Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt , 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth with red, black and white decoration. Humerous verse illustrated with 2-color cartoons by Henry Mayer.
Boston , Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Debby Atwell. In a humorous rendition of a famous Norwegian folktale, Hans challenges his wife, Gertrude, to exchange chores with him and soon learns how difficult housework really is.
Hardcover. New York, Holiday House, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Rounds. Dust jacket with rubbing, minor chipping.
Hardcover. NP, Enchanted Lion Books, reprint, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 48 pages, a reprint of Flora's book published in 1957. Whimsical b&w drawings with color by the artist.
Hardcover. Nashville, Abingdon Press , 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover ina bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in color and 2-colors by Jane Snyder. Because nobody else in town likes pet alligators, the lady who owns one decides the best place to keep him is the zoo.
Hardcover. NY, Scholastic, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated by Vladimir Vagin. While poking about in the attic, Marvin and Joey discover old letters written by their great-great uncles, Henry and Timothy, whose correspondence with each other reveals to the youngsters the truths about being different and being brothers. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, George W. Jacobs, 1st, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with a illustration pastedown with white lettering. 5 two-color plates by Elizabeth Otis. A near fine copy with page 5 having a piece (about 15%) torn away. Otherwise bright and tight with cover label illustration.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Macrae Smith Company, 1st thus, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with bright blue, green and gilt design to front cover and spine. Romance of America's History series. Stated First Edition. Includes 8 color plates by N.C. Wyeth, Frank E. Schoonover, Stanley Arthurs and Charles Hargens. Many b&w drawings in text by various artists. Includes chapters by Washington Irving, Herman Melville, Jack London, J.F. Cooper, et al. Woodcut engraved endpapers, color frontis, 506 pages. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , North-South, 1st U.S., 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 24 pages illustrated in color by Zwerger and SIGNED BY ZWERGER on title page. Originally published in Zurich in 1985.
Hardcover. Natick MA, Picture Book Studio, 1st US, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 24 pages illustrated in color by Zwerger. Dust jacket price clipped otherwise very good.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers stamped with black lettering. Illustrated with b&w photographs and drawings. Fine text for children on the principles of democracy. First printing with "I" on copyright page. "Review Copy" stamped on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Arcade, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Introduction by Michael Patrick Hearn, Reprints 6 of Denslow's early picture books in one volume. Tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Platt & Munk, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 30 pages illustrated in color by Wiseman. Someone is stealing Sam Squirrel's nuts. Bloodhound Detective is on the case. Cute juvenile mystery told in rhyme. Clean copy.
New York, Harper & Row , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardbound in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Wood. Dust jacket with light edgewear. The great Detective Valentine has his work cut out for him when the snow queen's crown is stolen two days before the contest and the mayor's wife, a famous actress, and the detective's good friend are all suspects.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Arnold Lobel. Dust jacket shows very minor wear. Hardbound. When Lucifer hears that Mother Crump is "meaner than the devil", he pays her a visit to find out himself. And sure enough, she out-deviled him! Even when she dies, and he won't let her into his domain, Mother Crump manages to best the devil one last time.
Hardcover. New York, Henry Z. Walck, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 61 pages. Cloth boards. Two color Illustrations by Hogner. Dust jacket has minor chipping along edges and all corners clipped. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Joy Street/ Little Brown , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by the author. Tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nice color illustrations by Goode. Stories compiled by Ann Durell. Great condition, clean and new-looking. Hardcover, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton , 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 64 pages illustrated in color by Diane Goode. Selections include: Buffalo Gal, Clementine, I've Been Working. 17 selections in all. Musical arrangements included. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Joanna Cotler /HarperCollins, 5th pr., 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR on title page. Summary of the story: "A young worm discovers, day by day, that there are some very good and some not so good things about being a worm in this great big world". Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hard cover. Black & white and two-tone illustrations by Babbitt. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping, some foxing. Clear plastic protective cover.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, BC Ed., 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, illustrate with 2-color linoleum cuts by Brown. Weekly Reader Book Club Ed. Name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1st illust. thus, 1930, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in yellow, 214 pages. This is a first printing of the edition with the two Gertrude Kay color plates, many b&w spot drawings and endpapers illustration. The original edition was published in 1882. A collection of stories and songs the author learned from growing up among slaves in the antebellum South. The green spine is faded otherwise a clean, sharp copy.
Hardcover. New York, Hyperion Books for Children, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with matching dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 32 pages with illustrations by Garland. Colorful paintings inspired by Magritte complement the story of a young boys' escape from boredom to the house of his neighbors, Rene Magritte and his wife, and the world they share with Salvador Dali and other artists. The full-page oil paintings that tell the visual tale are based on the work of the 20th-century Belgian artist. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations by Kyrsten Brooker throughout. Illustrated endpapers and paste downs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a pristine dust jacket. Non-paginated. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR BRIAN SELZNICK ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations. Clean, bright copy.
NY, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Vladimir Radunsky. Light edgewear to dust jacket. A never-before-published poem for children by the Nobel laureate:In the beginning there were just waveshammering at the obstacles . . .So begins a lovely, thought-provoking poem that Joseph Brodsky wrote in 1995. It is about the first discoverers of America -- fish, birds, then man. But it is also about a land that even today is full of secrets waiting to be discovered. Illustrated in collage and gouache by Vladimir Radunsky, this poem is, finally, a celebration of our world -- a world open to possibilities.
NY, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Vladimir Radunsky. Light edgewear to dust jacket. A never-before-published poem for children by the Nobel laureate:In the beginning there were just waveshammering at the obstacles . . .So begins a lovely, thought-provoking poem that Joseph Brodsky wrote in 1995. It is about the first discoverers of America -- fish, birds, then man. But it is also about a land that even today is full of secrets waiting to be discovered. Illustrated in collage and gouache by Vladimir Radunsky, this poem is, finally, a celebration of our world -- a world open to possibilities.
NY, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Vladimir Radunsky. Light edgewear to dust jacket. A never-before-published poem for children by the Nobel laureate:In the beginning there were just waveshammering at the obstacles . . .So begins a lovely, thought-provoking poem that Joseph Brodsky wrote in 1995. It is about the first discoverers of America -- fish, birds, then man. But it is also about a land that even today is full of secrets waiting to be discovered. Illustrated in collage and gouache by Vladimir Radunsky, this poem is, finally, a celebration of our world -- a world open to possibilities.
Hardcover. New York, Disney Editions, Revised Ed., 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 208 pages, illustrated in color. Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. While the literary Pooh continues to win new generations of fans, an on-screen Pooh was destined to expand the appeal of the Hundred-Acre Wood. In 1961, Walt Disney acquired the exclusive film rights to Milne's Pooh stories. Since then, The Walt Disney Company has produced numerous shorts, features, and television shows about the Silly Old Bear, and that tradition continues with the release of the 2011 film, Winnie the Pooh. Winnie the Pooh: A Celebration of the Silly Old Bear is a tribute to the wonder of Pooh, from his origin and literary success to his brilliant animated career and continued popularity. This is his story; but, moreover, it is his art--including more than 200 illustrations that detail the evolution of Pooh and his friends from stuffed toys to animated characters.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Emily Arnold McCully and SIGNED BY MCCULLY on front fly leaf. A childhood move in the life of Willa Cather to the plains of Nebraska, brings initial unhappiness, then appreciation and love for her new surroundings. Inscribed, with a sketch by the illustrator.
Hardcover. NY, Wonder Books, 2nd pr., 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glazed boards. Originally published as The Magic Word. Color illustrations by Eleanor Dart. Teaching kids to say the magic word: "Please!" Name blacked out on inside front cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with red cloth spine, 411 pages. Black & white Illustrations by J. Scott Williams. Two-color illustrarion on front cover. Edges worn. Red cloth spine with gilt lettering. Collection of short stories centered around an Irish doctor and his patients, mostly rural & poor.
Hardcover. New York, Michael di Capua Books/HarperCollins Publishers, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Olive green cloth covers with gilt titles to spine, color illustrated dust jacket, lovely full-page color illustrations by William Steig. Mild edgewear, soil to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Philadelphia/NY, J.B. Lippincott, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth stamped in black with a color illustrated label on front cover. 342 pages, color frontis, endpapers and b&w drawings by Lofting. Copyright page states 11th impression. Name on half-title pages. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, reprint, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in red, 319 pages, color frontis, endpapers and b&w drawings by Lofting. Copyright page states 13th impression.
Hardcover. New York, Fred A. Stokes Co., 1st US, 1924, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 379 pages, hardcover. Stamped and illustrated boards. Illustrated endpapers and color frontispiece. Heavy soiling and age toning to boards. Heavy bumping to all corners. Moderate age toning to text block edges. Previous owner's inscription on half title page. Front hinge cracked. A fair reading copy.
NY, Pantheon, 2nd pr., 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards. Color illustrations by Cyndy Szekeres. Unpaginated. Cover has minor wear to spine edge and corners. Doctor Rabbit finds an abandoned tadpole and raises her to froghood. The cast of characters, including Nurse Mouse and others, is irresistable. The ending is bittersweet, because even orphaned tadpoles grow up one day, but this ending is one of the things that makes this such a special story for a parent to read with their still-small child.
Softcover. Akron, OH, Saalfield Publishing Company, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover with moderate soil and fraying to corners. Paper wrappers lightly darkened. Previous owner's name written on front wrapper. Illustrated by Diane Thorne.
Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st US, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Two stories, back to back. Illustrated in b&w. Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The dolls are planning a birthday party: the first half of the book tells of the preparations, then midway through you turn the book over and start again at the other end to see the guests arrive. Full-page black-and-white illustrations throughout, with a centerfold in full color.
Hardcover. New York , Norton, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 59 pages, b&w line drawings by Paul Kennedy. In an unclipped dust jacket with light shelf wear.
Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by author. When a young boy decides to challenge the popular old saying about stepping on cracks in the sidewalk, he comes to find out that it is a valid warning as a number of weird and strange things suddenly begin to happen in his life. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Bros., reprint, 1892, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright blue cloth stamped in maroon, making the front cover hard to read. Spine stamped in bright gilt. Many b&w text and full-page illustrations, not credited. A story of twins brought up in Europe by their uncle, whose full story remains a mystery. Inscription on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated by Edward Gorey. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrations by Edward Gorey. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Young Scott Books, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w drawings by Edward Gorey, dj w/ edgewear, closed tear at folds, chip on rear panel. Tight copy.
Hardcover. Garden City, Doubleday , 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Boards. Illustrated in color by Tomi Ungerer. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Garden City, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by Tomi Ungerer. Tape repaired closed tears at edges of dust jacket - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.