Hardcover. New York, Wonder Books, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Previous owner's name on front end paper. Tight copy. Illustrations by Irv Gershen.
Hardcover. New York, Harper Brothers, 1st Edition, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 93 pages. Hardcover. Decorated endpapers. Illustrations by Frederic Remington throughout, one of the plates has come apart from the binding, page laid in. Decorated (4 color) red cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine and front cover board. Boards have agewear, light soil, scratches (see images). Binding good. Spine straight. Pages clean. Page and edges have some light tanning from age. Previous owner's inscription on front endpaper and preliminary page.
Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 217 pages. 60 black & white illustrations by H.A. Ogden. Bright gilt decorated cover with 3-color decoration. Previous owner's inscription on prelim page. Otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Garden City, NY, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white illustrations by the author. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping, and light soil. Illustrated endpapers. First book written by the notable illustrator, who went on to create the Rosy Cole children's series. A delightful tale of romance and culture in the city.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Preston and his wife, Ruth, own Ellington Lodge. Preston is a checkers-playing fiend and is known around the neighborhood as the greatest checkers player in the world. When a small dog named Marley shows up at Ellington Lodge, Preston at first thinks he's harmless, and Ruth is delighted because Marley helps out with chores that Preston has no time for, due to his checkers games. Ever-helpful Marley soon seems to cast a spell over everyone at the lodge with his cooking talent, amazing storytelling, speed painting, and magic tricks. Color art by Egan. Dust jacket has some wrinkling, book is clean.
Hardcover. New York , Duell Sloan and Pearce, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Hardcover, library binding. 62 pages illustrated in color by Palazzo. Clean copy.
hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Susan Perl. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Review slip laid in.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Animals gently angle to have a new baby named after themselves in this sweet picture book by Lizi Boyd, whose previous work was named a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year. "A name is a sound that follows you around. I'm listening for one," says Mother Mouse. Holding her new baby close, she fields suggestions from Sadie Snail, Kiki Cat, Merle Squirrel, and a host of other animals (many of whom would like to see the new baby named after themselves!). One by one, the animals suggest names for baby that would personally honor themselves. Lyrical text filled with wordplay will charm soon-to-be parents and soon-to-be older siblings alike. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Templar/HarperFestival, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy pictorial boards. With 12 original holograms, color illustrations and die-cut windows, a spooky story in which a grandfather takes the children on a fossil hunt, but when they find a giant bone in a cave, the past comes to life in a ghostly form. Minor wear to top of spine
Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers stamped in black. 135 pages illustrated by H.C. Millard. Wonderful drawings of prehistoric creatures, many full page on beige color background. Scarce. Light stains to cover, inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ronald Himler. This picture-book biography focuses mainly on the War of 1812, but also mentions Madison's contributions to the Constitution and the creation of the three branches of government. Although this is a biography of the couple, there is more specific information on James Madison than on Dolley. Still, readers do learn some interesting facts about her, such as how she rescued a portrait of George Washington while the Executive Mansion burned. Adler's writing is clear yet not oversimplified, and is without fictionalization.
Hardcover. Somerville MA, Candlewick Press, 3rd pr., 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, color illustrations by Chris Van Dusen. This lovely picture book is a prequel to the Mercy Watson transitional chapter books. It tells the story of how Mr and Mrs Watson came to adopt Mercy, and how Mercy first discovered her love of toast with a great deal of butter. As this book is designed for parents to read to their child, the vocabulary used is richer and more varied than that found in the Mercy Watson chapter books. The illustrations are gorgeous and inviting, and help to create warmth and spark conversation. Clean copy.
Softcover. US, Platt & Munk, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover with light to minor wear to paper wrappers. Abraision to front cover. Illustrated by H. Cady. Previous owner's markings on some pages.
Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne, reprint, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth stamped in gilt and black. Reprint edition of this charming tale of an adventurous toad who wished to see if the world were really round and found that it was the "Roundest place I ever was in". Four color and many b&w illustrations by Leslie Brooke. No date, but assumed 1930.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in black, 314 pages. Color frontis and endpaper drawing by Rowland Hilder, b&w illustrations by Richard Southern. An historical adventure set on the high sea. Mild shelf wear to covers, clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, David R Godine, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. From The Tale of Rabbit (1901) to Last Stop on Market Street (2015), each of the one hundred books is presented with fascinating stories of its publication history and biographies of the creators. On the facing page, a cover and inside spread will bring back memories of the time when, sitting in a classroom or on a lap, someone read you a book and opened up your world. A sumptuous celebration of 100 best-loved and acclaimed picture books-ones you'll remember and new gems to discover.
Hardcover. NY, Atheneum Books, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in black. Color art by Haley. Discover how an African trickster god made it possible for people to tell stories in this brightly illustrated, Caldecott Medal-winning picture book. Long, long ago there were no stories on earth for children to hear. All stories belonged to Nyame, the Sky God. Ananse, the Spider man, wanted to buy some of these stories, so he spun a web up to the sky to bargain with the Sky God. The price the Sky God asked was Osebo, the leopard-of-the-terrible-teeth, Mmboro the hornet-who-stings-like-fire, and Mmoatia the fairy-whom-men-never-see. Can Ananse capture these sly creatures and give the children of earth stories to tell? No dust jacket, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , Coward McCann, Inc., 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 159 pages, illustrated in B&W by Forrest Orr. Dust jacket with edgewear, light chipping, otherwise very good.
Hardcover. UK, Transedition Books, 1st US, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 400 pages. Large type, beautiful illustrations, various authors. Grimms, Andersen, Perrault, etc. Beauty and the Beast, Tom Thumb, Cinderella, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and many more. Book is very clean & tight.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a shelfworn dust jacket, 64 pages. With illustrations on nearly every page, including a multi colored double page frontispiece and a double page illustration at the end. This charming story set in a fishing village on a lake in France, and the adventures of two village children.
New York, Lothrop Lee Shepard, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 30 pages. Color illustrations by Alexi Natchev. A long-suffering man who tries to please his crabby and demanding wife is bested by a sly fox in this Hungarian folktale. In the dead of winter, an old peasant woman insists that her husband rustle up some succulent fish to eat. Obsessed, she embroiders fish patterns on the napkins and hums fish songs until she drives her husband batty. In June he finally embarks on a fishing expedition and hauls in a great catch. Outfoxed by a fish-loving fox, the man returns home empty-handed, surely to endure more henpecking. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, W.W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&w illustrations by Lonette Reisie. The author's grandmother's story about walking on an iceberg in the Baltic Sea.
NY, Pippin Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color cartoon illustrations by the author. SIGNED BY LEE LORENZ on title page. Light edgewear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Prentice-Hall, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. Dust jacket with 2 closed tears to rear panel.Light edgewear. Homer and his dog Sophocles have a magical trip during a snowstorm. Author's first book who is the son of famed author John Updike w/lovely watercolor illustrations by Parker. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1st US thus., 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 421 pages. With black & white illustrations. Red cloth cover with gilt title and illustration on front. Spine slightly faded, embossed title complete. First U.S. edition with both titles in one volume.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 2nd pr., 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginiated. hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Wendy Watson. Light edgewear to dust jacket.
New York, Scholastic Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dustjacket. Color illustrations by Ted Lewin. Unpaginated. Skinny as a beanpole and tall for his age, an awkward young boy learns that Abraham Lincoln was called "gorilla, baboob, backwards hick." Yet along with big feet and big hands, Lincoln had a big heart and the great ability to keep a nation together. And what the boy learns as he studies Lincoln opens his mind to great possibilities for his own future.
New York , Knopf, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrated by Marjorie Priceman. Fans of Poems of A. Nonny Mouse will rejoice in this effervescent sequel containing more than 50 wittily illustrated short verses. In an introductory letter, Ms. Mouse acknowledges that since the successful publication of her first volume, she's "been able to afford the occasional wedge of imported cheese" and "put away something for her old age." Along with traditional offerings, tongue twisters, limericks and four unlabeled poems by Prelutsky--identified as the editor of Ms. Mouse's scribblings--the book includes the familiar poem about infamous "Ooey Gooey," the worm who ends up squashed on a railroad track, and a subversive rendition of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" that concludes with "Throw your teacher overboard / And listen to her scream." Priceman's watercolors, like those she executed in Prelutsky's For Laughing Out Loud , are frolicsome and frisky, mischievously expressive.
Hardcover. NY , Century Co., 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color frontispiece, 24 black & white plates by C.M. Relyea. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf. Excellent condition.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust with light chipping. Many black-and-white illustrations throughout by Sloane, from old books to farm implements all listed and drawn alphabetically. 64 pages. Clean copy.
Softcover. Chicago, Merrill Co., reprint, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled linen-like wraps. An oversize ABC book with color illustrations on every page/ not credited but believed to be Vivian Robbins.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, reprint , 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color frontispiece, b&w drawings by Corwin K. Linson. 90 pages in decorated yellow cloth with light soil.
Hardcover. New York, Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32 pages. Hardcover no dust jacket. Color illustrations. When a school girl gets separated from her tour of the White House, and finds herself in the Lincoln bedroom, she also discovers the ghost of the great man himself. Illustrations by Lane Smith. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition.
Hardcover. NY, Jr. Literary Guild /Albert Whitman, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth stamped in green. Illustrated in color by Wilson. 123 pages. Includes a page of Italian words and phrases at the back. This is the story of a day in the life of lovable Italian boy, Ricco, as he celebrates his 8th birthday with family and friends in his small Italian fishing village. Charmingly written and beautifully illustrated by the author. Decorated endpapers of Ricco's Village. Previous owner's bookplte on blank prelim page otherwise clean. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 1st printing of this reissue, square 8vo, cloth backed boards, twelve tales illustrated in line by Nonny Hogrogian. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, 1st, 1947, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in black, 70 pages illustrated throughout in 2-colors by Kurt Wiese. For whatever reason, a very scarce title. The adventures of a churchmouse as he travels from town to town with his knapsack. From a summer camp library with light stamping, edgewear. Wonderful drawings by Wiese.
New York, Simon & Schuster , reprint, 1998 (1955), Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover. Two-color illustrations by Hilary Knight and SIGNED BY KNIGHT on front fly leaf. 65 pages plus scrapbook. In new condition. The original story and pictures of Eloise plus previously unpublished illustrations by Knight and photographs of Kay Thompson. Signed and dated by the illustrator, Hilary Knight, the year of publication. Scrapbook written by Marie Brenner.
Hardcover. Brookfield, Connecticut, Roaring Book Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, SIGNED BY MACDONALD WITH ILLUSTRATED SKETCH TO GREEN PREVIEW PAGE. Color illustrated covers and dust jacket, acetate protective covering to dust jacket, beautiful full page color illustrations by MacDonald. No signs of wear, pages, dust jacket and covers clean, crisp and unmarked; a lovely book in excellent condition.
Hardcover. Brookfield, CN, Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Color illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. A kids' picture book introducing the Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock.
Hardcover. Brookfield, CN, Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Color illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. A kids' picture book introducing the Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock.
Hardcover. New York , Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped jacket. SIGNED BY MCCLINTOCK on title page. When Simon's older sister, Adele, picks him up from school, he has his hat and gloves and scarf and sweater, his coat and knapsack and books and crayons, and a drawing of a cat he made that morning. Adele makes Simon promise to try not to lose anything. But as they make their way home, distractions cause Simon to leave something behind at every stop. What will they tell their mother?
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 40 pages. Adele and her younger brother, Simon, have just arrived in New York City to visit their Aunt Cecile and prepare for a grand train trip around America. "Please try not to lose anything on our trip," Adele tells her brother with a sigh. But how can Simon remember to keep an eye on his belongings when there are so many wonderful distractions and astounding sights to take in? The endearing team from Adele & Simon returns in a cross-continental adventure that reflects the vitality of early twentieth-century America, from the Boston Public Garden to San Francisco's Chinatown. Stunning pen-and-ink-and watercolor illustrations are filled with innumerable hidden treasures, and endpapers featuring a period map of America extend the fun. SIGNED BY MCCLINTOCK.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & World, 3rd pr., 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 168 pages. Blue boards are solid with silhouette of a boy and girl in a canoe; illustrated in b&w by Stephen Voorhies who did the illustrated map on the endpapers. When Ann Jackman was fourteen and her brother Philip eleven, their father decided to become a fur trapper, so the whole family moved to northern Ontario, near a Hudson Bay Post, and built themselves a home. There were many exciting new things for the Jackmans to learn: building a log cabin, making furniture, paddling canoes, the habits of animals, and the language and customs of the Indians.
Chicago, Beckley-Cardy Co., 1st, 1932, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover school primer, blue cloth decorated in black and orange. 303 pages, three-color illustrations by Clara Atwood Fitts. About 10 pages with some chipping and short tears.
Hardcover. New York, Modern Age Books, Inc. , 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 166 pages. Illustrated in b&w by Frank Dobias. Camp name written in pen on front end paper. Blue cloth with white lettering and picture of a high-steel worker riding a girder being winched up. Corners bumped, mild shelf wear.
Hardcover. Springfield, McLoughlin Brothers, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, light green cloth stamped in red and dark green. 128 pages, color frontispiece, b&w drawings. No date, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf dated 1924. In the scarce dust jacket, light tan illustrated with 3-color design featuring two brownies, light edgewear, chipping.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay Company, 1st, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrated boards, unpaginated. Illustrated with full color drawings of Mickey Mouse and friends. Light wear to cover corners and 1 1/2" closed tear at bottom front hinge. Page 14 has a 1" closed tear on right margin - this does not effect text or illustrations. Clean, tight copy.