Children illustrated

New York, Simon & Schuster , reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Hillary Knight and SIGNED BY KNIGHT on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. New York , Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY HILLARY KNIGHT. What's this--a new Eloise, never before seen or published? News doesn't get better than that. Kay Thompson first wrote Eloise Takes a Bawth in Italy in the 1960s with Hilary Knight and pal Mart Crowley; it has been marinating until now for a release with all-new drawings by Hilary Knight. Of course, this time Eloise is not in Moscow, not in Paris, she is simply in the bawth at home in the Plaza Hotel. With Eloise, though, nothing is simple. Perhaps especially the notion of taking a bath, where you have to "skibble into the bathroom and take off all your clothes," then strike a pose and look in the mirror, and splawsh, and sing, and bathe with turtle Skipperdee and dog Weenie. And pretend to be the "loosest cannonball in all the Caribbean" and "Little Miss Mermaid but let's keep that between us." But what's this? Could Eloise's bathtime shenanigans be causing a drip that "has begun to drop within the walls and hallowed halls of the stately old Plaza?" Drenching the elite at the Venetian Masked Ball in the Grawnd Ballroom, no less? Fabulously decadent scenes of Eloise enacting wild battles and undersea dives in the bathtub on the "tip top floor" of the Plaza contrast deliciously with the resulting swampy splendor of the ballroom. Extended fold-out cross-sections of the hotel's plumbing system and a spectacular, colorful, double gatefold illustrating the underwater ball ("the sensation of the social season" thanks to Eloise!) add drama and silliness as well.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 65 pages. SIGNED BY HILARY KNIGHT on front fly leaf. Extensive color illustrations throughout. Includes scrapbook of photographs and drawings by Knight. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Simon and Shuster, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 80 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR KNIGHT on front flyleaf. Scrapbook section written by Marie Brenner. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Adhesive residue on rear dj. Light age toning to top text block edge. Color illustrations throughout. A bright and tight copy.

Hardcover. Sandusky OH, The American Crayon Company, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 61 pages. A child's book on Elsie the Cow, the centerpiece of Borden's milk commercial advertising during the 1940s, 50s and 60s. Two-color illustrations throughout by Walter Early. Edgewear, mild chipping to cardboard covers, name inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, color illustrations by Charlotte Voake. Little Elsie Piddock is a born skipper. When she is scarcely five, she can outskip anyone in her village. By the time she's six, her name and fame have spread to all the villages in the county. And by the time she's seven, the fairies have heard of her. When Master Skipper Andy-Spandy summons the sleeping little girl to Mount Caburn for a contest, the tireless Elsie outskips even the fairies and is rewarded with a gift of rare and lasting value. Can she use it later to save the fabled skipping grounds of Caburn? Or will a greedy lord build a factory where children have played for centuries? First appearing in 1937, it is published here for the first time as a picture book (pen and watercolor).; 10 x 11".

Hardcover. London, George Newnes, 1st, 1951, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 248 pages. Black & white illustrations by Bertram Prance. Previous owners inscription at top of front endpaper. Spine slightly cocked. Light foxing to some pages.

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st thus, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn and lightly spotted dust jacket, 192 pages. Introduction by Walter de la Mare. Illustrations by Walter Trier. First printing of the new translation by Eileen Hall. This copy is bound in original yellow linen covered boards with black titles to the front and spine. Kastner's first major success, the only one of his pre-1945 works to escape Nazi censorship, and remains his best-known work, and has been translated into at least 59 languages. The most unusual aspect of the novel, compared to existing children's literature at the time, was that it was realistically set in a contemporary Berlin peopled with some fairly rough characters, not in a sanitized fantasy world; also that it refrained from obvious moralizing, letting the characters' deeds speak for themselves. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Phaidon Press, reprint, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 32 pages illustrated in color by Ungerer. A reprint of the 1980 tale of an eight-legged hero who has twice as much courage and four times as many legs as most people - except, of course, other octopuses. When deep-sea diver Captain Samovar is attacked by a ferocious shark, Emile comes to his aid. Grateful to his rescuer, the Captain invites him to stay at his home, where Emile sleeps in a bathtub full of salt water. Emile turns out to be a fantastic octopus: he is a gifted musician (able to play three instruments simultaneously) and a great lifeguard, teaching children to swim and saving people from drowning. One day, Emile and the Captain, who works on a police launch, encounter a suspicious-looking boat in the ocean, with a dangerous group of smugglers on board... Clean copy.

Hardcover. Edinburgh, Floris Books, reprint, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with a red cloth spine. Emily wants to help her mama by watching Daisy the cow so she doesn't escape out the hole in her fence. On the way to the meadow, Emily meets a big dog, a boastful boy and an old man. But who will help Emily when she needs it? This is a delightful springtime story for young children about kindness and helping others from the world-renowned Swedish author--illustrator Elsa Beskow.

Hardcover. NY, Dial Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, HardcoverColor illustrations by Martha Alexander. Dust jacket with light soil, edgewear.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial boards, library binding. Black & white illustrations by Paul O. Zelinsky. During the summer of 1875, a seven-year-old girl is sent to live with her wealthy uncle in Massachusetts and becomes involved in a very suspicious bank robbery. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Doubleday, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Barbara Cooney.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st thus, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, 90 pages, illustrated in color by Kerstin Meyer. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Hardcover, pastel peach cloth stamped in dark blue. 175 pages, illustrated with charming b&w drawings by Flavia Gag. Evans' first story about white folks full of the spirit of a vanished era. 12 yr old Emma Belle is in a small Tennessee town in 1881 As the undisputed leader of her two younger sisters she must figure out how to get to Kinfolks Meeting which their mother has opposed. Spine has a small 3/4" tear, otherwise sound, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover, no dust jacket in slip case. Clean, tight copy. Illustrated by Karl Lagerfeld.

Hardcover. NY, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1st , 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Mendelson. Animal characters highlight a retelling of the story of two rascals who sell a vain emperor an invisible suit of clothes. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Lothrop Lee & Shepard, 1st US, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illust. by Hughes. Clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally & Company, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 118 pages, hardcover. Retold and pictured by Margaret Evans Price. Decorated blue boards with gilt titling to spine and front panel. Moderate rubbing and edgewear to boards. Light soiling/age toning to front panel. Bumping to corners, light fraying to lower fore edge corner. Previous owner's inscription to front flyleaf in pencil. Illustrated endpapers. Light fading and age toning to prelim pages. A tight copy.

Hardcover. Owings Mills, Stemmer House Publishers, Inc., 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 128 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated black and white woodprints and full color drawings. Clean unmarked text. Illustrated dust jacket with moderate edgewear. Unclipped.

Hardcover. Owings Mills, Stemmer House Publishers, Inc., 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 128 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated black and white woodprints and full color drawings. Clean unmarked text. Illustrated dust jacket with moderate edgewear, short closed tears. Unclipped.

Hardcover. NY, Enchanted Lion Books, 3rd pr., 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Enormous Smallness is a nonfiction picture book about the poet E.E. cummings. Here E.E.'s life is presented in a way that will make children curious about him and will lead them to play with words and ask plenty of questions as well. Lively and informative, the book also presents some of Cummings's most wonderful poems, integrating them seamlessly into the story to give the reader the music of his voice and a spirited, sensitive introduction to his poetry. In keeping with the epigraph of the book -- "It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are," Matthew Burgess's narrative emphasizes the bravery it takes to follow one's own vision and the encouragement E.E. received to do just that. Lovely color plates by Kris Di Giacomo enhance the story. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Parents' Magazine Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth covers. 48 pages illustrated in color by Anne Rockwell. Minor wear to cover at edge of spine. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally , 1st , 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 189 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. B&W illustrations by Howard V. Brown. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Corners bumped, light soil to covers. Fraying and edgewear moderate.