Hardcover. Philadelphia, Penn Publishing Company, 1st illust thus, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth stamped in gilt with color pastedown on front cover. Color frontis and cover plate, 5 b&w plates by Manning deV. Lee. Name on front fly leaf, light scuff to cover otherwise very good, clean.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Co, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 68 pages. INSCRIBED WITH DRAWING BY AUTHOR TO FRONT PRELIM PAGE. Collection of children's poems with b&w illustrations by Marc Simont. Color illustrated dust jacket show light wear. Overall a tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 48 pages, illustrated in color by 43 illustrators. SIGNED BY SIX OF THE ARTISTS ON PUBLISHER'S BOOKPLATE PASTED OPPOSITE TITLE PAGE: STEVEN KELLOGG, LANE SMITH, ALICE PROVENSEN, TRINA SCHART HYMAN, BARRY MOSER, NATALIE BABBITT. Wraparound cover band present.
Hardcover. San Diego, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in glossy boards, color illustrations, no dust jacket issued. A collection of illustrated anecdotes about (their) dogs by 43 children's books artists including Hyman, Provensen, Kellogg, Moser. Yorinks, Lane Smith. Wendell Minor & many more. Contributions donated to The Company Of Animals Fund. Publisher's original 4" cover "band" still attached to book. SIGNED by Marcellino, Lane Smith, Steven Kellogg, others. Babbitt, Trina Schart Hymen, Alice Provenson on bookplate.
New York, Workman Publishing Co., 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 37 pages, color illustrations by Winslow Pels, clean, tight copy. When Alison puts on Great Grandmother's glasses, they become magical and enable her to understand some of her great grandmother's frustrations and unfulfilled aspirations. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, Reilly & Lee, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 298 pages, b&w illustrations and 12 color plates by John R. Neill. Maroon cloth covers with color pictorial paste-down. This was one of Ruth Plumly Johnson's contributions to the Oz canon and is a first printing with all 12 color plates, end papers illustration. Bookplate on half-title page, otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Twenty tales recounting the antics of the West Indian trickster ANANCY and his companions- Bro Monkey, Bro Dog and bro Tiger. Bold b/w illus. by Nigerian artist Joseph Olubo. Clean.
Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 8th pr., 1956, Hardcover, blue cloth covers in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Illustrated with color reproductions of the work of the Navajo Boy Artist, Little No-Shirt (Beatien Yazz). True story of operating a trading post in the Navaho country of Arizona in mid 20th century. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, Non-paginated. Color illust. by Elsa Eisgruber. In the scarce dust jacket with light soil and chipping. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Sea Star Books, 1st, n.d. (2001), Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Barbara Cooney. A re-issue of a book originally published in 1984. Tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. All manner of cute animals fall into the water in this colorful picture book illustrated by Dennis Panek. Clean copy.
New York , Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st U.S., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Mary Wormell. Peter the spotted pig tries everything he can think of to remove his spots, from fading them in the summer sun to freezing them off in the winter snow, until he makes a new friend who helps him realize that his spotty look is something of which he can be proud. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Minton, Balch and Co., 1st thus, 1924, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Illustrated by C. LeRoy Baldridge on cover label, endpapers, title page and 8 color plates. 389 pages. Front hinge weak but not cracked. Previous owner's inscription on prelim page, otherwise very good.
Hardcover. Chicago, Benefic Press, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth with Squeaky on front cover. Illustrations in 3-colors by Edward Miller. Clean copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Minton, Balch & Company, 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with blue lettering and drawing of chipmunk on front cover. Squiggles the chipmunk runs off with a doll's red cape around his neck. Adventures ensue as Emmy, the doll's owner tries to retrieve it. Charming drawings by Margaret Freeman, many with red borders. Covers have light soil, previous owner's name opposite half title page. Otherwise clean.
NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Marcia Sewall. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping. Tape and tape residue on covers. Dust jacket with edgewear, small tears and spine sun fade.
Hardcover. NY, North-South Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, color illustrations by Schmid.
Hardcover. NY, North South Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Schmid. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth covers. Color illustrations by Lillian Hoban. Some light abrasions to cloth covers. Remainder mark on bottom. Clean, unmarked pages.
Hardcover. NY, The Century Co., 1st, 1885-86, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 12 issues bound in one volume, dark green cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. 960 pages. A collection of the best juvenile writing and illustration of the day. The premier children's magazine in America at this time, offering a mix of fiction (some of it fantastic), articles, humor and lavish illustrations. Contributors include Palmer Cox, Laura E. Richards, E. P. Roe, J. T. Trowbridge, Alice May, Edward Eggleston, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Daniel C. Beard, and many others. Includes the debut of Burnett's "Little Lord Fauntleroy," which appeared for the first time in St. Nicholas. Clean copy, no library marks. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. NY, The Century Co., 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 12 issues bound in one volume, dark green cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. 1070 pages. A collection of the best juvenile writing and illustration of the day. Clean copy, no library marks. Hinge crack at rear of volume.
Hardcover. NY, The Century Co., 1st, 1884-85, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 12 issues bound in one volume, dark green cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. 958 pages. A collection of the best juvenile writing and illustration of the day. The premier children's magazine in America at this time, offering a mix of fiction (some of it fantastic), articles, humor and lavish illustrations. This volume contains the original serialization of Davy and the Goblin by Charles Carryl, a "delightful Victorian story of how Davy. who didn't believe in fairies, was taken for a Believing Voyage by a coal-eating goblin in a grandfather clock." These issues include stories about tennis, futuristic tricycles and choosing an occupation; also biographies of classical composers such as Beethoven, Bach and Wagner by Agatha Tunis. Includes writings by Frank R. Stockton, Marion Satterlee, George J. Manson and many others. Clean copy, no library marks. Front hinge cracked.
NY, Century Co., 1st, 1887-88, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 12 issues bound in one volume, dark green cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. 960 pages. A collection of the best juvenile writing and illustration of the day. Clean copy, no library marks. Hinge crack at rear of volume.
Hardcover. NY, The Century Co., 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcover volumes, 12 issues bound in two volumes, black calf spines with gilt lettering, pebbled cloth over boards . 1056 pages. A collection of the best juvenile writing and illustration of the day. Includes Chuggins, the Youngest Hero with the Army by H. Irving Hancock; Goops by Gelett Burgess (a few parts); The Sole Survivors by George A. Henty (6 parts); much more. Clean copy, no library marks. Hinges cracked. Light scuffing to top and bottom of leather spines. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.