London, Collins, 1st Edition, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. Illustrated with b&w drawings by Peggy Fortnum. Very good in a very good dust jacket with light soil, small stain to bottom of dust jacket spine.
Hardcover. Somerville MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. While Tia Isa wants to save money for a car that will take the whole family to the beach, her niece does odd jobs for neighbors. But it's hard to save enough when half the money is set aside to someday bring family members who live far away to join them. Meg Medina's simple, genuine story about keeping in mind those who are far away is written in lovely, lyrical prose and brought to life through Claudio Munoz's charming characters.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 122 pages. Illustrated in b&w by Phyllis N. Cote. An historical adventure set in Cape Ann, Massachusetts during the 1870s. Stated first edition with $1.75 on flap. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, First Edition, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. White cloth boards with bright Tibetan illustration to cover by Peter Sis. Translucent vellum dust jacket with light toning, silver dollar sized stain to back. Full page, full color illustrations throughout. Bright, clean & unmarked copy.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, First Edition, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. White cloth boards with bright Tibetan illustration to cover by Peter Sis. Translucent vellum dust jacket. Full page, full color illustrations throughout. Bright, clean & unmarked copy.
Hardcover. NY, Anne Shwartz/Atheneum, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 18 silly poems with full color illustrations done as collages by Kroninger. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Enchanted Lion Books, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non paginated. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations throughout by Yoohee Yoon. Illustrated end papers and paste downs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st US, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. B&W illustrations by Alan E. Cober. 141 pages. In a lightly soiled, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Young Scott Books / William R. Scott, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket. B&w illustrations by David Stone Martin. Story of a chicken who survived a hurricane and became a pet to a young boy and his father who helped him.
Hardcover. NY, Books of Wonder, reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 304 pages. Join Tik-Tok, the Shaggy Man, and a host of other friends--both old and new--on an exciting, imaginative journey through the world of Oz. Capturing all the fun are twelve color plates and nearly eighty black-and-white drawings by Oz artist John R. Neill, as well as a facsimile of Neill's full-color map endpapers of Oz and the enchanted realms that surround it--the first maps of Oz ever published. Tik-Tok of Oz is the eighth Oz novel and the first to bring a girl other than Dorothy to Oz. Now, in this beautiful reproduction of the rare first edition, a whole new generation can discover the enchantment and joy that have made the Oz series such an enduring favorite. Afterword by Peter Glassman.
Softcover. NY, SeaStar/North-South Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 112 pages illustrated in color. In this thoughtful & diverse collection, more than 40 of America's most distinguished children's book creators, including 14 Caldecott Medalists & Honor artists, share their reflections on human rights. Through words & pictures, they explore subjects ranging from child labor to racial integration to religious freedom, in an effort to foster a kinder, more tolerant world. In his introduction, Elie Wiesel notes that "Tikvah means hope & hope is represented by children." Whether joyous or provocative, stark or encouraging, the work collected in this volume represents these artists' firm commitment to human rights. INSCRIBED BY STEVEN KELLOGG & his wife on the front fly leaf.
Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Jaques. Story of a wooden doll's search for her teddy bear friend. Foxing on half title page. Slight odor.
Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday, Doran & Co, Inc., 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 173 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated by Mary Hamilton Frye. Price clipped dust jacket chipped and worn along top edge. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Henry Z. Walck, 1st US, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color, b&w illustrations by Ardizzone. Ex-library copy with stamping, residue to end papers. Dust jacket with small spine sticker.
Hardcover. London, Frances Lincoln Children's Bks, reprint, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 56 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Some wear and light bumping to corners, otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to boards.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jackrt. Illustrated by Ardizzone. Tim rows out to rescue his careless friend Ginger from the rising tide, but their small boat is caught in a storm and dashed upon the rocks before they reach safety. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , Harper Collins, Reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 48 pages. Color illustrations by Ardizzone. Ginger is fed up with life on dry land. One morning, Charlotte and Tim wake to find a note saying he's run away to the high seas. They set off to find him, but with no money, the only way they can do it is to sign on with a ship's crew. A terrible fog surrounds their ship with disastrous results -- but the adventure is just beginning! Ardizzone's witty prose and illustrations form a lively portrait of the comical, but always exciting, escapades.Clean copy.
NY, Platt & Munk, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth covers. Color, black & white illustrations by Brook. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, Frances Lincoln Children's Bks, reprint, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 56 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Some wear and light bumping to corners, otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to boards.
Hardcover. London, Frances Lincoln Children's Bks, reprint, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 56 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Some wear and light bumping to corners, otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to boards.
NY, Delacorte, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color and b&w illustrations by Emma Chichester-Clark. A short fantasy about an old man who climbs the town clock tower to make the mechanism's first repair in a hundred years. He finds the clock inhabited by intelligent mice, who communicate silently by pictures. Clean.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 2nd pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 37 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated in black & white by Joan Berg Victor. Dust jacket shows light wear at edges and sun fading on spine. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 137 pages. Drawings by Joan Berg Victor. Childrens book about a family of mice who move in and out of a summer home throughout the year as tenants move in and out. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrations throughout by Tudor and INSCRIBED BY HER on front fly leaf and dated 1977. Book is in excellent condition except for a slight musty odor. Issued without a dust jacket.
NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1973, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations. by Ray Prather. Ex-lib with marking, residue to rear end papers, cover. Award winning-Hamilton's second "Jahdu" book of tales, in which Mama Luka who introduced young Lee Edward to the magical stories, must leave her tight little place in Harlem because her building is being torn down. The boy is sad but he knows that she will move where he can visit and grab a new Jahdu story for him out of the air.
Hardcover. NY, Young Scott Books, reprint, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Jean Charlot illustrations in colored lines. Almost new-looking, no dust jacket. The story of a Mexican Ghost named Teodoro and his adventures in his life with gold and with those who follow him in their earthly pursuit of it. The value of life and living and how greed of Gold Fever and what is really imporant in life is the story.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 246 pages. Illustrated by Marc Simont. Very good pictorial dust jacket in mylar with minor rubbing and wear.
Hardcover. New York, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 40 pages. hardcover, no dust jacket. Illustrations by Jim Downer. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.
Hardcover. New York , F. A. Stokes, 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 168 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color label and frontispiece in color, 13 B&W line plates by Berta & Elmer Hader. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Covers faded.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with black lettering. Black & white illustrations by Berta and Elmer Hader. 128 pages. Parts of dust jacket pasted to front & rear end papers. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. The adventures of a cocker spaniel puppy and his family.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin, reprint, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue buckram with gilt spine titles and corner decorations, maroon endpapers, 259 pages, b&w drawings by Oliver Herford. Timothy, age ten, sets out to rescue his two year old foster "sister" with his dog Rags. Clean copy, slight cock to spine. Originally published in 1891.
Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Helen Shad. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston Co., 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, gray coth covers stamped with blue decoration. Black & white illustrations by Berry. Illustrated endpapers. Soiled covers. Mild waterstains to cloth,. corners bumped.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, unpaginated, color illustrations by Brown, very clean, tight copy, like new.
Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead, and Co., 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, illustrated boards with black cloth spine, 74 pages. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Color and black & white illustrations. Purple illustrated endpapers. Edgewear, corners bumped and worn. Clean.
Hardcover. NY, Dial Books, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Gregory Manchess. In a risky plan to free her kidnapped lover, Oonagh cleverly solves the evil pirate king's riddles, unites the princess Ethne with her lover, and invents sails. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Blue Sky/ Scholastic, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, color illustrations by the Dillons. SIGNED BY LEO AND DIANE DILLON on title-page. In their fortieth picture book, two Caldecott Medalists bring to vivid life the most famous verses from the biblical book of Ecclesiastes through imaginative paintings reflecting the world's various cultures, accompanied by a full-color explanatory glossary.
Hardcover. New York, Blue Sky, 1st pr, October 1, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, Unpaginated, color illustrations by the Dillons.A very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth stamped in black, 72 pages, illustrated in b&w by Nils Hogner. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Wonderful introduction to different styles of architecture. Illustrated in color by Devlin. Related notes & articles to various landmark houses laid-in. Dust jacket price clipped. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Blue cloth covers with gilt titles, acetate-protected dust jacket, lovely full page color illustrations. Spine crisp and tight, dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in excellent condition.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. Color illustrations by David Gordon. Sam and Benny wake up before dawn to greet the circus train at the rail yard, and they eagerly anticipate a day of excitement with circus events. The boys help the workers set up for the show, they watch the parade from atop a tree, and they take in the sights and smells during their walk down the midway. A near mishap with a lost ticket almost costs them the opportunity to enjoy the main event, but some smart thinking prevents this disappointment.
Hardcover. Scarsdale NY, Bradbury Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth stamped in black. Folklore about a Japanese farmer who digs up a huge imo (yam). Ed Young style pencil drawings by Japanese artist Mitsu Yashima. No dust jacket. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 125 pages, color and b&w illustrations by Aldren A. Watson. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Minor wear on covers and dust jacket spine.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Slim, square hardcover in color illustrated paper covered boards. Illustrated endpapers. 32 pages. Illustrated with color drawings. Pencil name on front fly leaf, covers with mild soil, paper chipped on spine. Otherwise clean. The charmingly illustrated escapades of Toby and Sue and Cinder (the cat) and Chalky (the little white dog).
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Keith West.