Children illustrated

Hardcover. NY, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1st US, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth. Color and b&w illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Edgewear to boards, minor soil, no markings.

Hardcover. Adelaide AUS, Rigby Limited, reprint, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 79 pages illustrated in color and b&w. A collaboration between artist Ainslie Roberts & anthropologist Charles Mountford, who combined Ainslie Roberts outback paintings with his knowledge. Previous owner's inscription on the front fly leaf.

Hardcover. London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1st, 1897, Book: Fair, Hardcover, oblong boards illustrated in color with red spine which is very faded. Red lettering on title page, illustrated throughout with b/w line drawings in the text by Ver-Beck. Holding nicely but fragile. Soiling to covers, pages tanned with some foxing. Previous owner's name on prelim page.

Hardcover. Somerville MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy boards, 56 pages, illustrated in color by David Roberts. A tyrannical teacher gets her just due in a delightfully subversive, outrageously funny tale by Newbery Medal winner Paul Fleischman. Miss Breakbone hates kids. Especially the time-squandering, mindwandering, doodling, dozing dunderheads in her class. But when she confiscates Junkyard's crucial find, she finally goes too far. Enter Wheels (and his souped-up bike with forty-eight extra gears), Pencil (who can draw anything from memory), Spider (look up and you'll find him), and their fellow misfits in a spectacular display of teamwork aimed at teaching Miss Breakbone a lesson she won't soon forget. Roberts' drawings are hilariously appropriate. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, George H. Doran, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers stamped with gilt lettering and design. 370 pages, color frontis and 3 b&w plates by the Kinneys.

Hardcover. Shelton CT, Greenwich Workshop Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 176 pages. SIGNED BY DOOLITTLE on the half-title page. Nicely illustrated with Doolittle's signature artwork, including black-and-white pencil sketches overlaid with detailed color paintings. At the end of the novel there is a fold-out poster illustration. This book will have the most appeal to those interested in Doolittle's dramatic illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 9th pr., 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 392 pages, b&w drawings by Pamela Bianco. A lovely collection of stories and poems about the springtime holiday with charming b&w line drawings by the splendid Bianco.

Hardcover. NY, Lothrop Lee and Shepard, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 32 pages illustrated in color by Adrienne Adams. Weekly Reader Club Ed. Name on inside front cover, light wear to bottom of spine, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Whittlesey House, McGraw Hill, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black. 32 pages illustrated in 2-colors by Alain (the pen name of Daniel Brustlein, painter, book illustrator, magazine illustrator, and cartoonist). Stamp to front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Garden City, Garden City Publishing, 1st thus, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, illustrated boards. 28 pages illustrated in color and 2-colors by Rojankovsky. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing Co., 1st, 1958, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 28 pages with color illustrations by Hilda Miloche. General wear to cover edges/corners. Original price on cover is 15 cents.

Hardcover. NY, Books of Wonder, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 304 pages. For the first time in more than eighty years, the most spectacularly illustrated of all the Oz books is available again with the metallic "emerald" green ink that illuminated the color plates of the original edition. This deluxe new edition features ninety black-and-white pictures and sixteen dazzling five-color plates by Oz artist John R. Neill. Afterword by Peter Glassman.

Hardcover. Boston, L.C. Page & Co., 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth with dark green, red, and gold gilt design of automobile with three angels with red lettering to front cover and spine. A lazy, discontented little prince and princess have been sent an enchanted automobile by their fairy godmother to take them to fairyland. 6 color illustrations including frontispiece by Edna M. Sawyer.

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, reprint, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn and chipped dust jacket. Gray illustrated cloth, red letters and decoration of a teapot to upper cover, illustrated in b&w by Hugh Troy, 128 pages. Young Irish lad Brian Boru travels to the United States with a wee fairyman to give him courage. Book is clean, bright copy. Dust jacket flap indicates book club edition.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ruth Sanderson. Three princes go on a quest to the Heart of the World to save their drought-ravaged kingdom.. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Three-color illustrations by Myers. Sally and her father are inventors. They build their inventions out of scraps and old parts they find in junkyards. Dad mistakenly turns into a giant chicken. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, Ltd. Ed., 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red leather stamped in gilt. Facsimile edition of a book that was first published in 1909 by Hodder & Stoughton. 152 pages. 23 full page illustrations in color by Detmold plus various line illustrations in black and white throughout the text. #337 of 500 copies as indicated on tipped-on plate inside front cover. All edges gilt. No slipcase.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton Childrens Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. When Peter Bruegel, a young painter from Antwerp, went on a journey to Rome in 1550 to study and see the art and ruins of Rome, he found himself facing unexpected dangers along the way that were later reflected in his work when he became known as the Northern Renaissance master. Color illustrations by Shafer. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Bob and Betty learn about life and work on the farm during a summer vacation they spend with their Uncle John and Cousin Ruben. Originally published in 1910. Foreword by Barbara Bader. Clean copy.

Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in black. B&w drawings by Erik Blegvad. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf other wise very good, clean. A banker rents a house to Peter Finch, charging him next to nothing because there's a small volcano in the basement. Eventually, there is a volcanic eruption, but of course, not in the basement. The house is spared, the family is safe, the town officials get re-elected, and everyone lives happily ever after.

Hardcover. NY, Parragon, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. This is a mix between a picture book and I Spy book. Each page features a simple sentence like "Find Little Bo Beep's lost sheep." or "Find the dish that ran away with the spoon." The pictures are beautifully illustrated and it is a perfect book to read at bedtime. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Seabury Press, 1st US, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in colo and b&w by Joanna Troughton. An East Saxon boy, recently converted to Christianity, tries to deal with the villager's and his own brother's hostility to the monks with whom he now makes his home. Dust jacket with minor edgewear.

Hardcover. NY, Junior Literary Guild, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with mild discoloration, 278 pages, previous owner's signature on page opposite half-title. Color frontis painting and black & white illustrations by Herbert Rogers.

Hardcover. London, Collins, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A reprint collection of the first four books featuring the mice from Brambly Hedge, charmingly illustrated in color by the author. Clean copy.