Hardcover. Somerville MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, color illustrations by Gwen Millward. What may appear to be an abandoned garden is actually home to an unusual array of insects. Meet a ladybug who prefers making mud angels to acting like a lady, a roly-poly bug who loves to roll ("wa-hoo!"), a cricket who dreams of grand adventures, and a whole neighborhood of bugs gazing up at a fireworks show of flowers bursting into bloom. These inviting vignettes are sure to have readers seeing bugs in a whole new light. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Calla/Dover, reprint, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 328 pages. For over 150 years, the enchanting fairy tales of Danish author Hans Christian Andersen have delighted people all over the world. This beautifully designed treasury gathers his most beloved tales in a gilt-stamped, hardcover edition, illustrated with 28 full-color images by Golden Age artist Edmund Dulac. Filled with such favorites as "The Snow Queen," "The Nightingale," and "The Emperor's New Clothes," this masterful collection will excite the senses of book lovers everywhere. Originally published in 1911 by Hodder & Stoughton.
Hardcover. Chicago, American Colortype Company, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with red cloth spine. 96 pages illustrated in 2-colors by Dorothy Wagstaff. 22 short stories of a stereotypical black boy done in the style of the time. Chipping and wear to paper on the covers, interior clean, solid binding.
Hardcover. Morehouse Publishing, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket. 56 pages illustrated by Tony Morris. Small inscription to front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. London, Hutchinson's Books for Young People, 1st, unkn., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 176 pages. Hardcover with clipped dust jacket. Illustrations by C. Gifford Ambler. Dust jacket shows minor wear, covers good. Internally, previous owner's name on front fly leaf. tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Bodley Head, reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in brilliant color by Wiese. Dust jacket has soil, edgewear, chipping. Book itself is near fine with color illustrated boards very bright.
Garden City, NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1963, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 71 pages. Black & white illustrations by Jim McMullan, his first book. Previous owner's inscription front end paper. Dust jacket price clipped. Creases, large tears, light soiling. Clear plastic protective cover.
Hardcover. New York, J. H. Sears & Company, Inc., 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 241 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Front hinge intact but tender. Full color and black & white illustrations by Milo Winter and Charlotte Becker. Light foxing to front cover color paste down illustration. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harlin Quist Inc., reprint, 1973, Dust Jacket: Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. English translation Ciba Vaughan. Color illustrations by Jean-Michel Nicollet. Violet end papers, burgundy cloth covers with gold lettering on spine. Dust jacket faded by sun with minor tears. Dust jacket protected by acrylic cover.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint , 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 286 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by A.B. Frost. Top edge gilt. Embossed cover with gilt decorations. Light edgewear to covers.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , reprint , 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black & white illustrations by Oliver Herford. First published a year earlier. Beautiful, clean copy. all edges green, decorated cover with gilt lettering.
Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, 1st US, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Color illustrations by author.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 48 pages illustrated in color by the author. This is a facsimile of the original 1933 0versized edition that introduced the iconic elephant to American audiences. In a bright dust jacket that matches the laminated boards.
Hardcover. New York, North-South Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. From the gospel of Luke, illustrated by Eleonore Schmid. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.
Hardcover. New York, Dutton Juvenile, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by David McPhail. Illustrated boards with matching dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Scribners, reprint, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 312 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color frontispiece by W.J. Aylward/ b&w Illustrations by Pyle. Internally tight & clean. Mild water stain on back cover. Brandywine Edition.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 114 pages. Illustrated in b&w by Lattimore. Illustrated endpapers. Previous owner's signature front endpaper. Review stamp front fly leaf. Edgewear, corners a bit bumped, rubbed. Spine bumped, faded. Light soiling to covers.
Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 2nd, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illust. by Fred Marcellino. SIGNED BY MARCELLINO ON TITLE-PAGE. Tight and bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, rep, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 345 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Pictorial cover. Light wear to covers. Previous owner's name and bookplate near front. Illustrated with 10 color plates by Peter Hurd (1st edition by this illustrator) Tight copy. Light rubbing to lettering on spine.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with laminated boards. Clean, tight copy. Illustrated in color by Blake.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribners Sons, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 258 pages. Black and white Illustrations by Pyle. Tissue over frontispiece. Lettering on spine a bit faded. Light edgewear to covers. Back hinge partially cracked. Previous owner's signature on blank prelim page.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, mustard cloth stamped with red, black and gilt decoration, 258 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w line by Howard Pyle. Front hinge cracked, previous owner's bookplate on blank prelim page, otherwise clean, very good.
Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st US, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 296 pages. Black & white illustrations by Gordon Browne and Lewis Baumer. Previous owners inscription on front endpaper. Green cloth covers with gilt titles on cover and spine. Illustration in white of children along a bannister on front cover. Copyright 1899, with no previous printings listed. Light foxing to some pages. Clean, tight copy.