children illustrated

Hardcover. London, Collins, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Reprints two charming tales in one book: "Spring Story" and "The High Hills". Illustrated by the author. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Dial, 1st , 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY MCCULLY on prelim-page. Color illustrations by McCully

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Picture book master Frank Viva does it again, this time with astounding die-cuts that transform both words and pictures in delightful ways, while telling the story of a young boy spending his birthday at Coney Island, in search of his heart's desire. Through his innovation of design and content, he continues to expand our expectations of what a picture book can accomplish Step right up! Step right up! Take a trip to Coney Island and discover the grandest amusement of all-die-cuts that work like magic, transforming words and pictures in the most astonishing ways!

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2015-04-14, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Picture book master Frank Viva does it again, this time with astounding die-cuts that transform both words and pictures in delightful ways, while telling the story of a young boy spending his birthday at Coney Island, in search of his heart's desire. Through his innovation of design and content, he continues to expand our expectations of what a picture book can accomplish Step right up! Step right up! Take a trip to Coney Island and discover the grandest amusement of all-die-cuts that work like magic, transforming words and pictures in the most astonishing ways!

Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth with a color paste-down on cover, 263 pages, A collection of 35 Native American animal folklore tales. Wood-lore (or, the ways of wild things) are told in an engaging format - a wise old chief holds evening "story-time" sessions with his very curious grandson, Little Beaver. Running through the linked narrative is the little black bear Moween, of whom Little Beaver is particularly fond. Illustrated with 8 color plates, a color title page and an endpapers drawing by Paul Bransom. Light shelf wear.

Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1918, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth with a color paste-down on cover, 263 pages, A collection of 35 Native American animal folklore tales. Wood-lore (or, the ways of wild things) are told in an engaging format - a wise old chief holds evening "story-time" sessions with his very curious grandson, Little Beaver. Running through the linked narrative is the little black bear Moween, of whom Little Beaver is particularly fond. Illustrated with 8 color plates, a color title page and an endpapers drawing by Paul Bransom. Light shelf wear.

Hardcover. NY, Pegasus Books, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Inspired by the twenty-three 'tales', Matthew Dennison takes a selection of quotations from Potter's stories and uses them to explore her multi-faceted life and character: repressed Victorian daughter; thwarted lover; artistic genius; formidable countrywoman. They chart her transformation from a young girl with a love of animals and fairy tales into a bestselling author and canny businesswoman, so deeply unusual for the Victorian era in which she grew up. Embellished with photographs of Potter's life and her own illustrations, this biography will delight anyone who has been touched by Beatrix Potter's work. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Lothrop & Co., 1st, 1878, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrated boards with a black cloth spine, 247 pages, b&w illustrations. Introduction by Leonard Waldo of Harvard College Observatory. An introductory study of Astronomy for the young reader. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf otherwise clean. Corner chip to paper on bottom of front cover A fragile binding but still solid.

Hardcover. London, G. Bell and Sons, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear, 111 pages. B&w drawings by the author. Hodges' version of a true story of the Lynmouth lifeboat crew which hauled their boat over Exmoor to Porlock, the next harbour along the coast, during a raging storm in 1899. Clean.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Oblong hardcover, glazed pictorial boards. Color illustrations by Dines. Cover shows minor wear. Clean.

New York, North-South Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 61 pages. SIGNED BY HAGUE on half title-page. Color illustrations by Michael Hague.

Hardcover. New York, Kipling Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 35 pages, with illustrations by Stephen Alcorn throughout. Price clipped. Very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston , Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.SIGNED BY AUTHOR. B&W woodcut illustration by Michael McCurdy.

Hardcover. Boston , Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. B&W woodcut illustration by Michael McCurdy. Tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 42 pages. hardcover with dust jacket. Color and black & white illustrations by Bryan. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with the gold foil Caldecott Medal on the front. SIGNED BY HALL on the title page. Cooney's award-winning color paintings throughout. Also laid in: A signed typewritten note from Hall on his stationery and a newspaper article about the author. Clean copy.

New York, Viking, 2nd PR., 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY ILLUSTRATOR COONEY ON TITLE PAGE. A Caldecott Medal winner with sticker on front panel. 35 pages. Color illustrations by Barbara Cooney. Dust jacket has a few very small tears.

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 2nd pr., 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with green bards stamped with silhouette design, beige cloth spine. No dust jacket. Winner of the Caldecott Medal in 1980. Color illustrations by Barbara Cooney. Short inscription on front fly leaf otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Oxford University Press , 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 224 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w by Joan Hassall. Dust jacket is worn, torn and sun-faded, protected by a mylar cover. Book itself is in lovely condition. Contains 800 nursery rhymes and ditties which are the heritage of our oral tradition. All the well-known rhymes are included as well as many rare ones.

Hardcover. NY, Books of Wonder / HarperCollins Publishers, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 64 pages illustrated in color. Thirty favorite artists and writers celebrate one hundred years of Oz. Contributors include: Peter Glassman; Maurice Sendak; Janell Cannon; Tomie dePaola; Jerry Pinkney; Paul O. Zelinsky; Uri Shulevitz; Trina Schart Hyman; William Joyce; Richard Egielski; Diane Goode; Robin McKinley; Leo and Diane Dillon; Madeleine L'Engle; Mark Teague; Jules Feiffer; Ann M. Martin; Kinuko Y. Craft; Kay Chorao; Michael Foreman; Mark Beuhner; Natalie Babbitt; Peter Sis; Bruce Degen; Chris Van Allsburg; Michael Hague; Troy Howell; Richard Jesse Watson; Lloyd Alexander; Eric Carle. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Books of Wonder, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages. A deluxe facsimile of the rare first edition, featuring forty-two of John R. Neill's full-color plates and twenty-one two-color illustrations, as well as a colorful pictorial binding. Afterword by Peter Glassman.

Hardcover. Chicago, Reilly & Lee, reprint, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 272 pages. Hardcover. Early reprint. Tan cloth covers with full color paste down illustration to front - paste down with abrasions. Front interior hinge cracked. Black & white illustrations by John R. Neill. Moderate rubbing to corners and edges. Interior clean, tight.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st thus, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. To mark the fortieth anniversary of Paddington's appearance in America, Houghton Mifflin put out this huge treasury, containing chapters from eleven of the Paddington Bear books published between 1958 and 1979. Thirty five adventures in all. There's a new Introduction by the author. The original black & white drawings of Peggy Fortnum were hand-colored by her step-granddaughter, Caroline Nuttall-Smith. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Mahwah NJ, Troll Associates, 1st US, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 6 pop-up spreads featuring Paddington the Bear. Pictures by Ivor Wood. Clean, tight copy.