Hardcover. New York, Philomel Books, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Kimberly Bulcken Root. INSCRIBED BY ROOT on title pg. Clean, tight signed copy.
Hardcover. NY, NYR Children's Collection, reprint, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 64 pages illustrated in 2-colors by Kunhardt. Originally published in 1933. Junket is a delicious custard and a lovely dessert. But why is the old man with a red beard and red slippers eating such an enormous bowl of junket, and what could he possibly be thinking about while he feasts? That's a good question! And one that the old man poses to the crowds and crowds of people that gather to watch him. In fact, almost everyone in the whole world wants to know the answer to this riddle. And only one little boy has the answer. This ingenious book of inspired nonsense was the very first from Dorothy Kunhardt, whose Pat the Bunny has delighted generations of young children. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Feiwel & Friends, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Instagram superstar Eva Chen is back with Juno Valentine and the Fantastic Fashion Adventure, featuring illustrations by Derek Desierto in a story thats equal parts fashion fairy tale and guide to girl power.Its school picture day and Juno Valentine is having a fashion emergency! Her mom wants her to wear fabulous florals, her dad wants her to wear rainbow ruffles, but Junos not sure what to choose. And just when Juno thinks her conundrum couldnt get any more complicated, her little brother, Finn, disappears into the magical hall of shoes! In an epic chase through time, Juno gets some help from female icons like Simone Biles, Audrey Hepburn, Annie Oakley, and Michelle Obama. Clean copy.
Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY VAN ALLSBURG on title-page. Color illustrations by the author. Dust jacket with light edgewear.
Hardcover. New York, Platt & Munk, 1st, 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrated boards, unpaginated (40 pages), illustrated in color and b&w by Eulalie and Lois Lenski. Shelf wear, back cover rubbed, otherwise good plus.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 109 pages. Illustrated in b&w by the author. Decorated torquoise cloth covers with spine fade. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. Chicago, Follett Publishing, 5th pr., 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 32 pages in color by Erickson. Light wear to text pages at top corner. A lost puppy gets directions from various animals to find his way home. A Follett Beginning-to-Read Book. Small note on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Parents' Magazine Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth boards, 40 pages illustrated in color by Aldren Watson and SIGNED BY WATSON on the title page. Farmer West is getting old and finding taking care of his farm hard, but when he decides to sell, he doesn't like what all the buyers will do with it. What is he to do? Clean copy, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. Garden City, Garden City, 1st Thus, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 249 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Full color and black & white illustrations by J. M. Gleeson and Paul Bransom. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday Page & Co., reprint, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 249 pages, dark green cloth with black decoration, b&w drawings by Kipling. Top and bottom of spine cloth with light fraying. Otherwise clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Books of Wonder, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Facsimile reprint of book first published in 1922.Color plates and b&w illustrations by John R. Neill.
Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped jacket. Color illustrations by Say and SIGNED BY SAY WITH A THUMBNAIL SKETCH on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. NY, Silver,Burdett and Company, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated cloth, 160 pages plus vocabulary. Illustrated in color and b&w by Constance Whittemore. Children's reader to introduce children to Germany through a trip with Karl and Gretel. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Feiwel & Friends , 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 36 pages. SIGNED BY EGAN & YACCARINO with a sketch of a cat. Author Egan establishes a frantic pace on page one and never lets up, creating that morning whirlwind of activity and emotion that seems stressful while it's happening but just a part of life minutes after it's over. Yaccarino's flat, patterned gouache illustrations give the characters hilarious poker faces and, when appropriate, wide-open shocked mouths--both of which are necessary on a weekday.
NY, D. Appleton & Co., 1st, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with gilt, red and green decoration to cover and spine. 429 pages + ads. Black & white illustrations by A.I. Keller and D. Potter. Frontispiece illustration with tissue guard. Front hinge partially cracked. Spine fade.
Detroit, Wayne State Univ., 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white, color illustrations. 211 pages. This catalog was compiled to document the complete holdings of the Detroit Public Library's Kate Greenaway Collection. Over 400 items catalogued here. 9 color plates + numerous black & white illustrations. Selected bibliography. 10" high X 7" wide.
NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color and black & white illustrations by Kate Greenaway. Clean copy. A new era in the history of children's books began in 1878 when Kate Greenaway's first book of pictures and verse, Under the Window, was published. This was followed by her Birthday Book, A Day in a Child's Life, Mother Goose, Little Ann, Language of Flowers, and Marigold Garden. These and the many other enchanting volumes she illustrated, gained her a devoted worldwide audience of all ages. Today's great revival of interest in Kate Greenaway's work is understandable; as an illustrator of childhood she had no equal in her day, nor has she had since. The Kate Greenaway Book contains a short biography and selections from her best-known as well as little-known works: a collection of texts and pictures, some never even published before, charmingly arranged for readers of all ages to enjoy.
Hardcover. NY, Harry Abrams, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 95 pages. 77 beautiful full color illustrations. Foreword by Bernard McTigue, Introduction by Rodney Engen. Like new. After more than a century, the never-before-published complete facsimile pages of the artist's two sketchbooks, in which she designed this little masterpiece, are presented in a single volume, the work as crisp and colourful as the day it was made.
Hardcover. NY, Schocken Books, 1st thus, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 58 pages. Black & white sketches for illustrations by Greenaway. Nice condition, minor wear and chipping to dust jacket but internally completely clean.
Hardcover. London, Adam and Charles Black, reprint, 1905, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 300 pages. Contains black & white and color illustrations. Faded spine and chipping to top of spine. Foxing to front edge. Gilt top edge.
Hardcover. New York, Bradbury Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 30 pages. Color illustrations by Rick Brown. Dust jacket price clipped. Remainder mark on bottom edge. While enjoying a summer vacation traveling with her best friend, Lucy, through Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona, Kate writes a series of letters home.
Hardcover. NY, Dial Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Color art by Max Ginsburg. A biography of the fifteen-year-old Iowa teenager who helped avert a train disaster in 1881 and became a national heroine. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , Random House , 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Unpaginated, illustrated throughout in 3-colors by Ellie Simmons. Illustrated gray cloth with a edgeworn dust jacket.