Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Mary Azarian. SIGNED BY AZARIAN on title page. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Mary Azarian. SIGNED BY AZARIAN on title page. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Mary Azarian. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead & Co, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Color illustrations throughout. Minor wear to cover and dust jacket edges. A very nice, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1949, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 128 pages illustrated in color by Richard Scarry. Nice early Scarry title, mild edgewear otherwise clean copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. Edinburgh, Floris Books, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Oblong glazed boards, color plates throughout by author. Christopher meets the spirit of September in the garden, and is introduced to all the harvest folk: the Gooseberry girls and boys, old man Black-Currant, the misses Plum and the proud Strawberries. First published in Sweden in 1920, this is the first English language edition. Clean, bright copy.
Boston, David A. Godine, 1st illust. thus, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. B&W illustrations by Jeanne Titherington. 191 pages, like-new in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 223 pages. On the day of his eighteenth birthday, midshipman cadet Chuck Dugan receives a startling letter, including a treasure map drawn by his late father and news that his mother is about to marry a rogue and scoundrel known as "the Admiral." When the Admiral warns Chuck away from his mother, and the Admiral's sons attack the young cadet, Chuck leaps into action, going AWOL from duty to stop the wedding and find the treasure. So begins this delightful illustrated novel and the thrilling adventures of Chuck Dugan heroic, resourceful, a great swimmer, and master of disguise. In each cliffhanging chapter, Chuck must grapple with a new set of dangers, from sunken ships and buccaneers to survival on open water and a final race to the treasure ahead of the Admiral and his boys. Illuminated throughout with detailed maps of places, people, and things Chuck encounters along the way, and written with an electric sense of derring-do and whimsy, Eric Chase Anderson creates a totally original and captivating hero, and a swashbuckling adventure story for all ages. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 78 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Color illustrations by author.
NY, Oxford University Press, 1st US, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in gilt. Color frontis. and black & white illustrations by George Morrow. Illustrated end papers. Edgewear and mild soil to covers. No markings.
Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, reprint, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. Cover extremities rubbed, else clean tight copy: Very Good/no dj. 12mo. Illustrated in color by Margaret Evans Price and in black and white by Dorothea Snow. Copyright 1921 as part of larger book, first separate edition.
Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally & Company, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black. Ii a worn, chipped dust jacket. Illustrated in b&w by Wesley Dennis. With "A" on the copyright page, first thus. 154 pages. light wear to cloth at bottom of spine. George Washington meets his match in a wily fox in this legendary hunting tale from Newbery Award-winning author Marguerite Henry. Cinnabar is a fox. He lives in a den with his family, Vicky and four little cubs. He's a hardworking fox who does everything he can to ensure that his family has what they need. But during fox hunting season, he likes to have a little fun: Every hunt day, promptly at one o'clock, Cinnabar shows up and runs until nightfall. Can the huntsmen ever catch this clever fox? Based on an old legend about fox hunting in the area around Mount Vernon.
Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally & Company, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black. No dust jacket. Illustrated in b&w by Wesley Dennis. With "A" on the copyright page, first thus. 154 pages. Stamp with inscription on half-title page. Otherwise clean. George Washington meets his match in a wily fox in this legendary hunting tale from Newbery Award-winning author Marguerite Henry. Cinnabar is a fox. He lives in a den with his family, Vicky and four little cubs. He's a hardworking fox who does everything he can to ensure that his family has what they need. But during fox hunting season, he likes to have a little fun: Every hunt day, promptly at one o'clock, Cinnabar shows up and runs until nightfall. Can the huntsmen ever catch this clever fox? Based on an old legend about fox hunting in the area around Mount Vernon.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers with white lettering. 90 pages illustrated in b&w by Slobodkin. No dust jacket. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, Book Club, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by the Petershams. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Some tape stains on front and rear endpapers. "Parents' Magazine's Read Aloud Book Club" seal on back cover and jacket. Fading along front top edge of dust jacket. Clean, unmarked pages.
Hardcover. Kenosha WI, John Martins House, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated in color and black & white by Sari. 32 pages. cardboard covers, worn at corners, previous owner's inscription on inside cover. light soil.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hard cover. 194 pages. Black & white illustrations by George M. Richards. Red top edge. Light spine wear. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping, soiling. Clear plastic protective cover. Bookseller's label front end paper.
Softcover. New York, McLoughlin Brothers, 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 12 pages, un-numbered. Softcover with stapled binding. Light wear to paper wrappers. Illustrated in full color on all pages. Previous owner's name in pencil on front wrapper.
Hardcover. New York , HarperCollins, reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover reissue of a book first published in 1956 written by Jack Sendak and illustrated by his brother, Maurice. SIGNED BY MAURICE SENDAK. Flora, a little circus girl, wonders what the people who come to the circus do when they are not at the circus. Illustrated in black-and-white and pastel pink and green. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket.
NY, Golden Book, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. Color illustrations by the author. Step right up and see the dazzling displays and sensational sights of the brightest circus parade ever. From the golden calliope wagon to the proud pachyderms, each page of detailed delights will keep readers rapt. A treat for both young and old; no one will want to miss the clowns in cars and penguins in pools; ferocious felines and aerial artistry--everything that's marvelous and magical about the legendary big top! So get yourself some peanuts and cotton candy and settle in for the greatest parade on earth.
Hardcover. New York, North South Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Peter Kuhner. Clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Lothrop Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. Kael, a black timber wolf, is captured & performs for a circus, until he has the opportunity to escape. Haunting story of a wild Wolf & the gentle man who trains him. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Company, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in color throughout by Emma Chichester Clark. When Cissy Lavender house sits for Mr. William Holly's cats and dog, she finds a multitude of things to do and write to him about.
Hardcover. NY, Ariel/ Farrar Straus Cudahy, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, unclipped. A moving portrait of the young Abraham Lincoln awakening to early powers. B&w illustrations by Douglas Gorsline. 90 pages.
Hardcover. New York , Hyperion Book , 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages illustrated in color. SIGNED BY BOTH author and illustrator on title page.
Hardcover. NY, Viking/Ariel, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 147 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Chris Van Allsburg. Like new in bright dust jacket. Tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 32 pages. Hardcover. Oxford University Press edition. INSCRIBED BY FRENCH AT TOP RIGHT CORNER OF FRONT ENDPAPER. Full color illustrations by Fiona French. Dust jacket with closed tears along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked pages.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 2nd, 1966, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. A clean, unmarked copy with heavy wear to dust jacket edges. Turnabout book where first side is country story and turn it over and the city story is in rear. dust jacket shows closed tears and small open rips. Illustrated by Ib Ohlsson.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace and Co., 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 323 pages, light blue cloth with black lettering. illustrated in b&w by Frank Beaudouin. Light fade to spine. Clean and tight.
Hardcover. San Francisco, McSweeney's, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Very good hardback bound in publisher's shaped boards cut in the shape of a house and issued without a jacket. SIGNED in black marker by Barnett and Horowitz on the rear board.
Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Barry Moser. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, reprint, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A reprint of the couple's classic 1978 title. SIGNED by both Barretts.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday , 2nd, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY JULIA AND ROBERT VAN NUTT opposite title-page. Illustrations by Robert Van Nutt.
Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Lee Lorenz. Bottom corners and spine a bit bumped. SIGNED BY LORENZ on title page.
Hardcover. New York, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 7th pr., 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 90 pages. Black & white illustrations by Peter Spier. Light soiling to covers. Dust jacket witeh rubbing, edgewear. Brodart cover.
Hardcover. NY, Dorling Kindersley, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. As new in a dust jacket. After stealing a dead man's boots, a poor wandering bagpiper uses them to play a trick on an unfriendly farmer but then finds the trick turned back on him. Parker's watercolors rank with his finest. The blotted impressionistic colors and scrawled lines are both edgy and amusing, while the cool gray tones create an appropriately chilly backdrop for the spooky antics.
Hardcover. Austin, Texas, Steck-Vaughn Company, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 30 pages, Illustrated in color by Frank O'Leary. Small note in pencil on back fly leaf. Dust jacket has several tears, placed in protective plastic cover. Describes the physical characteristics and habits of the peccary, or javelina, that inhabits the southwestern United States.
Hardcover. New York, Clarkson N. Potter, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages. Illustrated with full color and black & white examples of fine book design. Dust jacket shows standard wear with small tears or rubbing along edges.
Hardcover. New York , The Macmillan Co., 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 200 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated in black & white by Helen Sewell. Dust jacket with small chips, tears.
Hardcover. Cleveland, World Publishing, reprint , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. B&W illustrations by Tunis.160 pages. Dust jacket with light edgewear, unclipped.
Hardcover. NY, Coward-McCann, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped with silver lettering, 217 pages with b&w illustrations by Hodges. Endpapers map in blue. Previous owner's bookplate and name. Otherwise a clean copy.
NY, Random House Beginner Books, Book Club Ed., 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 63 pages illustrated in color by Richard Erdoes. The text is written by Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss) under his lesser know pseudonym of Theo. Lesieg.
Hardcover. New York , Random House/Beginner Books, BC Ed., 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 63 pages, hardcover, color illustrated cloth with bowed cover, color illustrations throughout by Richard Erdoes. Light verse by LeSieg (Dr. Seuss). Stated Book Club Edition opposite title page. Covers show edge wear, soil. Interior clean.
Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.All 7 picture books in one volume. Introduction by Madeleine L'Engle. Afterword by Margaret Rey. Color illustrations by Rey. 405 pages. Clean copy.
Topsfield, MA, Salem House, 1st U.S. , 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, B&W, color illustrations throughout by Steadman. Light edgewear to dust jacket, minor rubbing to silver dust jacket. This book brings together in a single volume Steadman's three previous Lewis Carroll titles illustrated with his uniquely stunning drawings. In addition to the original published illustrations, Steadman has added many in color for the first time along with fourteen completely new illustrations.
Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne, 2nd pr., 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Hardcover with moderate wear to oictorial boards. Ex-Library copy with usual stamps on front fly leaf, interior page, and sleeve on rear end paper. Otherwise clean, tight copy.
Boston, Little Brown and Company, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped with yellow lettering. 286 pages illustrated in b&w by Gordon Grant. Follows the popular The Half Deck, which he wrote in 1933. The Monarch, under Capt. McFarlane, leaves the Firth of Clyde for Africa, the Barbadoes, New Orleans, and back. War is declared while in Africa, and the ship tries to outrun a submarine. Small name on front fly leaf otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Co., 3rd pr., 1935, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 343 pages, hardcover. Illustrated by the author and Helene Carter. Spine cracked at front panel. Heavy edgewear and fading to boards. Water damage to text block. Light soiling to boards. Mild age-toning to text block. Faint foxing and spotting throughout, mostly to preliminary pages. Previous owner's inscription to front flyleaf. A fair reading copy.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Hardcover,no dust jacket. Light edgewear to corners, and edges. Light age soiling on text block. Vivid color illustrations by Warren Chappell. Based on the famous ballet about a remarkably lifelike doll.