Hardcover. Winchester MA, Faber & Faber, 1st US, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in laminated pictorial boards. Two young boys complain that nothing exciting ever happens where they live, while witty, stylish illustrations point to the contrary. Wonderful color art by Testa. Clean, bright copy.
Chicago, Follett, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a nice dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Sylvie Selig. Previous owner's inscription on front end paper. Soil and light edgewear to dust jacket. Through Elephant's greediness, Hare and his family lose the magic spoon that makes life easy for them and acquire in its place a magic stick that makes life miserable but also brings them revenge on Elephant.
Hardcover. New York, Schwartz & Wade Books, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non paginated. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations by G. Brian Karas throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st illus. thus, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover ith dust jacket. Color illustrations by Emily Arnold McCully. Dust jacket price clipped.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Light blue hardcover with an elephant and a monkey on the cover. 197 pages illustrated with wonderful color art by Eunice Stephenson.
hardcover. NY, Garden City Publishing Co., 1st, 1941, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 44 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Gustaf Tenggren. Front fly leaf missing. Edgewear and chipping to covers. Spine coming off.
Hardcover. Garden City NY, Doubleday and Company , reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. All 12 tales, 84 pages with 72 color illustrations throughout by Nicolas. No date but ISBN # suggests early 1970s. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Designed and illustrated (in color) by Ivan Chermayeff. Dust jacket shows some chipping and wear. Hardbound.
Hardcover. NY, Hyperion Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations and SIGNED BY YACCARINO on title page with a small sketch.
Hardcover. NY, Hyperion Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations and SIGNED BY YACCARINO on title page with a small sketch.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Company, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 121 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AT TOP EDGE OF TITLE PAGE. Previous owners inscription on half title page. Black & white illustrations by Aldren A. Watson. Foxing to top edge. Dust jacket with darkening to spine, wear along edges. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Bradbury Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, b&w illustrations by Arnold Lobel. Dust jacket shows very minor wear, small tear to front cover. Clean.
Hardcover. New York, Seabury Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations by Clement Hurd. Dust jacket with darkening to spine, light wear to edges. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran , 1st, 1941`, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 277 pages. Black & white drawings by Armstrong Sperry. Bright dust jacket with closed tears to top and bottom edges, spine edgewear.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 64 pages. INSCRIBED BY DENNIS LEE ON TITLE PAGE. Illustrations in full color and black & white by Frank Newfeld. Dust jacket with minor wear. Clean, tight copy. A collection of thirty nonsense poems including the tale of Nicholas Knock and his friendship with a silver honkabeest.
Hardcover. NY, Dominic Books, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial glossy boards. When a jazz-loving kitten named Nicky meets a legendary trumpet player, he learns how to play jazz and word travels fast--soon all the top musicians hear about this jazz cat and want to play with him. This charming story is illustrated with photographs of Nicky with jazz greats Roy Eldridge, Lionel Hampton, Lena Horne, Quincy Jones, Abbey Lincoln, and Gerry Mulligan as they meet and make friends. The colorful graphics and rhyming text--call and response conversation between Nicky and his new musician friends--reflect the humor, rhythm, and spirit of jazz itself. Nicky the Jazz Cat teaches children about the magic of jazz, the value of friends and mentors, and the power of imagination and originality. Children and adults alike will delight in his journey from curious jazz kitten to acclaimed jazz cat. This is the true first edition published 2 years before the poerHouse edition.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press/Junior Literary Guild, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, blue cloth covers, 64 pages, illustrated in b&w by the author. Dust jacket illustrated in color, light rubbing and edgewear. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front cover, light edge stain to front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, reprint, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, pictorial boards in a shelf-worn dust jacket. 1954 reprint of this charming title in the Nicodemus series, written in southern Black dialect by the illustrator of Epaminondas. One-color drawings by Hogan throughout. Dust jacket with light tan stain to front panel. Otherwise clean.
New York, Knopf, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 29 pages. Color illustrations by Nicola Bayley. Laminated boards, no dust jacket. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally and Co., 9th pr., 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated glossy boards. Unpaginated, color illustrations by Tasha Tudor. Light edge wear to covers, bottom left corner bumped. Light foxing to top edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Frederick Warne, 1st, 1981, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 150 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Black & white illustrations by Trina Schart Hyman. Foxing to edges. Dust jacket worn with foxing, short closed tears along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked pages.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st U.S., 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrated by Anthony Browne. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st U.S., 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrated by Anthony Browne. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , North-South, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 20 pages illustrated in color by Zwerger. SIGNED by Zwerger on title page.
Hardcover. New York, Phyllis Fogelman Books, 2nd pr., 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Jerry Pickney and SIGNED BY PICKNEY on half-title page.
Hardcover. Natick, MA, Picture Book Studio, 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Lisbeth Zwerger. Translated from Danish by Anthea Bell.
Hardcover. New York, Random House , 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, llustrated by Beni Montresor, minor dust jacket edge wear and price clipped, otherwise, very clean and tight.
Hardcover. New York, Abelard-Schuman, 1st US, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Adapted by E. J. Pelgrave. Color illustrations by Fulvio Testa. Bottom corner of front flap of dust jacket clipped. Light markings to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth stamped in black with gilt title on front and spine. No date on title page but states Twenty-First Edition. 416 pages. An early printing of the second Uncle Remus book, illustrated with frontispiece and 19 plates by Frederick Church. While working for the Atlanta Constitution in 1876, Harris "invented Uncle Remus" He published Uncle Remus pieces regularly in the Constitution, and they were extremely popular. In 1880 he collected them into his first book. Remus was a composite of three elderly slaves he had known, the stories themselves were his retellings of old African American tales. He rigorously researched his material, often collecting several versions of the same story until he felt he had the most authentic one. Hinges cracked, but generally a bright, clean copy of this title.
Hardcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st thus, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 171 pages. Black & white illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Dust jacket price clipped and lightly soiled. Dust jacket chipping at spine.
Hardcover. Chicago, Whitman, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pgs w/ color & 2-color Illustrations throughout by Eleanor Mussey Young. Small blemish to back boards otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Philomel, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations Charles Mikolaycak. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket.
New York , Philomel Books, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear. A story from Poland retold by Anne Pellowski. Illustrated in color by Charles Mikolaycak. After following the advice of an old woman known for her wisdom, a beleaguered young mother is finally able to quiet her crying infant--but then the rest of the town's babies start wailing.
Hardcover. NY, Prestige Books, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial paper covered boards, 28 pages. Color illustrations by Virgilio Manahan. A Storytime Book telling the exciting tale of Nippy, the Fire Station Mascot and Hero. Nippy aids the Firefighters in fighting a fire at the big Toyshop in town. While doing so he truly shines, as he rescues a Mother Cat and her Kittens. Minor chip to spine.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 40 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white illustrations. Light rubbing to cover boards.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with a $2.75 price on flap. 56 pages illustrated in b&w by Garrett Price. SIGNED BY JOHNSON "with best wishes" on the 2nd blank page. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 32 pages, color illustrations by the author. Convinced that crossing the river on the back of Monty the alligator is too slow, the animals try to find a faster way to get their children to school.
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages, color illustrations by the author. Library edition.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, reprint, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Illustrated in 3-colors by Margaret Bloy Graham. No dust jacket. Children's Choice Book Club Edition. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth stamped in black, 126 pages, line drawings in brown by Paul Brown. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, light shelf wear, tanning to endpapers, otherwise clean. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Hoban. Clean.
Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 80 pages, b & w and color lithographs by Kurt Wiese, slight wear to edges of cover, clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , North-South, 2nd pr., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 30 pages illustrated in color by Zwerger. SIGNED by Zwerger on title page.
Hardcover. NY, Garden City Books, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Palazzo, previous owner's sticker on front endpaper and minor edge wear, otherwise, clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Co, 8th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, chipped dust jacket. Winner of the Caldecott Medal, (with printed image of medal on dj) an ALA Notable Children's Book, and a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year, Peter Spier's Noah's Ark has been the iconic edition of this tale for over 40 years, in print continuously since its debut in 1977. In Spier's imaginative retelling, readers witness the danger and the grandeur of the terrifying flood but also the lighter moments: Noah's wife jumping on a crate to avoid the rats; Noah shooing all but two bees from a busy hive; and all the animal babies being born in the spring. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth over boards with blue lettering on front cover and spine. Color frontis and b&w plates by W. C. Trout. A story set in the Caucasus Mountains follows the adventures of a Georgian boy named Gogi and his sister Keto. Bookplate on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, lovely color plates by Pamela Paparone. INSCRIBED BY LINDBERGH on the half-title page. Born a century ago, Bessie Coleman worked in the cotton fields and dreamed of flying. As a young African-American woman in the 1920s, her chances of leaning to fly were slim. But Bessie never let her dream die and instead became the first licensed African-American aviator in the world. Written by the daughter of aviator Charles Lindbergh. Clean copy.
Boston, Little Brown , 7th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with blue design of doll with dog on front. llustrated in color, b&w by Anne Vaughan. Previous owner's signature opposite first blank page, faint foxing to color illustrated endpapers otherwise tight, clean copy. Lacks dust jacket. Susan Araminta is different from all the other dolls because her face was made of wood. She is put in a box with some old clothes and left at the curb. The trashman with a horse and wagon means to take her home to his little girl but she falls off the wagon and lands in the street. There she is discovered by the gruff Scottish Terrier Mister MacHugh who rescues her.
hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Jim McMullan. Light wear to dust jacket. Flyer for 1988 McMullan Exibition at the Margo Feidan Gallery laid in.
Hardcover. Chicago, Buzza Company, 5th pr., 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages illustrated throughout by Knight in color and b&w, color endpaper illustration. In a bright, lightly chipped dust jacket. Light musty odor.