children illustrated

Hardcover. NY, J.B. Lippincott Company, 2nd pr., 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 349 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. B&w illustrations by Mary Shepard. Moderate wear to edges.

Hardcover. San Diego and New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Jane Dyer. Nice, clean condition. Hardbound, dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Laurie Berkner's treasured song "Pillowland" is now a beautiful picture book! Featuring magical, lush art by Camille Garoche, Pillowland carries readers away to a feather-fluffed dream world where bedtime is always a grand adventure. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, color illustrations by Sis.

Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne and Company, 1st, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in lightly soiled and worn cloth covers. Profusely illustrated by the author with color and black & white pictures. A delightful book about Pindi Poo, a black dachshund puppy & her friend Puddle, a bull terrier. Inscription on front fly leaf otherwise clean inside. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light pink cloth soiled, worn, 251 pages, B&w illustrations by Nancy Bankart Gurney. Interior clean and bright. The tales and adventures of Toby Tottel. An interwoven series of adventures very much of the "fantastical" and colorful, there are more colors than the pink the title mentions and much more wordplay. Visit the island of Purganda, Hedgehog Market, The Magical Forester, The Sinful Miller, etc.

Hardcover. New York, DialBooks, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 340 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY STEVEN KELLOGG WITH ILLUSTRATION ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Dust jacket shows light rubbing. Cover boards show light edgewear, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Dial Books or Young Readers, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY KELLOGG WITH ILLUSTRATION ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Tight copy. Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace & World, 1958, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with a spine label, 192 pages, b&w drawings by Edward Ardizzone. Ex-lib with stamping, mild residue to endpapers.

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY SMITH WITH QUICK SKETCH OF PINOCCHIO. Covers and dust jacket compelely illustrated, beautiful full-page color illustrations by Smith. Spine stiff and tight, dust jacket, covers and pages clean, crisp and unmarked; a beautiful book in excellent condition.

Hardcover. Boston, Jordan, Marsh & Co., 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, floral decorated cloth with a blue cloth spine design in gilt with a smiling Pinocchio. An early appearance of Pinocchio in English. Translated from the Italian with an Introduction by Hezekiah Butterworth. This is the first pirated edition. A second printing the following year (1899) had 4 color plates. This edition with Enrico Mazzanti's black-and-white in-text illustrations, not credited. 212 pages, bright, sharp condition.

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y Crowell, 1st thus, 1909, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, mustard cloth with 3-color decoration to cover, 181 pages. Eight 2-color illustrations, plus illustrated title page, artist not credited. Covers worn, spine faded, hinges cracked, name on front fly leaf. Contents clean. Uncommon edition.

NY, Burt/Blue Ribbon Books, reprint, circa 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, light green cloth with gilt & black decorated cover and spine labels. 258 pages. Four color plates by Charles Folkard, many b&w text drawings (not credited). Dust jacket chipped and worn. states translation by May M. Sweet, but title page gives M. A. Murray as translator. The mischievous adventures of an animated marionette named Pinocchio and his father, a poor woodcarver named Geppetto. It is considered a canonical piece of children's literature and has inspired hundreds of new editions, stage plays, merchandising and movies, such as Walt Disney's iconic animated version and commonplace ideas such as a liar's long nose. No markings.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards. Color illustrations by Lane Smith. Having been asleep when he was magically transformed into a boy, Pinocchio awakes to find that no one, not even his father, Geppetto, recognizes him now that he is not a puppet and so must now figure out how to live life as a real boy on his own.

Hardcover. Boston/New York, Books Inc, 1st thus, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, brown boards stamped in black, 252 pages. Charming and unusual b&w drawings by Louise Beaujon. Dust jacket worn, tape repaired on reverse.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st thus, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Adapted by Allen Chaffee, illustrated by Lois Lenski. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, dust jacket edge wear and small tears along spine edge, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Mild musty odor.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Victor G. Ambrus. Bright, clean copy in an unclipped dust jacket.

New York, Julian Messner Inc., 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardbound in a damaged dust jacket. Previous owner's signature back of front endpaper. Soiling to endpapers, covers. Waterstains to covers. Spine wear. Dust jacket with large chunk missing from top of spine and back cover. Pinto Goodluck, a little Indian boy, lived with his mother, his grandfather and his burro, Ambrosio. His grandfather made beautiful jewelry from silver and turquoise. Then the Great War came and all the young men went away and the turquoise mines were closed. Grandfather knew of a secret mine but it was a long way off and the journey was full of danger. How Pinto found the secret mine and brought home the turquoise is an absorbing adventure story beautifully illustrated in b/w and color by Bronson.

Hardcover. Boston , Lothrop Publishing, 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, turquoise cloth stamped in red and gilt, 306 pages. Twelve b&w illustrations by Maria L. Kirk. Frontispiece piece protected by tissue guard. Unusually bright, clean copy. Light cornerwear to cover.

Hardcover. Springfield MA, Milton Bradley Co., 1st, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in worn, frayed black cloth with yellow lettering. The best reason to buy this book are the 12 bright color plates by Riesenberg. They include The Explorers Lewis & Clarke, The Pioneer Daniel Boone, The Trapper Kit Carson, The Riverboat Pilot Mark Twain right up to The Aviator Charles Lindbergh. Internally clean, very good, the outside, not so much.

Hardcover. NY, Rinehart & Co., 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with black lettering. SIGNED BY DEAN on the half-title page. 246 pages, a adventure story featuring pirates by this Vermont author. Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead & Comapny, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 213 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket has moderate chipping and tears. Clean and tight internally. Illustrated by Marc Simont. A story of 1939 New York, climaxing with a race between a steam engine and a team of horses, with appearances by Walt Whitman, Horace Greeley, Peter Cooper, Samuel Morse, and other luminaries of the age.

Hardcover. New York, Putnam, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 28 pages. Color illustrations by author. Dust jacket has a large tear at spine. Based on the history and legend of Grania O'Malley.

Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 64 pages illustrated by Wallace Tripp with sepia drawings. Dust jacket with light edgewear, closed tears. Library edition, NOT ex-lib.