Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Ness. Ex-lib with library stamp on front and back endpapers. Dust jacket with light edgewear to bottom corner edge.
New York, Abelard Schuman, Book Club Ed., 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Weiss. Light soiling to covers. Light rubbing to extremities. Dust jacket with light edgewear, soiling.
hardcover. Garden City, NY, Garden City, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Large hardcover, pictorial glazed boards. Black & white and color illustrations by H.B. Vestal. Light chipping and edgewear to covers.
Hardcover. NY, Golden Press, 2nd pr., 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, laminated boards. Color illustrations by the author. Covers with light edgewear, soil, rubbing. Illustrated end papers. Clean copy.
NY, Hurst & Co., reprint, n.d. (1880's), Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 557 pages. Many black & white engravings by Dore. With an essay on La Fontaine's life and work. Also, the life of Aesop, the Phrygian. Beautiful gilt and black design on green cloth. Sharp, clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Victoria & Albert Museum, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. "This collection of illustrations from the National Art Library at the V&A contains well-known and unfamiliar fables accompanied by contemporary texts and translations, often with a topical or satirical content. It gives a cross-section of illustrative styles from the 15th to the 20th centuries. Fabulous color and b/w illustrations throughout. A wonderful reference volume, with a small bibliography and an "Analysis by Theme" at rear (plus Index)." Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , Viking Press, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 152 pages, blue cloth covers with dark blue design. Illustrated in b&w by Lawson. . Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping, not price clipped ($2.50).
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped with black lettering, 231 pages. B&w illustrations by Erick Berry.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay Company, 1st US, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 225 pages. Hardcover. Full color paste down illustration on front cover - minor chip of paper missing at bottom of interior red line of Fairy Caravan banner. Title in gilt on spine. Full color plates and black & white illustrations by Beatrix Potter. Previous owners name (written in pencil) erased at some point. A nice copy.
Hardcover. NY, Garden City Books, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 92 pages. Color illustrations by Aldren Watson. Light soil to dust jacket. Otherwise very good. SIGNED BY ALDREN WATSON on title page.
Hardcover. New York , NBM, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 48 pages illustrated in color by Russell. Bright, clean copy in a similar dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, William Heinemann, reprint, 1909, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in green cloth covers stamped in black, gilt title on spine, 416 pages. Features 8 plates in color and 174 richly detailed illustrations in b&w by Hans Tegner. First published in 1900, this subtitled The Queen's Edition published in 1909. Edges and corners of cloth worn, spine faded. Inscription on half-title page.
Hardcover. New York, Little Brown and Co., 5th pr., 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages illustrated in color by Nolan and INSCRIBED BY BOTH AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR on the title page. Dust jacket with light edgewear, unclipped.
Hardcover. NY, Frederick Warne & Co., 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, padded covers in color with gilt stamping and attachments. Book has very little wear. All color illustrations. Barker's early 20th century classic on fairies is here recreated in pop-up form with paste-downs and fold-outs. Clean and bright. No dust jacket issued.
Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light abrasions on bottom corners. Light edgewaer to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Caldecott Honor Book with sticker on front. Handsomely illustrated with Brian Pinkney's color scratchboard drawings. Based on a West Indian folk-tale drawing on African, European and South American traditions.
Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st US, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Full color and black & white illustrations by Carl Larsson. Dust jacket with rubbing along edges, areas of darkening. Clean, tight copy. A beautiful book featuring the full color watercolor artwork by Carl Larsson of his family in Sweden.
Hardcover. NY, Platt & Munk, reprint, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Brown cloth covers with gilt lettering, color label on front. Color and b&w illustrations by Eulalie and Lois Lenski. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Franklin Watts, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, colorful wraparound dust jacket, price-clipped. 192 pages illustrated in color and b&w by Charles Mozley.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1947, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with Greek sailing ships. 62 pages illustrated in color and b&w by Florian. Spine reinforced with clear tape, front hinge cracked. Interior clean.
Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Megan Lloyd. In 1841 in Pennsylvania, Pippin Biddle, determined to get his three orphaned sisters out of the poorhouse, tries to earn a living as an itinerant painter, but he returns empty handed, only to find that he is not the only one in the family with artistic talents. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Garden City NY, Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1st, 1932, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 261 pages. Black & white illustrations by Carl Moon with one color plate in front. Rough cut edge. Turquoise cloth covers. Markings, soiling, to covers. Corners bumped. Spine and edgewear. Spine fade. Yellow top edge. Illustrated front endpapers. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping. Also extra library card on back of color plate.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black. 3-Color illustrations by Mildred Boyle. Light edgewear to covers. No dust jacket. Front and back hinges with tape re-enforcement. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by the author. Dust jacket with light rubbing and price clipped. First re-issue. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages, illustrated in color and b&w by Kurt Wiese. Illustrated cardboard covers with black cloth spine. Light wear to corners otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Barry Moser. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Orlando, Harcourt, Inc., 2nd Printing, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 36 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR ON BOOKPLATE ("AN AUTOGRAPHED EDITION FROM CHINABERRY" BOOKPLATE). Full color illustrations by Ivan Bates. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages.
Hardcover. London, Allen & Unwin, 5th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 78 pages. Black & white illustrations. by Roger Garland. Small stain to back of cover.
Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Green boards with small black embossed graphic illustration to front, bright red cloth spine with gilt titles, pale green textured dust jacket with a large b&w woodcut and red titles, acetate protective covering to dust jacket, 26 full-page woodcuts by Mary Azarian. Article on Mary Azarian from the periodical New England Monthly dated August 1984 included, protected in plastic. Very light rubbing to dust jacket; a beautiful clean, tight children's book in excellent condition.
Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Green boards with small black embossed graphic illustration to front, bright red cloth spine with gilt titles, pale green textured dust jacket with a large b&w woodcut and red titles, 26 full-page woodcuts by Mary Azarian. Light rubbing to dust jacket, slight spotting to edge; a beautiful clean, tight children's book in great condition.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace and Co., 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in black, 181 pages. B&w illustrations by Harve Stein. A young adult adventure set in the Canadian wilderness. Light chip to cloth on front cover, "Review Copy" stamped on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Waber. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. 64 pages, 3-color cartoon illustrations by Stevenson. In the first of two easy-to-read stories a turtle and a snail make some friends with the help of a skateboard. In the second a mouse and a snail learn, through trial and error, how to be friends.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrations by Wnedy Watson. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Doubleday, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustratrd glazed boards, no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Spier. Clean copy.In 1687, young Sietze Hemmes helps rescue a vessel foundering off the Dutch coast, and three hundred years later, another Sietze Hemmes takes part in a similar rescue, in parallel stories that explore the themes of heroism and selflessness.
Hardcover. NY, S&S/Big Golden, 1st, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Hardcover with light chipping to spine. A Big Golden Book. Color Illust. by Rojankovsky. Glazed cardboard covers. Top of spine front fabric torn and peeled back. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. Seymour CT, Greenwick Workshop Press, reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 100 pages illustrated in color by Gustafson. Clean copy.
NY, Franklin Watts, Book Club Ed., 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. B&W illustrations by Susan Perl.135 pages in a dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrated by Daniel San Souci. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Color art by Parnall. All about different types of mammal feet. Illustrated in color, with a guide at the end of the text which explains the type of feet depicted in the artwork. Clean copy.
Cambridge, MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Wells and SIGNED BY WELLS on title-page.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with mild edgewear. A story in the best Norse fairy-tale tradition, in which the youngest of three brothers rescues the others,with fiddle. Illustrated in color by award-winning Swedish author/artist Nygren. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Bros., 1st , 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 250 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color frontis, black & white illust. by Erick Berry. Dj edgeworn, chipped, with chunk missong at spine.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, faded dust jacket. 260 pages, illustrated in b&w by Edward Shenton. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Longmans Green and Co., 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth, b&w illustrations by Henry Pitz. 324 pages. A story of the American Revolution and what occured when the colonists of northern New Jersey became aroused and embittered by enemy oppression. Clean copy.