Children illustrated

Hardcover. NY, D. Appleton-Century Company, reprint, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Green cloth boards with white illustration on cover, white lettering on spine. 226 pages, b&w drawings by Peggy Bacon. Charming story of the little girl, Miss Boo, and her adventures. Reviews on rear of dust jacket suggest this is a reprint.

Hardcover. London, Augener Ltd., First Edition, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non paginated. Blue cloth boards with oval paste down illustration. Toning to board edges & spine. Oval full color illustrations by H. Willebeek Le Mair throughout, most in very good condition. Light foxing & fingerprints to a few pages. Moderate foxing to preliminary pages. Otherwise clean & unmarked.

NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. Light edgewear to dust jacket. As they play video games inside, children miss out on a world of activity just outside their window.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 78 pages. Yellow spine cloth with aqua & white flower pattern covers. Spine label intact. Previous owners stamp on front endpaper. Illustrated with black & white drawings by Elizabeth Montgomery. Some darkening to covers. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Illust. with black & white line drawings by Elizabeth Montgomery. 77 pges. Browning to front and back end-papers. Dust jacket with wear to corners, spine edges. Dust jacket with color illustration on cover. Scarce.

Hardcover. NY - Ind., Bobbs Merrill, 1st , 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Bill Tinker. Three stories -- one based on a Scottish ballad, another on a Japanese folktale, and the other on Greek mythology, with the common thread that the character in each story is taken out of this world, then back again.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st US, 1900, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 346 pages plus publisher's ads. Blue cloth with red shirt loading a musket on front board. 8 b&w plates by William Rainey (1852-1936) was a noted landscape painter and figure artist who regularly illustrated books for Henty. Hinge cracked at title page. Moderate shelf wear. No markings.

Hardcover. n.p., L.T. Myers, unknown, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers, 3 color lithographs, many black & white illustrations. Color label on decorated cover. No publisher indicated,(C) by L.T. Myers. Areas of cover show fading, soil.

Hardcover. London, Collins, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Reprints two charming tales in one book: "Spring Story" and "The High Hills". Illustrated by the author. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Pegasus Books, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Inspired by the twenty-three 'tales', Matthew Dennison takes a selection of quotations from Potter's stories and uses them to explore her multi-faceted life and character: repressed Victorian daughter; thwarted lover; artistic genius; formidable countrywoman. They chart her transformation from a young girl with a love of animals and fairy tales into a bestselling author and canny businesswoman, so deeply unusual for the Victorian era in which she grew up. Embellished with photographs of Potter's life and her own illustrations, this biography will delight anyone who has been touched by Beatrix Potter's work. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Lothrop & Co., 1st, 1878, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrated boards with a black cloth spine, 247 pages, b&w illustrations. Introduction by Leonard Waldo of Harvard College Observatory. An introductory study of Astronomy for the young reader. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf otherwise clean. Corner chip to paper on bottom of front cover A fragile binding but still solid.

Hardcover. London, G. Bell and Sons, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear, 111 pages. B&w drawings by the author. Hodges' version of a true story of the Lynmouth lifeboat crew which hauled their boat over Exmoor to Porlock, the next harbour along the coast, during a raging storm in 1899. Clean.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Oblong hardcover, glazed pictorial boards. Color illustrations by Dines. Cover shows minor wear. Clean.

Hardcover. New York, Kipling Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 35 pages, with illustrations by Stephen Alcorn throughout. Price clipped. Very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 42 pages. hardcover with dust jacket. Color and black & white illustrations by Bryan. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with the gold foil Caldecott Medal on the front. SIGNED BY HALL on the title page. Cooney's award-winning color paintings throughout. Also laid in: A signed typewritten note from Hall on his stationery and a newspaper article about the author. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 2nd pr., 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with green bards stamped with silhouette design, beige cloth spine. No dust jacket. Winner of the Caldecott Medal in 1980. Color illustrations by Barbara Cooney. Short inscription on front fly leaf otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Oxford University Press , 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 224 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w by Joan Hassall. Dust jacket is worn, torn and sun-faded, protected by a mylar cover. Book itself is in lovely condition. Contains 800 nursery rhymes and ditties which are the heritage of our oral tradition. All the well-known rhymes are included as well as many rare ones.

Hardcover. NY, Books of Wonder / HarperCollins Publishers, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 64 pages illustrated in color. Thirty favorite artists and writers celebrate one hundred years of Oz. Contributors include: Peter Glassman; Maurice Sendak; Janell Cannon; Tomie dePaola; Jerry Pinkney; Paul O. Zelinsky; Uri Shulevitz; Trina Schart Hyman; William Joyce; Richard Egielski; Diane Goode; Robin McKinley; Leo and Diane Dillon; Madeleine L'Engle; Mark Teague; Jules Feiffer; Ann M. Martin; Kinuko Y. Craft; Kay Chorao; Michael Foreman; Mark Beuhner; Natalie Babbitt; Peter Sis; Bruce Degen; Chris Van Allsburg; Michael Hague; Troy Howell; Richard Jesse Watson; Lloyd Alexander; Eric Carle. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Books of Wonder, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages. A deluxe facsimile of the rare first edition, featuring forty-two of John R. Neill's full-color plates and twenty-one two-color illustrations, as well as a colorful pictorial binding. Afterword by Peter Glassman.

Hardcover. Chicago, Reilly & Lee, reprint, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 272 pages. Hardcover. Early reprint. Tan cloth covers with full color paste down illustration to front - paste down with abrasions. Front interior hinge cracked. Black & white illustrations by John R. Neill. Moderate rubbing to corners and edges. Interior clean, tight.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st thus, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. To mark the fortieth anniversary of Paddington's appearance in America, Houghton Mifflin put out this huge treasury, containing chapters from eleven of the Paddington Bear books published between 1958 and 1979. Thirty five adventures in all. There's a new Introduction by the author. The original black & white drawings of Peggy Fortnum were hand-colored by her step-granddaughter, Caroline Nuttall-Smith. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Young Scott Books, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. Illustrated in b&w by Ingrid Fetz, 160 pages. A charming story of farm life.

Softcover. US, Platt & Munk, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover with light to minor wear to paper wrappers. Illustrated by H. Cady. Previous owner's markings on some pages.