Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated cardboard covers, illustrated throughout in color by Byrd, 48 pages. Famous in his time as a painter, prankster, and philosopher, Leonardo da Vinci was also a musician, sculptor, and engineer for dukes, popes, and kings. What remains of his work-from futuristic designs and scientific inquiry to artwork of ethereal beauty-reveals the ambitious, unpredictable brilliance of a visionary, and a timeless dreamer.Robert Byrd celebrates this passionate, playful genius in a glowing picture book replete with the richness and imagination of Leonardo's own notebooks. Twenty lavish spreads, including side drawings, supplemental texts, and quotes from Leonardo's writings, highlight distinct periods and make the master's art, jokes, explorations, and inventions wonderfully vivid and accessible. A striking tribute to an irrepressible mind and to the potential within all who are curious.
Hardcover. Geneva, De Vente Naville & Co., Deluxe Edition, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Deluxe Edition, limited to 400. 576 pages crammed with 1001 detailed photogravure views of Switzerland. Introduction by B. Motta. 3/4 brown morocco with raised bands on spine, gilt lettering. top edge gilt , previous owner's signature on front fly leaf (Children's book author, Edith Hurd Thacher)
Hardcover. Paris, Hachette, 1st, 1936, Hardcover Copyright page date of 1936. Printed by Buttner, Saint-Ouen. Large format edition. 40 pages. Book in very good condition. Original Pictorial boards with Ivory cloth spine. Pages in nice condition with bright colors, French text in calligraphy. Charming large color art on almost every page to accompany the story. Yellow endpapers illustrated with a long chain of gray elephants. Title page illustrated with vignette of a monkey family sitting at their dinner table. Some wear to edge of boards, especially corners. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf, some spotting to rear cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Georgia University Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 30 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.SIGNED BY LOPEZ on half title-page. Color illustrations by Tom Pohrt.
Hardcover. New York, Georgia University Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 30 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. SIGNED BY LOPEZ on title-page. Color illustrations by Tom Pohrt.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover picture book, pictorial laminated boards. The Biblical creation story, retold and illustrated in color by Baynes. Clean.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1962, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 96 pages illustrated in b&w by Lobel. Introduces various aspects of Indian life through such handicraft projects as masks, corn-husk dolls, and a tepee. Ex-lib with light stamping, residue to rear inside cover, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. Book is very good, blue boards stamped in black. Lovely b&w photos by the author illustrate this volume celebrating the wildlife found in a brook. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Delacorte Press, 1st US, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by the Sandbergs. Glazed boards with red cloth spine. Originally published in Sweden in 1973. Corners of boards show wear, otherwise clean, very good. No dust jacket.
Grand Rapids, The Fideler Company, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 128 pages, endpapers map. Illustrated with black & white photographs.Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 28 pages, illustrated in b&w and color by Lenski. Blue cloth spine over illustrated boards. Light bookplate residue to blank page otherwise clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. UK, Frederick Warne, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 240 pages. Profusely illustrated in black and white and color . Charming collection of personal letters written by beloved author Beatrix Potter. The collection begins with an 1893 letter to a young friend, Noel Moore, when the youngster was ill; Potter would go on to write many letters, most often to children (particularly to the family of her former governess, Annie Moore), told funny anecdotes about her pets and her holidays, and copiously illustrated them with witty drawings. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Illustrated and designed by Don Bolognese and Elaine Raphael. Ex-library with light marking, residue to endpapers. An epistolary narrative of the musical prodigy's first year in Italy, composed from his detail-laden letters to his younger sister Nannerl. Although the letters themselves are fictional they are based on detailed research and on the hundreds of letters which Mozart and his father both wrote home during their trip. A map of the trip is also included as well as a little biography on some of the main characters.
Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 264 pages, still in publisher's shrinkwrap. Lewis Carroll began photographing children in the mid-nineteenth century, at a time when the young medium of photography was opening up new possibilities for visual representation and the notion of childhood itself was in transition. In this lavishly illustrated book, Diane Waggoner offers the first comprehensive account of Carroll as a photographer of modern childhood, exploring how his photographs of children gave visual form to emerging conceptions of childhood in the Victorian age. Situating Carroll's photography within the broader context of Victorian visual and social culture, Waggoner shows how he drew on images of childhood in painting and other media, and engaged with the visual language of the Victorian theater, fancy dress, and Pre-Raphaelitism. She provides the first in-depth analysis of Carroll's photographing of boys, which she examines in the context of boys' education and reveals to be a significant part of his photographic career. Waggoner draws on a wealth of rare archival material, demonstrating how Carroll established new aesthetic norms for images of girls, engaged with evolving definitions of masculinity, and pushed the idea of childhood to the limit with his use of dress and nude images
New York, Viking Press, 1st ed, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. Edgewear and wrinkling to covers. Dust jacket with chipping, rubbing, closed tear to front.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 48 pages, color illustrations by Kevin Hawkes, very clean, tight copy, like new.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2nd printing, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated. TIPPED-IN BOOKPLATE ON FRONT ENDPAPER SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York , Henry Holt and Co., 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated in color by Gennady Spirin. SIGNED BY SPIRIN. The forest is a treasure trove of riches, but it's threatened by increased human development and climate changes. This gorgeous book teaches readers about the boreal forest and reminds them that it's up to us to make sure the beauty and bounty survive.
Hardcover. NY, Scribner's , 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Reynold Ruffins. A monthly listing with historical and present-day facts about certain holidays mixes fancy with fact in noting all special occasions.
Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton , 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 62 pages. Color illustrations by Symeon Shimin. Very light edgewear to dust jacket spine and cover corners. Price-clipped. Otherwise very good.
Hardcover. Kansas City, MO, Tell-Well Press, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Nonpaginated. Hardcover. Decorated endpapers. Vivid color illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, has some age wear, still intact and wrapped in protective brodart. Cover boards decorated with same image as dust jacket. Covers have a little soil a top and age wear. Clean inside and in great shape for its age.
Hardcover. NY, Blue Apple Books, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, SIGNED by illustrator Kreloff and performer Brian Stokes Mitchell on CD. Tony Award winner and Broadway icon, Mitchell, brings star power to this Broadway treasury. With entries such as "audition," "box office," "marquee," and "understudy," kids will discover Broadway from A to Z. Elliot Kreloff's energetic and dynamic illustrations come from someone who clearly knows theater from first-hand experiences.