Hardcover. NY, William Morrow & Co., 1st US, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth stamped in red. When the family's inn burns down, Father Fortune decides to purchase a caravan so the family can travel through France making their living as a circus. 120 pages, illustrations (some color) by Maggie Salcedo. Covers with light soil/darkening to areas. interior bright and clean.
Hardcover. NY, Random House , 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light beige cloth stamped in green and brown, 86 pages illustrated in 2-colors by Leonard Shortall. Inscription on front fly leaf, mild soil to covers, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, McDevitt-Wilson, Reprint, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Book rebound. Full color illustrations by F. D. Bedford. Poetry by E. V. Lucas. Book illustrates the lives and occupations of 24 laborers. Marking on some pages in pencil or ink. Light foxing, closed tears to some pages.
Hardcover. Boston, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial green cloth with 3-color and gilt decoration, 385 pages plus publisher's ads. Sic b&w plates by H.C. Edwards. Name, date on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Pantheon Books, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 43 pages. Black & white pictures by Whitney Darrow, Jr. An "I Am Reading" book. Library binding. Clean copy.
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.
Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 109 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Vibrant color illustrations throughout. This retrospective volume is not intended to illustrate a particular story, but to display the full range of her abilities, and it is arranged according to the seasons she celebrates in her art. There are fifty of her hand-colored woodcuts in full color and an equal number in black and white. The book is large format because that is the way she works and that's what does her work justice. The text, written by her friend Lilias Hart, discusses not only her work, but also what life is like in the rigorous reaches of Northern Vermont.
Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 2nd Ed., 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 109 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Vibrant color illustrations throughout. This retrospective volume is not intended to illustrate a particular story, but to display the full range of her abilities, and it is arranged according to the seasons she celebrates in her art. There are fifty of her hand-colored woodcuts in full color and an equal number in black and white. The book is large format because that is the way she works and that's what does her work justice. The text, written by her friend Lilias Hart, discusses not only her work, but also what life is like in the rigorous reaches of Northern Vermont.
Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 109 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Vibrant color illustrations throughout. This retrospective volume is not intended to illustrate a particular story, but to display the full range of her abilities, and it is arranged according to the seasons she celebrates in her art. There are fifty of her hand-colored woodcuts in full color and an equal number in black and white. The book is large format because that is the way she works and that's what does her work justice. The text, written by her friend Lilias Hart, discusses not only her work, but also what life is like in the rigorous reaches of Northern Vermont.
Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 2nd Ed., 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 109 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Vibrant color illustrations throughout. This retrospective volume is not intended to illustrate a particular story, but to display the full range of her abilities, and it is arranged according to the seasons she celebrates in her art. There are fifty of her hand-colored woodcuts in full color and an equal number in black and white. The book is large format because that is the way she works and that's what does her work justice. The text, written by her friend Lilias Hart, discusses not only her work, but also what life is like in the rigorous reaches of Northern Vermont.
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. US, Michael di Capua Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 12 page board book. Minor wear to edges. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Fun mixture of Maurice Sendak drawings and live action photography, based on the theater company, the Night Kitchen: A National Children"s Theater, the authors created in the early 1990"s.
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. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 5th pr., 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth stamped in maroon. B&w drawings and endpapers art by Kurt Wiese. Clean copy.
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, Alfred A. Knopf, 14th pr., 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright orange covers stamped with title and drawing of Freddy on front. Nice copy of the first in the classic series by Brooks. No dust jacket. Clean.
Chicago, M. A. Donohue, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong brown cloth with a color pastedown on the front cover. Color illusrations. by Richardson. previous owner's inscription on the front fly leaf. A reprint of the 1923 Volland Ed. Crease to last page.
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.
Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, color illustrations by Lionni. Weekly Reader Book Club Edition. Winter is coming, and all the mice are gathering food . . . except for Frederick. But when the days grow short and the snow begins to fall, it's Frederick's stories that warm the hearts and spirits of his fellow field mice. Winner of a 1967 Caldecott Honor. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 118 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. B/w illustrations by Tomi Ungerer. Ex-lib with minor stamping, envelope residue on rear end paper.
Hardcover. New York, Wise-Parslow Company, reprint, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nonpaginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Light chipping to cover edges. Corners frayed. Previous owner's markings on front end paper. Color illustrations by author. Light soil.
Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with color illustrations by Thatcher Hurd.