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Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. We all know the joke. We've all told it. Kids love to tell it over and over and over again, with as many different punch lines as possible. And now we've found out that famous award-winning artists love to tell the joke too--and they have some wacky and downright hilarious ideas about why that chicken really did cross the road. Mo Willems's chicken confesses his motives to a police officer; David Shannon's chicken can drive a car; Marla Frazee's chicken is looking for a more luxurious coop; and Harry Bliss's chicken encounters aliens. And this is just the beginning. One thing is for sure--you won't cross this book without a good laugh!

Hardcover. New York, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 5th pr, 1974, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 47 pages. Black & white and two-color illustrations by Trina Schart Hyman. INSCRIBED BY HYMAN on front end paper. Soiling, fading to covers.

Hardcover. Glasgow, Blackie & Son Limited, 1st, 1974, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 32 pages. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by Joanna Troughton. Slight darkening to page edges. Dust jacket with degree of darkening, light wear along edges. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 3rd pr., 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Eric Carle. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping. Tape along the spine of dust jacket. The Bible Story of Noah as told by the great Jewish writer, Isaac Bashevis Singer. The illustrations are by the children's illustrator, Eric Carle. Singer is a Nobel Prize winner and Newbury winner. Carle's bright illustration set the mood of this Bible Story.

Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. A simple discussion of the physical characteristics and probable origins of the races of the world. Color illustrations by Symeon Shimin.

Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1sr, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. "Come and enjoy the sequence of hilarious events that is set in motion when Mike holds one end of a rope for a clown at a circus. This imaginatively illustrated book is complete with tattooed man, acrobatic ladies and roaring lion." Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 68 pages. Black & white woodcuts by David Frampton. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.

Hardcover. New York, Creative Editions/Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Georges Lemoine. Tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Janovich , 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Julian Bell. Bright, unclipped dust jacket. Victorian tale centers on a poor elderly widow who, while journeying to claim an inheritance left by her miserly brother, learns that kindness to animals can bring surprising rewards.

Chicago, A.C. McClurg, reprint, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial cloth. Eleven color illustrations by Florence Scovel Shinn. Mild wear to covers. "When Mr. O'Callaghan dies after a long, severe, and expensive sickness, he leaves his widow a state of unlimited poverty and seven boys." The dialect is said to come close to the speech of Irish immigrants in 1900. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1949, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Henry C. Pitz. Water stain to front cover. Light rubbing to spine, corners. Dust jacket with edgewear, soiling.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. SIGNED BY VAN ALLSBURG on title-page. Color illustrations by the author. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping.

hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st thus, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. Illustrated with black & white drawings, frontispiece by Charles Livingston Bull and others. Dust jacket with light edgewear, closed tears, soil. Bright colored animal painting on front of dust jacket. Previous owner's name on ownership page. Scarce in dust jacket.

Hardcover. Akron, OH, Saalfield, 1st , 1933, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 90 pages. Pictorial boards with no dust jacket, blue cloth spine. 12 gorgeous color animal plates by Diana Thorne. Light edgewear to covers, frontis with mild creasing, some crayon marking to the reverse side. Plates ate bright, binding solid.

Hardcover. Akron, OH, Saalfield, 1st , 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 90 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. 12 gorgeous color plates by Diana Thorne. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Spine loose, light soil to front cover. Abrasion on top covers corner.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR. Light wear to cover. Dust jacket has some some wear and bumped edge. Beautiful color illustrations throughout. A bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 96 pages illustrated in b&w by John Kaufmann. The story is beautifully written by an author who knows and understands the habits and life of Canada geese. The illustrations are absolutely lovely with careful detail for each goose pictured. Light spottig to edge of text block, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace , 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&W illustrations by Francisco Mora. Clean, like new.

Hardcover. London, S.O. Beeton, 1st, 1862, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 3/4 leather tooled binding with raised decorated bands on spine. 426 pages. Illustrated with woodcuts by Harden Melville and William Harvey. 10 color illustrations from water-color drawings by J.R. Zweker, Harrison Webb, and Harden Melville. Six fold-out maps. Marbled edges. Endpapers with light foxing. Rubbing wear to spine edges, small scuff mark to front leather edge. Corners bumped, worn. A fascinating work of hunting and natural history by journalist and novelist James Greenwood discusses the history, habits and physiology of a number of species of big game, including tigers, elephants, hippos and leopards. The work also offers information regarding the methods of their hunting including weaponry and tactical movements. The work is particularly noted for its discussion regarding deer hunting, with anecdotal evidence regarding the capacity of the white tail deer to heal from extremely serious wounds.

NY, Sterling, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. Acclaimed artist and naturalist Jim Arnosky has created a breathtaking and informative reference on the subject, filled with intricately drawn prints from creatures both wild and domestic, as well as large-scale paintings of the animals in their environment. Best of all, many of the tracks are true to size, so children can compare the trace left by a big-footed polar bear (whose paws act as snowshoes in its icy environment) with that of a small bird. Adding to the eye-catching illustrations are four awesome gatefolds that display paintings of a bobcat, wolf, deer and a variety of hoofed animals right next to their prints. And the featured menagerie includes bighorn sheep and goats, chipmunks and rabbits, grizzlies and brown bears, horses and burros, domestic cats and dogs and even slithering reptiles!

Hardcover. NY, Julian Messner, Inc., 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a price-clipped dust jacket, 185 pages. Black & white ilustrations by Raymond Lufkin. Dust jacket with closed tears, chips to top & bottom edges, price clipped. A boy's adventures on the Mississippi River.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 2nd pr., 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers. The story of the 60 foot sloop "Elizabeth", the first 'single-sticker' ever to sail from New York to Canton, told through the eyes of two young boys hired on as cabin boys just before she sailed. The book recounts a real historical event and uses all the characters' real names. Five colored two page illustrations, including the title page, and black and white chapter headings by Elizabeth Black Carmer. Spine cloth faded.

Hardcover. NY, Putnam, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Nice color illustrations by Gammell. Great, clean condition. Hardbound, dust jacket. Though his parents explain there have been no mammoths for over 10,000 years, Will goes out in the snow one day, certain he will meet some.

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated. Full color illustrations by Don Freeman. Tan cloth. Dust jacket with tape repaired chipping at top of spine. Clean, tight copy.