Hardcover. NY, Golden Books/Random House, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, color illustrations by Yaccarino. SIGNED BY AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR opposite title page. Famed illustrator Dan Yaccarino brings his unique style to the familiar realm of Mother Goose. His witty, bold graphic scenes take place in the city, which give the rhymes a fresh perspective. In this book, Mary's little lamb hails a cab to school!
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR on title page. Clean, tight hardcover. In the summer of 1851, the clipper Flying Cloud made the journey from New York City to San Francisco in a record-breaking 89 days and 21 hours despite several setbacks and dangers along the way. Much of the credit for that voyage goes to Ellen Prentiss Creesy, the ship's navigator. Based on the true story of that voyage, this book expertly describes Prentiss's early life, her love for the sea and the science of navigation, her marriage to Captain Perkins Creesy, and their remarkable accomplishment. Readers will find this fictionalized account gripping and inspiring. McCully's excellent watercolor illustrations include a number of period details and add a sense of movement and drama to the already exciting text. An author's note gives the factual background for the story, and a brief glossary serves to familiarize readers with nautical terms.
Hardcover. Cleveland, OH, World Publishing, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 143 pages. Hardcover with clipped-dust jacket. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR, WENDY WATSON, ON TITLE PAGE. Fading to dust jacket spine, light rubbing to edges. Tight copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, John C. Winston Company, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. SIGNED BY MAUD AND MISKA PETERSHAM ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Full color and black & white illustrations. Light wear to blue cloth covers. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, William Morrow & Company, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with price clipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MOLLY BANG on title page. Dust jacket shows light wear with sticker on top right corner. Tight copy. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. New York, Philomel Books, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Extensive color illustrations by Oliver Jeffers throughout. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ARTIST in hasty scrawls. Illustrated end papers and fly leafs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Teague and SIGNED BY TEAGUE with a small sketch of dog's head.
Hardcover. New York , North-South, 1st U.S., 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 24 pages illustrated in color by Zwerger and SIGNED BY ZWERGER on title page. Originally published in Zurich in 1985.
Hardcover. Natick MA, Picture Book Studio, 1st US, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 24 pages illustrated in color by Zwerger. Dust jacket price clipped otherwise very good.
Hardcover. NY, Joanna Cotler /HarperCollins, 5th pr., 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR on title page. Summary of the story: "A young worm discovers, day by day, that there are some very good and some not so good things about being a worm in this great big world". Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Devin Adair, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 86 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR (Robert Frost's Daughter) on half title page. Heavy wear to edges. Dust jacket clipped. Dust jacket has heavy chipping on spine. Illlustrated by Robin Hudnut.
Hardcover. New York, Hyperion Books for Children, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with matching dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a pristine dust jacket. Non-paginated. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR BRIAN SELZNICK ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Emily Arnold McCully and SIGNED BY MCCULLY on front fly leaf. A childhood move in the life of Willa Cather to the plains of Nebraska, brings initial unhappiness, then appreciation and love for her new surroundings. Inscribed, with a sketch by the illustrator.
hardcover. New York, Orchard Books, 1st , 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 105 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BOOKPLATE BY FARMER opposite title-page. This is the Newbery Medalist's first book. Black & white illustrations by Shelley Jackson.
Hardcover. NY, Tor Publishing Group, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 492 pages. INSCRIBED BY SZPARA on the title page. K. M. Szpara's Docile is a science fiction parable about love and sex, wealth and debt, abuse and power, a challenging tour de force that at turns seduces and startles. There is no consent under capitalism. To be a Docile is to be kept, body and soul, for the uses of the owner of your contract. To be a Docile is to forget, to disappear, to hide inside your body from the horrors of your service. To be a Docile is to sell yourself to pay your parents' debts and buy your children's future. Content warning: Docile contains forthright depictions and discussions of rape and sexual abuse. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Philomel, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ashley Wolff and SIGNED BY WOLFF WITH A SKETCH OF DR. BIRD on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. New York, Philomel, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Ashley Wolff and SIGNED BY WOLFF WITH A SKETCH OF DR. BIRD on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Wendy Watson. INSCRIBED BY BIERHORST on front fly leaf . SIGNED BY WENDY WATSON on title page.
Hardcover. NY, Lodestar / E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY WRIGHT on front fly leaf. Drusie Valentini feels she is trapped on a merry-go-round, going nowhere. She doesn't fit in with the rest of her arty family: her extravagant puppeteer father, his gypsylike assistant Fey who moved in when her mother left; even her pesky brother Punch. At a party a boyfriend talked her into giving ends in disaster-and in getting sent to a strict boarding school. In a year where it seems that everyone is pulling her strings, Drusie is forcd to come to terms with her life with the people she loves best-and with the person she is, and hopes to be. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Lodestar / E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY WRIGHT on front fly leaf. Drusie Valentini feels she is trapped on a merry-go-round, going nowhere. She doesn't fit in with the rest of her arty family: her extravagant puppeteer father, his gypsylike assistant Fey who moved in when her mother left; even her pesky brother Punch. At a party a boyfriend talked her into giving ends in disaster-and in getting sent to a strict boarding school. In a year where it seems that everyone is pulling her strings, Drusie is forcd to come to terms with her life with the people she loves best-and with the person she is, and hopes to be. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Lodestar / E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY WRIGHT on front fly leaf. Drusie Valentini feels she is trapped on a merry-go-round, going nowhere. She doesn't fit in with the rest of her arty family: her extravagant puppeteer father, his gypsy-like assistant Fey who moved in when her mother left; even her pesky brother Punch. At a party a boyfriend talked her into giving ends in disaster-and in getting sent to a strict boarding school. In a year where it seems that everyone is pulling her strings, Drusie is forced to come to terms with her life with the people she loves best-and with the person she is, and hopes to be. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, 1st, 2014-09-16, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A wordless picture book celebrates the power of art and imagination. A little boy reads about Africa and then creates his own adventures with his pencils and paints. Wordless books require readers to slow down and read the pictures, and careful children will see beyond the main storyline by looking at the whole illustration. Why is the boy in bed and not outside? The inhaler and bottle of medicine on the side table are hints. But binoculars and an umbrella on the other side of the table tell them that he is not always bedridden. As he draws, he falls deeply into the rich world of his imaginary Africa. First he draws an elephant, and then he rides away on it. He paints zebras, has a sandwich for lunch, records a giraffe stampede and shares one of his many other sandwiches with the gorillas. After a hair-raising encounter with an aggressive rhino, the little artist shares his pencils and food with other primates, who return the favor and sketch him. Colon's signature scratched-watercolor technique adds richness and emotion to this warm story, but it's the framing scenes at beginning and end that really sparkle here. Simple line-and-color washes put the young man at the center of the story and help readers identify with him.
Hardcover. New Hampshire, Bunker Hill Publishing, Inc., 1st Edition, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 36 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Black cover boards, red title on spine. Pages unmarked. Binding tight. Spine straight. In beautiful condition. A proper and modern Norse saga, written with all the power of Melville and Hemingway and a true story now retold in the ageless rhythms of blank verse, as irresistible as the beautiful and specially commissioned woodcuts of Mary Azarian.