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. London, Frederick Warne & Co. , 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, salmon cloth with black lettering, 178 pages. Color frontis, b&w drawings throughout. A collection of short stories for young adult readers.
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, Henry Z. Walck, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with black lettering on spine, pasted label on front cover. unpaginated, 12 color illustrations by Tasha Tudor. Assumed first edition with 1950 on title page, 1950 on copyright page, no other printings noted. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
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. Shelton CT, Greenwich Workshop Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 176 pages. SIGNED BY DOOLITTLE on the half-title page. Nicely illustrated with Doolittle's signature artwork, including black-and-white pencil sketches overlaid with detailed color paintings. At the end of the novel there is a fold-out poster illustration. This book will have the most appeal to those interested in Doolittle's dramatic illustrations. Clean copy.
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.