Hardcover. New York, Clarion Books, reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 40 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Blind-stamped covers with light edge wear to dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy. Color illustrations (no words) on all pages by David Weisner. Sticker on front dust jacket " Best Illustrated Children's Book Award.
Hardcover. NY, Frederick Warne, 1st, 2009, Pictorial boards, 16 pages with 8 interactive spreads, all using Barker's art from her Flower Fairies series. What happens when a little girl moves into a new house and discovers a tiny door? One day she manages to open it . . . and her world is forever changed when she gets her fi rst peek at the homes and the magical world of the Flower Fairies. As she starts to explore her neighborhood with a friend, they discover that there are more doors--all leading to the most secret of fairy places. Filled with gorgeous paper ephemera, pop-ups and special interactive features on every spread, this beautiful novelty book leads the reader to eight fairy doors to open and investigate. Each door has its own individual shape, color and characteristics-- some are decorated, others have little signs or notices, a set of footprints leading up to it, or magical fairy glitter at the doorstep. As the book progresses, more of the fairies and their world are revealed, culminating in an exciting and secret fairy nighttime ball.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st US, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with gray cloth spine. Rojan (Rojankovsky) illustrations in color and black and white. A baby rabbit's experience. Delicate landscapes of woodland and meadow, some labeled diagrams, black and white lithos in text. Corners bumped, worn.
Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman & Co., 1st, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 59 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated from original black & white "Free Hand Cuttings" by Ann Eliza Sample. Standard age darkening to front cover pastedown. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w illust. by Maurice Sendak, dj spine faded. Clean copy.
New York, Macmillan, 1st , 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket A wordless picturebook with color illustrations by Smith. In pursuing his escaping bird, Jake discovers he has acquired the power of flight, which leads him to amazing experiences amid the birds outside.Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , Young Scott Books, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 48 pages, illustrated in 3-colors by Fred Brenner. Illustrated cloth covers, no dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf otherwise clean, very good.
Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st thus, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial green cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout, 128 pages. Other stories include Coaly-Bay: The Outlaw Horse and Way-Atcha: The Coon Raccoon of Kilder Creek. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Phaidon Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 48 pages. In this imaginative tale from master storyteller Tomi Ungerer, two young siblings find themselves cast away on mysterious Fog Island. No one has ever returned from the island's murky shores, but when the children begin to explore, they discover things are not quite as they expected.Ungerer's captivating drawings evoke the eerie beauty and magic surrounding this timeless adventure. Selected by both The New York Times and Publishers Weekly as one of the year's best children's books, Fog Island is destined to become a modern classic.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday Page & Co., 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 129 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Gilt decoration and laid in art on front cover. Black & white illustrations by Charles Livingston Bull.
Hardcover. Akron OH, Saalfield Publishing Co. , 1st, 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with spiral binding. A book with 8 moveable pages, where a mother animal can be folded out to reveal a train of little ones following her. Facing pages with a very short story about the particular animal. Art and animations designed by Vivienne Blake. Spine has chipping to paper, small ownership line on inside front cover at bottom.
Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st US, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illusrations. by Ventura. Detailed full-color art and a lively text trace the evolution of human eating habits and culinary traditions from the Stone Age, through the age of exploration and the Industrial Revolution, to the present day. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Dial, 2nd pr., 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Gennady Spirin. Like new.
Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Lettimore. In a carefully researched, lavishly illustrated original tale of long ago, Deborah Nourse Lattimore transports readers back through time to a land where Shoguns rule and mythical creatures abound. Focusing on one of her favorite periods in history--Japan's Edo period--Lattimore writes of a poor birdcatcher named Hideo who is banished from his village when he is accused of being the evil bandit who steals from Shogun and villager alike. Finding shelter under the boughs of a tree, Hideo hears a rustling and makes a catch beyond his wildest dreams. Painted in the art style of the Edo period, each spread is breathtaking in its detail; every page is awash in shimmering and vibrant color.
Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 293 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. With signed presentation slip laid in. B&W illustrations, endpaper drawing by Kreigh Collins. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping.
Hardcover. New York, G.P. Putnams, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by the author. SIGNED BY TALBOTT on title page.
NY, Orchard Books, 1st US, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Peter Malone. A boy from the nearby village befriends a girl who has been raised by the animals of the forest and later helps rescue her from a hunter
Hardcover. New York, Longman's Green and Co, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 40 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Moderate soil on covers and end papers. Illustrations by author.
Hardcover. Boston, William Guild, 1st, 1850, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gilt lettering and decorations on front and back cover. 84 pages, b&w illustrations, cloth spine missing. Short pieces on various subjects: The Poultry Yard, Ruth the Gleaner, The Squirrel, My Grandmother, etc. Each decorated with wood engravings and a decorative border treatment. Introduction by Forrester who published a monthly magazine for children. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.