Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Wonderful silhouette and full-color illustrations by artist Rhoda Chase of young boys and girls at play and visiting relatives. A short book about the two siblings, Bobby and Betty and some of their friends, relatives and daily activities. Light cover soil and wear to edges, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, pictorial boards in a bright price-clipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Lillian Hoban. Dust jacket with chipping, small closed tears. Publisher's gold sticker across spine. Clean copy of the Hobans' classic tale of goodnight fears and the way to put oneself to sleep.
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.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&w drawings by Dirk Zimmer. Set in Boston in 1636, a valuable pig escapes from Goody's sty and must be rescued by the determined lady. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia , Lippincott, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Bethany Tudor (Tasha's Tudor's daughter). Illustrated boards with light wear to corners. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, 1st , 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, color illustrations by Ted Lewis - their first collaboration. The Lewins trek through the heat, humidity, mud, and dense vegetation of the Impenetrable Forest of southern Uganda to visit mountain gorilla families and observe the gorillas in their natural habitat.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 46 pages. Illustrated in four colors by Wiesner. Dust jacket price-clipped, minor fading. Brodart cover. Stories of a rascally thief, set in olden times, who finally gets his comeuppance.
Hardcover. Somerville, MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations by Benji Davis throughout. Illustrated end papers and paste downs. At the bottom of Syd's garden, through the gate and past the tree, is Grandad's house. Syd can let himself in any time he likes. But one day when Syd comes to call, Grandad isn't in any of the usual places. He's in the attic, where he ushers Syd through a door, and the two of them journey to a wild, beautiful island awash in color where Grandad decides he will remain. So Syd hugs Grandad one last time and sets sail for home. Visiting Grandad's house at the bottom of the garden again, he finds it just the same as it's always been -- except that Grandad isn't there anymore. Sure to provide comfort to young children struggling to understand loss, Benji Davies's tale is a sensitive and beautiful reminder that our loved ones live on in our memories long after they're gone.
New York , Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color Illustrations by James Stevenson. Dust jacket with light wear at spine. Janetta enjoys her visit to her grandfather, including such highlights as listening to the night insects make music and admiring his cat's new kittens.
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illust. by James Stevenson. Unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.Color illustrations by James Stevenson. Janetta's Grandaddy lives on a farm with chickens and a mule, and when he comes to visit her in Baltimore, Janetta is worried that he'll find the city boring. Griffith's narrative is neatly paired with Stevenson's gently humorous, altogether winning watercolor-and-black-pen illustrations, which alternately depict the urban setting and the beloved, rustic home Grandaddy invokes frequently in his conversations with Janetta.
Hardcover. NY, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrated boards. Color illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. Tangrams are ancient Chinese puzzles that are still used today by adults as well as children. Author became intrigued by the challenge of the puzzles and began making up her own tangrams and stories about them. Clean copy, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York , Knopf, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 42 pages illustrated in color by Wiktor Sadowski. Color illustrated boards, no dust jacket issued for this library edition. NOT ex-library, clean and bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Three-color pictures by Whitney Darrow, Jr. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Walker Books, 1st US, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A woman tells her grandchildren about an ugly hat she once had as a young girl and what happened when she accidentally lost it. In soft pencil and watercolor, Milne's art nicely evokes the South African setting in its many details, including Papa's general store. Clean copy.
NY, Hyperion, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket Color illustrations by Jim La Marche. A delightful fantasy about the passenger pigeon.
Boston, MA, Dana Estes & Co., 1st, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 155 pages. Publisher's light blue cloth spine over blue-gray paper-covered boards, designed by Amy Richards (author's daughter, unsigned binding) with Madonna lilies stamped in dark blue to upper cover and spine, title and author stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, rough cut edges, with frontispiece and three full-page black and white illustrations by Merrill. Name of previous owner on front flyleaf.
Hardcover. Joliet IL, Volland, 1st, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Large format, 48 pages, illustrated in color and b&w by Rae. Illustrated cardboard covers worn along edges and at corners. Some soiling or darkening to areas of cover. Paper chipping to spine. Internally very good.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown and Co., 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Tasha Tudor. First printing with all numbers present. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Chicago, Follett , unknown , 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Translated from French by John Mills. 70 pages, including glossary. First American edition. Profusely illustrated. 71 pages, giving information of various types of ships from Galleys, Clippers, Whalers, Glossary of sailing terms. Famous sailers James Cook & others.
Hardcover. New York , Harcourt Children's Books, 1st thus, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED by illustrator Kellogg.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st illus. thus, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Color illustrations by Steven Kellogg. Dust jacket with light edgewear, short closed tears.
Hardcover. Colorado Springs, Chariot Victor, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Greg Dearth.