Hardcover. New York, World Publishing Co, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, INSCRIBED BY ED YOUNG ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Light blue cloth covers with gilt embossed graphic of swan to front and titles to spine, pictorial dust jacket, gorgeous full-page color illustrations. Very mild rubbing to dust jacket, price-clipped; overall a beautiful, clean, tight copy in great condition.
Hardcover. New York, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR, Barbara McClintock, on title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Marshall Cavendish , 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, color illustrations. SIGNED by Spirin on the half title page. Gennady Spirin has taken a favorite childhood tale and imbued it with charm, dressing his bears in Renaissance costumes and providing whimsical and charming furniture designed for their country dwelling. Each spread-painted in watercolor, pen, and ink-brings renewed life to this endearing children's classic in a way that only a master illustrator can. No wonder Goldilocks want to sample the bears' porridge, sit on their chairs, and rest on their beds!
Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages, illustrated in color by Trina Schart Hyman. SIGNED BOOKPLATE BY HYMAN pasted on front fly leaf. Like new in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. Cleveland, Cleveland Women's Golf Association, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. SIGNED BY EDITOR/COMPILER on bookplate on front end paper. 148 pages, b&w photographs. Maroon covers w/ gilt lettering; spine faded. Light foxing to top edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Walker & Company, 3rd pr., 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated. SIGNED BY DAVID MCLIMANS ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, bright copy. Caldecott Honor sticker at bottom right corner of dust jacket. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Orchard Books, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY BOTH author and illustrator with a sketch by Ajhar. Can Edith the tooth fairy help Bernice the godmother of all fairies find her magical powers again, or is Bernice doomed to live out the rest of her fairy life wand-less? "If yours truly, Edith Molarnari, tooth fairy second class, hadn't seen it with my own two peepers, I wouldn't have believed it myself --- Bernice Sparklestein, once the best fairy godmother in the biz, having a bad wand day. A very bad wand day." Margie Palatini's heartwarmingly hilarious story about helping friends and finding your place in life along the way, and Brian Ajhar's beautifully fun illustrations will have both children and adults giggling out loud.
Hardcover. New York, Limited Editions Club, 1st thus, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two oversized volumes with blue slipcase, SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR, John Groth in rear of volume 2. Blue and gray cloth boards with gilt titles on spine, illustrations throughout, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Non-paginated. SIGNED BY KEVIN HENKES ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR ON TITLE PAGE. 40 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Illustrations by Loren Long. Tight copy.
Softcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, publisher's uncorrected proof, color illustrated wrappers. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on title page. Like new. Richard Bausch "tells the heartwarming and riotously funny coming-of-age story of Walter Marshall, whose fumblings toward manhood coincide with cataclysmic change in the country."
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by David Christiana. SIGNED BY BOTH YOLEN AND CHRISTIANA on bookplate pasted to front end paper. Like new in dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Hyperion, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrated by Dan Yaccarino and SIGNED BY YACCARINO.
Hardcover. Chapel Hill, N.C., Algonquin Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 299 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy in a bright dust jacket. The year is 1963, and young Denise Palms has rejoined her family in Detroit where she must work to make a place for herself and prepare for the arrival of her mother's new baby. The baby will mean the end of Denise's afterschool lessons with a stern teacher who insists that Denise learn to speak "proper" English to make herself heard. Verdelle's intuition and ear allow her to dramatize precise moments of Denise's self-recognition and, in the process, offer an inside look at a maturing intelligence. The Good Negress marks the arrival of an original voice in contemporary fiction.
Hardcover. New York, Other Press, 1st US, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 584 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Publishers note within. A tight copy.
Softcover. Columbia, University of Missouri Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 176 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.
New York, North-South Books, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ashley Wolff and SIGNED BY WOLFF with a SKETCH OF A ROOSTER on half-title page.
Softcover. Pittsburgh PA, Museum of Art/Carnegie Institute, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 53 pages, 5 color plates, many b&w illustrations. A complete catalogue of his graphic prints selected by Gene Baro. SIGNED BY HOUSE in pencil on front cover. Exhibition catalog.
Hardcover. Lewisburg, PA, Appletree Allley, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Numbered and signed by author #18/55. Linoleum engravings by Barnard Taylor. Tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 274 pages, in a bright unclipped dust jacket. Like new and SIGNED BY MICHAELS at the 2003 Breadloaf Writer's Conference.
Hardcover. Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Lane and SIGNED BY LANE. From the creator of the national bestseller It's a Book comes a timeless story of family history, legacy, and love. Grandpa Green wasn't always a gardener. He was a farmboy and a kid with chickenpox and a soldier and, most of all, an artist. In this captivating new picture book, readers follow Grandpa Green's great-grandson into a garden he created, a fantastic world where memories are handed down in the fanciful shapes of topiary trees and imagination recreates things forgotten. In his most enigmatic and beautiful work to date, Lane Smith explores aging, memory, and the bonds of family history and love; by turns touching and whimsical, it's a stunning picture book that parents and grandparents will be sharing with children for years to come.
Hardcover. Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Lane and SIGNED BY LANE. From the creator of the national bestseller It's a Book comes a timeless story of family history, legacy, and love. Grandpa Green wasn't always a gardener. He was a farmboy and a kid with chickenpox and a soldier and, most of all, an artist. In this captivating new picture book, readers follow Grandpa Green's great-grandson into a garden he created, a fantastic world where memories are handed down in the fanciful shapes of topiary trees and imagination recreates things forgotten. In his most enigmatic and beautiful work to date, Lane Smith explores aging, memory, and the bonds of family history and love; by turns touching and whimsical, it's a stunning picture book that parents and grandparents will be sharing with children for years to come.
Hardcover. Thistle Hill Publications & Vermont Folklife Center, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 108 pages, 68 b&w photographs. SIGNED BY BOTH MOSHER AND MILLER on the half-title page. Granite and Cedar represents an unusual collaboration between a documentary photographer and a writer of fiction to produce a haunting portrait of the people and the land of Vermont's most rural area, often referred to as the "Northeast Kingdom." Veteran photographer JOHN M. MILLER uses his brilliant collection of elegiac, but unsentimental, images dating from the 1970s to evoke the disappearing folkways, the rugged people, and the desolate and abandoned landscape of his native corner of the Green Mountain State. Miller's austere, black-and-white photos richly detail the erosion and the breakup of the small farms of the region and of the families who worked those farms. While they emphasize the stark beauty of the land, they also pay homage to the innate dignity and fierce pride of the people who live in such hardscrabble circumstances.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages in color by Pinkney and SIGNED BY PINKNEY on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. In this stunning companion to the Caldecott Medal-winning The Lion & the Mouse and the highly acclaimed The Tortoise & the Hare, a playful grasshopper wonders why the busy ants around him won't join in his merrymaking as the seasons pass by. But when winter arrives, he soon sees the value of his friends' hard work--just as the ants learn the value of sharing what they've worked for. Featuring a striking, surprise gatefold page, this third book in Jerry Pinkney's gorgeous trilogy of picture book fables subtly shows the pitfalls of procrastination.