Softcover. Los Angeles, Price Stern Sloan, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 48 pages. Color illustrations by author. The comic misadventures of a group of cats at summer camp.
Hardcover. New York, Orchard Books, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 26 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Amy Schwartz. Dust jacket price clipped. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran & Co./Junior Literary Guild, BC Ed., 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, orange-yellow cloth with black stamping, in a very worn, torn dust jacket. 278 pages with line drawings by Ruth Holbrook. After two weeks of camping in a tent by the lake, Emily finds an arrowhead and becomes a real heroine when danger threatens. Endpapers map in green by Holbrook. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with black stamping, 122 pages. Illustrated in two-colors and full color by Kurt Wiese. Scarce title by this duo. Light shelf wear, no markings.
Hardcover. Boston, L. C. Page, 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 369 pages. B&W illustrations by Howard Pyle, others. Dark green cloth with heavy fading to spine. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Gilt decorated cover.
Hardcover. NY , Viking Press, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&W illustrations by Frederick Chapman. Nice in a spine-sunned dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, New York Review of Books, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue pictorial boards with red cloth spine. 188 pages, b&w drawings by V.H. Drummond. Reprint of a book first published in 1955. Children's book illustrator Ashley Wolff's copy with her signature on front fly leaf. Clean copy. No dust jacket issued.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth with black stamping. B&W illustrations by Rod Ruth, 204 pages. Ex-library copy but clean and tight, light stamping and residue."Tuktu is the name by which the Barren Ground caribou is known to nearly all of the Eskimo tribes of Arctic America." A fictional story based on the near extinction of the caribou poputation and it's effect on native tribes.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 40 pages, color illustrations by Day. Carl is finally back! Once again, Alexandra Day has concocted a very busy day for the amazing and all-around resourceful Rottweiler Carl. His owner believes Carl is at home taking a nap, when really he's making tracks all over town. He visits a bakery, makes a delivery for the pharmacist, helps out a veterinarian, and joins in a magician's act in the park. But in the most important event of the day, Carl becomes a real hero when he rescues a litter of puppies from a fire. With eight more pages of fun than in the previous Carl books, this captivating adventure, related mostly through pictures, will delight fans old and new.
Hardcover. NY, Four Winds Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. 122 pages illustrated in color by Gerald McDermott. Translated and adapted by Mayer.
Hardcover. New York, Four Winds Press, 1st thus, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 122 pages, color illustrations by Gerald McDermott. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy.
NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Michael McDermot. Dust jacket price clipped. Carmina is afraid of her great-grandmother until the old lady plays the piano and Carmina discovers that the music makes a special bond between them. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1962, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, Brodarted dust jacket whose flaps have been glued to the covers. B&w illustrations by Fermin Rocker. Ex-lib with pocket in rear. Interior clean.
Hardcover. NY, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with mild fading to dust jacket. Five poems by Langston Hughes and one anonymous one translated from the Spanish present the story of the first Christmas from different perspectives. Ashley Bryan has long been known for his interest in and illustration of African American spirituals and poetry. Here he puts his gifts of illustration to work in a way that seems to reflect his dedication to both. Clean copy.
Surrey, UK, World's Work, 1st UK, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers, gilt tile on spine. B&W illustrations by Alan H. Crane. 89 pages. Spiritual tale of a blind boy in Mexico and the miracle that happens to him. Clean copy, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st thus, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated in color by Barry Moser.
Hardcover. NY, Barrons /Woodbury, 1st US, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth. A young crow forms a friendship with a caged parrot and sets him free. Color illustrations by Yutaka Sugita. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Wonder Books, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glossy boards. 20 pages illustrated in color. Casper, the Friendly Ghost and Wendy, the Good Little Witch starred in animated cartoons in the 1950s. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Racine WI, Albert Whitman & Co., 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with a paste-down cover illustration, 127 pages illustrated with 2-color drawings by Hazel Fraser. Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean and bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Beginner Books, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 133 pages. Hardcover. Dictionary of French and English for young readers. Full color illustrations by P. D. Eastman. Damp odor. Price clipped dust jacket with closed tears along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, early reprint, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 61 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with moderate chipping to laminated covers.
Hardcover. New York, Dutton, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages illustrated in color by Stadler. SIGNED WITH A DRAWING OF A PIG BY ARTIST on front end paper. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, Collins, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Macaulay. Lavishly illustrated Caldecott Honor book about the construction of an imaginary French Gothic cathedral. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 8th pr., 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Macaulay. Lavishly illustrated Caldecott Honor book about the construction of an imaginary French Gothic cathedral. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, D. Lothrop and Co., 1st, 1887, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 32 pages. Humorous poetry with b&w cat illustrations on opposite page. Gutter cracked after front fly leaf, but binding firm, pages bright and clean.
Hardcover. New York, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Front cover slightly bowed, otherwise clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges. Color ullustrations by Wendy Watson.
Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. Clean, tight copy
Hardcover. Hungary, Petofi Printing House, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial laminated boards. Color illustrations by Emma Heinzelmann. Spine and corners rubbed. Translated by Judith Elliott. Covers slightly splayed. The Terrible Seven cats terrify nine dogs, all called Louis in what was perhaps the most frightful conflict since cat and dog wars began.
Hardcover. New York , Philomel, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginatd. Hardcover with dust jacekt. Color illustrations by Thomas Locker. Tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 76 pages. B&w drawings by Margot Tomes. When Cecelia searches for a place where people love music and dancing as much as she does, she finds the path that leads to Blue Mountain. There, by a creek, Cecelia meets her true love. Lovely, romantic fantasy, which is set in the remote Appalachian countryside.
Hardcover. New York, Coward-McCann, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, red cloth covers worn with faded spine. 157 pages. Illustrated by Burbank. Illustrated endpapers. Small dent in top edge of covers and edge. A story of adventure and intrigue set in the Guatemalan mountains. With a glossary of Spanish/Indian words and a guide to Mayan numerals in front. No markings.
Hardcover. New York, Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 209 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Charles Keeping. Dust jacket price clipped, has light edgewear.
Hardcover. NY, Century Co., 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 246 pages, illustrated with b&w photographs and drawings. Illustrated cardboard covers, Fair map on front end paper. Previous owner's inscription in pencil, otherwise exceptional condition.
Hardcover. New York , Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth stamped with red decoration. Ex-library with bookplate and mild residue to rear end papers. The story of a Chinese boy who starts school, attractively illustrated in black and white with soft drawings by Laura Bannon.
Hardcover. New York, Four Winds, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Unpaginated. Color illustrations by Stephen Kellogg. Dust jacket has several closed tears.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. Color illustrations by Browne. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. Color illustrations by Browne. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Charles Miklolaycak. Dust jacket price clipped.
Hardcover. Paris, Plon-Nourrit, reprint, Hardcover. Collection of 24 traditional French songs & rhymes sung by & to children c. 1900 (no date in book), arranged by J. B. Weckerlin, with charming watercolor illustrations by M. B. de Monvel throughout the 48 pages. Oblong hardcover has decorative red cloth-covered boards, embossed lettering in black & gilt to front cover. FRENCH TEXT. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Paris, Grund, 1st illust thus, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards, illustrated in color by Ludmila Jirincova. Robert Desnos, the famous surrealist poet in the 20s, later joined the Resistance while working as a journalist in Paris. He forged papers and passed along information, but also wrote humorous and lyrical animal poems to cheer little children, though they often had a double meaning. This is his last book, published in 1944. In February of that year, he was deported to Auschwitz and later Treblinka. He died of typhus soon after the liberation. FRENCH TEXT.
Hardcover. Philadelphia , David McKay, 1st US, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover.Torquoise cloth with gilt design, gilt dulled on spine. 30 color plates by Harold Copping. B&W frontispiece portrait of Dickens partially loose. Top edge gilt. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Windmill Books, 1st, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color, black & white illustrations by Addams. Dust jacket price clipped. Covers warped. Light foxing on dust jacket. Edgewear on dust jacket. Small sticker on back of dust jacket. SIGNED & INSCRIBED by Addams with illustration of hockey player on end paper.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1964, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 162 pages. This the first printing of the true First Edition, published 3 years before the UK edition. 8vo, 240 x 160 mm, 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches, deep red cloth, gilt lettered spine, title embossed on upper cover, mustard endpapers, top edges dyed maroon. Black and white illustrations by Joseph Schindelmann. No inscriptions, near fine in very good dust jacket: not price clipped ($3.95), very clean, no ISBN on rear. Six lines of printing and binding information in back of book as a required point of the first issue. There is a small sliver of dust jacket missing between the third and fourth lines of blue type on the front panel, which is hard to see with the white backing of the mylar protecting it. That and a small tanning spot below Wonka dancing on back panel are the only flaws. Detailed pictures availble. A great collector's copy.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, quarter blue cloth over gray paper boards with pink lettering on the spine, and a blue decoration on the front board. Illustrated with full-page and in-text drawings by Joseph Schindelman. The follow up to Dahl's wildly popular books "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory." Dust jacket with edgewear, red title faded on spine, $3.95 price on flap. Stated First Edition on copyright page.
Hardcover. Cleveland, World Publishing, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 48 pages. Color art by Schulz. The story of "an all-star baseball team and its conscientious but misunderstood manager-pitcher, Charlie Brown. " The book was the basis of the second prime-time animated TV specials based on the Peanuts comic strip. C;ean copy.
Hardcover. Cleveland, World Publishing Co., 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 48 pages illustrated in color by Schulz. In the scarce dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, a story by the author of Ironweed and his son, Brendan. SIGNED BY BOTH KENNEDYS on title page. Illustrated in color by Glen Baxter.Through ingenuity, determination, and sheer grit, Charlie Malarkey and his friend Iggy must stop Ben Bubie and his diabolical machine from stealing belly-buttons in Albany, New York
Hardcover. Boston, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with black lettering on spine and drawing of Charlie on front cover, a story by the author of Ironweed and his son, Brendan. Illustrated in color by Glen Baxter. Through ingenuity, determination, and sheer grit, Charlie Malarkey and his friend Iggy must stop Ben Bubie and his diabolical machine from stealing belly-buttons in Albany, New York. Clean copy. No dust jaclet.
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