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Hardcover. NY, Barron's , 4th pr., 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, color illustrations by Mayhew. Join Ella Bella Ballerina as she twirls into the enchanting, festive world of The Nutcracker ballet with its dancing snowflakes, swirling sweets, and beautiful Sugar Plum Fairy. But can Ella Bella help the Nutcracker defeat his archenemy, the wicked Mouse King? Clean copy. One in a series of six Ella Bella titles.

Hardcover. Boston, Henry Hoyt, 1st, 1858, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 344 pages, several b&w plates. Embossed red cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Previous owner's inscription inside front cover, front hinge partially cracked, otherwise very good.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 62 pages illustrated in 2-colors by Johnson. Originally published in 1959 this collection of very short stories chronicles Ellen's relationship- complete with two-way conversations-with her floppy stuffed lion. Ellen's temperament is a bit like Christopher Robin's (though her appearance is a clone of Harold, from Harold and the Purple Crayon fame), but her lion is a no-nonsense, tougher-minded Pooh, with the voice of reason and reality to counter Ellen's high-flying imagination. The stories range from fear of the dark and being sad to playing doctor, being a fairy princess, and dealing with a new toy that almost replaces lion.Parents will find the subtly droll stories as entertaining as children, and a child who reads chapter books will find especially rewarding. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House , 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Elmore is a porcupine desperate to make friends. But it is hard to seek closeness with others when you're covered with spikes that shoot off your back every so often. Elmore suffers rejection and heartbreak, but the goodness of his forest community ultimately shines through as the animals find a way to connect with this prickly bundle of love. Clean copy.

New York, Simon & Schuster , Reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Illustrated in 2-colors by Hilary Knight. SIGNED BY KNIGHT on front fly leaf.

NY, Simon & Schuster, reprint , 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Illustrated in 2-colors by Hilary Knight and SIGNED BY KNIGHT and dated 2000 on the front fly leaf. An excellent copy of this edition. A reprint of the scarce 1959 edition with a revised dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black and white and yellow illustrations by Hilary Knight. Light soil on cover boards. Previous owner's name opposite title page. Spine shows moerate wear and bumping.

New York, Simon & Schuster , reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Hillary Knight and SIGNED BY KNIGHT on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. New York , Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY HILLARY KNIGHT. What's this--a new Eloise, never before seen or published? News doesn't get better than that. Kay Thompson first wrote Eloise Takes a Bawth in Italy in the 1960s with Hilary Knight and pal Mart Crowley; it has been marinating until now for a release with all-new drawings by Hilary Knight. Of course, this time Eloise is not in Moscow, not in Paris, she is simply in the bawth at home in the Plaza Hotel. With Eloise, though, nothing is simple. Perhaps especially the notion of taking a bath, where you have to "skibble into the bathroom and take off all your clothes," then strike a pose and look in the mirror, and splawsh, and sing, and bathe with turtle Skipperdee and dog Weenie. And pretend to be the "loosest cannonball in all the Caribbean" and "Little Miss Mermaid but let's keep that between us." But what's this? Could Eloise's bathtime shenanigans be causing a drip that "has begun to drop within the walls and hallowed halls of the stately old Plaza?" Drenching the elite at the Venetian Masked Ball in the Grawnd Ballroom, no less? Fabulously decadent scenes of Eloise enacting wild battles and undersea dives in the bathtub on the "tip top floor" of the Plaza contrast deliciously with the resulting swampy splendor of the ballroom. Extended fold-out cross-sections of the hotel's plumbing system and a spectacular, colorful, double gatefold illustrating the underwater ball ("the sensation of the social season" thanks to Eloise!) add drama and silliness as well.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 65 pages. SIGNED BY HILARY KNIGHT on front fly leaf. Extensive color illustrations throughout. Includes scrapbook of photographs and drawings by Knight. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Simon and Shuster, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 80 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR KNIGHT on front flyleaf. Scrapbook section written by Marie Brenner. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Adhesive residue on rear dj. Light age toning to top text block edge. Color illustrations throughout. A bright and tight copy.

Hardcover. Sandusky OH, The American Crayon Company, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 61 pages. A child's book on Elsie the Cow, the centerpiece of Borden's milk commercial advertising during the 1940s, 50s and 60s. Two-color illustrations throughout by Walter Early. Edgewear, mild chipping to cardboard covers, name inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, color illustrations by Charlotte Voake. Little Elsie Piddock is a born skipper. When she is scarcely five, she can outskip anyone in her village. By the time she's six, her name and fame have spread to all the villages in the county. And by the time she's seven, the fairies have heard of her. When Master Skipper Andy-Spandy summons the sleeping little girl to Mount Caburn for a contest, the tireless Elsie outskips even the fairies and is rewarded with a gift of rare and lasting value. Can she use it later to save the fabled skipping grounds of Caburn? Or will a greedy lord build a factory where children have played for centuries? First appearing in 1937, it is published here for the first time as a picture book (pen and watercolor).; 10 x 11".

Hardcover. London, George Newnes, 1st, 1951, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 248 pages. Black & white illustrations by Bertram Prance. Previous owners inscription at top of front endpaper. Spine slightly cocked. Light foxing to some pages.

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st thus, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn and lightly spotted dust jacket, 192 pages. Introduction by Walter de la Mare. Illustrations by Walter Trier. First printing of the new translation by Eileen Hall. This copy is bound in original yellow linen covered boards with black titles to the front and spine. Kastner's first major success, the only one of his pre-1945 works to escape Nazi censorship, and remains his best-known work, and has been translated into at least 59 languages. The most unusual aspect of the novel, compared to existing children's literature at the time, was that it was realistically set in a contemporary Berlin peopled with some fairly rough characters, not in a sanitized fantasy world; also that it refrained from obvious moralizing, letting the characters' deeds speak for themselves. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Phaidon Press, reprint, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 32 pages illustrated in color by Ungerer. A reprint of the 1980 tale of an eight-legged hero who has twice as much courage and four times as many legs as most people - except, of course, other octopuses. When deep-sea diver Captain Samovar is attacked by a ferocious shark, Emile comes to his aid. Grateful to his rescuer, the Captain invites him to stay at his home, where Emile sleeps in a bathtub full of salt water. Emile turns out to be a fantastic octopus: he is a gifted musician (able to play three instruments simultaneously) and a great lifeguard, teaching children to swim and saving people from drowning. One day, Emile and the Captain, who works on a police launch, encounter a suspicious-looking boat in the ocean, with a dangerous group of smugglers on board... Clean copy.

Hardcover. Edinburgh, Floris Books, reprint, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with a red cloth spine. Emily wants to help her mama by watching Daisy the cow so she doesn't escape out the hole in her fence. On the way to the meadow, Emily meets a big dog, a boastful boy and an old man. But who will help Emily when she needs it? This is a delightful springtime story for young children about kindness and helping others from the world-renowned Swedish author--illustrator Elsa Beskow.

Hardcover. NY, Dial Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, HardcoverColor illustrations by Martha Alexander. Dust jacket with light soil, edgewear.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial boards, library binding. Black & white illustrations by Paul O. Zelinsky. During the summer of 1875, a seven-year-old girl is sent to live with her wealthy uncle in Massachusetts and becomes involved in a very suspicious bank robbery. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Doubleday, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Barbara Cooney.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st thus, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, 90 pages, illustrated in color by Kerstin Meyer. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Hardcover, pastel peach cloth stamped in dark blue. 175 pages, illustrated with charming b&w drawings by Flavia Gag. Evans' first story about white folks full of the spirit of a vanished era. 12 yr old Emma Belle is in a small Tennessee town in 1881 As the undisputed leader of her two younger sisters she must figure out how to get to Kinfolks Meeting which their mother has opposed. Spine has a small 3/4" tear, otherwise sound, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover, no dust jacket in slip case. Clean, tight copy. Illustrated by Karl Lagerfeld.

Hardcover. NY, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1st , 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Mendelson. Animal characters highlight a retelling of the story of two rascals who sell a vain emperor an invisible suit of clothes. Clean copy.