NY, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Manson. A "mostly true" story based travels with the actual elephant sent as a gift from Haroun-al-Rachid to Charlemagne. The elephant lived until 810 when he was killed in battle. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Knopf, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Bayley. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 64 pages illustrated in color by Adrienne Adams. Dust jacket worn with chipping, some tanning. Flap is price-clipped (has mandatory "A" on title page). Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, last page with dog-ear crease to top corner. Otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Beach Lane Books, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non paginated. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations by Douglas Florian throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 340 pages, b&w plates by Manning DeV. Lee. Historical fiction romance between a young converted Quaker woman and a Puritan man set Nantucket in the 1650's. Short inscription on blank prelim page, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, and Company, 1st thus, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with cover decorated in 3-colors plus gilt. Frontispiece, black and white illustrations, 59 pages plus two pages of publisher's ads at end of text. Story of a niece who invites her friends to her aunt and uncle's home in Long Island Sound. The children observe how old age can be warm and wonderful, especially when the uncle and aunt reflect their homely, country ways. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf , 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 57 pages. Color and black & white illustrations by Brock. Edgewear. Dust jacket price clipped, light chipping, rubbing.

Hardcover. Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32 pages illustrated in color by O'Connor. SIGNED with a large sketch on front fly leaf by O'Connor, no dust jacket issued.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 203 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated by Jill Pinkwater in b&w. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 56 pages, red cloth covers with black decoration. Illustrated by Wendy Watson and SIGNED BY HER on the title page. Dust jacket is present but fair only with chips and wear.

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton , reprint, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 265 pages plus ads in rear. 112 black & white illustrations by A.B. Frost. Red cloth covers with decorations, gold lettering. Gilt top edge. Front hinge cracked. Corners bumped. Light rubbing to corners, spine.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillian Company, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 40 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light wear on dust jacket, rubbing and fraying to edges. Illustrated by Avison.

Hardcover. London, Ward, Lock & Co., 1st thus, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in dark blue cloth with ornate gilt decorations on cover and spine. Color pastedown on front cover features Tom with little blonde girl. Very uncommon. Retold by Edith Robarts for the Stories for Children series. 8 Color Plates including cover (not credited); 4 1/2" x 6"; 91 pages. No date but circa 1912. One color plate loose (at page 56) but all there. Nice clean copy of a rare edition.

Hardcover. Newark, NJ, Charles E. Graham & Co, reprint, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with light fraying to cover. Corner has small tear in fabric exposing cardboard at top right front corner. Spine lightly askew. Clean, internally. Color illustrations by Lang Campbell.

Hardcover. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Some very light wear to cover but internally clean and nice with beautiful illustrations in color and black & white, by Ambrus. Hardbound, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, John C. Winston, rep, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with color label on front cover, 282 pages. Color frontis and 11 black & white and illustrations by Eunice Stephenson. Blue line drawing of the Alcott home on the end papers by C. M. Burd. Yellow top edge. Rear cover has some spotting. discoloring to top. Otherwise a clean, bight copy.

Hardcover. Woodstock, NY, WoodstockArts, 2nd, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color and black and white pictures throughout.

Hardcover. Boston, L.C. Page, rep, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, 271 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A Book of animal life in the Guiana Wilds, 59 plates by Bull. Dj with wear, chunks missing from top and bottom spine, front bottom, and rear bottom. Gutter cracked in several spots.

Hardcover. NY, McLoughlin Bros., reprint, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, paper-covered boards with blue cloth spine. This is the Pirated edition published by McLoughlin in NY with no date but believed to be 1880s. Illustrated with Kate Greenaway chromolithographs. Covers worn, soiled, previous owner's inscription. Fair only.

Hardcover. NY, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 241 pages. An historical novel of China's 1930's struggle with Japan. B&W illustrations by Margaret Ayer. Dust jacket with light edgewear, small hole in rear panel. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.

Softcover. Miami FL, Russ Smiley, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 44 pages illustrated in color by Russ Smiley. Join Billy as he searches for pirate treasure under the sea. On his quest, with a little sea horse for his guide, Billy makes friends with the fish and learns about marine life.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. Illustrated in color by Carolyn Croll. Corners lightly worn. Dust jacket spine sun faded, one small tear, placed in protective plastic cover.

Hardcover. NY, Four Winds Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Gail Owens. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown and Company, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages, Illustrated in color by Jenni Oliver. Very good condition with very good dust jacket. Dust jacket placed in protective plastic cover.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A cat finds himself up a tree and won't come down until supper (in the form of a fisherman's catch) passes him by. A wordless picture book with amazing b&w drawings by Young. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Robert M. McBride and Co., 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 256 pages, illustrated in b&w by John O'Hara Cosgrave ll. Dust jacket worn, chipped.

Hardcover. Phila, Jr. Literary Guild/Winston, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 115 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated by Decie Merwin, dj w/chipping, wear, closed tears. Light musty smell otherwise very good.

Hardcover. NY, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A sweet story about the death of a beloved pet, this is bibliotherapy at its best. Daisy, a dog, and Arthur, a boy, are inseparable until the day the canine lies down in her basket never to rise again. Although she arrives in a lovely doggy nirvana, Daisy can't fully enjoy her newfound paradise because she is able to look down on her former home and see her family grieving. On the advice of fellow dogs in heaven, she sends the child dreams that both reassure him about her benign fate and encourage him to move forward by acquiring a new puppy. Clark's simple text and characteristically child-friendly illustrations make this book useful for sharing with even the youngest children.

Hardcover. New York, Windmill Books, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Library edition with usual markings. Light edgewear to cover boards. Library stickers on dust jacket. Illustrated by Lee Lorenz.

Softcover. NY, Artists and Writers Guild, 1st US, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, color pictorial paper wrappers. 6 full-page three-color illustrations and several b&w illustrations by Aldin. Light worn at edges, some light wear to covers, else a clean, tight copy without dust jacket as issued. First US edition. A charming story of a young girl and her dog, a little black Scotch Terrier puppy named Smut, as they go about their lives, encountering other dogs, policemen, and even horses. Cecil Aldin was a British artist best known for his paintings and sketches of animals and rural life, all of which is magnificently captured in this delightful tale. Small worm hole to fore-edge, paper tanning, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, clothbacked pictorial boards with map endpapers, color and b&w illustrations by Tousey. Val lived at Robidoux Landing, on the Missouri River, when his family joined a wagon train to Astoria.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, illustrated in color by Burkert, folding poster laid in. Very good in a bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York , Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, illustrated in color by Burkert, folding poster laid in. Very good in a bright dust jacket. Traveling players act out a folk play about twin brothers separated at birth, one raised by King Pepin and the other by a bear.

Hardcover. US, Prydwen Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. 32 pages illustrated in color. Terrence Lawlor has cut and pasted together all things beautiful, strange and colorful to create this wicked story of three vain sisters and their "dos." Lawlor's collaged illustrations are a delight and you'll find yourself oohing and ahhing as you recognize pots, scissors, cups, ships, cakes, baubles, flowers and fruits that play hide and seek on every beautifully composed page. The sisters, Carlotta, Whilhelmina and Delight, have true fashion attitude.

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 121 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE BY ILLUSTRATOR CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG. A clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Viking , 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 120 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR VAN ALLSBURG on title page. Tight copy with very light edgewear.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue-gray cloth with embossed design of hippo on cover, no dust jacket. Illustrated in color and b&w by Duvoisin. The friendship between Candy, a small kitten and Veronica, a huge hippopotamus, causes a series of merry antics on the Pumpkin and Applegreen farms. H stamp on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth. 32 pages illustrated in color and b&w by Duvoisin. Veronica is bored on Mr. Pumpkin's farm, but it turns out there is plenty to do, and adventures to be had. Library bindindg NOT ex-lib. Small stamp on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York , Holt Rinehart Winston , 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 44 pages illustrated in color by Watson. Illustrated cloth covers. Clean.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Bros., 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Harrdcover, blue cloth covers decorated in white with paste-on color illustration. Eight 2-color plates by Elizabeth Shippen Green. 193 pages, previous owner's signature and date inside front cover. Light rubbing to front cover label.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, 1st US, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color pictures by Sigrid Heuck. Transl. from German by Theodore McClintock. Dust jacket with edgewear, closed tears.

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, reprint, n.d. (2002), Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR SENDAK ON TITLE PAGE. Dust jacket and covers completely illustrated, lovely full page tri-tone illustrations by Sendak. Extremely slight wear to dust jacket, dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in excellent condition.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, reprint, n.d. (2002), Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR SENDAK TO TITLE PAGE. Dust jacket and covers completely illustrated, lovely full page tri-tone illustrations. Extremely slight wear to dust jacket, dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in excellent condition.

Softcover. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 12 heavy paper sheets plus cover, bound together with blue cord in punched holes at top. One and two color illustrations by Shepard, verse for every month by Milne. Some light pin-size spotting to corner of cover, otherwise clean and bright.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Co., 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 59 pages. Story of a little girl and her pet pig set in Maine. B&w drawings by Paul Kennedy. Inscription on front fly leaf, 0therwise clean.

Hardcover. Stonehill Publishing/Chelsea House, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 184 pages. This book presents a representative selection of the best work produced for children during the great flowering of the illustrator's art that began in England in the 1860s. Beautifully crafted drawings of such illustrators as Caldecott, Walter Crane, Kate Greenaway, and Richard Doyle are reproduced with painstaking fidelity to the originals. Commentary by Maurice Sendak.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 136 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Elleman examines the artist's early work and investigates the genesis of each of her seven picture books, from Choo Choo (1937) to the epic, carefully researched Life Story (1962, both Houghton) . Very good in a bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Callaway, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Dial Books for young Readers, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with illustrations by Wendy Anderson Halperin.

Hardcover. NY, Century Co., 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Green cloth boards with black & red embossed design to cover and white lettering. B&w illustrations by Reginald B. Birch, black & white frontispiece. light edgewear. Spine lettering faded, clean copy.