Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Co., reprint, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in black cloth with a color label on front cover, 316 pages. Eight color plates by Clara M. Burd. Name on inside front cover, otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. SIGNED BY DUVOISIN on half title-page. Color illustrations by Roger Duvoisin. Light wear to cover. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1st thus, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light gray cloth, 207 pages. black & white illustrations by Eunice H. Stephenson. Previous owner's inscription on front end paper. Front cloth cover with two- color illustration and black lettering. Edgewear bottom edges, spine top and bottom. Still very good.
Hardcover. NY, Random House/Literary Guild , 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 160 pages, with sepia-tone Illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, minor edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight.
Hardcover. New York, Calla Editions, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 96 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Forty full-page color plates by French artist and illustrator O.D.V. Guillonnet. A reformatted reprint of a classic.
New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 60 pages, illustrated in color by O.D.V. Guillonnet. Large format in a edgeworn, lightly chipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Viking, reprint, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 55 pages. Color illustrations. A nice reprint of the classical picture book published in the early 1900s. Louis Maurice Boutet de Monvel (1851-1913) was a French academic painter trained at the prestigious Ecole des Beaux Arts. In the 1890's, he began illustrating childrens books. His masterpiece was "Joan of Arc" published in 1896 to great acclaim. The French art world understood that Boutet de Monvel had a created a new style of book illustration for children. His intricate style of flat images with water color detailing influenced childrens book illustration for the next fifty years.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay, reprint, 1918, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Oblong hardcover, 28 unnumbered pages. Previous owner's name and date on front end paper, binding cracked. Stamped cloth covers with dark blue lettering. Illustrated cover. Illustrated by author. Reduced in size from the French and Century Co. editions with fewer illustrations. This edition with 10 pages in full color.
Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Brilliant color illustrations by Stanley. Clean.
Hardcover. New York, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1st , 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 56 pages. Two-color pictures by Trina Schart Hyman. Front endpaper bottom corner creased. Pictorial cover onlaid front and back on heavy paper covered boards.
Hardcover. New York, Longmans, Green and Co., 6th, 1909, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 475 pages. Hardcover with dark green covers, gilt lettering and dog illustration in gilt on front. Gutter cracked throughout and repaired in places. Previous owner's writing on front fly leaf. Cover boards fraying at corners and small rips to top spine with small piece missing.
Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, reprint, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards with light tan stains. 60 pages illustrated in color by Burningham. Previous owner's name on blank page opposite title page. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 2nd pr., 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Vigorously brings to life the story of a true folktale hero. Dramatic two-color drawings by Watson. 82 pages. Includes music & lyrics for Ballad of John Henry (at end of book). Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Keats. Rear end papers with some crayon marks otherwise clean. Dust jacket worn with internal tape repair, chipping.
Hardcover. NY/London, Frederick Warne and Company, reprint, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in blue cloth covers stamped in black with a color pastedown illustration. Fabulous color plates (all present) and b/w drawings by Brooke. Originally published in 1935. Dust jacket with light edgewear. tanning to edges. Book is clean and bright.
Hardcover. New York, M A Donahue & Company , reprint , 1925, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 96 pages. Extensive color and b&w illustrations throughout. Illustrated endpapers and fly leaves. Light edge wear to top right corner of front cover. Otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, Donahue & Company, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with brown cloth spine. A collection of children's stories from the author of the Raggedy Ann books, including several Raggedy Ann and Andy stories. Other tales include: EDDIE EEPHANT, CHEERY SCARECROW, GOODLUCK CRICKET and many more. Illustrated cover showing Raggedy Ann and friends. Some edgewear to edges & corners.
Hardcover. Springfield MA, Mcloughlin Bros., 1st thus, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated paper on oblong boards with bright colors and no fading or scuffing visible. Contains five children's nursery stories and one Bible story: The Three Little Pigs, Little Black Sambo, Jack and the Beanstalk, Snow-White and the Seven Dwars, Three Billy Goats Gruff, and Noah's Ark. All pop-ups in working order. blue cloth spine has separated from binding and is a little loose but doesn't effect pop-ups. Two small tape shadows on last spread. Overall good plus.
Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by Mordicai Gerstein. INSCRIBED WITH SKETCH BY AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR OPPOSITE TITLE PAGE. Small surface abrasion to paper at bottom of copyright page and on opposite dedication page. Clean, unmarked pages.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, 47 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket shows heavy chipping and wear. Illustrations by Louis Slobodkin. chipped laminated boards. Large chunk missing on rear dust jacket.
Softcover. US, Candlewick, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 167 pages, color illustrations by Chris Riddell. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 207 pages with 24 publishers pages in rear. B&w frontispiece and 3 b&w illustrations by Harold Copping. Cover lightly soiled with minor rubbing and edgewear. Inscription by previous owner on front flyleaf. A clean, tight copy.
hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st thus, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, first printing with all numbers present, no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Taback. Winner of the 2000 Caldecott Award. Clean, unmarked copy with with the die-cut holes in pages. Joseph begins the story with a little overcoat but when it gets old & shabby he cuts it down into a jacket. The bright and delightful artwork is done in watercolor, gouache, pencil, ink & collage and aided by die-cuts throughout. Taback did a book about this song in 1976 and re-illustrates it here.
Hardcover. NY, Franklin Watts, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with no dust jackets. Color illust. by Keeping. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Woodstock VT, privately printed/Elm Tree Press, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 21 pages illustrated in red and black by Peg Schaeffer Gruver. An animal story set in rural New England. Illustrated gray boards in a glassine dust jacket that's tanned and chipped. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1st US, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 71 pages. Black & white illust. by Pauline Baynes. Price clipped dust jacket with light soil, edgewear .
Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman & Co, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, pictorial cloth/library binding, 32 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Ex-lib with endpaper stamp and residue. Interior is clean. Tales told in the MIddle East travel from storyteller to storyteller, from country to country. Sometimes they cross the ocean, as this story in one form did to be told in Detroit by an Armenian grandmother. An American scholar heard this story told of the Bedouins, while still another version is Turkish.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1959, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Illustrated boards, 64 pages illustrated in 2-colors and full color by Hoff. Book with light spine wear, overall shelf wear, clean. Dust jacket fair with closed tears, soil.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrated cloth covers, 64 pages illustrated in 2-colors and full color by Hoff. Believed to be first printing, only 2 title by Hoff opposite title page (Danny and the Dinosaur, Sammy the Seal), and no ISBN. No dust jacket. Light edgewear to covers.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket has Caldecott emblem sticker on front. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Black and white drawings illustrated by Van Allsburg. Tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket has Caldecott emblem sticker on front. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Black and white drawings illustrated by Van Allsburg. Tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 4th pr., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Barry Moser. Stories adapted by Van Dyke Parks. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Janovich, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 59 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Barry Moser. Stories adapted by Van Dyke Parks.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 3rd PR., 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 60 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Barry Moser. Adapted by Van Dyke Parks and Malcolm Jones.
Hardcover. New York, Philomel Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to covers. Color illustrations by Nonny Hogrogian.
Hardcover. New York, Callaway/Hyperion, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Covers completely illustrated in color, high-quality and stiff papers, gorgeous, bold, full-page color illustrations by Michael Roberts. Slight rubbing to covers, pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in great condition. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Rand McNally, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 255 pages. Foreword by Kermit Roosevelt. Color plate and black & white illustrations by Paul Bransom and Don Nelson. Green covers with gold lettering and paper color illustration on front cover. Light green top edge. Marking, soiling to cover. Internally clean, light yellowing at edges of pages.
Hardcover. London, Raphael Tuck, na, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 96 pages, illustrated with 23 chromolithographs by E.M. and M.F. Taylor. Tan boards with a color label on front cover, green cloth spine. Text and illustrations printed on one side only. Previous owner's inscription on preliminary blank page dated 1909. Light edgewear to covers otherwise very good.
Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 4th pr., 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 160 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. 7 plates by J. R. Allen. Dust jacket with chipping, light soil.
Hardcover. New York , Doubleday Doran and Co., reprint, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 305 pages, dark green cloth with gilt lettering on cover with a black decoration of a sailing boat. This is the uncommon 1928 reprint, notable for the 35 b&w illustrated plates by different artists but not credited. The chapter decorations are by John Lockwood Kipling. The book is square and clean, the spine gilt has faded, otherwise very good.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Color Illustrations by Richard Floethe. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. Price clipped dust jacket with light soil, closed tear at top back edge.
Softcover. New York, Colgate & Co, 1st, 1914, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover booklet. Heavy soil. Ink spots and previous owner's name on rear wrapper. Light soil internally.Pictures by Leon Wolf.
Hardcover. Kenosha WI, Samuel Lowe Co., 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated cardboard covers, a Bonnie Book, 16 pages illustrated in color. A novelty book with a die-cut and a moveable wheel. Turn it and all the animals get dressed up, changing the faces & clothing of the animals. Pirate animals & shipmates: Monkey, Lion, Bear & Tiger characters. Light soil, wear along top edge otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Michael Paraskevas. In triumph and disaster, Junior Kroll has a comical way of altering the course of events. He plays in a kazoo quartet, frees the dinner party lobsters, steals one neighbor's roses as a present for another, and decorates Grandfather's birthday cake with "little chocolate flies." Michael Paraskevas's zany illustrations bring these offbeat, bittersweet poems to life.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Michael Paraskevas. In triumph and disaster, Junior Kroll has a comical way of altering the course of events. He plays in a kazoo quartet, frees the dinner party lobsters, steals one neighbor's roses as a present for another, and decorates Grandfather's birthday cake with "little chocolate flies." Michael Paraskevas's zany illustrations bring these offbeat, bittersweet poems to life.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Michael Paraskevas. The mother (Author) and son (Artist) team present another adventure in the life of the poor little rich boy.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Michael Paraskevas. The mother (Author) and son (Artist) team present another adventure in the life of the poor little rich boy.