children illustrated

Hardcover. NY, Golden Press, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 140 pages illustrated in color by Benvenuti. Presents "The Elves and the Shoemaker," "The Donkey Cabbages," "The Witch and the Children," "The Bold Little Tailor," "Rapunzel," "Jack and the Beanstalk," and "The Wee Man of the Moors."

Hardcover. NY, Golden Books, reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy pictorial boards, 28 pages illustrated in color by Leonard Weisgard. A lovely reprint of the 1953 first printing.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 5th pr., 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers stamped in red, large format. A square, bright copy of this vintage classic dictionary for children. Color illustrations by Gertrude Elliott. No marking.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Company., 3rd pr., 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A young huntsman named Alexi is helped by a golden mare when he tries to perform the seemingly impossible feats commanded by the Tsar, in a story based on a classic Russian folktale. Illustrated with gorgeous paintings by Sanderson. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY/London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1st, 1925, Hardcover, gray cloth with blue design featuring a winged horse on the cover. Illustrations by Dugald Stewart Walker, with a color frontispiece and b&w drawings throughout the text and decorative endpapers of blue and white illustrations of a Centaur hunter and forest scene. Blue lettering on spine faded, inscription on half title in ink, another on ext blank page in pencil.

Hardcover. NY, Wonder Books , 1st thus, 1951, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. Wonderful color illustrations by Dellwyn Cunningham. Bright and clean, like new.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 31 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated by Charles Mikolaycak. Dust jacket has staining along spine and chunk missing from top, 1" tear in back center. Otherwise, clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Crown Publishers, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 40 pages illustrated in color by the author. Weekly Reader Book Club Edition. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1997, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket. Glossy pictorial boards with trace wear and lightly bumped spine ends and corners. Color art throughout by Tudor. A delightful sequel to her 1971 title, The Corgiville Fair. Small inscription on front endpaper.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Joey "invents" a time machine so he can sneak off to see his best friend, Henry, who still lives in Joey's old neighborhood. Sitting in his machine, Joey suddenly begins flying around the attic of the new house, growing smaller and smaller, until he flies right into a label on an old fruit box and ends up in the land of the Great Kettles. He meet extraordinary residents, those who make the world go 'round, and some old friends too. A fascinating fantasy that has him trying to return home on the Time Elevator. This captivating story is wonderfully illustrated with paintings done by the author. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co., 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket, b&w drawings by Bill Ogden. While collecting money for charity in front of a supermarket, two boys become inadvertently involved in a jewel theft. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace and World, reprint, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust, unclipped with $3.95 on flap. Color illustrations by Doris Lee. Quillow the toy-maker is the shortest man in town and Hunder the giant roams the countryside. Quillow saves his town from the ravages of Hunder. Exceptional copy, clean and bright.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st illust. thus, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Steven Kellogg. Clean, like new.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth covers with blue label on cover. "1" on copyright page. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. 54 pages illustrated in color by Doris Lee. Mild soil to covers. In this charming story Quillow, a tiny toymaker, defeats a ferocious giant, Hunder, saving his town from destruction.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with a red cloth spine. First edition of Dahl's rare first book, with 14 vibrant full-page illustrations by Walt Disney Productions. The author wrote The Gremlins, a children's story expanding on a mythical creature enshrined for years in RAF lore. Disney expressed an interest in making it into an animated film. The author went to California to work on a screenplay that never made it into production. The book was produced from preliminary work done by the Disney artists. A nice copy with light rubbing to covers, mild foxing, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. Charlottesville VA, Thomasson-Grant, Inc., 1st thus, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, unpaginated, color illustrations by the author, clean, tight copy. A much-loved Danish illustrator, a 1972 Andersen medalist, takes up a problem that seems to be world-wide: kids who feel abandoned by their busy parents. Caroline, realistically pictured in the book's first half during a typical lonely day, wakes up next morning to transcribe a dream: the children band together to build a parent trap that's baited with films, videos, and free popcorn--once caught, an adult would ``never run away'' but, rather, be available for companionship and solace. In the end, Caroline's friends admire her story and do help build a playhouse-trap--with the happy implication that some adults may get the point.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 2nd pr., 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an unpriced ($3.50) dust jacket that has chipping and edgewear. The Guard Mouse tells the story of Clyde, a mouse who works as a King's Guard outside Buckingham Palace. Upon stepping down from his position one day, the Guard Mouse hears his name being called - his long-lost cousins from abroad have come to visit him. The story follows the mice on the adventures they get up to in the night, including a detour to Covent Garden Market and a ride on the top of a double-decker tour bus, before duty calls the Guard Mouse back to his sentry box in front of Buckingham Palace the next morning. Inscription on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, D. Appleton and Company, reprint, 1901, Book: Good, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth with red and black lettering and illustrations on front cover and spine. Six b&w plates by B. West Clinedinst. Title page dated 1901, copyright page dated 1899. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1962, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glossy boards, 64 pages illustrated in 3-colors by Mary Chalmers. First Edition. Two little brothers in a quandary as to what they should get their Mother for her birthday. Light edgewear, name on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 64 pages illustrated in 3-colors by Mary Chalmers. An I Can Read Book. Charming tale of little Davy & how he makes perfect gift for mother's birthday. Bright, clean copy of a book first published in 1962.

Hardcover. NY, Ars Edition, 1st US, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glazed boards. Approximately 5 3/4" x 4 3/4", 18 pages. English version by June Head. Bohatta was a Austrian writer/artist whose titles were republished in the U.S. in small printings. Color illustrations in the style of Thornton Burgess. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 115 pages illustrated in b&w line by Enrico Arno. This entertaining collection of twenty-one folk tales from the Ashanti people of Ghana in West Africa takes its title from the wild 'dance' the spider Anansi performed when he tried to hide some burning hot beans under his hat. Clean copy.

NY, Parents' Magazine Press, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, no dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Ungerer. The black top hat with magic powers blew into the one-legged soldier's life, made him a wealthy man, and then blew out again. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 32 pages illustrated in color by Ungerer. Clean copy.