Animals

Hardcover. NY, McClure, Phillips & Company, 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in red cloth with gilt tiles on front cover and spine, 287 pages. Illustrated in black and white, color frontispiece. Previous owner's inscription on title page. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Lexington KY, John Bradford Press, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 246 pages. Color photographs and B&W illustrations. Pictorial dust jacket with light wear, price-clipped. Green cloth with gilt title to spine. Previous owner's inscription. Overall, a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Wonder Books, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 20 pages. Color illustrations by Bea Rabin Seiden. Great story to read to toddlers especially those with a finicky appetite!

Hardcover. NY, Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2nd pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards. Artist Alex Beard brings to life an African savanna filled with humor and misunderstandings.When Bird mixes up something Turtle says, he accidentally starts a rumor about the watering hole drying up. One misunderstanding leads to another, with animals making their own hilarious assumptions. No one is hearing anything right, and soon the animals are in an uproar from one end of the jungle to the other. Elephant is trumpeting, Croc is snapping, and the Flamingos are fleeing! Beards story will have every child wondering if peace can ever be restored in the animal kingdom. No dust jacket, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace & World, BC Ed., nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 32 pages illustrated in 3-colors by William Lipkind and Nicholas Mordbinoff. NOT ex-library. Weekly Reader edition. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow , 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket with light edgewear. Thirty full-color reproductions of paintings by a world-famous artist provide the basis for an allegory of love involving the quest of the white tiger for the tigress of his dreams. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Whittlesey House, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in black and red, 50 pages illustrated in 2-colors and b&w by Plato Chan. Adapted from an Old Chinese Legend by Plato and Christina Chan. The Text by Christina Chan. The Illustrations by Plato Chan. Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. Portland ME, Home Ice Productions, 2nd pr., 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Color illustrations by Laura Winslow. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the title page. What would YOU wish for? That's the question a thoughtful chickadee named Dirigo asks his friends who have traveled from all over Maine's woods, waterways and wilderness to celebrate his birthday. Gathered around the dandelion birthday candle, each animal offers Dirigo a special wish as they take turns telling stories about their own Maine birthdays. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 193 pages, b&w illustrations by Brian Floca.

Hardcover. NY, Ars Edition, 1st US, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glazed boards. Approximately 5 3/4" x 4 3/4", 18 pages. English version by John Theobald. Bohatta was a Austrian writer/artist whose titles were published in the U.S. in small printings. Color illustrations in the style of Thornton Burgess.Clean copy.

NY, Seabury Press, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 32 pages illustrated in color by Galdone. aAclever monkey outwits a crocodile intent on catching and eating him. Book Club edition. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ron Parker. A look at the bears of Tennessee's Smoky Mountains depicts them foraging for nuts and berries, readying a den for hibernation, and waking and sleeping with the rising and falling temperature during the long winter.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 182 pages, b&w drawings by Lilian Hoban. Dust jacket with no printed price, reviews on rear of dust jacket. Assumed Book Club. About the journey of a mechanical mouse and his son to find a home of their own. Illustrated by Lillian Hoban. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, short closed tears. B&w pictures by William Pene Du Bois. $8 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Henry G. Bohn, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with blindstamped decorative borders, gilt decoration to front cover, gilt titles and decoration to spine. Top edge gilt. Illustrated title page, b&w frontispiece portrait, Memoir of Francois Peron. 30 hand-colored plates with tissue guards of amphibious carnivores such as walruses, seals, manatees, and the sea serpent-as seen off the British Isles. Exceptional condition.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Running Press, 3rd pr., 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-red cloth with cover label. 64 pages in color. Christopher Wormell's magnificent, color-drenched linoleum-block illustrations grace this alphabet book, so handsomely designed it's sure to appeal to discriminating adults as well as to children. The award-winning British artist, whose previous work An Alphabet of Animals took the top graphics prize at the 1990 Bologna Children's Book Fair, has created all new artwork for his latest interpretation of the alphabet, featuring glorious images of animals from armadillo to zorilla (a skunklike creature). Clean copy.

Hardcover. Rouses Point NY, Lovell Printing and Publishing Co. Printers, 11th Ed., 1876, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gilt illustrated tan cloth, Eleventh Edition, Revised and Enlarged. 226 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Needham Heights MA, Old Trusty Dog Food, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 100 pages. A promotional booklet issued by a dog food company. The highlight of the book are the many b&w cartoons by Beck. Funny, well done in the style of H.T. Webster. Light chipping to paper spine, otherwise clean. Uncommon.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st trade, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a lightly worn slipcase. First trade edition limited to 3000 copies. 278 pages with 58 color plates plus many drawings by Karl Karalus, text by Allan Eckert. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 305 pages. A very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with mild soil, black cloth spine. Color illustrations by Williams, 32 pages. Two rabbits decide they want to remain friends forever, so they marry each other in a forest wedding. Copyright page states 1958 but a reprint with ISBN number, so post 1970. Lacks dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Garden City Books, BC Ed., 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Book Club edition, 216 pages. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 160 pages in color. Originally published in Italy in the 1950s and 60s, these 4 tales are published in English for the first time. Prince Charming leaves Snow White in the care of the Seven Dwarfs while he leaves for an expedition with the king. But the Evil Queen is back! Then, the Dwarfs build a special diamond throne for the Princess, but when it vanishes, they set out to find the thief. Also: what is the secret of the eighth dwarf? Jiminy Cricket makes a guest appearance! Clean copy.

New York, Viking Press, Book Club, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 152 pages. Black & white illustrations by David Rook. Dust jacket spine slightly faded otherwise very good.