Hardcover. NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by illustrator McCully opposite title page.
Hardcover. New York, Dial Books for Young Readers, 2nd pr., 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 30 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A Haitian story illustrated by Marc Tolon Brown.
Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch/Little, Brown and Co, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Gold covers, blue cloth spine sith gilt titles, color illustrated dust jacket, gorgeous full page color illustrations. Mild rubbing to dust jacket; a beautiful clean, tight copy in excellent condition.
Hardcover. New York , Dutton Juvenile, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Robert Byrd and SIGNED BY KROLL. The ancient Romans used the word barbarian to describe people who were coarse, rude, or even just foreign. Over time the word has also come to connote bloodthirsty cruelty. But were the Goths, the Huns, the Vikings, and the Mongols as barbaric as we?ve been led to believe? In dynamic, detailed spreads that young readers will pore over, bestselling author Steven Kroll and illustrator Robert Byrd explore how these nomadic warriors lived, worshipped, and celebrated. Their wandering armies brought together Europe and Asia through trade and conquest and, in doing so, changed the world forever.
Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, INSCRIBED BY FEIFFER on half title page. Illustrated in color.
Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 180 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY FEIFFER on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 6thpr., 1963, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Ex-lib copy with stamping on front pages, rear endpaper and text block edges. The dust jacket is very good, clean, unclipped with just a small sticker to bottom of spine. A great historical novel for young people of a Kentucky family and their lives at the turn of the century with b&w Illustrations by Berkeley Williams, Jr.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, reprint, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in laminated boards with illustrations on both the front and rear boards and not the Guild edition with only an illustration to the front cover. The first printing had blue covers, they were changed to red for later printings. " Assumed second or 3rd printing with rear cover illustration. In this Caldecott Honor-winning picture book, join Bartholomew Cubbins in Dr. Seuss's classic tale of one king's magical mishap. Bored with rain, sun, fog, and snow, King Derwin of Didd summons his royal magicians to create something new and exciting to fall from the sky. What he gets is a storm of sticky green globs called Oobleck, which soon causes a royal mess. But with the assistance of the wise page boy Bartholomew, the king (along with young readers) learns that the simplest words can sometimes solve the biggest problems." Clean, no markings. Light wear to corners and top of spine.
Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 256 pages. Illustrated in b&w by Marion Kohs. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Warsaw, Panstwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1st illust, thus, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Three hardcover volumes complete with edgeworn dust jackets, 212, 220 and 220 pages. Volume 1 has 24 brilliant color illustrations by Janusc Stanny, the Polish designer and painter best known for his mid-century Polish posters. He also created illustrations for over 200 books. Vol. 2 has 24 plates by Andrzej Strumillo and Vol.3 has 24 plates by Jerzy Jaworowski. Gray cloth covers, interiors clean, no markings. All TEXT IN POLISH. Translated from the Danish by Stefania Beylin and Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SIZE AND WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 176 pages. B&w illustrations by Paul Galdone. A young boy of the Louisiana Bayou wants to be hunter and fisherman like his father. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light beige cloth covers stamped in red with Suzette holding her fish catch on front cover. Stated first edition on copyright page. 208 pages, b&w illustrations by Lenski. Previous owner's inscription on blank prelim page, otherwise clean.
NY, Random House., 1st , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards, Color illustrations by Briggs. No dust jacket issued. From the beloved creator of The Snowman comes an enchanting big book featuring 124 beautiful pastel illustration panels. A huge, snowy white bear arrives mysteriously one cold winter night and crawls into bed with Tilly. The next morning, Tilly sets about making her polar bear friend welcome and excitedly reports her progress in "civilizing" him to her bemused parents. They are sure Tilly has an imaginary friend. But is he imaginary?
Hardcover. London, Hutchinson, 1st UK, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy pictorial boards. A young male bear awakens in Spring to discover that his mother is gone, as is normal for adolescent males, and he must learn to survive on his own in the wilds. Handsomely color illustrated by the Caldecott winning author.. No dust jacket. Clean.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribners Sons, reprint, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a price-clipped dust jacket. Two-color illustrations by Helen Sewell. School stamp on front end paper, otherwise clean. Newberry honor book based on an old Pennsylvania folktale about bears on Hemlock mountain.
Hardcover. NY, Orchard Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with laminated boards. Color illustrations by the author. No dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 192 pages illustrated with her superb watercolors. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Illustrated by Schwartz and SIGNED by her on title page. On her way to market Jenna makes four new friends. Along with Baby Elephant, there's Robin, who thinks Jenna has a very silly beak; Fly, who wonders where her hundred eyes are; and Goldfish, who thinks she has very goofy gills. Kirkus has written that "the power and grace in Schwartz's spare style and language lies in the fact that she never condescends to young readers-she just compares notes." Here she once again completely and convincingly captures the world of a child in a beautiful and winning picture book about . . . a beautiful girl.
Hardcover. NY, Arthur A. Levine Books, reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, oblong format. 32 pages with gorgeous watercolors by McCully. Mingyi, a desperate woman who does not want to marry the no-good Soong Ling, seeks the help of Master Wu Mei, the "beautiful warrior" who teaches Mingyi the philosophy and techniques of kung fu to defend herself against her suitor. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with clipped dust jacket. Color illustrated by author. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Brace Janovich, 1st, 1992, 69 pages. Gray boards bumped at bottom edge. Very good pictorial dust jacket. B&w engraved plates by Barry Moser.
Hardcover. New York, Ginee Seo Books/Antheneum Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY BARYSHNIKOV AND RADUNSKY ON TITLE PAGE. Glossy dust jacket and covers completely illustrated in color, beautiful full page color illustrations by Vladimir Radunsky. No wear to book or dust jacket; a gorgeous children's book in excellent condition.
Hardcover. New York, Ginee Seo Books/Antheneum Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2007, Book: Fine, Dust Jacket: Fine, SIGNED BY BARYSHNIKOV AND RADUNSKY ON TITLE PAGE. Glossy dust jacket and covers completely illustrated in color, beautiful full page color illustrations by Vladimir Radunsky. No wear to book or dust jacket; a gorgeous children's book in excellent condition.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 189 pages, illustrated in b&w by Erik Blegvad. Book Club Ed. Clean copy. By the author of the beloved "Borrowers" series, this book combines 2 of the author's earlier works (1943, 1957), "The Magic Bed-Knob" & "Bonfires and Broomsticks,'' into a single volume, magically illustrated by Erik Blegvad. A Book Club edition from 1971, this hardcover book has bright blue cloth-covered boards with black lettering to spine.
Hardcover. New York, Harper Brothers, 1st, 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Moderate soil on cover boards. Fraying and edgewear to spine cloth. Gutter is loose, but not cracked. Overall, a moderately worn copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, reprint, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards with black cloth spine. Color illustrations by Garth Williams. Early but not a first.Previous owner's name on end paper, otherwise clean, very good. Lacks dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, reprint, circa 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Illustrated boards with black cloth spine. Charming illustrations by Garth Williams in b&w and pastel green. An early reprint ($3.95 on dj flap). Originally published in 1960 this is probably a mid-sixties reprint. No date given. Dust jacket with mild wrinkle. Clean.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st US, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Vivid color illustrations by author throughout. A little boy who is not ready for bedtime runs to hide in a magic castle and finds some unusual friends there. Clean copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row , 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Montresor. Some edgewear. Dust jacket with soilng, small tears.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illust. by Montresor. Light edgewaer to covers, otherwise clean, tight copy.
Cambridge, MA, Candlewick Press, 1st U.S., 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, unpaginated, color illustrations by P. J. Lynch, DVD "Making Fairy Tales" inside front cover, very clean, tight copy, like new. Brought to new life with enchanting illustrations by award-winning artist P. J. Lynch, this comic American folktale concludes with a final, satisfying twist that says much about fate, identity, and the captivating power of bees.
Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1947, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Moderate to heavy soil on covers. Spine ripped on top and small stain on front bottom corner and rear.
Hardcover. NY, Four Winds Press, 3rd pr., 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 102 pages. Illustrated in line by Catherine Stock. A pampered child is transformed into a cat, with her beloved pet as a guide. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, M.A. Donohue & Co., reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, unpaginated, color illustrations by Gruelle. Cardboard covers with edge and corner wear, but clean and bright, black cloth spine. Originally published in 1926 by Volland. This edition undated but probably late 1930s. Inscription on frontispiece opposite title page. Otherwise unmarked.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 4th pr., 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, light tan cloth stamped in dark brown, in a poor dust jacket with large chios to front panel and pieces gone from rear. ($1.50 on flap). B&w illustrations by Lawson, endpapers drawing of Benjamin Franklin (with Amos the mouse) dozing off while flying a kite. Once you've met Amos you'll always remember Benjamin Franklin a little differently than the history books do. The first of Lawson's three animal narrated biographical tales. The basis for the 1953 Walt Disney animated movie. With a promotional sticker on a blank prelim page from a paper company that gave the book as a Christmas gift, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards, 6 amazing complex double page colored pop-ups, plus pop-up box inside upper cover, and 4 full page colored illustrations and brief text. Ben's mother's discarded washing machine box brings him face to face with dragons, a giant octopus and a whale, and takes him out into space. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st thus, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Story & pictures by Garth Williams. His original black & white drawings (from 1951's Adventure of Benjamin Pink) colored by Rosemary Wells.
Hardcover. New York , Atheneum, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth with red ribbon decoration. Unpaginated. Illustrated with color pictures by Ron Barrett throughout on yellow background. Several pages with dog-ear crease at top corner, otherwise clean, very good. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by Margaret Bloy Graham. Some faint areas of soiling on front cover. Pages are clean, unmarked.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. B&W illustrations by Leonard Vosburgh. In a lightly chipped dust jacket, price-clipped. A young adult novel set in the Carolinas during the Revolutionary War.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, three-color art by author. Benjy, a small dog takes a surprise boat trip and meets an angry ship's cat. Clean. Book Club Edition, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st US, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Bennett. Foreward by Gerald Gottlieb.Reproduction of a book first published in England in 1857. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins , 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY JOYCE on front end paper. Color illustrations by Joyce. Nice condition, some wear to dust jacket but mostly clean.