children illustrated

Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 64 pages. Yarbrough weaves a beautiful story in picture-book format about the role of music in the lives of Africans and shows how it was transformed on American and Caribbean soil. The tale revolves around a "Roots of Rhythm and Blues" concert attended by a sister and brother and their parents, great grandmother, and elderly neighbor. At the park, the father tells his children about slavery and the "culture baggage" the slaves carried with them from Africa. With a compelling delivery that echoes the rhythmic chanting of the griot, the man speaks about concepts such as spirit power and the tree of life that at first are hard for his young son to grasp. The performance begins with a song of praise for the strength and endurance of a transplanted people. By the end, the youngsters understand more about their heritage and the role spirituals played and continue to play in it. Geter's pencil-and-charcoal illustrations are richly imaginative, evoking images of Africa, slavery, roots, and soaring trees. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Milwaukee, Bruce Publishing, 1st, 1956, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial boards. Color illustrations by Evans. Cardboard edges worn. The story of Mexican wood carver who creates a wooden Christ Child for the village church. Minor wear to spine.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset and Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in red, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A nice reprint of a book first published in 1914. The story of Virgie Cary who helped rescue her father who was captured by the Yankee troops in the Civil War. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Cloth spine with pictorial boards. Black & white illustrations by Paul Flora. Light edgewear, chipping and soil to covers. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. This is the story of one of the last remaining phone booths in New York City, the Phone Booth on the corner of West End Avenue and 100th Street. Everyone used it from ballerinas and girl scouts, zookeepers and birthday clowns, to cellists and even secret agents! The Phone Booth was so beloved that people would sometimes wait in line to use it. Kept clean and polished, the Phone Booth was proud and happy...until the day a businessman strode by and shouted into a shiny silver object, "I'll be there in ten minutes!" Soon everyone was talking into these shiny silver things, and the Phone Booth stood alone and empty, unused and dejected. Clean copy

Hardcover. NY, Philomel Books, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Mild wear, tiny pinhole to dust jacket. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pictorial boards with a red cloth spine. Original unclipped color and gilt pictorial dust jacket ($1.75). Illustrated in color, gilt, and black-and-white throughout by the D'Aulaires, with color pictorial endpapers and color and gilt pictorial title page. 32 pages. The Protestant Edition. Name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Softcover. US, Picture This Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 pages. Volume 1: Drawings. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Volume One focuses on Kley's ink drawings, and reprints for the first time a substantial selection of his illustration work for children's books and adult genre fiction, a side of Kley's career previously unexplored in other collections. This volume also includes a wide sampling of Kley's cartoons and magazine work, with newly collected examples taken directly from a variety of rare sources such as "Jugend," "Simplicissimus," and the historic "Der Orchideengarten" (the world's first fantasy fiction magazine). In all, more than 300 Kley illustrations and cartoons fill this first volume.

Hardcover. NY, Books of Wonder, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 352 pages. In this 1917 addition to the Oz series, L. Frank Baum delights readers of all ages with a spellbinding mystery that involves nearly every one of the amazing cast of characters that populate America's favorite fairyland. This handsome new edition--featuring all twelve of Oz artist John R. Neill's beautiful color plates and nearly one hundred black-and-white drawings--is the perfect way to join Dorothy and her friends on this exciting journey through the endlessly intriguing Land of Oz. Afterword by Peter Glassman.

Hardcover. Chicago, Follett Publishing Co., 1st thus, 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. First edition thus, with new color illustrations by Joseph Low. Originally published in 1940 by Harper and Brothers. Ex-lib but only sign is residue to front endpapers, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow , 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket with light edgewear. Thirty full-color reproductions of paintings by a world-famous artist provide the basis for an allegory of love involving the quest of the white tiger for the tigress of his dreams. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, 282 pages. "Horses, horses, horses! Would you like to belong to a riding club? Would you like to solve mysteries and have exciting adventures? Then come along and join Sunny, Dave, Peggy, Mike and all the other members of the Timber Trail Riders Club. Horse shows, rodeos, and trail rides. these are just a few of the wonderful activities that await boys and girls at Timber Trail Farm." Illustrated by Olindo Giacomini and Arnie Kohn. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 64 pages illustrated in color by Glen Rounds. A comical tale of unlucky Felix and his continuing catastrophes. Clean, no dust jacket issued.

Hardcover. NY, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 36 pages with color art by Ati Forberg. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne & Co., reprint, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong format. Unpaginated. Illustrated boards, green cloth spine. Extensively illustrated in color and black and white by F. D. Bedford. Covers worn with mild soiling, tan stain to rear cover, edgewear. Reprint of a story which first appeared in "Holiday Romance" in 1868. This is the extraordinary story of a very nearly ordinary princess named Alicia. Given a magic fish-bone by a good fairy, Alicia can have whatever she wishes--provided she wishes for it at the right time. But it's never clear when the right time is, and sometimes the best magic is no magic at all.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 118 pages illustrated in b&w by Pelagie Doane. Color illustrated endpapers picturing Tommy Tyler's World. No dust jacket, light edgewear to covers.

Hardcover. NY, Whittlesey House, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in black and red, 50 pages illustrated in 2-colors and b&w by Plato Chan. Adapted from an Old Chinese Legend by Plato and Christina Chan. The Text by Christina Chan. The Illustrations by Plato Chan. Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Books of Wonder, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 292 pages. This deluxe reproduction of the rare first edition features all twelve of Oz artist John R. Neill's beautiful color plates, along with his nearly one hundred black-and-white drawings, Afterword by Peter Glassman.

Hardcover. NY, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Seven entertaining stories for young readers by Moore with Lobel's zany illustrations throughout in 2-colors. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Portland ME, Home Ice Productions, 2nd pr., 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Color illustrations by Laura Winslow. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the title page. What would YOU wish for? That's the question a thoughtful chickadee named Dirigo asks his friends who have traveled from all over Maine's woods, waterways and wilderness to celebrate his birthday. Gathered around the dandelion birthday candle, each animal offers Dirigo a special wish as they take turns telling stories about their own Maine birthdays. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Brookfield CT, Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, First Edition; First Printing; Signed by Author. Hardcover. A beautiful first edition/first printing in unread very good condition in alike dust-jacket, SIGNED by author/illustrator Mordicai Gerstein. In 1972, French aerialist Philippe Petit stole into the nearly completed construction site of the World Trade Center, strung a tightrope between the two towers, and the following morning gave the city of New York an incredibly daring and long remembered performance. Gerstein was awarded the 2004 Caldecott award for his illustrations, with the two fold-out panoramas that capture the drama, excitement, and anxiety of the historic death defying feat. Like new. No sticker.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st US, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, no dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout by Reg Cartwright. A man who wants to live forever manages to hold out for several hundred years, but Death eventually tricks him into going away with him. Clean.

Hardcover. NY, Books of Wonder, reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 294 pages. For the first time in over seventy years, the second book about Oz is presented here in the same deluxe format as the rare first edition, complete with all 16 of the original John R. Neill color plates, its colorful pictorial binding, and the many black-and-white illustrations that bring it to joyous life. First issued in 1904, L. Frank Baum's The Marvelous Land of Oz is the story of the wonderful adventures of the young boy named Tip as he travels throughout the many lands of Oz. Here he meets with our old friends the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman, as well as some new friends like Jack Pumpkinhead, the Wooden Sawhorse, the Highly Magnified Woggle-Bug, and the amazing Gump. Afterword by Peter Glassman.

Hardcover. NY, New York Review of Books, reprint, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with red cloth spine. 48 pages illustrated in color by Quentin Blake. A nice reprint of the 1986 title first published in England. Clean copy. No dust jacket.