Hardcover. Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick red cloth with white and black design on front cover. 219 pages, 8 b&w plates by Bertha Davidson. Rear cover rubbed, internally clean.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st illust., 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red embossed covers with gilt decoration of two children in profile. One volume from the publisher's 10 volume series, 381 pages. Notable for the full color plates by Henry Pitz, 16 in all. Illustrated endpapers of young children in field of flowers (by another artist). Interior clean, very good.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st illust., 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red embossed covers with gilt decoration of two children in profile. One volume from the publisher's 10 volume series, 508 pages. Notable for the full color plates by H.I. Bacharach, 16 in all. Illustrated endpapers of young children in field of flowers (by another artist). Interior clean, very good.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st illust., 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red embossed covers with gilt decoration of two children in profile. One volume from the publisher's 10 volume series, 442 pages. Notable for the full color plates by H.I. Bacharach, 16 in all. Illustrated endpapers of young children in field of flowers (by another artist). Owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise interior clean, very good.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st illust., 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red embossed covers with gilt decoration of two children in profile. One volume from the publisher's 10 volume series, 329 pages. Notable for the full color plates by C. E. Brock, 16 in all. Illustrated endpapers of young children in field of flowers (by another artist). Previous owner's name on front fly leaf otherwise interior clean, very good.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st illust., 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red embossed covers with gilt decoration of two children in profile. One volume from the publisher's 10 volume series, 517 pages. Notable for the full color plates by Martin Robinson, 16 in all. Illustrated endpapers of young children in field of flowers (by another artist). Interior clean, very good.
Hardcover. NY, John Day Company, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong pictorial cloth, 64 pages illustrated in two-colors by William Arthur Smith. SIGNED BY BUCK on the title page. Originally published 1n 1942, this is the 17th printing and was most likely signed in 1969 by Buck in Danby, Vermont, where she lived in her later years. Bright, clean copy, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Dutton Childrens Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, color illustrations by Carol Benioff. After her grandmother dies, Chloe doesn't feel like celebrating the holidays at Grandpa's house because she knows it won't be the same, but with some reassuring words from Grandpa, Chloe realizes that she needs to move on and, while still remembering the past, establish new traditions for the future.
Hardcover. NY/Cleveland, World Publishing Company, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. First American edition 8.25 x 7.75". Unpaginated [52 pages]. Essentially an artists' book created by the noted Italian futurist, Munari, widely regarded as one of the most influential book-designers of the 20th century. Illustrations feature translucent overlays and brightly colored pages with die cut edges and windows. Voted the New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book 1969 winner. Previous owner;s inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 44 pages illustrated in color by Cyndy Szekeres. This wonderful children's story is a tale of a backwoods family hearing-tell that their Uncle Skinny is sick. Mrs. Clumpet, the best soup-maker around whips up a batch to be carried downstream by their makeshift boat. But they all fall asleep and are being carried toward the waterfall! What will become of the Clumpets? What will become of Uncle Skinny's soup? Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, George W. Jacobs & Company, reprint, 1911, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 103 pages. 24 color illustrations by Tony Sarg. Previous owner named in front endpages. Spine faded, cover shows minor wear and discoloration otherwise very good.
Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 48 pages illustrated in color by S.D. Schindler. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Walker Books, 1st thus, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 22 small hardcovers in a pictorial slipcase, a very clean set of books unread. All illustrated in color by Oxenbury. Set Titles in the Set Down The Rabbit-Hole, The Pool Of Tears, A Caucus-Race And A Long Tale, The Rabbit Sends In A Little Bell, Advice From A Caterpillar, Pig and Pepper, A Mad Tea-Party, The Queen's Croquet-Ground, The Mock Turtle's Story, The Lobster Quadrille, Who Stole The Tarts, Alice's Evidence, Looking-Glass House, The Garden Of Live Flowers, Looking-Glass Insects, Tweedledum And Tweedledee, Wool And Water, Humpty Dumpty, The Lion And The Unicorn, It's My Own Invention, Queen Alice, Queen Alice, Shaking Waking Which Dreamed It
Hardcover. NY, The Limited Editions Club, Ltd. Ed., 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Six hardcover volumes in a slipcase. Gathering all 168 stories together for the first time. Together making up the 10th and 11th release of the 18th Series. This being #1075 of 1500 copies. Signed and illustrated by Fritz Kredel, illustrations hand-colored by Yuster Studio. Further signed by the translator Jean Hersholt. Book design by George Macy and printed by Ferris Printing Company. 1292 pages and 6 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches. Slipcase shows wear, starting to split at edges, clean set with a faint musty odor. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 48 pages illustrated in color by Marc Simont. Bravery, wit, and clear thinking all give the boy Wally the edge when Hogbone the thief and bully, with his 15 other bad guys ride into town. Clean copy.
Softcover. Keene, NH, J. A. Wright & Co., 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Full-color pictorial wrappers. Stapled binding. Thin, unpaginated pamphlet. Color illustrations by Vernon Grant, the artist who first designed Snap, Crackle and Pop for Kellogg's Rice Krispies. Tells the true story of a boy who saved a cow from a bog, and in doing so discovered a rare mineral ideal for cleaning silver.
Hardcover. Boston, Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1st, 1868, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 221 pages plus 2 w/ads. Hardcover. "Helping Hand Series". Red cloth boards of inlaid design, gilt lettering. Pen & ink etched frontispiece w/tissue guard, & decorated half-title. In remarkable shape considering age, still a tight book. Edges and pages yellowed a bit with age.
Hardcover. Cleveland, World Publishing, 1st, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket with chunks gone from spine, 159 pages. B&w illustrations by Leonard Shortall. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
NY, Harper & Row, 1st US, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with some rubbing to rear panel. 133 pages. Black & white illustrations by Laszlo Kubinyi. When Bridget sees her younger brother, Simon, standing at the window under a full moon, begging unseen musicians to allow him to come back, then hears a careless remark made by an angry old woman, she begins to suspect that he is a changeling, a fairy child sent to replace her real brother, abducted in infancy. This would explain his volatile personality---sweet and coaxing one minute, angry and vicious the next---and his refusal to go near her blacksmith father's forge.Clean copy.
NY, Viking Press, 3rd pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Black and white drawings by Harold Berson. The story of Camilla, a camel who dances.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 40 pages, illustrated in color by Klassen. Laszlo is afraid of the dark. The dark lives in the same house as Laszlo. Mostly, though, the dark stays in the basement and doesn't come into Lazslo's room. But one night, it does.This is the story of how Laszlo stops being afraid of the dark. With emotional insight and poetic economy, two award-winning talents team up to conquer a universal childhood fear.
NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, 32 pages illustrated in 2-colors by Bonsall. An Early I CAN READ Book. Light marking on inside front cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 2nd pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 127 pages; black and white illustrations. Discusses American birds of prey, such as eagle, hawk, osprey, and falcon, giving technical information as well as anecdotes of the author's experience with them. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth covers with pictorial cover label, 462 pages. 9 color plates, title-page & eps illustrated by N.C. Wyeth. Bookplate on front endpaper. Title page has a tear with tape repair. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2nd pr., 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with small tape repair. Caldecott Honor stickeron front. 32 pages illustrated in color by Peter Parnell. Simple text and illustrations describe the characteristics of the desert and its plant, animal, and human life.
Hardcover. NY, Hyperion, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Daniel Kirk. Verses describe the holes that a mole, dog, worm, and rabbit dig, but none can compare with the work of a man and his steam shovel. A classic from 1950, here newly illustrated by Kirk. Like new.
Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 122 pages, in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Six animal stories with full page black and white illustrations by author. Previous owner's inscription and SIGNED UNDERNEATH BY SAVITT. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY HUNECK WITH A DRAWING OF A DOG opposite the title page. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday and Co., reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright price-clipped dust jacket, 121 pages, illustrated by De Angeli in b&w. Newbery Medal sticker on cover. First published in 1949 this is the 15th printing. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday and Co., reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with silver lettering on spine, decoration on cover. 121 pages, illustrated by De Angeli in b&w. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1st US, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth. Color and b&w illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Edgewear to boards, minor soil, no markings.
Hardcover. Adelaide AUS, Rigby Limited, reprint, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 79 pages illustrated in color and b&w. A collaboration between artist Ainslie Roberts & anthropologist Charles Mountford, who combined Ainslie Roberts outback paintings with his knowledge. Previous owner's inscription on the front fly leaf.
Hardcover. London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1st, 1897, Book: Fair, Hardcover, oblong boards illustrated in color with red spine which is very faded. Red lettering on title page, illustrated throughout with b/w line drawings in the text by Ver-Beck. Holding nicely but fragile. Soiling to covers, pages tanned with some foxing. Previous owner's name on prelim page.
Hardcover. Somerville MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy boards, 56 pages, illustrated in color by David Roberts. A tyrannical teacher gets her just due in a delightfully subversive, outrageously funny tale by Newbery Medal winner Paul Fleischman. Miss Breakbone hates kids. Especially the time-squandering, mindwandering, doodling, dozing dunderheads in her class. But when she confiscates Junkyard's crucial find, she finally goes too far. Enter Wheels (and his souped-up bike with forty-eight extra gears), Pencil (who can draw anything from memory), Spider (look up and you'll find him), and their fellow misfits in a spectacular display of teamwork aimed at teaching Miss Breakbone a lesson she won't soon forget. Roberts' drawings are hilariously appropriate. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, George H. Doran, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers stamped with gilt lettering and design. 370 pages, color frontis and 3 b&w plates by the Kinneys.
Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 9th pr., 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 392 pages, b&w drawings by Pamela Bianco. A lovely collection of stories and poems about the springtime holiday with charming b&w line drawings by the splendid Bianco.
Hardcover. NY, Lothrop Lee and Shepard, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 32 pages illustrated in color by Adrienne Adams. Weekly Reader Club Ed. Name on inside front cover, light wear to bottom of spine, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Whittlesey House, McGraw Hill, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black. 32 pages illustrated in 2-colors by Alain (the pen name of Daniel Brustlein, painter, book illustrator, magazine illustrator, and cartoonist). Stamp to front fly leaf otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Garden City, Garden City Publishing, 1st thus, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, illustrated boards. 28 pages illustrated in color and 2-colors by Rojankovsky. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Books of Wonder, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 304 pages. For the first time in more than eighty years, the most spectacularly illustrated of all the Oz books is available again with the metallic "emerald" green ink that illuminated the color plates of the original edition. This deluxe new edition features ninety black-and-white pictures and sixteen dazzling five-color plates by Oz artist John R. Neill. Afterword by Peter Glassman.
Hardcover. Boston, L.C. Page & Co., 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth with dark green, red, and gold gilt design of automobile with three angels with red lettering to front cover and spine. A lazy, discontented little prince and princess have been sent an enchanted automobile by their fairy godmother to take them to fairyland. 6 color illustrations including frontispiece by Edna M. Sawyer.
Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, reprint, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn and chipped dust jacket. Gray illustrated cloth, red letters and decoration of a teapot to upper cover, illustrated in b&w by Hugh Troy, 128 pages. Young Irish lad Brian Boru travels to the United States with a wee fairyman to give him courage. Book is clean, bright copy. Dust jacket flap indicates book club edition.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ruth Sanderson. Three princes go on a quest to the Heart of the World to save their drought-ravaged kingdom.. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Three-color illustrations by Myers. Sally and her father are inventors. They build their inventions out of scraps and old parts they find in junkyards. Dad mistakenly turns into a giant chicken. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, Ltd. Ed., 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red leather stamped in gilt. Facsimile edition of a book that was first published in 1909 by Hodder & Stoughton. 152 pages. 23 full page illustrations in color by Detmold plus various line illustrations in black and white throughout the text. #337 of 500 copies as indicated on tipped-on plate inside front cover. All edges gilt. No slipcase.
Hardcover. NY, Dutton Childrens Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. When Peter Bruegel, a young painter from Antwerp, went on a journey to Rome in 1550 to study and see the art and ruins of Rome, he found himself facing unexpected dangers along the way that were later reflected in his work when he became known as the Northern Renaissance master. Color illustrations by Shafer. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Bob and Betty learn about life and work on the farm during a summer vacation they spend with their Uncle John and Cousin Ruben. Originally published in 1910. Foreword by Barbara Bader. Clean copy.
Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in black. B&w drawings by Erik Blegvad. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf other wise very good, clean. A banker rents a house to Peter Finch, charging him next to nothing because there's a small volcano in the basement. Eventually, there is a volcanic eruption, but of course, not in the basement. The house is spared, the family is safe, the town officials get re-elected, and everyone lives happily ever after.