New York, Dodd Mead and Company, 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Top edge gilt. Publisher's covers in green cloth with green and white floral decorations & gilt lettering. Five photogravure illustrations by Harrison Fisher. Both the cover design and page borders are by designer George Wharton Edwards.

Hardcover. Chicago, Monarch Book Company, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 166 pages. Sixteen color plates by Louis Betts. Yellow cloth cover with title and illustration on front. Spine very slightly darkened. Private library sticker on inner front cover, no other markings. First published by Herbert Stone in 1900, this edition undated but appears to be soon after as quality color plates appear to be from that printing. Clean.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. A collection of humorous verses about animals, friendly or otherwise. Additional poems by Lucy Gardner & Eugene Rudzewicz. Drawings by Lucy, Joel, Joan & John Gardner. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with gray cloth spine. Color illustrations by Masha. Small name on front fly leaf, light edge and corner wear to boards.

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light yellow cloth stamped in blue. A humorous look at life from a baby's/toddler's point of view. Part of The Boston Children's Medical Center's Publications for Parents series. Illustrated throughout in two-colors with Marc Simont's humorous drawings. Clean, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Garden City Publishing Co., 1st, 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with a green cloth spine. An alphabet and number book illustrated in reds and blacks, with dashes of yellow and blue. Illustrated by Nerman. Spine has fraying to top and bottom of spine. Pencil name inside front cover otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Star Bright Books, reprint, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, color illustrations throughout. First published in 1966, Brian Wildsmith's stunning art is the backdrop to this newly revised selection of Robert Louis Stevenson's wonderful poetry for children. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing Co., 1st thus, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 140 pages. Red cloth with color pastedown to front cover. An uncommon illustrated edition of Child's Garden of Verses including 7 color plates and 8 b&w plates by Josephine Wheeler Weage. Size: 8vo. No date but inscription on front fly leaf dated Dec. 25, 1916. Color frontispiece attached at gutter with tape on verso as it had become loose. Otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. NY, Viking/Ariel, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 147 pages, color plates by Van Allsburg. Inscription on half-title page.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 296 pages. Black cloth with color label on front, spine lettering faded. Five color plates and endpaper illustration by Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. Covers and dust jacket illustrated in color, gorgeous full page color illustrations by Nascimbene. Very slight rubbing to dust jacket, spine stiff and tight, covers and pages clean, unmarked and crisp; a beautiful children's book in excellent condition. Two children, separated by great distances both of miles and of social class, grow up dreaming each other's dreams. By incredible chance they meet not just once, but twice, and live happily ever after.

Hardcover. NY, Ars Edition, 1st US, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glazed boards. Approximately 5 3/4" x 4 3/4", 24 pages. English version by John Theobald. Bohatta was a Austrian writer/artist whose titles were republished in the U.S. in small printings. Charming color illustrations. Clean copy.

hardcover. NY, Clarion, 1st , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ronald Himler. Clean, and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, Each page features a child introducing a dino, 25 in all, and describing its behavioral and physical characteristics. The child tells about him-/herself, too, with an argument for renaming the dinosaur after him/her. For example: "My favorite dinosaur is Tyrannosaurus Rex, the biggest, meanest, fiercest, most powerful meat eater ever found . . . when I have a bad day or lose my temper, my dad calls me RYAN-osaurus Rex!" Solid scientific information shares space with fictional youngsters in an ingenious way.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, BC Ed., 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers stamped in black, 120 pages, B&w illustrations by Bice. A Weekly Reader Book Club Edition. Paper tanning, otherwise a tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Schwartz & Wade, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, no dust jacket. 48 pages illustrated by the author in b&w and two colors. When Mini finds a small moppet of a dog, with fluffy ears, no collar, and wearing yellow booties, she understandably wants to take it home. Despite Mom's insistence that the dog probably already has a family, Mini gets attached and is awfully proud of her new pal, who can sing, sit, and give both paws. But when the pup runs off one day at the park, Mini comes to understand how someone else out there might be missing the little guy too.

Hardcover. Somerville MA, Candlewick Press , 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color pictorial boards. At the moment, all Lola can talk about is dogs. She says she would like one more than anything you could think of. "More than a squirrel or an actual fox," she says. Sometimes she pretends to be a dog. And sometimes she pretends that her brother, Charlie, is a dog. The two of them love to talk about what sort of dog they would choose if Mom and Dad didn't always say, "ABSOLUTELY NO DOGS!" Dad says he'll take Lola to the pet store to choose a rabbit, but Lola insists that she only wants a dog, an extremely furry dog with a wiggly nose, a puffy tail, and nice ears. . . . Fans old and new will cotton to this humorous Charlie and Lola adventure sure to please any child who ever longed for the ideal pet. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Describes how dolphins are trained to perform tricks through the experiences of Squirt, a bottlenose dolphin whose successful training led to appearances in marine shows all across the country. B&w illustrations by Ted Lewin.

Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam's & Sons, 1st US, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Color illustrations by Carl Larsson. Text based on artist's original text. Translated by Ernest Edwin Ryden. Dust jacket faded, price tag inside front cover.

Softcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 5th pr., 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Large softcover with pictorial wrappers. 26 full-page woodcuts by Mary Azarian. a beautiful clean, tight children's book in great condition. SIGNED BY AZARIAN on the title page.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with a pastedown plate on front. illustrations by Morgan Dennis; foreword by Morris Frank. 65 pages; b&w plates and text illustrations throughout + 8 b&w photographic plates in rear. The story of a blind person and his "seeing eye" guide dog, written shortly after the first guide dog was brought to America from Switzerland. Spine label faded, mild soil to covers otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Buffalo NY, Annick Press, 1st US, 1994, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, laminated pictorial boards. No dust jacket. Color illustrations by Bernard Oberdieck. No dust jacket. A rare white owl who has always lived in a cage in a travelling circus is bought by the gardener at a nearby castle, who lets her out of her cage in the attic to scare the mice. When the opportunity for escape presents itself, the owl hesitates. Freedom means taking responsibility and risks. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Harper & Row, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glossy boards. Color illustrations by Ben Shecter. An I Can Read Mystery. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 32 pages illustrated in color by Beatriz Vidal. Clean copy.