children illustrated

Hardcover. NY, Beginner Books/ Random House, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, laminated pictorial boards. This is the first "Babar" title (B-45) to be part of the Random House "Beginner Book" Series. Color illustrations by author. Lacks dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1st US, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with a green cloth spine with fraying to top and bottom. Decorative endpapers with lots of elephants against a marbled blue background, no dust jacket. Oversize, 14 1/2" tall. The 3rd Babar book. Babar and Celeste build a city for the elephants. Imaginative and rich color artwork throughout 48 pages with hand-lettered text. Covers with edges and corners worn, light soiling. Several pages with mild soil, stain to edges, margins. One page loose. No markings. Overall a good copy of the scarce first American edition.

Softcover. New York, Harry Abrams, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with matching dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Tight, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 30 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by de Brunhoff. Clean, tight copy with moderate wear to cover boards.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st US, 1949, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Blue cloth spine, illust. boards 10 x 14-1/2". Top of spine bumped, front hinge cracked, otherwise VG. Clean with bright colors on heavy linen-like paper. Printed in France (stated on last page).

Hardcover. New York, Random House, Reprint, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 40 pages, translated from French by Merle Haas, color illustrations by de Brunhoff, very clean, tight copy.

NY, Harry Abrams, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author and SIGNED BY DE BRUNHOFF on title page. Pull-out poster in rear.

Hardcover. Indianapolis, IN, Bobbs-Merrill Company, 2nd, 1917, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Cover boards show moderate wear to edges with damaged spine. Bumped corners. Illustrations by Fanny Cory.

Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Tan cloth cover, very little wear. Dust jacket has minor wear to edges. Beautiful color illustrations throughout. A bright, clean copy. Illustrated by Allen Atkinson.

Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Early board book with Garth Williams' charming illustrations, 24 pages, clean copy. Glazed boards. J125125 code on inside cover at bottom indicating a reprint.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace and World, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth with a drawing of baby elephant on front cover. Illustrated in red and black by Leonard Weisgard. A Christmas tale featuring Baby Elephant's secret wishes for the holidays. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace and World, 1st, 1961, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth with a drawing of baby elephant on front cover. Illustrated in blue and black by Leonard Weisgard. Baby Elephant & his mother imagine traveling to France where he uses lots of new French words that he has learned. Text includes many French words/phrases. Covers show wear and soil. Inside front cover with an inscription, otherwise interior is bright and clean.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row , 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Hardcover, pictorial boards with black cloth spine. Color illustrations by Lillian Hoban. Covers with light rubbing, dime size area of darkening on front cover. No dust jacket. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne, Unknown, Unknown, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Printed in colors by Edmund Evans. Glazed cardboard covers in black and orange. Black cloth spine. Decorated end papers. Nice, clean condition with moderate chipping and wear to cover boards.

Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne & Co., reprint, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 54 pages. "A Book of Old Rhymes With New Dresses. The Music by the Earliest Masters." 11 full page color plates. All pages color illustrated and decorated by Crane. Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans. Decorated endpapers. Pages are lightly age toned and there is some minor smudging and discoloration to endpapers. Reddish brown pictorial cloth with b/w illustration. Matching brown, black, and white pictorial dust jacket. Minor edgewear and some age soil.

Hardcover. New York, J.B. Lippincott, 1st, 1955, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in 2-colors by the author. SIGNED BY GRIDER on the front fly leaf and dated 1955. Yellow cloth with gray lettering, dust jacket worn with repaired tears, chipping. Indications that jacket was once stapled to covers, tiny holes visible. Light soil, musty odor.

Hardcover. New Milford, Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Full color illustrations by Ross MacDonald. Clean, bright hardcover in a dust jacket. Jack was having another perfect day. In fact, you could say that his whole life was perfect, except that he wanted someone to share it with. That someone arrives in the form of a new baby sister who keeps growing...and growing...until she's about ten stories tall, wreaking havoc with every step she takes. Of course, Jack gets the blame. Full of the sly, raucous humor that marked Ross MacDonald's previous books, this is the ultimate book about sibling rivalry.

Hardcover. London, Ernest Benn Limited, 1st, 1961, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 95 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket has moderate wear, chipping and fraying on edges. Covered with brodart. Gutter cracked on title page. Previous owner's name in pen on title page.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 48 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in 2-colors by Von Schmidt. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping, piece gone from bottom of spine.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st , 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Barry Moser. SIGNED BY WILLARD on title page. Dust jacket price clipped. Tight copy. A collection of poems about Biddy Early, the Wise Woman of Clare, and her animal, human, and supernatural associates.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st , 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Barry Moser. Dust jacket price clipped. Tight copy. A collection of poems about Biddy Early, the Wise Woman of Clare, and her animal, human, and supernatural associates.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st , 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Barry Moser. Tight copy. A collection of poems about Biddy Early, the Wise Woman of Clare, and her animal, human, and supernatural associates.

Hardcover. NY, Ives Washburn, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 43 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illust. by Erik Blegvad. Dust jacket price clipped.

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 99 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Blue cover boards with light soiling on front, spine and rear. Light edgewear. Front end papers have small previous owner's sticker on bottom and light residue mid end paper. Tight copy.