Hardcover. NY, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Award-winning artist Jerry Pinkney's wordless adaptation of one of Aesop's most beloved fables, an unlikely pair learn that no act of kindness is ever wasted. WINNER OF THE 2010 CALDECOTT MEDAL SIGNED BY PINKNEY.
Hardcover. Joliet IL, P. F. Volland Company, 1st, 1920, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color pictorial boards, illustrated throughout including endpapers by Gruelle. No other printings or editions mentioned so assume first printing. One page with a mild smudge, some chipping to top & bottom of spine. A pencilled name on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. NY, Dunreath Publishing, 2nd Ed., 1893, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth, lightly soiled, stamped in dark blue with a decorative cover. 80 pages with charming line drawings by George W. Bardwell. The story follows the exploits of a band of elves as they search for the world's most picturesque location. The elves face many difficulties and impediments on their voyage, but they keep going for their goal. They pick up valuable lessons about cooperation, tenacity, and the wonders of nature along the way. Hinge cracked at title page, book a little shaken but holding, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Platt & Munk, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth covers stamped in black. The kindness and determination of the Little Blue Engine have inspired millions of children around the world since the story was first published in 1930. Cherished by readers for over ninety years, The Little Engine That Could is a classic tale of the little engine that, despite her size, triumphantly pulls a train full of wonderful things to the children waiting on the other side of a mountain. Illustrated in color by George and Doris Hauman. Clean, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston, 2nd pr., 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in brown with a prancing colt on the cover. Picture book story of the colt Chip and all the mischief he causes just because he wants a friend and partner to swish at flies like the big horses. Illustrated in color and b&w by Diana Thorne. Inscription on front fly leaf otherwise clea, Binding is a tad loose, light shelfwear.
Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman and Co , 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown boards with a large color label on the front cover. Translated from the German of Elizabeth Morgenstern. Lovely color plates by Marigard Bantzer. Mild soil to covers, inside bright and clean.
Hardcover. Zurich, North-South Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. After the hens refuse to help goose, would-be father Mr. Goose decides to take matters into his own hands and sets up a nest for a stray egg, but when it is born, he discovers that it is not a goose, but Mr. Goose is not bothered by the comments of others and remains as proud as ever of his new hatchling. Color illustrations by Alan Marks.
Hardcover. Boston/NY, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, reprint, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A lovely reprint of the classic and Caldecott Medal winner first published in 1942. This edition comes with window stickers on a rear page. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin & Co. , 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in red, 226 pages A collection of 12 stories from different countries, illustrated by Harold Cue from drawings by Jenny Nystrom. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, reprint, 1877, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine, 194 pages plus publisher's ads in rear. Illustrated with b&w line plates by Swain. Binding a bit worn. An attractive later printing of the popular English novelist's 1874 bestseller. Previous owner's name on blank pelim page.
Hardcover. NY, JellyBean Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed pictorial boards. illustrated in rich color throughout by Charles Santore.
Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A collection of fairy folklore and folk tales, bibliography, glossary. Color illustrations by Arthur Rackham, Richard Doyle, Edmund Dulac, William Blake, and George Cruikshank. Glossy illustrated boards. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, reprint, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 224 pages. Few stories are as widely read and as universally cherished by children and adults alike as The Little Prince. This special edition of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's world-famous classic marks its seventy-fifth anniversary in print. Featuring a beautiful new cover and a special look at its history and making including a biography of Saint-Exupery, sketches, photos, and reviews from the first edition. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, William Heinemann, 1st UK, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, peach-color cloth stamped with a red and blue illustration of the little prince being lifted by his bird kite. This is the First UK Edition, so stated on the copyright page. The US edition was published the year before in 1943. 89 pages illustrated in color by the author. Light fading to red lettering on spine, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Platt and Munk, reprint, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth. Color illustrations by Dorothy Grider. Marking to front endpaper, otherwise clean. When Little Rabbit wishes for long, beautiful red wings, his wish comes true, but life is not at all as he'd expected: his friends, and even his own mother, don't recognize him!
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st , 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY RUTH SAWYER on half-title page. Hardbound, 108 pages. Illustrated by Jay Hyde Barnum in color and b&w. Previous owner's signature and stamp front fly leaf. Illustrated endpapers. Tan cloth cover, no dust jacket. Pink top edge.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace & World, BC Ed., nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 32 pages illustrated in 3-colors by William Lipkind and Nicholas Mordbinoff. NOT ex-library. Weekly Reader edition. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 64 pages. Yarbrough weaves a beautiful story in picture-book format about the role of music in the lives of Africans and shows how it was transformed on American and Caribbean soil. The tale revolves around a "Roots of Rhythm and Blues" concert attended by a sister and brother and their parents, great grandmother, and elderly neighbor. At the park, the father tells his children about slavery and the "culture baggage" the slaves carried with them from Africa. With a compelling delivery that echoes the rhythmic chanting of the griot, the man speaks about concepts such as spirit power and the tree of life that at first are hard for his young son to grasp. The performance begins with a song of praise for the strength and endurance of a transplanted people. By the end, the youngsters understand more about their heritage and the role spirituals played and continue to play in it. Geter's pencil-and-charcoal illustrations are richly imaginative, evoking images of Africa, slavery, roots, and soaring trees. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Milwaukee, Bruce Publishing, 1st, 1956, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial boards. Color illustrations by Evans. Cardboard edges worn. The story of Mexican wood carver who creates a wooden Christ Child for the village church. Minor wear to spine.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Cloth spine with pictorial boards. Black & white illustrations by Paul Flora. Light edgewear, chipping and soil to covers. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. This is the story of one of the last remaining phone booths in New York City, the Phone Booth on the corner of West End Avenue and 100th Street. Everyone used it from ballerinas and girl scouts, zookeepers and birthday clowns, to cellists and even secret agents! The Phone Booth was so beloved that people would sometimes wait in line to use it. Kept clean and polished, the Phone Booth was proud and happy...until the day a businessman strode by and shouted into a shiny silver object, "I'll be there in ten minutes!" Soon everyone was talking into these shiny silver things, and the Phone Booth stood alone and empty, unused and dejected. Clean copy
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pictorial boards with a red cloth spine. Original unclipped color and gilt pictorial dust jacket ($1.75). Illustrated in color, gilt, and black-and-white throughout by the D'Aulaires, with color pictorial endpapers and color and gilt pictorial title page. 32 pages. The Protestant Edition. Name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Books of Wonder, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 352 pages. In this 1917 addition to the Oz series, L. Frank Baum delights readers of all ages with a spellbinding mystery that involves nearly every one of the amazing cast of characters that populate America's favorite fairyland. This handsome new edition--featuring all twelve of Oz artist John R. Neill's beautiful color plates and nearly one hundred black-and-white drawings--is the perfect way to join Dorothy and her friends on this exciting journey through the endlessly intriguing Land of Oz. Afterword by Peter Glassman.
Hardcover. Chicago, Follett Publishing Co., 1st thus, 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. First edition thus, with new color illustrations by Joseph Low. Originally published in 1940 by Harper and Brothers. Ex-lib but only sign is residue to front endpapers, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow , 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket with light edgewear. Thirty full-color reproductions of paintings by a world-famous artist provide the basis for an allegory of love involving the quest of the white tiger for the tigress of his dreams. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 64 pages illustrated in color by Glen Rounds. A comical tale of unlucky Felix and his continuing catastrophes. Clean, no dust jacket issued.
Hardcover. NY, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 36 pages with color art by Ati Forberg. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne & Co., reprint, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong format. Unpaginated. Illustrated boards, green cloth spine. Extensively illustrated in color and black and white by F. D. Bedford. Covers worn with mild soiling, tan stain to rear cover, edgewear. Reprint of a story which first appeared in "Holiday Romance" in 1868. This is the extraordinary story of a very nearly ordinary princess named Alicia. Given a magic fish-bone by a good fairy, Alicia can have whatever she wishes--provided she wishes for it at the right time. But it's never clear when the right time is, and sometimes the best magic is no magic at all.
Hardcover. NY, Whittlesey House, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in black and red, 50 pages illustrated in 2-colors and b&w by Plato Chan. Adapted from an Old Chinese Legend by Plato and Christina Chan. The Text by Christina Chan. The Illustrations by Plato Chan. Clean copy, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Books of Wonder, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 292 pages. This deluxe reproduction of the rare first edition features all twelve of Oz artist John R. Neill's beautiful color plates, along with his nearly one hundred black-and-white drawings, Afterword by Peter Glassman.
Hardcover. NY, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Seven entertaining stories for young readers by Moore with Lobel's zany illustrations throughout in 2-colors. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in bright decorated cloth, 243 pages. B&w illustrations by Florence Choate and Elizabeth Curtis. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Brookfield CT, Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, First Edition; First Printing; Signed by Author. Hardcover. A beautiful first edition/first printing in unread very good condition in alike dust-jacket, SIGNED by author/illustrator Mordicai Gerstein. In 1972, French aerialist Philippe Petit stole into the nearly completed construction site of the World Trade Center, strung a tightrope between the two towers, and the following morning gave the city of New York an incredibly daring and long remembered performance. Gerstein was awarded the 2004 Caldecott award for his illustrations, with the two fold-out panoramas that capture the drama, excitement, and anxiety of the historic death defying feat. Like new. No sticker.
Hardcover. NY, Books of Wonder, reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 294 pages. For the first time in over seventy years, the second book about Oz is presented here in the same deluxe format as the rare first edition, complete with all 16 of the original John R. Neill color plates, its colorful pictorial binding, and the many black-and-white illustrations that bring it to joyous life. First issued in 1904, L. Frank Baum's The Marvelous Land of Oz is the story of the wonderful adventures of the young boy named Tip as he travels throughout the many lands of Oz. Here he meets with our old friends the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman, as well as some new friends like Jack Pumpkinhead, the Wooden Sawhorse, the Highly Magnified Woggle-Bug, and the amazing Gump. Afterword by Peter Glassman.
Hardcover. NY, New York Review of Books, reprint, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with red cloth spine. 48 pages illustrated in color by Quentin Blake. A nice reprint of the 1986 title first published in England. Clean copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 193 pages, b&w illustrations by Brian Floca.
NY, Hyperion, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, Annabelle Doll and Tiffany Funcraft are two dolls who have been best friends since they met in Kate Palmer's house at 26 Wetherby Lane. In this sequel to The Doll People, they hitch a ride in Kate's backpack and find themselves in the biggest adventure of their lives, a day at school! But when an attempt to return home lands them in the wrong house, they're in far deeper trouble than they imagined. Along with a host of new doll friends, they also encounter Mean Mimi, the wickedest doll of all. Mean Mimi is mean-really mean-and she's determined to rule all of Dollkind or else destroy it. Will the world ever be safe for dolls again? In this masterfully plotted sequel, Ann M. Martin and Laura Godwin, with the help of Brian Selznick's ingenious black-and-white illustrations, take the reader on another nonstop adventure from a doll's eye view!
Hardcover. New York, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. Unpaginated. Dust jacket price clipped. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.
Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally & Company, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering and color pastedown illustration. B&w drawings and 10 full-page color illustrations by James McCracken. NOTE: 8 of the first smaller drawings have been colored in crayon. Front endpapers with library stamp, otherwise clean. Appears to be a 1925 reprint of the 1918 edition.
Hardcover. Brooklyn NY, Handprint, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with illustrated boards, 40 pages. n his magnificent interpretation of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow s poem, Christopher Bing seamlessly weaves history and imagination into a rich portrait of an American hero. A meticulous researcher, Bing includes material that provides texture to history, maps that follow the British campaign to quell the rebellious citizenry, as well as the patriot s ride into the Massachusetts night of April, 1775. Documents firmly affixed into the book, including the British general s orders to his troops and Revere s own deposition relating the events, give the reader not only a visual experience but a tactile one as well. Far more than a brilliantly presented history lesson, this book represents a tour de force of coherent artistic vision. In an extraordinary series of rich and moody engravings, from the mysteriously shimmering rigging of the British sloop, The Somerset, looming in a moonlit Boston harbor to the taut urgency of a man and his horse galloping at a combustible moment in the American experience, this book illuminates our country s past unlike any other. Small inscription on inside front cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, Long ago in Italy, a mighty asparagus grew smack-dab in front of the king's castle. Was the king happy about it? No. The asparagus had to go. But how does a king reason with an asparagus of such stature? With tongue planted firmly in cheek, Vladimir Radunsky tells the uproarious tale of an almost immovable vegetable. Drawing on Italian Renaissance art, the esteemed artist creates a breathtaking magical kingdom, where it's easy to imagine that such an asparagus existed. His artwork is as gorgeous as it is funny. Although the old masters may turn over in their graves, readers of all ages will clamor for more of The Mighty Asparagus.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Candlewick, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A timeless tale by the incomparable Kate DiCamillo, complete with stunning full-color plates by Bagram Ibatoulline, honors the enduring power of love. Once, in a house on Egypt Street, there lived a china rabbit named Edward Tulane. The rabbit was very pleased with himself, and for good reason: he was owned by a girl named Abilene, who treated him with the utmost care and adored him completely. And then, one day, he was lost. Kate DiCamillo takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the depths of the ocean to the net of a fisherman, from the top of a garbage heap to the fireside of a hoboes' camp, from the bedside of an ailing child to the bustling streets of Memphis. And along the way, we are shown a true miracle -- that even a heart of the most breakable kind can learn to love, to lose, and to love again.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Candlewick, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A timeless tale by the incomparable Kate DiCamillo, complete with stunning full-color plates by Bagram Ibatoulline, honors the enduring power of love. Once, in a house on Egypt Street, there lived a china rabbit named Edward Tulane. The rabbit was very pleased with himself, and for good reason: he was owned by a girl named Abilene, who treated him with the utmost care and adored him completely. And then, one day, he was lost. Kate DiCamillo takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the depths of the ocean to the net of a fisherman, from the top of a garbage heap to the fireside of a hoboes' camp, from the bedside of an ailing child to the bustling streets of Memphis. And along the way, we are shown a true miracle -- that even a heart of the most breakable kind can learn to love, to lose, and to love again.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Kestrel, B.C. Club, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 32 pages illustrated in color by Tracey Campbell Pearson. Someone has stolen the Queen of Hearts' fresh-baked tarts and the chase for the culprit is on. Jack and Jill search over their hill, and Little Jack Horner has no tarts in his corner. All of nurseryland joins the search! Clean copy. No dust jacket.
NY, Seabury Press, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 32 pages illustrated in color by Galdone. aAclever monkey outwits a crocodile intent on catching and eating him. Book Club edition. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 86 pages. Adam Joshua can't understand why his parents want to move. He certainly doesn't! Who will his best friend Peter get to collect ants with, or to play star commander and Frankenstein if he's gone? Moving. Muck! But moving is just the beginning of a whole series of new events for Adam Joshua. There's also a new baby sister, monsters in the night, loose teeth, new friends, dinners with his Great-Aunt Emily, and lots more. Janice Lee Smith humorously chronicles the ups and downs in the life of a small boy, and Dick Gackenbach perfectly captures Adam Joshua's spunk and spirit in his delightful drawings.
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