children illustrated

Hardcover. London, J.M. Dent and Sons, reprint, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 246 pages, 4 color plates, b&w drawings by H. Baumhauer.

Hardcover. Boston, David Godine, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrations by Barry Moser. A narrative poem about The Canadian Mounties being overwhelmed in a snow storm. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Middlebury VT, Vermont Folklife Center, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In rural Quebec in the 1830s, Jenny is hired to help a family by cooking and cleaning after her predecessor, the beloved Emily, has died, but Jenny is mysteriously prevented from completing one of her chores. Color illustrations by Lydia Dabcovich.

Hardcover. Middlebury VT, Vermont Folklife Center, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In rural Quebec in the 1830s, Jenny is hired to help a family by cooking and cleaning after her predecessor, the beloved Emily, has died, but Jenny is mysteriously prevented from completing one of her chores. Color illustrations by Lydia Dabcovich.

Hardcover. NY, Dial Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. When the first mate of the good ship Sea Urchin does battle with the bloodthirsty Ghost Pirate and his spooky horde, he meets these ghostly figures in 9 excellent holograms by illustrator Brian Lee that can be seen on almost all the pages and through die-cut windows.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Illustrated red paper covered boards over black cloth spine; illustrated endpapers. Illustrated stylistically in black and white by Richard M. Powers. 64 pages, "the exaggerated nonsense, the bellylaugh humor, and the colorful salt-water lingo of Miss Ritchie's story clearly stem from the well-loved American traditional tale. But it is also as modern as today, and Richard M. Powers has designed and illustrated it with the bold, freewheeling vigor of our times." Clean copy.

NY, Viking, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&w illustrations by Fritz Wegner. A breezy and entertaining tale set in the days when school desks had inkwells features a renowned, but slightly nutty, doctor, a kidnapping, some notorious criminals, a lonely girl, and an extremely humongous baby.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 69 pages. Black & white illustrations by Alan E. Cober. A young adult fantasy about a frozen land, written in second person.

Hardcover. NY, North-South Books, 1st US, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, unpaginated, color illustrations by Tomek Bogacki. Sticker residue on front cover. Else a very clean, tight copy. When a storm destroys his island home, a kindly giant goes out into the world and finds it a very unfriendly place.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Z, Walck, 1st, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, illustrated in 3-colors by Walter Erhard. Villagers try to please a giant on his birthdays with various gifts. This is an ex-library book but in great condition with stamping to endpapers and title page and a price-clip to the dj flap. Appears unread.

Hardcover. NY, Seymour Lawrence/Delacorte, 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with closed tears. Illustrated in color by Balet. ist published in Germany in 1966.

Hardcover. NY, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price=clipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Kilmeny & Deborah Niland. The dream of a lowly store clerk in Sydney comes true when a huge balloon arrives from France to promote an advertising campaign, but without a balloonist. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2nd pr., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards with tan cloth spine. 24 pages illustrated in color by Scott Cook. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Coward-McCann, 1st US, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, pictorial boards in matching dust jacket with light wear. 95 pages with b&w illustrations by Haris Petie. A charming tale set on the Virgin Island of St. John. Fairly clean ex-lib with stamping to endpapers.

Hardcover. NY, Writer's Guild and Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 32 pages, illustrated in color and b&w by Ward. Pictorial endpapers. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. London, John Lane, 1st thus, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with with 41 gold X's and 40 gilt butterflies stamped on the cover, no dust jacket, top edge gilt, untrimmed edges. With the date of 1900 on the title page, but with a John Lane Copyright 1899, The University Press U.S.A. on the CR page. With 18 Maxfield Parrish black & white plates. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front cover, name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Bright color illustrations by Lilo Fromm. Winner of the German Children's Book Prize in 1967. Clean copy.

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.