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. 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. NY, E.P. Dutton and Company, 3rd pr., 1936, Book: Fair, Hardcover, pictorial boards. 60 pages illustrated with b&w line drawings by Paul Brown. An endearing true story of the beloved white pony owned by King George and used for shooting or long rides in the country, told by the pony. The book has the cardboard spine missing, binding holding. Light shelfwear.
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. Kenosha WI, John Martin's House, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 32 pages illustrated in color by Klara. Johnny was lonesome for a playmate. He went to heaven to tell St. Peter his wish and St. Peter promised to send him a baby sister. Just after Christmas his baby sister arrives. Previous owner's inscription on inside front cover, Light bump to top corner.
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. 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.