Hardcover. NY, Duell, Sloan & Pearce , 1st US, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrated boards with a red cloth spine. 24 pages (printed on one side only), color Illustrations by Dette, printed in Sweden. Light stains to cardboard covers otherwise clean, very good.
Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally , unknown, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 80 pages, 15 color plates and b&w drawings by Warner Carr. Green boards with color label, sharp, clean copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in red and black, 204 pages, color frontispiece and b&w illustrations by Joyce Brisley. The charming tale of a little wooden horse, who goes out in the world to seek his fortune so that his master can thrive. Covers show light soil, edgewear, small stamp inside front cover. This original edition of the book is uncommon in any condition.
Hardcover. North Clarendon VT, Tuttle Publishing, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, gorgeous color paintings on every page by Lak-Khee Tay-Audouard. Adventures of the Treasure Fleet is the amazing story of seven epic voyages and their larger-than-life commander, Admiral Zheng He.Beginning in 1405, Admiral Zheng He led more than 300 gigantic, brightly-painted ships across the South China Sea to the Indian Ocean and all the way to the distant coast of Africa. The admiral and his crew battled pirates and raging storms, and were amazed by the people and ways of life in distant lands. At each port, Chinese goods were traded for pearls, precious stones, herbs and medicines which were given as tribute to China's powerful emperor when the ships' returned home. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Sea Star Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illust. by Kinuko Y. Craft. Tight copy with only minor wear to cover edges.
Hardcover. NY, Sea Star Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illust. by Kinuko Y. Craft. Tight copy with only minor wear to cover edges.
Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, reprint, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 244 pages. Black & white illustrations by Kurt Wiese.
Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally & Co., reprint, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 112 pages, 10" by 13" folio. Green cloth with color paste down on front cover. Gorgeous color illustrations throughout by Milo Winter. Clean, tight copy with only mild wear. Hinges are starting to crack slightly.
Hardcover. Garden City NY, Doubleday & Company,, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in worn dust jacket. First edition of Tony Palazzo's charmingly illustrated rendition of Aesop's Fables. 9 X 12 1/2" original illustrated boards, pictorial endpapers. Dust jacket with original price on flap ($2.50), chipped and short tears repaired on reverse. Clean, no marking.
Hardcover. NY, The Heritage Illustrated Bookshelf, reprint, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Maroon cloth covers stamped in gilt. Handed down through the generations, the fables have been rewritten by Munro Leaf and illustrated with 2-color drawings by Robert Lawson. Clean copy.
NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. 95 pages of fables, illustrated with appropriate prints from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's print collection, with b&w illustrations and red decorations. Dust jacket price-clipped, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue-green cloth stamped in black. 89 pages, b&w illustrations by Anderson. A horse story for young people. Through patience and gentle handling, Judy and the jumper Fair Lady both recover their nerve. No dust jacket, no marking. Back cover with water stains to cloth,
Hardcover. NY, Arcade, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages, profusely illustrated in color and b&w with the author/artist's drawings and photographs. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Arcade, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages, profusely illustrated in color and b&w with the author/artist's drawings and photographs. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York , Morrow, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Color and two color illustrations by Simont. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 4th pr., 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Illustrated in b&w by Geoffrey Moss. 47 pages. K-13, the best spy in the secret service, must retrieve the deadly Crumble-Bomb from the world's greediest man who is holding it for ransom. Library Ed.
Hardcover. New York, Jump At The Sun/Hyperion, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated. SIGNED BY ANN GRIFALCONI AND JERRY PINKNEY ON TITLE PAGE. 1st edition/1st printing. Full color illustrations by Jerry Pinkney. A bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , Doubleday, Doran, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 43 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color, B&W by Tousey. Illustrated cardboard covers. Light chipping to papers on corners.
Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, BC Ed., 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. No price on flap so assumed a book club edition. Clean copy with colorful illustrations on every page by Barton.
Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Byron Barton introduces young readers to the fun of the airport in this bold and colorful book. From the excitement of arrival to the wonder of taking off, Airport captures all the magic of an airport with joyous and powerful images and simple text.
Hardcover. Chicago, Follett, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 159 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Story of a boy in Bali. Black & white drawings by George Kraynak. INSCRIBED BY FALK on front fly leaf. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped.
NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 80 pages. Color Illustrations by Gerald McDermott. Dust jacket with closed tears, edgewear.
Hardcover. New York, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 36 pages illustrated in color by Pablo Ramirez. Color illustrated boards in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with closed tear, light edgewear.
Hardcover. NY, Phyllis Fogelman Books, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket lightly scratched. Color illustrations by Jerry Pinkney.
Hardcover. NY, Crown, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Really nice, almost new-looking condition. Color illustrations by Burningham. Hardbound, no dust jacket. Library edition. A small girl reflects on the comfort she gets from her imaginary friend Aldo.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by James Stevenson. New Yorker cartoonist's first children's book of many to follow. Dust jacket with soil, edgewear, chip to bottom 1" of spine, small price sticker.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 31 pages. SIGNED TWICE BY AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR ETIENNE DELESSERT. Clean, bright copy. Tobias is a very special mole. He collects shiny round pebbles and hides them down in his burrow where they re safe . . . or are they? When a friend warns him about robbers on the prowl, Tobias begins to worry.
Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1982, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 63 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR AT TOP OF TITLE PAGE. Color illustrations by Joseph Low. 1" tear at bottom edge of page 47. Clean, unmarked pages.
Hardcover. American Heritage Publishing , BC Ed., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 44 pages illustrated in color by Philippe Fix. Weekly Reader Book Club Edition. The Old Lady, her Magical Mouse, a Brindle London Squatting Cat, a Yak, and Alexander, the smiling alligator, lived together on a hill without any friends until the thirty-day rain endangered the town below them. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Parents' Magazine Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 40 pages illustrated in color by Tom Vroman. It was bedtime. Chris and his father sat down side by side on Chris's bed. They talked of Chris's friend Alexander, the red horse with green stripes. "Alexander was a pretty bad horse today," Chris said. "He wouldn't eat his cereal. He wouldn't sit up at the table and he spilled his milk." "That's too bad," said Chris's father. "What else happened?" The ensuing conversation of Alexander's bad day makes for an entertaining read, along with its priceless ending. Mild shelfwear. name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.
NY, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1st US, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial boards, color illustrations by Hughes. Hoping that a surprise birthday party will help to cheer up neighbor and store owner Mr. MacNally, Alfie plans an additional, extra-special surprise and fears he cannot keep his plans a secret.
Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman & Co/Special Ed for Scott Foresman, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 32 pages illustrated in color and b&w by Judith Roth. Charming children's story of a boy named Henry and his large Irish Setter named Alfred. Complete with a 33 1/3 rpm record in rear pocket. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow Books, BC Ed., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth. 32 pages illustrated in color by Chess. As he encounters animals from A to Z, Alfred learns the letters of the alphabet. Book Club edition, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ted Lewin. The survival adventure tale gets a desert setting in this picture book about a boy lost in the Sahara. Author and artist have traveled in the area, and they tell the story of sizzling sun and lonely darkness in realistic detail. Lewin's watercolor paintings are rich with story.
Softcover. Paris, DIANE SELLIERS, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover, in a pictorial dust wrapper, 395 pages. Color illustrations by Pat Andrea give a whole new surrealistic look to the classic tales. FRENCH TEXT.
Hardcover. New York/London, North-South Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 103 pages, illustrated in color by Lizbeth Zwerger and SIGNED BY HER on title page.
New York/London, North-South Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 103 pages, illustrated in color by Lizbeth Zwerger and SIGNED BY HER on title page.
Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st Edition, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 110 pages. Hardcover. Clear, transparent, decorated dust jacket, has some scratches to front cover. Decorated cover boards. Vivid color illustrations throughout. Beautiful condition, pages clean. Binding good. Spine straight.
Hardcover. New York, Blue Sky Press/Scholastic, Inc., 1st, 2004, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, SIGNED BY DAVID SHANNON ON TITLE PAGE. Acetate-protected dust jacket, gorgeous full page color illustrations. No sign of wear, spine stiff and tight, dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in excellent condition.
Hardcover. London, Whizzard Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket depicting Alice stretching to put an envelope into a red cast iron Victorian postal box, illustrated with philatelic color images (stamps and covers mainly) relating to Alice by Tenniel, pictorial end-papers with B&W images of Lewis Carroll & Sir John Tenniel, 48 pages. An unusual reprise of postal images relating to Tenniel's classic illustrations of Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass. Bookplate on dedication page, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Mineola NY, Calla/Dover Books, reprint, 2011, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, 247 pages. The "Alice" stories have always been a favorite topic for illustrators. Amongst the dozens of illustrated editions of Alice published over the years, Harry Rountree's contribution may be the most remarkable. Luxuriously illustrated with 92 watercolors, many of which are full page, with the others carefully placed with textual wraparound, this is a marvelous evocation of Carroll's madcap world. Rountree's career as an illustrator was short lived, but this, along with his Aesop's Fables, are acknowledged masterpieces. The enduring popularity of all things Alice makes this both a timely and timeless edition.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st illustrated thus., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 117 pages. Color illustrations by Anthony Browne. Blue dust jacket shows very little wear.
Hardcover. New York, Dodge Publishing Company, Reprint, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 164 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Deckled fore-edge. Tanning to pages and edges from age. Blue cloth bound cover boards, two-color illustration on front cover board, a good deal of paint has chipped off (see image), white title on spine, slightly faded. Some soil/wear to covers. A bump to front right bottom corner of cover board (see image). In beautiful condition inside, no pages missing, page 84 is partially disconnected. Illustrations by Bessie Pease Gutman) quite vivid.
Hardcover. NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by author. Alice tells her mother about her special room, where she can play with her cat who died, enjoy the warm beach in January, go sledding on a hot summer day, and do anything she has already done in the past.
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by the author. Pictorial boards, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston Company, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black. 117 pages, b&w illustrations by Tony Sarg, Stories of David and his friends having fun during the summer in a small town, Book has mild shelfwear.
Hardcover. New York , E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 88 pages, illustrated with b&w photographs, gray cloth covers with black lettering. Review slip laid in. Mark from paper clip no longer present. Otherwise clean, very good.
Reading, MA, Addison-Wesley, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated with 2-color drawings by Jerry Joyner. Clean copy. Everything you need and don't need to know about mud including 'how mud acts'. Clean copy (no mud).