Animals

Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated glossy boards, 32 pages illustrated in color by author. Tell-a-Tale. #872-15. Previous owner's inscription opposite title page. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. White River Jct VT, Chelsea Green Publishing, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MITCHELL on title page and INSCRIBED on the front fly leaf. Novelist and shepherd Mitchell presents this account of what happened after a biologist from the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department asked for permission to track bats on his farm. The author having been an iconoclast since his youth, the book is as much a story about a back-to-the-land Vermont farmer coming to collaborate with government as the story of the bats for whose benefit the forested land was managed. This idealist muses on the process of balancing concerns of money, ecology, independence and co-dependence, wrapping up the book with insights learned in convoluted manner about nature, society, and himself.

Hardcover. Owings Mills, Maryland, Stemmer House Publishers, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 87 pages. Color frontispiece and color illustrations throughout. Minor edgewear to cover. Chipping, rubbing to dust jacket. Else a tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st thus, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial green cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout, 128 pages. Other stories include Coaly-Bay: The Outlaw Horse and Way-Atcha: The Coon Raccoon of Kilder Creek. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday Page & Co., 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 129 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Gilt decoration and laid in art on front cover. Black & white illustrations by Charles Livingston Bull.

Hardcover. Stockholm, R&S Books, 2nd pr., 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Olaf Lanstrom. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. On No-Man Farm, Orvie rules. What makes that lazy pig the farmer? Orvie can walk on two legs. And that makes him better than all the other animals. All except Duck. "I have two legs, Orvie. Can I be the farmer now?" she asks. "You're too little, Duck," says Orvie. "You can't do BIG work." "I can do BIG work!" Duck says. More like BIG MISCHIEF! Award-winning author and illustrator D. B. Johnson adds a lively new chapter to George Orwell's classic Animal Farm. This time, a duck brings a joyful transformation to the farm--and to Orvie! In this picture book, as well as the ones he has written about Henry David Thoreau, D. B. Johnson continues, with simplicity and humor, to draw children to the complex ideas in great works of literature.

New York , Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. Corners and spine slightly bumped, otherwise very good. Unhappy with their father's plan to remarry, a brother and sister have their wishes fulfilled by a stableboy who knows magic and are turned into a fox and a kingfisher.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally & Co , reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, The squirrel family leaves their home in the woods, which is threatened by woodsmen, and seek refuge in a nearby garden. 64 pages with eight color plates and additional b&w drawings by Frances Beem. Several of the drawings have been colored by a child.

Hardcover. New York , Knopf, 1st, 1955, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 241 pages, pink cloth covers with blue and black design. End paper drawing and b&w illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Light wear, ex-library with residue on end papers, small ink price on front fly leaf, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York , Knopf, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 239 pages, yellow cloth covers with red and green design. End paper drawing and b&w illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Light wear but clean, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 2nd pr., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, color illustrations by Lionni. In honor of the 30th anniversary of the publication of Frederick, Knopf is pleased to issue an expanded collector's edition of Leo Lionni's timeless tales that celebrate the power of imagination and the human spirit. With the addition of three new titles--Matthew's Dream, An Extraordinary Egg, and Six Crows--this magnificent treasury now contains 16 unabridged stories, including three Caldecott Honor books and Lionni's inimitable full-color artwork gracing every page. Add a striking new cover and a fascinating introduction by the author, and this is a volume no Lionni fan will want to be without. Clean copy.

New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover284 pages. In a nice dust jacket that shows slight spotting to back and little to no edgewear. Spine modestly cocked. American first edition (per publisher's requisite "First edition" statement and "BCD . . ." The adventures of Monkey from his departure from the jungle to his arrival in England where he makes many friends." A later book in the writing career of British author P.L. Travers most renowned for her authorship of the Mary Poppins series.

Softcover. London, George Allen & Unwin, 2nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color, black & white lithographs by Feodor Rojankovsky. #4 of Pere Castor's Wild Animal Books. Transl. by Rose Fyleman. Cardboard covers with dust jacket. Dust jacket with closed tear to rear panel.

Hardcover. Springfield Mass , McLoughlin Brothers , reprint, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 24 pages. Hardcover. 12 full page color illustrations and smaller black & white illustrations throughout. Illustrated chapter headings. Center double page illustration with old clear tape over binding staples. Edge wear to top and sides. Some pages with short closed tears. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Julian Messner, 1st, 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated green boards, 16 pages, Illustrated by Sally Tate. Printed in brown and red on green paper. Green paper over boards printed in brown and red and with fuzz on the bear, both upper and lower boards. Decorated endpapers, also with fuzz on the bears. The illustrations feature the bear on every other page, each depiction of him with brown fuzz. Light soiling to covers and the paper is starting to peel at top of spine, top corner worn.

Hardcover. London, England, C. Arthur Pearson Limited, 1st Edition, 1902, With 48 illustrations. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt top edge.Green cloth bound cover boards, gilt title and design on front cover and spine. Spine has fading and fraying at top and bottom. Front cover board has fading to top. Cover boards having shipping at edges. Pages and edges have some tanning from age.

Hardcover. New York , Golden Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 45 pages illustrated in color by Greg and Tim Hildebrandt. Glazed boards, A-J line on rear end paper. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Golden Press, 2nd pr., 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrations by Greg and Tim Hildebrandt, known as the Brothers Hildebrandt. They were American twin brothers who worked collaboratively as fantasy and science fiction artists for many years, produced illustrations for comic books, movie posters, children's books, posters, novels, calendars, advertisements, and trading cards. Light edgewear.

Hardcover. New York, Derrydale Books, reprint , 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 88 pages. Retold from the stories of Joel Chandler Harris. Color illustrations by Harry Rountree and Rene Bull. Soiling, scratching to covers. Corners rubbed. Spine a little bumped.

Hardcover. NY, Gulliver Books, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 164 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillion

Hardcover. New York, Clarion Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. INSCRIBED WITH SKETCH BY AUTHOR AT BOTTOM OF TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations by Eileen Chistelow. Light foxing to endpapers. Dust jacket with light wear along edges. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 46 pages. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by Bill Peet. Dust jacket with slight darkening to spine, minor edge wear. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Co., 1st, 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 48 pages with color and b&w illustrations by Slobodkin. Ex-library but with minimal stamping and remnants of tape where dust jacket was attached to cover.