children illustrated

Hardcover. NY, HarperFestival, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. 13 pages. Paper-engineered with all lift-flaps undamaged. A romp among spooky friends on the way to finding Dracula on his birthday. Color illustrations by Jonathan Lambert. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, 1st, 2014-09-16, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A wordless picture book celebrates the power of art and imagination. A little boy reads about Africa and then creates his own adventures with his pencils and paints. Wordless books require readers to slow down and read the pictures, and careful children will see beyond the main storyline by looking at the whole illustration. Why is the boy in bed and not outside? The inhaler and bottle of medicine on the side table are hints. But binoculars and an umbrella on the other side of the table tell them that he is not always bedridden. As he draws, he falls deeply into the rich world of his imaginary Africa. First he draws an elephant, and then he rides away on it. He paints zebras, has a sandwich for lunch, records a giraffe stampede and shares one of his many other sandwiches with the gorillas. After a hair-raising encounter with an aggressive rhino, the little artist shares his pencils and food with other primates, who return the favor and sketch him. Colon's signature scratched-watercolor technique adds richness and emotion to this warm story, but it's the framing scenes at beginning and end that really sparkle here. Simple line-and-color washes put the young man at the center of the story and help readers identify with him.

Hardcover. NY, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 64 pages. Allen Say's own story of his path to becoming the renowned artist he is today. Shunned by his father, who didn't understand his son's artistic leanings, Allen was embraced by Noro Shinpei, Japan's leading cartoonist and the man he came to love as his "spiritual father." As WWII raged, Allen was further inspired to consider questions of his own heritage and the motivations of those around him. He worked hard in rigorous drawing classes, studied, trained--and ultimately came to understand who he really is. Part memoir, part graphic novel, part narrative history, DRAWING FROM MEMORY presents a complex look at the real-life relationship between a mentor and his student. With watercolor paintings, original cartoons, vintage photographs, and maps, Allen Say has created a book that will inspire the artist in all of us.

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st US, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 217 pages. Black & white line drawings by Shepard. Black & white photo on frontispiece. Blue cloth binding with gold spine lettering. English artist Shepard's (1879-1976) life story from 1890 on, a sequel to Drawn from Memory. The famed illustrator of the Winnie-the-Poo stories tells his story, with many vignettes of Milne and his books. Clean, bright copy, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Williams Collins , 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 95 pages. Generously illustrated in color and black and white. Yellow endpapers and chronological list of Tudor's books. Good tight copy. Loving portrait of her mother by the beloved children's book illustrator's daughter offered in words, intimate family photographs, paintings, illustrations, & drawings from across their lives together in the New England countryside.

Hardcover. New York, Williams Collins , 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 95 pages. Generously illustrated in color and black and white. Yellow endpapers and chronological list of Tudor's books. Good tight copy. Loving portrait of her mother by the beloved children's book illustrator's daughter offered in words, intimate family photographs, paintings, illustrations, & drawings from across their lives together in the New England countryside.

Hardcover. Cleveland, Collins, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 96 pages. Illustrated with full color photographs and art by Tasha Tudor. Dust jacket worn with Short closed tears along edges - dust jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 223 pages, 250 color illustrations. Betsy Beinecke Shirley, one of the great collectors of American children's literature, gathered a peerless collection of books, original illustrations, manuscripts, and ephemera. This gorgeously illustrated book presents over 200 selected original artworks from the enchanting collection she bequeathed to the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University. Artists whose works are represented include many beloved favorites, among them Ludwig Bemelmans, Maurice Sendak, A. B. Frost, Wanda Gag, Peter Newell, N. C. Wyeth, Tony Sarg, Robert Lawson, and Johnny Gruelle. From variant illustrations for Goodnight Moon and Where the Wild Things Are to little-known sketches for nineteenth-century periodicals that delighted generations of children.

Softcover. London, J.M. Dent, 1st wraps, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illustrations by Roberta F.C. Waudby. 28 pages. Blue paper covers with light wear. Fade to spine area and rear wrapper.

Hardcover. New Hampshire, Bunker Hill Publishing, Inc., 1st Edition, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 36 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Black cover boards, red title on spine. Pages unmarked. Binding tight. Spine straight. In beautiful condition. A proper and modern Norse saga, written with all the power of Melville and Hemingway and a true story now retold in the ageless rhythms of blank verse, as irresistible as the beautiful and specially commissioned woodcuts of Mary Azarian.

Hardcover. New Hampshire, Bunker Hill Publishing, Inc., 1st Edition, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 36 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Black cover boards, red title on spine. Pages unmarked. Binding tight. Spine straight. In beautiful condition. A proper and modern Norse saga, written with all the power of Melville and Hemingway and a true story now retold in the ageless rhythms of blank verse, as irresistible as the beautiful and specially commissioned woodcuts of Mary Azarian.

Hardcover. NY, Collins, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 80 pages. Color illustrations by Michael Hague. For a penny a dream, the old blind Dream Weaver weaves dreams for seven sets of passers-by. Here are seven compelling fantasies to haunt the memory and stir the imagination. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Blue Sky, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY MOSER on title-page. Color illustrations by Barry Moser.

Hardcover. Boston, Lee and Shepard, reprint, 1881, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Many wonderful black & white engravings. Green cloth with bright gilt & black decoration. 372 pages.Rear cover has a half-dollar size spot of soil, otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1st, 1881, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial printed paper on the boards show some edge wear in the form of chipping and rubbing, 372 pages. Over 150 black & white engravings. Bottom front corner chipped, other wise a sound copy.

NY, Pantheon , 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&W Illustrations by Antony Maitland, 186 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket, Mylar dust jacket cover. 'As far as the eye can see, scarlet men are marching . . . A rich and splendid company, but none more so than the drummer boy.' But a moment later, the sound of Charlie Samson's drum was swallowed in a wild thunder. The glorious scarlet troops had been ambushed. Men were dead and dying all around, and all the beauty was gone. All that was left was himself and his drum, and a few shady nightwalkers - cowards who came crawling from the ditches and knaves who scoured the dead for wealth . . .

NY, Pantheon , 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&W Illustrations by Antony Maitland, 186 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket.Remainder line to fore-edge. 'As far as the eye can see, scarlet men are marching . . . A rich and splendid company, but none more so than the drummer boy.' But a moment later, the sound of Charlie Samson's drum was swallowed in a wild thunder. The glorious scarlet troops had been ambushed. Men were dead and dying all around, and all the beauty was gone. All that was left was himself and his drum, and a few shady nightwalkers - cowards who came crawling from the ditches and knaves who scoured the dead for wealth . . .

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 409 pages, a classic novel of the American Revolution. 14 color plates plus title page, 47 pen line drawings by N.C. Wyeth. The definitive edition of the Scribner's Illustrated Classic with the original canvases newly photographed. While not a First Edition it is superior in every way considering the quality of the color plates. Bright, clean copy in a similar dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st thus, 1928, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, black cloth with pictorial label on front cover, 409 pages. 14 color plates, color title page and endpaper illustration and b&w pen drawings by N.C. Wyeth. Previous owner's inscription on blank prelim page, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st Ed., 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with color label on front cover. 14 color plates, pen drawings, endpapers design by N.C. Wyeth. Cover with some rubbing and scratches, overall very good.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 409 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket, pictorial paste-down on cover. Previous owner's bookplate and inscription on front fly leaf. Tight copy. Color illustrations by N.C. Wyeth.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Illustrated in b&w and three-colors by Edward Sorel. Illustrated library cloth binding, dust jacket with light edgewear, soil, publisher's library edition sticker. (NOT ex-library). Internally clean and tight.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Strauss Grioux, 2nd pr., 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. A Cornish folk tale. Color illustrations by Margot Zemach. Mild edgewear to dj. 1974 Caldecott Medal Winner.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound. Color illustrations by Rosemary Wells. Her second book. Dust jacket with closed tears, rubbing, sticker residue to front cover. Brodart cover.