Hardcover. New York, Little, Brown and Company, 5th printing, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY PATRICK MCDONNELL WITH DRAWING OF A MONKEY OPPOSITE TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations. Minimal wear. Clean, tight copy. Caldectt Honor Book. McDonnell is creator of internationally syndicated comic strip Mutt & has won many awards. This is the inspiring story of the young girl who would grow up to be Dr. Jane Goodall.
Softcover. NY, HarperCollins, ARC, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers. An Advanced Reading Copy. B&w illustrations byJon Agee. A National Book Award Finalist. The overweight Hubble family and a pair of newlywed woodchucks have something in common; they are all being terrorized by a tyrannical toddler named Margaret. How it all turns out is the subject of this funny children's novel with witty b&w drawings. Clean.
Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 3rd, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by the author. Hardcover with dust jacket. non-paginated. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 3rd, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by the author. Hardcover with dust jacket. non-paginated. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Limpsfield UK, Paper Tiger, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 70 pages. 30 fables collected by the mysterious Marie de France, lavishly illustrated by Jason Carter and with new translations from original manuscripts. Carter's ancient-look, colorful artwork adds to the appeal. (The publisher has added `pre-foxed' pages.) Three of the tales are : The Bitch and Her Litter, The King of the Frogs, and The Crow Who Found Peacock Feathers. Each has an attached moral. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
hardcover. Chicago, Follett, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. llustrated in color by Gioia Fiammengh. Front end paper, with sticker shadows. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1998, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Meet Walter.And better yet, turn the pages and --meet his staff. The Gum Guy, who archives his chewed-up gum. His Homework Helper who does...well, you know. A complete Dream Team, to do his sleeping for him...And thats only the beginning!This laugh-out-loud picture book is a dream come true for any kid who has ever wanted someone else to kiss Aunt Winnie or eat their lima beans. Author Patricia Marx and illustrator Roz Chast prove with hilarity that anyone can have the staff they need, if they have enough imagination. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Meet the Dullards is a clever and irreverent picture book about a comically boring family, from bestselling author Sara Pennypacker and illustrator Daniel Salmieri. Their home is boring. Their food is plain. Their lives are monotonous. And Mr. and Mrs. Dullard like it that way.But their children--Blanda, Borely, and Little Dud--have other ideas. . . .Never has dullness been so hilarious than in this deadpan, subversive tale.
Hardcover. New York, NY, Balzer + Bray, HarperCollins, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Extensive color illustrations throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. A brief survey of life in five North American Indian tribes--Makah, Hopi, Creek, Penobscot, and Mandan--at the time Columbus arrived in the New World. Nice 2-color drawings by Mad artist Jack Davis. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Honolulu, Tongg Publishing, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with a color pictorial paste-down on the front cover. 48 pages, color illustrations by Cornelia MacIntyre Foley. True first edition of 1940 from original Hawaiian publisher (the 1952 reissue is often mistakenly identified as the first). A little Hawaiian girl explores the crater of Kilauea in search of the legendary Madame Pele the Fire Goddess; she meets a mysterious old woman living in The Green Cottage (Madame Pele herself??) who gives her a basket of flowers. Some discoloration to the maroon cloth on front, inscription on front endpaper, light bump to top corner.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. This is a pictorial memoir of Melisande, a most uncommon dog who becomes a famous opera singer. B&w cartoon illustrations by Roy McKie. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday Company, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 245 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket with heavy chipping and wear. B&w illustrations by Paul Brown. Worn edges to cover. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 272 pages. Black & white illustrations and frontispiece with tissue-guard by F. Y Cory. Spine slightly cocked. Soiling to covers. Light rubbing to spine, corners.
Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a chipped, worn dust jacket, 93 pages illustrated in b&w by Richard Erdoes. Written By the well-known raconteur who was often seen on Jack Paar's Tonight Show. The tale is narrated by Pinky Whiskereeno, a laboratory mouse who's suddenly lured into the wild open world. Large child's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. London, Pavilion, 1st combined ed., 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY FOREMAN on bookplate opposite title-page - #772/5000. Combines Foreman's stories War Boy and After the War was Over. Color illustrations by Foreman. Minor rubbing to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 2nd pr., 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket illustrated by Charles Mikolaycak. 139 pages.
Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket illustrated by Charles Mikolaycak. 139 pages.
Hardcover. NY, Morrow Junior Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Diane de Groat. Nice condition: clean and new-looking.
Softcover. US, Platt & Munk, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover with light to minor wear to paper wrappers. Illustrated by H. Cady. Previous owner's markings on some pages.
Hardcover. Paris, Les Editions du Cerf, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Boards. Illustrated in color by D'ingrid Vang Nyman. Text in French.
Hardcover. NY, Harpercollins;, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. An illustrated edition of the libretto for Handel's popular choral work, color plates by Barry Moser.
Hardcover. New York, Michael Di Capua Books/HarperCollins Publishers, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Covers and dust jacket color illustrated, large, beautiful color illustration by Sendak throughout. Covers, dust jacket and pages clean, crisp and tight, spine stiff and tight, no signs of wear: a lovely children's book in excellent condition.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st illustrated thus, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 365 pages. Edited by Virginia Kirkus. Black & white illustrations and color frontispiece by Henry C. Pitz. Corners bumped. Spine and corners rubbed. Spine faded. Soiling to covers. Gutter cracked on pg 177 and 272.