children illustrated

Hardcover. London , Macmillan, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 268 pages, illustrated with facsimile drawings and 8 collotype plates. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Blue cloth spine faded.

Hardcover. Natick, MA, Picture Book Studio, 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Lisbeth Zwerger.

hardcover. Edinburgh, Floris Books, 1st illust. thus, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial glossy boards. Color illustrations by Katrien van der Grient. No dust jacket issued. Clean copy. The selfish giant drove the children out of his garden and built a high wall around it. Then the frost and the snow came, and after that it was always winter. Until one day the children crept back in through a hole in the wall.

Hardcover. NY, Hart Publishing, 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 56 pages. Two-color illustrations by Ronald Ferns. Previous owner's inscription on back of front endpaper. Dust jacket with light edgewear. Story of a cat and her kittens moving into a new town.

Hardcover. New York , Rinehart & Co, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 76 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&W illustrations by Christine White. dust jacket chipped, edgeworn, price clipped. Large chip off of top corner.

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 30 pages, hardcover. Illustrated in color by Bagram Ibatoulline. Very good condition with very good dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, New World Publishing Company, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 158 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Red cloth cover boards, blue title on spine and designs on front cover board. Dust jacket price clipped. Original bookstore price tag on dust jacket front flap, some agewear to dust jacket (see image).

London, Methuen/Walker, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy pictorial boards. Color illustrations by David Scott. Light edgewear to covers. No dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 236 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Front fly leaf missing. Illustrated by Harry H. Lees. Dust jacket shows light wear.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Pretty soft green covers stamped center front with an unnoticeable flower design. Gilt lettering on spine. Spine is sunned at both ends. A wonderful story of seven brothers who each use their special magic powers to win the hand of Helena of Boozan Island for their King. Beautifully and elegantly illustrated.

hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 24 pages with color illustrations by Ambrus. An old Hungarian folk tale.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards, no dust jacket. A little boy and his great-aunt live in the heart of Paris, and when the boy's uncles plan a visit, she sends little Emile to the market armed with a string bag, a cat and a series of rhymes to help him remember what to buy. Somewhere along the way, he gets mixed up and comedy ensues. Black & white and color wood block illustrations by the author. Clean, no markings.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan Publishing Co., 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Thomas Allen. A pioneer girl sees pieces of her life sewn into the quilts she, her sister and her mother make. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon Books, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Glazed pictorial boards, 47 pages. Black & white illustrations by Lillian Hoban. Darkening to spine. Light wear. Clean, tight copy. The Maple Street Club is putting on a play. But Seymour refuses to kiss the sleeping princess.

Hardcover. New York, Longmans Green & Co., 1st, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 268 pages, b&w illustrations by Henry Pitz. Red cloth covers with black decoration. Book shows light wear overall, spine faded, black spot on top edge. Scarce.

NY, Harper & Row, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 182 pages. Illustrated with black & white drawings by Maurice Sendak. Early edition. Ex-lib with stamped pocket on back endpaper. Paste remains on front and back paste-down endpapers, spine label. Dust jacket price clipped and bottom of front flap missing. Little Davie lavishes attention on his pet rabbit & saves him when the little animal disappears. Sensitive & riveting tale.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Laura Levine. Grammy promotional bookplate on front fly leaf otherwise VG, clean. Pinkerton's family decides he needs a friend, but is a cat named Rose really suitable? Clean copy.

Hardcover. MA, Candlewick Press, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrations by Juan Wijngaard. Pop-ups in excellent condition. Plays are meant to be seen, and this interactive book features a fold-out model of the Globe Theatre in its heyday, complete with stage, galleries, thatched roof, and spectators ready for a performance. Selected punch-out characters from 12 of Shakespeare's plays are included (and attached to a small cardboard handle to allow for easy manipulation), as are two removable scripts that include monologues and/or scenes in which the characters appear. The package also provides a booklet introducing the Wooden O and the state of the theatre in Elizabethan and Jacobean times as explained by Richard Burbage, leading actor of the King's Players. The well-constructed 10-inch model is made with a good-quality lightweight cardboard and is drawn to scale and filled with accurate architectural details.

Hardcover. London, Oxford, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Nice color illustrations by Hodges. Dust jacket shows minor wear, mostly clean. Hardbound.

San Diego, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Michael Paraskevas help chronicle the exciting journey of a small boy and two huge polka-dotted creatures across the desert of Nowhere Land, as they try to reach Stucco Chateau to join the Shamlanders' tango. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st thus, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 136 pages. Very good pictorial dust jacket in mylar. Illustrated with color plates by Wendell Minor. SIGNED BY WENDELL MINOR.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins Publishers, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Small hardcover with dust jacket. Color and black and white illustrations by Maurice Sendak. SIGNED BY SENDAK. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins Publishers, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color and black and white illustrations by Maurice Sendak. SIGNED BY SENDAK. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Robert M. McBride, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 217 pages. Hardcover with illustrated cover boards. What appears to be written on title page under author's name is "and Elizabeth Kent Tarshis" in black print letters. Black & white illustrations by Eloise Wilkin. Light foxing to copy throughout. Tight copy.