Hardcover. NY, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. Color Illustrations by William Pene DuBois. Dust jacket price clipped, mild soil, else a clean, tight copy. Charming color illustrations and numbers in 12 different languages, including Urdu, Welsh and Gaelic-Irish.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 335 pages, blue cloth stamped with white lettering and sailboat. Endpapers are illustrated map of the voyage of the Goblin showing how she went across and came back. Author's b&w drawings throughout. Part of the Swallows and Amazons series. Front hinge a little tender, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1st, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated cloth, illustrated in colors by Johnson. An attractive ex-lib copy of this story of a boy who requests advice from the animal kingdom as to what he should be when he grows up. Minor stamping and residue to endpapers. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, McElderry, 3rd, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Color illustrations by Helen Oxenbury. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.
Hardcover. New York, Holt, Rhinehart, Winston, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with laminated boards. Clean, tight copy with bright illustrtaions by author. Light soil on front bottom cover.
Hardcover. New York , Orchard Books, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Raul Colon. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Hyperion, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrated by Richard Egielski. SIGNED BY EGIELSKI with a sketch of a rat on front fly leaf. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, McElderry Books, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by James Watts. Clean, tight copy. Retelling of a wry Chinese folk tale, charmingly illustrated.
Hardcover. London/ NY, Ernest Nister/ Dutton, 1st, n.d., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 104 pages. Hardcover with gilt lettering on front and spine. Front and rear hinge fragile, moderate fraying to cover edges. Gutter cracked and separated on page 80. 4 bright chromoliths, b&w Illustrations, previous owner's signature & date (1906) front end paper, gilt decorated green cloth.
Hardcover. New York , Viking Press, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Unpaginated, illustrated in b&w by Robert Lawson. Color illustrated boards with yellow cloth spine. Corner wear to covers otherwise very good. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 164 pages plus plus publisher's ads, B&W line iiiustrations. Brown cloth with black and gilt design.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, reprint, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth stamped in light blue, 214 pages. Illustrated in b&w by Robert Lawson. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with a big picture of Kate in the snow blowing the whistle her grandfather had made for her. 32 pages, color illustrations by Winifred Bromhall. Copyright page states 1947 but this appears to be a reprint, ex-school library stamps. Front fly leaf gone. Still an attractive reading copy.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 191 pages, b&w illustrations by Fanny Y. Cory. Bright blue cloth covers.
Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A retelling in story form of five of Shakespeare's works: The Tempest, As You Like It, Othello, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Julius Caesar. Colour and black and white illustrations by Hungarian-British artist Victor Ambrus.
Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Symeon Shimin. Light edgewear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Stewart Tabori & Chang, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A wild duck narrator looks at the past when the environment was bountiful, searches through today's polluted environment for a home, and encourages saving and restoring the environment for the future
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1956, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 95 pages. Two-tone illustrations by Daugherty. Dust jacket with small tears, rubbing.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribners Sons, reprint, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, pictorial color paste-done on front cover. 416 pages, 9 color illustrations by N. C. Wyeth. Discoloration to rear board, small gouge to bottom corner of pages 140-159, not affecting text or plates. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Crown, 1st U.S., 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. Color illustrations by Burningham. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Library Ed. (NOT ex-lib) Light wear to dj, closed tear. Linen covered covers with ripples, production error. Illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky in b&w.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillian Publishing, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Illustrated by Ray Cruz.
Hardcover. NY, Barse & Co., 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color pictorial boards, illustrated with 6 full color plates and spot illustrations by Millicent Sowerby.Light tape reinforcement to spine. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by author on title page.
Hardcover. London, Andre Deutsch Limited, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 93 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Black & white illustrations by Quentin Blake. Dust jacket with light wear, slight fading along top edge. Clean, unmarked pages.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 138 pages, b&w drawings by Susan Perl. Mild fading to dj spine, otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 64 pages, in a lightly worn dust jacket with mild soil, price-clipped. Illustrated in b&w by Abby Giventer. Jenny enjoys a magical adventure with her poodle who, she discovers, can talk.
Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in 2-colors by Low. In a bright, unclipped dust Jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Parent's Magazine Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth. Tells what a whisper is, and what a secret is -- so a whispery secret is a very special thing. A gentle, cuddly read-aloud story for bed-time reading memories. Each page has illustrations by Martha Alexander that are in soft and soothing blues, grays, and greens with cute little faces on all the characters focusing on nature. Pages not numbered. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color by the author and SIGNED BY SHULEVITZ with a small sketch under his dedication.
Hardcover. Chicago, Follett Publishing, BC Ed., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 32 pages with lovely bird illustrations in color by Leonard Weisgard.
Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Illustrated in color and SIGNED BY STONE WITH A SKETCH OF AN ANGEL on the front fly leaf.
Hardcover. New York, Evanston, and London, Harper & Row, 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 87 pages. Color illustrations throughout by Karla Kushkin. Staining to hinges. Foxing to edges. Edgewear, rubbing to cover. Else a clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 64 pages illustrated in 3-colors by Bonsall. An I Can Read Book. A tale of a polar bear, walrus and a puffin. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Prentice-Hall , 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 40 pages of riddles and jokes about sports illustrated with b&w cartoons by Stan Mack.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 28 pages in color. A colorfuly illustrated book challenges young readers through visual tricks and puzzles in which one can spot the surprises with each turn of the page. McGuire's art has a spare, highly stylized quality and most of the cartoonlike illustrations are composed of flat, geometrical shapes. Great picture fun.
NY, Scribner's , 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Reynold Ruffins. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Brings together more than five hundred riddles on a variety of subjects, trivial and important.
Hardcover. NY, Bluesky/Scholastic, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 65 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustby Barry Moser. Clean tght copy.
Hardcover. NY, Bluesky/Scholastic, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 65 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Barry Moser. Clean tght copy.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color art by Lionel Kalish. Clean copy. Three siblings have a bout with the chicken pox, and their father comes down with a bad case as soon as they recover. It's their turn to help nurse him back to health in a nicely done role reversal. He misses his daughter's ballet recital and has to bathe in oatmeal to help the itching. The kids are worried, but things pick up as he recuperates and all ends well.
Hardcover. New York , Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated in color by Shulevitz and SIGNED BY HIM. In this charming story about imagination and adventure, told with Uri Shulevitz's signature playfulness and style, a little boy learns how to be courageous, both on the high seas and at home. The tale is based on a childhood memory from the time when the author/illustrator and his family lived in Warsaw on the eve of World War II.
Hardcover. New York , Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated in color by Shulevitz and SIGNED BY HIM. In this charming story about imagination and adventure, told with Uri Shulevitz's signature playfulness and style, a little boy learns how to be courageous, both on the high seas and at home. The tale is based on a childhood memory from the time when the author/illustrator and his family lived in Warsaw on the eve of World War II.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR ALDREN WATSON ON TITLE PAGE. Cover boards show moderate edgewear/soil, and corners lightly frayed/soiled. EX-LIBRARY with usually stamps and adhesive residue. Rear end paper has paper pasted in for due dates.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, reprint, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Cover boards clean and bright. Illustrated in color and b&w by Aldren Watson. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, 1st, 1916, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color, b&w Illustrations by Maginel Wright Enright. Gilt lettering dulled, previous owner's bookplate on half-title page. Some soiled spots on front cover. Corners frayed and edged worn.
Hardcover. New York , Parent's Magazine Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Wendy Watson. Cover with some markings, edgewear, otherwise very good.
Hardcover. New York , Parent's Magazine Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Illustrated in color by Wendy Watson. Cover with some edgewear, otherwise very good.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Henry Altemus, 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 58 pages, illustrated with 27 color plates by J.L.G. (Johnny Gruelle). Red cloth spine with gray boards and a color label on front cover. Dust jacket has edgewear, chipping, small holes in spine. Previous owner's signature on end papers.
Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, 1st thus, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 88 pages, illustrated in color and b&w by Peter Farmer. Unclipped dust jacket with mild shelf wear. Clean copy.