in color. Like new in a bright dust jacket.

Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. In a timeless Swahili tale, Leopard and Sungura the hare unknowingly build houses on the same hill, and they eventually meet, and one outwits the other. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, P.F. Volland Company, 1st, 1918, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Previous owner's name on title page. Front hinge cracked and separated from pages. Covers show heavy wear to edges and has chipping and frayed corners. Illustrated by Johnny Gruelle in color. Previous owner's sticker in rear end paper.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Bros., 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 4 b&w illustrations by Rachel Robinson. Decorated tan cloth, 324 pages. Spine lettering faded otherwise very good. The adventures of an outcast boy and his adopted dog, a poodle named Diogenes. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, David McKay , 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth stamped in black. 158 pages, illustrations and text in brown. Dust flap taped to inside front cover. Otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 2nd pr., 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, color illustrations by Robin Preiss Glasser. Determined to be as perfect and neat as her older sister Olivia, Sophie tries to be tidy, but the more she tries the messier she becomes while her sister watches in exasperation, in a delightful book that keeps readers amused as they follow Sophie's funny and appealing antics. Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.