children illustrated

hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt and black decoration. 315 pages, includes index. Descriptions of more than 400 games written in language that children can understand. Black & white illustrations by Jessie Gillespie. Light edgewear to covers.

Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman and Company, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with pictorial label on front cover. 13 full page plates by James Cannon. Horses depicted include The Hunter, Sheltand Pony, Cowboy and Pinto, American Saddle Horse and Policeman; Circus Horse and Bareback rider.

Hardcover. New York, Garden City Publishing, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 32 pages, color illustrations by Booth. Illustrated boards in an edge worn dust jacket with closed tears. Previous owner's markings on inside flap of dust jacket and front fly leaf.

Hardcover. Garden City, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover,192 pages. SIGNED BY MARGUERITE DE ANGELI ON TITLE PAGE. Light tan cloth covers, 16 full-page color plates, profusely illustrated with b&w illustrations. Mild rubbing and soiling to cloth covers, crease and faint erased-pencil marks to half-title page, otherwise page crisp and unmarked, tight binding. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, reprint, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 192 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated by Marguerite de Angeli in color and black & white. Dust jacket worn with small chunks missing at top and bottom of spine, and corners.

Hardcover. London, Hutchinson & Co., 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 279 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. 16 color plates, b&w drawings by H.M. Brock. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 155 pages, beautifully illustrated throughout by Michael Hague. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press , 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 158 pages. Illustrated with black & white drawings by T. Ritchie and N. Montgomerie. Dust jacket with spine fade. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, dust jacket. 32 pages illustrated in color by author. SIGNED BY LUCKE. Stories of adult bad behavior (and civil disobedience) throughout history done in a humorous vein. Colorful gouache paintings on each spread feature figures from Hannibal and Napoleon Bonaparte to Susan B. Anthony and Rosa Parks, in their "time-out" locations in jail or in exile.

Hardcover. NY, American Heritage Press, 1st , 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Two-color illustrations by Hilary Knight. Ex-lib with stamping on front endpaper, remains of label on back endpaper, spine.

Hardcover. NY, Bluesky/Scholastic, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Rylant. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , Atheneum, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 40 pages illustrated in color by Bagram Ibatoulline.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lippincott , 3rd, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 177 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w Illustrations by Lenski. Dust jacket w/small chips, light edgewear. Previous owner's sticker on bottom rear end paper.

Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, rep., 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. End paper map, color illustrations by Cyrus Leroy Baldridge, pictorial boards with light edgewear & chip (about 1/2") to top of spine.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 87 pages illustrated in b&w by Phongsun. In a lightly worn dust jacket with large wrinkle on top edge with tear to fore edge, closed tear on rear. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half-title page.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co., 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn and chipped dust jacket. Color frontis and 8 b&w plates by George and Doris Hauman. The story of Deborah Owens and her adventures during the War of 1812 in a small Vermont town near the Canadian border, 272 pages. Previous owner's inscription on half-title page. Light shelf wear. Uncommon title.

Hardcover. New York , Abelard-Schuman, reprint, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Light blue cloth cover, some wear to corners and edges. Many color illustrations throughout. A bright, clean copy. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, R & S Books, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. One evening when Boris is watching television, he notices that the picture looks blurry. The repairman who comes over tells him that the problem is not the television but, rather, Boris's eyesight. A trip to the eye doctor confirms the diagnosis - Boris is an astigmatic. How important this sounds! When he gets his glasses, a whole new world unveils itself to him. Boris decides to get a job with his "talent" and starts work at the radio factory as a foreman. However, nothing turns out as Boris expects in this sweet story enlivened by Olof Landstrom's sprightly cartoon-like illustrations.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 193 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Moderate wear to cover edges. Dust jacket has light wear, chipping.

hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st US, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illust. by Gary Kelley. Small hole in dust jacket spine. Short tear starting in gutter on title-page.

New York , Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 185 pages, b&w illustrations by Peter Spier, Bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf, note card from author also laid in.

Hardcover. Boston, Dana Estes & Co., 1st, 1900, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth stamped in green, red and blue. 112 pages with b&w drawings by Bridgeman and others. Small corner chips to 3 pages, name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1969, Hardcover, Updike's story adaptation from William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", set to music by Felix Mendelssohn. In turquoise cloth boards with gilt lettering at spine, illustration of Bottom surrounded by fairies stamped in red on front panel. Chappell's illustrations in both color and B&W. Previous owner's inscription on dedication page. Lacks dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Ars Edition, 1st US, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glazed boards. Approximately 5 3/4" x 4 3/4", 18 pages. English version by June Head. Eight brief poems written from the various points of view of eight different dogs. Austrian children's author and artist Ida Bohatta (sometimes published as Ida Bohatta-Morpurgo) produced quite a few of these miniature picture-books during the course of her long career (which began in the 1920s), each containing approximately eight poems, with eight accompanying color illustrations. Color illustrations in the style of Thornton Burgess. Clean copy.