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. New York, Simon and Schuster for Young Readers, 2nd, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Hardcover with matching dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Graham Percy. Clean, tight copy. Light edgewear to covers.
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. NY, Harcourt, reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY KURTZ on the title page with the admonishment to "Tell your stories!" Gorgeous color illustrations by E.B. Lewis. As her father prepares for a trip back to his childhood home in Ethiopia, Desta begins to worry. Where does her father truly belong-in the village of his youth or here in America with her? What was growing up in Ethiopia like? And will her father's love for his family be enough to bridge these two worlds and bring him back to her? A powerful portrait of a contemporary American immigrant family from a Coretta Scott King Honor-winning artist portrays a heartwarming father-daughter relationship. Clean copy.
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. NY, Harper and Brothers, reprint, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth stamped with red title and boy with cow, 230 pages. Color frontis and b&w drawings by Helen Sewell. No date on title page, copyright page with 1933 date and "A-A" code. (January 1951). The second book in the Little House Series. Clean 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.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, reprint, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 62 pages. Hardcover with minor wear on cardboard covers. 1st published in 1959. Covers show light chipping at corners, black fabric spine has light fraying. "An I can Read Book" Bright illustrations by Maurice Sendak.
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.