Hardcover. London, Cassell and Company, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers with color pastedown of stagecoach on cover, black lettering and design. Gilt title on spine. 232 pages, 4 color plates including frontis of airships, many b&w illustrations throughout. Inscription on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by J. Winslow Higginbottom. Wear to corners and spine. Tear to top rear edge. Clean copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Blue Sky Press, reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. With warmth, humor, and dazzling landscapes, award-winning writer Audrey Wood and acclaimed illustrator David Shannon team up to present the tall-tale beginnings of Niagara Falls, the Rocky Mountains, Old Faithful, and more. Meet the Bunyans - a family you'll never forget! Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A collection of 5 folk tales from various countries about the feelings buried deep within us. Tales include title story + "The Wolf In Disguise", "Savitri and the Lord of the Dead","The Mad Priest", etc. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. A collection of 5 folk tales from various countries about the feelings buried deep within us. Tales include title story + "The Wolf In Disguise", "Savitri and the Lord of the Dead","The Mad Priest", etc. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st US, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Dust jacket art, b&w illustrations by Victor Ambrus. Children's adnture story set in Africa. Clean copy.
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", 18 pages. English version by Mary Lee Theobold. Bohatta was a Austrian writer/artist whose titles were republished in the U.S. in small printings. Color illustrations in the style of Thornton Burgess. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Scholastic Press,, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. First printing with full number line. "When Calder Pillay travels with is father to a remote village in England, he finds a mix of mazes and mystery...including an unexpected Alexander Calder sculpture in the town square. Calder is strangely drawn to the sculpture, while other people have less-than-friendly feelings toward it. Both the boy and the sculpture seem to be out of place...and then, on the same night, they disappear!" Clean copy.
Hardcover. London/NY, Thames & Hudson, reprint, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Originally published in Sweden in 1953. 24 pages illustrated in color by Poul Stroyer. The most maddening crow in world history is out to cause trouble! He can't resist the farmer's cherries - and one day he gets caught. The farmer tries to punish the crow with hard labor, but the crow only causes a lot of bother. Then the farmer tries to sell the crow at the market, but who wants to buy a troublesome crow? Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Parents' Magazine Press, 1st, 1968, Hardcover, pictorial cloth. 42 pages illustrated in color by Lionel Kalish. A tale of a fiddler and his "very special" dancing cat. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, reprint, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth with green stamping, 57 pages illustrated in b&w by Lynd Ward.
NY, Walker Childrens, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY KIMBLE opposite the title page. Warren Kimble, America's foremost contemporary folk artist, lets his favorite cats out of the bag in his first picture book for the very young. From fat cats to clean cats to curious cats, these clever word pairs capture familiar feline behavior and attitudes in all their quirky glory. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. London, Michael Joseph, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly edgeworn dust jacket, 124 pages. Punchbowl Farms' largest crop may not be cats, but the Siamese and Burmese cat families who have the run of the farm are certainly its most delightful product. With love humor, and insight, Monica Edwards introduces some o the numerous felines she has welcomed into her home on the farm. B&w photo illustrations.
Hardcover. London, The Religious Tract Society, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light gray cloth with a color pastedown illustration on front cover. Color frontis, 4 b&w drawings by Gordon Robinson.
Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. Clean. Andre, one of the finest chefs in the country, is honored by the Emperor's gift of a magnificently tall hat, until he finds out how many problems it causes in his life.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with dark maroon stamping, 236 pages. Illustrated with sixteen full-page black and white drawings by Seredy. The dramatic and heart-warming tale is set first on an estate in Hungary near the end of WW II, and then on a farm in the Hudson Valley, New York. Young Michael of Hungary carries an acorn all the way from his castle home in Chestry Valley, Hungary, to the warm soil of the Hudson Valley farm where he makes a new home after the war. He is accepted into an American family who accept Michael as one of their own. A compelling character is Midnight, the black stallion that has been trained to perform before princes. Bright, tight copy. Lacks dust jacket.
Hardcover. Ny, Doubleday, Doran, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth stamped in dark gray. No dust jacket.Color endpapers design, line illustrations by Rhea Wells. 70 pages of advice for young gardeners. Small bump to bottom corner of book, otherwise very good, clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick red cloth with white and black design on front cover. 219 pages, 8 b&w plates by Bertha Davidson. Rear cover rubbed, internally clean.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st illust., 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red embossed covers with gilt decoration of two children in profile. One volume from the publisher's 10 volume series, 381 pages. Notable for the full color plates by Henry Pitz, 16 in all. Illustrated endpapers of young children in field of flowers (by another artist). Interior clean, very good.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st illust., 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red embossed covers with gilt decoration of two children in profile. One volume from the publisher's 10 volume series, 508 pages. Notable for the full color plates by H.I. Bacharach, 16 in all. Illustrated endpapers of young children in field of flowers (by another artist). Interior clean, very good.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st illust., 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red embossed covers with gilt decoration of two children in profile. One volume from the publisher's 10 volume series, 442 pages. Notable for the full color plates by H.I. Bacharach, 16 in all. Illustrated endpapers of young children in field of flowers (by another artist). Owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise interior clean, very good.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st illust., 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red embossed covers with gilt decoration of two children in profile. One volume from the publisher's 10 volume series, 517 pages. Notable for the full color plates by Martin Robinson, 16 in all. Illustrated endpapers of young children in field of flowers (by another artist). Interior clean, very good.
Hardcover. NY, John Day Company, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong pictorial cloth, 64 pages illustrated in two-colors by William Arthur Smith. SIGNED BY BUCK on the title page. Originally published 1n 1942, this is the 17th printing and was most likely signed in 1969 by Buck in Danby, Vermont, where she lived in her later years. Bright, clean copy, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket that is taped to the book covers, color illustrations. Charming Christmas story about a stray cat who finds a new family at Christmastime. Tasha Tudor's illustrations and her daughter's tale. Dust jacket with sticker on spine from publisher, "Crowell Quality Reinforced Binding". No marking.