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. 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.
Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Full color illustrations by Ron Barrett. Clean, bright copy.
NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st US, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price- clipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by John Shelley. All the kids at school have amazing things--from a rabbit munching lettuce in a box, to a birthday cake hidden inside a desk--but no one can match Bobby Bell and the extraordinary surprise in his wardrobe.
Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman Company, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with lllustrated paper label on front. 110 pages, color and b/w illustrations throughout by the author. Dust jacket chipped, worn. A collection of eleven stories: Mrs. Spider's Surprise, The Mystery in the Bake Shop, Captain Caddis' Adventure, April Fool Raindrop, The Dreamland Toys, The Hallowween Brownie, Wee Willie Winkie and others.
Hardcover. San Diego, Gulliver Books, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Designed and illustrated (in color) by Paul Bacon. Nice, clean condition. Bright, unclipped dust jacket. Relates the experiences of the Texas woman who, along with her baby, survived the 1836 massacre at the Alamo.
NY, Knopf, 1st US, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glossy boards. Color illustrations by the author. Light edgewear and rubbing to covers. No dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom-edge.nspired to test Alfred's love, Susie dresses up as a princess and plays "damsel in distress," but Alfred is too busy to come to her aid, until she is confronted by a real dragon.
Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell , 2nd pr., 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. A coyote that has been raised by an Amish girl, escapes into the wilderness and is forced to match wits with his greatest enemy, man. B&w illustrations by John Schoenherr. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , Bobbs-Merrill Co. , 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 132 pages. Tall book. red cloth covers. Black & white illustrations by Evatt. Mild waterstains to covers. Spine faded. Corners a bit bumped. A charming story set on the island of Orleans in the St. Lawrence River near Quebec, against the backdrop of the opening years of World War II.