children illustrated

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers stamped with black lettering. Illustrated with b&w photographs and drawings. Fine text for children on the principles of democracy. First printing with "I" on copyright page. "Review Copy" stamped on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Arcade, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Introduction by Michael Patrick Hearn, Reprints 6 of Denslow's early picture books in one volume. Tight copy.

NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white illustrations by Leon Vermeulen. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping. A tale set in Soth Africa. With his mother and father staying in the village near the copper mine to await the family's new baby, Seth decides that rather than remaining at home with his grandfather he will cross the Kuiseb Canyon alone to join them.

Hardcover. NY, Platt & Munk, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 30 pages illustrated in color by Wiseman. Someone is stealing Sam Squirrel's nuts. Bloodhound Detective is on the case. Cute juvenile mystery told in rhyme. Clean copy.

New York, Harper & Row , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardbound in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Wood. Dust jacket with light edgewear. The great Detective Valentine has his work cut out for him when the snow queen's crown is stolen two days before the contest and the mayor's wife, a famous actress, and the detective's good friend are all suspects.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Arnold Lobel. Dust jacket shows very minor wear. Hardbound. When Lucifer hears that Mother Crump is "meaner than the devil", he pays her a visit to find out himself. And sure enough, she out-deviled him! Even when she dies, and he won't let her into his domain, Mother Crump manages to best the devil one last time.

Hardcover. New York, Henry Z. Walck, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 61 pages. Cloth boards. Two color Illustrations by Hogner. Dust jacket has minor chipping along edges and all corners clipped. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Joy Street/ Little Brown , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by the author. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nice color illustrations by Goode. Stories compiled by Ann Durell. Great condition, clean and new-looking. Hardcover, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton , 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 64 pages illustrated in color by Diane Goode. Selections include: Buffalo Gal, Clementine, I've Been Working. 17 selections in all. Musical arrangements included. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Joanna Cotler /HarperCollins, 5th pr., 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR on title page. Summary of the story: "A young worm discovers, day by day, that there are some very good and some not so good things about being a worm in this great big world". Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hard cover. Black & white and two-tone illustrations by Babbitt. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping, some foxing. Clear plastic protective cover.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, BC Ed., 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, illustrate with 2-color linoleum cuts by Brown. Weekly Reader Book Club Ed. Name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Woodbridge, Suffolk, Antique Collectors Club Dist, rep, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 455 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1st illust. thus, 1930, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in yellow, 214 pages. This is a first printing of the edition with the two Gertrude Kay color plates, many b&w spot drawings and endpapers illustration. The original edition was published in 1882. A collection of stories and songs the author learned from growing up among slaves in the antebellum South. The green spine is faded otherwise a clean, sharp copy.

Hardcover. New York, Devin Adair, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 86 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR (Robert Frost's Daughter) on half title page. Heavy wear to edges. Dust jacket clipped. Dust jacket has heavy chipping on spine. Illlustrated by Robin Hudnut.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color cartoon illustrations by Lorenz. In glossy boards with mild spine fade. No dust jacket. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color and black & white illustrations by the Haders. Shows wear. Previous owner's signature front paste-down, some water damage to cover, edges and preliminary pages. Otherwise clean. Hardbound, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Hyperion Books for Children, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with matching dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 32 pages with illustrations by Garland. Colorful paintings inspired by Magritte complement the story of a young boys' escape from boredom to the house of his neighbors, Rene Magritte and his wife, and the world they share with Salvador Dali and other artists. The full-page oil paintings that tell the visual tale are based on the work of the 20th-century Belgian artist. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations by Kyrsten Brooker throughout. Illustrated endpapers and paste downs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a pristine dust jacket. Non-paginated. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR BRIAN SELZNICK ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Plattsburgh, NY, Tundra Books, 1st , 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Barry Moser. Clean, tight copy. Fragments of a handwritten letter have been discovered. Their author's name is Margaret, and in the letter she describes her memories of a summer of her girlhood long ago when the dippers came up from the Don River.It was 1912, and a summer full of odd happenings. The letter tells of Margaret's first encounter with her father, of her mother's worry that she might lose her job as a maid, and of her little sister's being overtaken by paralysis and disease. And, of course, there were the dippers moving up from the river to inhabit the neighbourhood - furry, ungainly, dog-like creatures with leathery wings - creatures unnerving but not dangerous, yet another fact of life to become adjusted to.

Hardcover. Plattsburgh, NY, Tundra Books, 1st , 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Barry Moser. Clean, tight copy. Fragments of a handwritten letter have been discovered. Their author's name is Margaret, and in the letter she describes her memories of a summer of her girlhood long ago when the dippers came up from the Don River.It was 1912, and a summer full of odd happenings. The letter tells of Margaret's first encounter with her father, of her mother's worry that she might lose her job as a maid, and of her little sister's being overtaken by paralysis and disease. And, of course, there were the dippers moving up from the river to inhabit the neighbourhood - furry, ungainly, dog-like creatures with leathery wings - creatures unnerving but not dangerous, yet another fact of life to become adjusted to.