Hardcover. New York, John C. Winston, rep, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with color label on front cover, 282 pages. Color frontis and 11 black & white and illustrations by Eunice Stephenson. Blue line drawing of the Alcott home on the end papers by C. M. Burd. Yellow top edge. Rear cover has some spotting. discoloring to top. Otherwise a clean, bight copy.
Hardcover. Woodstock, NY, WoodstockArts, 2nd, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color and black and white pictures throughout.
Hardcover. Boston, L.C. Page, rep, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, 271 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A Book of animal life in the Guiana Wilds, 59 plates by Bull. Dj with wear, chunks missing from top and bottom spine, front bottom, and rear bottom. Gutter cracked in several spots.
Hardcover. NY, McLoughlin Bros., reprint, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, paper-covered boards with blue cloth spine. This is the Pirated edition published by McLoughlin in NY with no date but believed to be 1880s. Illustrated with Kate Greenaway chromolithographs. Covers worn, soiled, previous owner's inscription. Fair only.
Hardcover. NY, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 241 pages. An historical novel of China's 1930's struggle with Japan. B&W illustrations by Margaret Ayer. Dust jacket with light edgewear, small hole in rear panel. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.
Softcover. Miami FL, Russ Smiley, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 44 pages illustrated in color by Russ Smiley. Join Billy as he searches for pirate treasure under the sea. On his quest, with a little sea horse for his guide, Billy makes friends with the fish and learns about marine life.
Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. Illustrated in color by Carolyn Croll. Corners lightly worn. Dust jacket spine sun faded, one small tear, placed in protective plastic cover.
Hardcover. NY, Four Winds Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Gail Owens. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown and Company, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages, Illustrated in color by Jenni Oliver. Very good condition with very good dust jacket. Dust jacket placed in protective plastic cover.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A cat finds himself up a tree and won't come down until supper (in the form of a fisherman's catch) passes him by. A wordless picture book with amazing b&w drawings by Young. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Robert M. McBride and Co., 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 256 pages, illustrated in b&w by John O'Hara Cosgrave ll. Dust jacket worn, chipped.
Hardcover. NY, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A sweet story about the death of a beloved pet, this is bibliotherapy at its best. Daisy, a dog, and Arthur, a boy, are inseparable until the day the canine lies down in her basket never to rise again. Although she arrives in a lovely doggy nirvana, Daisy can't fully enjoy her newfound paradise because she is able to look down on her former home and see her family grieving. On the advice of fellow dogs in heaven, she sends the child dreams that both reassure him about her benign fate and encourage him to move forward by acquiring a new puppy. Clark's simple text and characteristically child-friendly illustrations make this book useful for sharing with even the youngest children.
Hardcover. New York, Windmill Books, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Library edition with usual markings. Light edgewear to cover boards. Library stickers on dust jacket. Illustrated by Lee Lorenz.
Softcover. NY, Artists and Writers Guild, 1st US, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, color pictorial paper wrappers. 6 full-page three-color illustrations and several b&w illustrations by Aldin. Light worn at edges, some light wear to covers, else a clean, tight copy without dust jacket as issued. First US edition. A charming story of a young girl and her dog, a little black Scotch Terrier puppy named Smut, as they go about their lives, encountering other dogs, policemen, and even horses. Cecil Aldin was a British artist best known for his paintings and sketches of animals and rural life, all of which is magnificently captured in this delightful tale. Small worm hole to fore-edge, paper tanning, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, clothbacked pictorial boards with map endpapers, color and b&w illustrations by Tousey. Val lived at Robidoux Landing, on the Missouri River, when his family joined a wagon train to Astoria.
Hardcover. New York , Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, illustrated in color by Burkert, folding poster laid in. Very good in a bright dust jacket. Traveling players act out a folk play about twin brothers separated at birth, one raised by King Pepin and the other by a bear.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, illustrated in color by Burkert, folding poster laid in. Very good in a bright dust jacket.
Hardcover. US, Prydwen Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. 32 pages illustrated in color. Terrence Lawlor has cut and pasted together all things beautiful, strange and colorful to create this wicked story of three vain sisters and their "dos." Lawlor's collaged illustrations are a delight and you'll find yourself oohing and ahhing as you recognize pots, scissors, cups, ships, cakes, baubles, flowers and fruits that play hide and seek on every beautifully composed page. The sisters, Carlotta, Whilhelmina and Delight, have true fashion attitude.
Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 121 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE BY ILLUSTRATOR CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG. A clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Viking , 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 120 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR VAN ALLSBURG on title page. Tight copy with very light edgewear.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue-gray cloth with embossed design of hippo on cover, no dust jacket. Illustrated in color and b&w by Duvoisin. The friendship between Candy, a small kitten and Veronica, a huge hippopotamus, causes a series of merry antics on the Pumpkin and Applegreen farms. H stamp on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth. 32 pages illustrated in color and b&w by Duvoisin. Veronica is bored on Mr. Pumpkin's farm, but it turns out there is plenty to do, and adventures to be had. Library bindindg NOT ex-lib. Small stamp on inside front cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York , Holt Rinehart Winston , 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 44 pages illustrated in color by Watson. Illustrated cloth covers. Clean.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Bros., 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Harrdcover, blue cloth covers decorated in white with paste-on color illustration. Eight 2-color plates by Elizabeth Shippen Green. 193 pages, previous owner's signature and date inside front cover. Light rubbing to front cover label.
Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, 1st US, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color pictures by Sigrid Heuck. Transl. from German by Theodore McClintock. Dust jacket with edgewear, closed tears.
Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, reprint, n.d. (2002), Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR SENDAK ON TITLE PAGE. Dust jacket and covers completely illustrated, lovely full page tri-tone illustrations by Sendak. Extremely slight wear to dust jacket, dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in excellent condition.
Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, reprint, n.d. (2002), Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR SENDAK TO TITLE PAGE. Dust jacket and covers completely illustrated, lovely full page tri-tone illustrations. Extremely slight wear to dust jacket, dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in excellent condition.
Softcover. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 12 heavy paper sheets plus cover, bound together with blue cord in punched holes at top. One and two color illustrations by Shepard, verse for every month by Milne. Some light pin-size spotting to corner of cover, otherwise clean and bright.
Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Co., 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 59 pages. Story of a little girl and her pet pig set in Maine. B&w drawings by Paul Kennedy. Inscription on front fly leaf, 0therwise clean.
Hardcover. Stonehill Publishing/Chelsea House, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 184 pages. This book presents a representative selection of the best work produced for children during the great flowering of the illustrator's art that began in England in the 1860s. Beautifully crafted drawings of such illustrators as Caldecott, Walter Crane, Kate Greenaway, and Richard Doyle are reproduced with painstaking fidelity to the originals. Commentary by Maurice Sendak.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 136 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Elleman examines the artist's early work and investigates the genesis of each of her seven picture books, from Choo Choo (1937) to the epic, carefully researched Life Story (1962, both Houghton) . Very good in a bright dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Callaway, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Dial Books for young Readers, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with illustrations by Wendy Anderson Halperin.
Hardcover. NY, Century Co., 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Green cloth boards with black & red embossed design to cover and white lettering. B&w illustrations by Reginald B. Birch, black & white frontispiece. light edgewear. Spine lettering faded, clean copy.
New York, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 150 pages. Black & white and color illustrations by Leslie W. Lee. Illustrated endpapers. Previous owner's signature front endpaper. Light soiling to endpapers. Corners rubbed. Dust jacket with chipping, soiling. Brodart cover.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, reprint, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in blue cloth with gilt decoration. Originally published in 1913. Line drawings throughout by Thomas Fogarty. Previous owner's signature on front pastedown otherwise very good condition.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Janovich , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 28 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Color illustrations by Alice and Martin Provenson. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.
Hardcover. MI, Clarke Historical Library, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 225 pages. Hardcover with orange fabric covers. Clean, tight copy with minor rubbign to edges. Black and white pictures throughout.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, illustrated with Ed Young's amazing paper collages. The young cat named Wabi Sabi wishes to understand the meaning of her name.
Hardcover. NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Gorgeous color collages by the artist on every page. In this exuberant new picture book, Lois Ehlert takes us on a trip to the farmers market with a group of friendly, furry, and (mostly) well-behaved pups. And when the shopping's done, the gang heads to the dog park for some serious playing.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Gerrard. In this rowdy adventure, the narrator and her parents and neighbors embark on a wild journey on the Oregon Trail, hoping to find rich green land out West. These hardy pioneers and their trusty leader, Buckskin Dan, fight off outlaws near Fort Laramie, rescue a lost Indian boy, and raft down the rocky Columbia River, eventually starting new lives in the fertile Willamette Valley. Readers young and old will relish Roy Gerrard's rollicking verse and distinctive illustrative style.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston Co., 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth stamped in brown. Sperry's 1936 novel offers a different take on the "settlers going West" story by presenting it through the eyes of 15-year-old Jonathan Starbuck, who leaves Missouri with a wagon train heading to the west. 276 pages. llustrated by the author with b&w line drawings, and with endpapers in color. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1952, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth stamped with blue design and lettering. A boy's discovery of an Indian arrowhead leads to adventure. B&w illustrations by John Barron. Light soil to covers, DJ flap tipped on inside front cover. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York , Dial, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Susan Jeffers. SIGNED BY JEFFERS. Bright copy.
hardcover. New York, Dial Books for Young Readers, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Susan Jeffers. Clean, unmarked copy with light fading and minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Watertown, MA, Charlesbridge, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, non-paginated. Extensive b&w woodcut illustrations throughout. Gilt titles on spine and cover. Color illustration on front cover. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. Watertown, MA, Charlesbridge, reprint , 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, non-paginated. Extensive b&w woodcut illustrations throughout. Gilt titles on spine and cover. Color illustration on front cover. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. Watertown, MA, Charlesbridge, reprint , 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, non-paginated. Extensive b&w woodcut illustrations throughout. Gilt titles on spine and cover. Color illustration on front cover. Clean, unmarked copy.
hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, glazed boards. Color illustrations by Mark Entwiste. A tall tale about a Big Lie Contest at which a tale about a giant catfish becomes true and swallows its teller.