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. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1944, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped with yellow lettering, 72 pages, b&w illustrations by Bill Crawford. Everyone was happy when Valery, the calf, came to live with the Whippes, for she made a charming house pet. Their troubles began when Valery grew up to be a very large cow-like cow. How they solved this gigantic problem, or rather, how Valery solved it for them, is the climax of this amusing book. Corners worn, frayed.
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, 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.
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.
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. 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.
New York, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 150 pages. Black & white and color illustrations by Leslie W. Lee. Illustrated endpapers. Previous owner's signature front endpaper. Light soiling to endpapers. Corners rubbed. Dust jacket with chipping, soiling. Brodart cover.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, reprint, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in blue cloth with gilt decoration. Originally published in 1913. Line drawings throughout by Thomas Fogarty. Previous owner's signature on front pastedown otherwise very good condition.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Janovich , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 28 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Color illustrations by Alice and Martin Provenson. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.
Hardcover. MI, Clarke Historical Library, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 225 pages. Hardcover with orange fabric covers. Clean, tight copy with minor rubbign to edges. Black and white pictures throughout.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, illustrated with Ed Young's amazing paper collages. The young cat named Wabi Sabi wishes to understand the meaning of her name.