children illustrated

Hardcover. NY, Parents' Magazine Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 40 pages illustrated in color by Tom Vroman. It was bedtime. Chris and his father sat down side by side on Chris's bed. They talked of Chris's friend Alexander, the red horse with green stripes. "Alexander was a pretty bad horse today," Chris said. "He wouldn't eat his cereal. He wouldn't sit up at the table and he spilled his milk." "That's too bad," said Chris's father. "What else happened?" The ensuing conversation of Alexander's bad day makes for an entertaining read, along with its priceless ending. Mild shelfwear. name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

NY, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1st US, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial boards, color illustrations by Hughes. Hoping that a surprise birthday party will help to cheer up neighbor and store owner Mr. MacNally, Alfie plans an additional, extra-special surprise and fears he cannot keep his plans a secret.

Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman & Co/Special Ed for Scott Foresman, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 32 pages illustrated in color and b&w by Judith Roth. Charming children's story of a boy named Henry and his large Irish Setter named Alfred. Complete with a 33 1/3 rpm record in rear pocket. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Eleven stories of suspense illustrated by Arthur Shilstone, 208 pages. Collected are the following: The Day the Children Vanished by Hugh Pentecost, Through a Dead Man's Eye by Cornell Woolrich, The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim by Agatha Christie, Green Ice by Stuart Palmer, The Grave Grass Quivers by MacKinlay Kantor, The Case of the Irate Witness by Erle Stanley Gardner, Adventure of the Grice-Paterson Curse by August Derleth, The Headmaster by Michael Gilbert, The Adventureof the Seven Black Cats by Ellery Queen, The Wicked Cousin by Leslie Charteris, The Footprint in the Sky by John Dickson Carr. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow Books, BC Ed., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth. 32 pages illustrated in color by Chess. As he encounters animals from A to Z, Alfred learns the letters of the alphabet. Book Club edition, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ted Lewin. The survival adventure tale gets a desert setting in this picture book about a boy lost in the Sahara. Author and artist have traveled in the area, and they tell the story of sizzling sun and lonely darkness in realistic detail. Lewin's watercolor paintings are rich with story.

Softcover. Paris, DIANE SELLIERS, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover, in a pictorial dust wrapper, 395 pages. Color illustrations by Pat Andrea give a whole new surrealistic look to the classic tales. FRENCH TEXT.

Hardcover. New York/London, North-South Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 103 pages, illustrated in color by Lizbeth Zwerger and SIGNED BY HER on title page.

New York/London, North-South Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 103 pages, illustrated in color by Lizbeth Zwerger and SIGNED BY HER on title page.

Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st Edition, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 110 pages. Hardcover. Clear, transparent, decorated dust jacket, has some scratches to front cover. Decorated cover boards. Vivid color illustrations throughout. Beautiful condition, pages clean. Binding good. Spine straight.

Hardcover. New York, Blue Sky Press/Scholastic, Inc., 1st, 2004, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, SIGNED BY DAVID SHANNON ON TITLE PAGE. Acetate-protected dust jacket, gorgeous full page color illustrations. No sign of wear, spine stiff and tight, dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in excellent condition.

Hardcover. London, Whizzard Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket depicting Alice stretching to put an envelope into a red cast iron Victorian postal box, illustrated with philatelic color images (stamps and covers mainly) relating to Alice by Tenniel, pictorial end-papers with B&W images of Lewis Carroll & Sir John Tenniel, 48 pages. An unusual reprise of postal images relating to Tenniel's classic illustrations of Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass. Bookplate on dedication page, otherwise clean.

hardcover. NY, Coward McCann & Geoghagan, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Sepia-toned illustrations by Stephen Gammell. Dust jacket with edgewear, closed tears.

Hardcover. Mineola NY, Calla/Dover Books, reprint, 2011, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, 247 pages. The "Alice" stories have always been a favorite topic for illustrators. Amongst the dozens of illustrated editions of Alice published over the years, Harry Rountree's contribution may be the most remarkable. Luxuriously illustrated with 92 watercolors, many of which are full page, with the others carefully placed with textual wraparound, this is a marvelous evocation of Carroll's madcap world. Rountree's career as an illustrator was short lived, but this, along with his Aesop's Fables, are acknowledged masterpieces. The enduring popularity of all things Alice makes this both a timely and timeless edition.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY BROWNE on the front endpaper. First edition with Browne's illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Little Simon, 5th, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, unpaginated. Hardcover no dust jacket. This masterpiece of 3-D Paper Engineering by Sabuda has all parts and pieces working smoothly. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear cover boards.

Hardcover. New York , Puffin Books, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 171 pages. Extensive color illustrations throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st illustrated thus., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 117 pages. Color illustrations by Anthony Browne. Blue dust jacket shows very little wear.

Hardcover. New York, Dodge Publishing Company, Reprint, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 164 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Deckled fore-edge. Tanning to pages and edges from age. Blue cloth bound cover boards, two-color illustration on front cover board, a good deal of paint has chipped off (see image), white title on spine, slightly faded. Some soil/wear to covers. A bump to front right bottom corner of cover board (see image). In beautiful condition inside, no pages missing, page 84 is partially disconnected. Illustrations by Bessie Pease Gutman) quite vivid.

Hardcover. NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by author. Alice tells her mother about her special room, where she can play with her cat who died, enjoy the warm beach in January, go sledding on a hot summer day, and do anything she has already done in the past.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by the author. Pictorial boards, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston Company, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black. 117 pages, b&w illustrations by Tony Sarg, Stories of David and his friends having fun during the summer in a small town, Book has mild shelfwear.

Hardcover. New York , E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 88 pages, illustrated with b&w photographs, gray cloth covers with black lettering. Review slip laid in. Mark from paper clip no longer present. Otherwise clean, very good.