Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, lovely reprint. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR SENDAK. In Charlotte and the White Horse, first published in 1955, creamy pages frame Sendak's softly lit illustrations of a girl who convinces her father to keep a wobbly legged horse and cares for him until he can stand on his own. Sendak's delicate watercolors suit the dream-like mood of a boy who accomplishes all that he sets out to do in his imaginary world.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Gretchen Schields. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR. Clean, tight copy in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY BROWN. Chowder is a hilarious and heartwarming story that introduces an endearing new character: a weird but completely loveable bulldog who learns to make friends by being true to his quirks.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR David Small on front end paper. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. When Alice Jayne finds a crocodile under the tree on Christmas Eve, her family goes into an uproar! The Christmas Crocodile doesn't mean to be bad, not really, but soon he is eating up Christmas-from the dinner roast to the left stove-top burner...even the Christmas tree! Everyone has an opinion about what to do with him. Uncle Theodore suggests they send him to Africa, Father recommends the zoo, and Aunt Figgy mentions an orphanage. But Alice Jayne thinks the Christmas Crocodile deserves a real family. Can she find him a new home? And will she and the family survive till Christmas morning, with that naughty crocodile gobbling up everything in sight?
Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY YORINKS AND EGIELSKI on page after front end paper. Color illustrations by Egielski. Very nice, clean condition. Hardbound, dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Mary Azarian. SIGNED BY AZARIAN on title page. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Mary Azarian. SIGNED BY AZARIAN on title page. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 2nd pr., 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY MORRISSEY on title page. Tight copy. When Father Christmas pays a visit on Christmas Eve, Sam's busiest time of the year gets even busier. The problem, as Father Christmas explains, is that he's running behind schedule and wants Sam to help him out. For Sam, who's facing the closing of his ramshackle shop, the task seems impossible. After all, he has no sleigh or reindeer. But that's where a little magic comes in. Before the wonderful night is past, Sam and his young friend Joey get the chance to make some unusual deliveries and, most importantly, share in the true spirit of Christmas.
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR and ILLUSTRATOR on title page. Clean, tight copy. This hilarious book manages to illustrate a fact or two about shapes while providing a three-dimensional stomping ground for best friends Moose and Zebra. What will happen? Who will save the day? It's all up in the air until the final page, where Moose and Zebra (and Cat, too) create a perfect--and perfectly heartwarming--ending. This stand-alone companion to Z Is for Moose features a multilayered story told through text, asides, conversation bubbles, and pictures. Themes of friendship, exploration, and conflict resolution--and of course the concept of shapes, including the shape of a book--make this an ideal read-aloud for the elementary school classroom and for home!
Hardcover. New York , HarperCollins, reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover reissue of a book first published in 1956 written by Jack Sendak and illustrated by his brother, Maurice. SIGNED BY MAURICE SENDAK. Flora, a little circus girl, wonders what the people who come to the circus do when they are not at the circus. Illustrated in black-and-white and pastel pink and green. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York , Hyperion Book , 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages illustrated in color. SIGNED BY BOTH author and illustrator on title page.
Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 32 pages. Hardcover. Oxford University Press edition. INSCRIBED BY FRENCH AT TOP RIGHT CORNER OF FRONT ENDPAPER. Full color illustrations by Fiona French. Dust jacket with closed tears along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked pages.
Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st US, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 423 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy. With "humanism, generosity, and a passionate, beating heart" (The Times, London), Janice Galloway's Clara reignites, from between the lines of history, the great love of Robert and Clara Schumann. In her lifetime, Clara was a celebrated concert pianist and composer, editor and teacher, friend of Brahms -- as well as mother of the eight Schumann children and caretaker of her husband through a series of crippling mental illnesses. In its luminous integrity the novel brings Clara Schumann to life as a woman of genius. Galloway is at once a meticulous researcher of her subjects' remarkable and highly dramatic artistic careers and a virtuoso storyteller whose imagination and empathy lead her to that place off limits to history and biography -- inside the human mind. Distilling the memories, poetry, and musical notes therein, she examines the ways artists divine patterns out of life's chaos. "Passion," writes Galloway of Clara's performance philosophy, "one might take for granted -- its control is the mechanism through which all else flows." Though music may have bent to Clara's will, love served her far more tragically. Dismissing the cliches of Great Art and rejecting the romantic conflation of Madness and Creativity, Clara boldly ventures that in a life marred by alienation and isolation, "Work alone endures."
Hardcover. Seymour, CT, Greenwich Workshop Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Gustafson, SIGNED BY GUSTAFSON on half title page. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.
Hardcover. San Francisco, McSweeney's, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Very good hardback bound in publisher's shaped boards cut in the shape of a house and issued without a jacket. SIGNED in black marker by Barnett and Horowitz on the rear board.
Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, reprint, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A reprint of the couple's classic 1978 title. SIGNED by both Barretts.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday , 2nd, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY JULIA AND ROBERT VAN NUTT opposite title-page. Illustrations by Robert Van Nutt.
Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Lee Lorenz. Bottom corners and spine a bit bumped. SIGNED BY LORENZ on title page.
Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. SIGNED BY BOTH SCIESZKA AND SMITH ON DEDICATION PAGE. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Barce & Co, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR TO FRONT ENDPAPER. Dust jacket and covers completely illustrated, gorgeous full page color illustrations. No sign of wear, dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in excellent condition.
Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Tight and bright copy with only light edgewear to dust jackets and covers.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Brown. SIGNED BY BROWN. While out exploring one day, a little boy named Liam discovers a struggling garden and decides to take care of it. As time passes, the garden spreads throughout the dark, gray city, transforming it into a lush, green world. This is an enchanting tale with environmental themes and breathtaking illustrations that become more vibrant as the garden blooms. Red-headed Liam can also be spotted on every page, adding a clever seek-and-find element to this captivating picture book.
Chelsea, MI, Sleeping Bear Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Victor Juhasz. SIGNED BY GRODIN AND JUHASZ on title-page. Sticker on dust jacket saying "Autographed Copy." Minor edgewear to dust jacket. Clever, colorful cartoon illustrations and caricatures help make this book attractive and fun...The text offers a great deal of information about the history of democracy, the development and processes of American government, and the people who have contributed to our country.
Hardcover. Garden City, Doubleday, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 64 pages. INSCRIBED BY THE D'AULAIRES ON DEDICATION PAGE, DATED JUNE 27, 1972. Dust jacket intact with original price and very minor signs of wear at corners. A clean, bright copy.