Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st illust thus, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in blue with prince on flying carpet on front, Black & white illustrations by Robert Lawson, 110 pages. Some wear and soiling to cover, but internally mostly clean. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Four Winds Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth covers with pink lettering. Lacks dust jacket. 32 pages illustrated in color by Gerstein. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume 10. Hardcover, 112 pages. Illustrated throughout in color. Clean, tight copy. This tenth volume finds our band of heroes making their way back to the Kingdom of Thule by way of Constantinople and Eastern Russia. Soon they are attacked by a tribe of barbarians who kidnap Aleta for the great Dragada Khan who wants to make her one of his wives. After nearly being killed in battle, Valiant returns to his homeland only to find the threat of hunger hovers over Thule. As Val explores new ways of feeding the kingdom's growing populace, raiders threaten the lives of his family and friends. The volume ends with Val's return to Camelot, a tournament of champions, and the threat of new treachery in Cornwall. This volume also includes an introduction by legendary comics artist Timothy Truman, and a special gallery containing more of Hal Foster's incredible Mountie paintings annotated by comics historian Brian M. Kane.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset and Dunlap, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 40 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Helen Sewell. Dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, rubbing and soil.
Hardcover. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 113 Pages. White cloth beautifully decorated in pale green and gilt to front cover. Pale green end papers. 10 tipped-in paper-guarded richly colored plates by Edmund Dulac. A tale from The Arabian Nights retold by Housman. Spine and corners bumped. Cloth is slightly grubby and the spine is a little bit browned. Previous owner's name on front end paper, previous owner's sticker on rear end paper. Light wood smoke odor. Tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st, N.D., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. White lightly soiled covers with blue and silver lettering. Light foxing on piliminary pages. Featuring stories and poems by the likes of J.M. Barrie, Algernon Blackwood, and Rudyard Kipling, & illustrations by Walt Disney Studio, Paul Bloomfield, A.P. Payne, Sylvia Salisbury, A.H. Watson, H.S. Foxwell, etc, this book was printed as part of a charitable drive for the Princess Elizabeth (now Queen Elizabeth II) of York Hospital For Children
Hardcover. Chicago, P.F. Volland Company, 1st, 1918, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Spine shows heavy wear, chipping and tearing with exposed cardboard under fabric. Light musty odor. Clean internally. Color illustrations by Rachael Robinson Elmer.
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Anita Lobel. Dust jacket price clipped. Light fade to spine. Once upon a time a cruel King decided to betroth his motherless daughter to an Ogre in exchange for fifty wagons filled with silver. When the Princess learns what her father has done, she is horrified. But she is as clever as she is beautiful. Quickly, the Princess devises a plan to escape and, relying on her own spunk and good sense, ultimately marries the man she chooses for herself.
Hardcover. NY, Schwartz & Wade, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by illustrator Lane Smith. Bestselling Caldecott Honor artist Lane Smith and legendary author Florence Parry Heide have teamed up to create an unforgettable princess sure to charm and delight young readers. Princess Hyacinth has a problem: she floats. And so the king and queen have pebbles sewn into the tops of her socks, and force her to wear a crown encrusted with the heaviest jewels in the kingdom to keep her earthbound. But one day, Hyacinth comes across a balloon man and decides to take off all her princess clothes, grab a balloon, and float free. Hooray! Alas, when the balloon man lets go of the string . . . off she goes. Luckily, there is a kite and a boy named Boy to save her.
Hardcover. Philadelphia , Penn Publishing, Reprint , 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 306 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. 9 color plates By George Wharton Edwards, first published with these Illustrations in 1916. This is a very bright and attractive copy. Illustrated cover label, gilt decorated blue cloth. previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Small bump on rear fore edge.
Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st Thus, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Richard C. Jones. Introduction by Jan Morris. Afterword By Samuel J. Rogal
Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st thus, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Richard C. Jones. Introduction by Jan Morris. Afterword By Samuel J. Rogal.
Hardcover. Boston, J.E.Tilton & Co., Rep., 1863, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. (C) page states 1869. 261 pages. Red cloth with gilt illustration on spine. NIce copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Company, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 134 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color photographs throughout. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1st , 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 62 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white illustrations by Emily McCully. Dust jacket with small piece gone from top on rear panel. Review slip laid in. Small chunk missing from dust jacket rear by spine.
Hardcover. New York, Philomel Books, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light wear and creasing to dust jacket. Illustrations by author.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Alongside more than 172 of his drawings, cartoons, and caricatures--and in prose as spirited and wickedly pointed as his artwork--Edward Sorel gives us an unforgettable self-portrait: his poor Depression-era childhood in the Bronx (surrounded by loving Romanian immigrant grandparents and a clan of mostly left-leaning aunts and uncles); his first stabs at drawing when pneumonia kept him out of school at age eight; his time as a student at New York's famed High School of Music and Art; the scrappy early days of Push Pin Studios, founded with fellow Cooper Union alums Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast, which became the hottest design group of the 1960s; his two marriages and four children; and his many friends in New York's art and literary circles.
Hardcover. New York, Universal Budget Systems, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations by Erika throughout. Decorated cover boards. Boards have a touch of agewear (see images). Pages are slighted tanned from age. Previous owner's inscription on title page.
Hardcover. NY, Century Co., Revised from 1894 ed., 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 257 pages. Illustrated with black & white drawings by George Wharton Edwards. Missing front endpaper. Illustrated front cover. Soil, spotting to binding.
New York , Knopf, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 275 pages. B&W illustrations by Sydney E. Fletcher. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman & Co., 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages. Hardcover. Full color and black & white illustrations by Carol Nay. Some light library stamping and notation - endpapers and at bottom right corner of page 25. Light wear. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. NY, Enchanted Lion Books, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Drawn from life, Arthur Geisert's Pumpkin Island is the fantastical story of a real life town brought to a halt by a profusion of pumpkins. Elkader, Iowa, is the perfect picture of small town life that is, until the pumpkins arrive. One pumpkin? Fine. Two pumpkins? Okay. But with pumpkins growing around every street corner, and over every building, what's a town to do? Clean copy.