Hardcover. Sydney, Austalia, P.I.C., 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 48 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Robert Ingpen. Clean, tight copy. This children's picture story, a detective mystery, is about a Siamese white elephant, en route from Siam to Britain as a gift to the Queen, and which disappears in New Jersey. This is one of the author's most hilarious, but overlooked, masterpieces for any child or adult to enjoy. The life-like illustrations are by international illustrator, Robert Ingpen. The literature classic was originally published in 1882 as a short story.

Hardcover. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Bradbury Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket, 106 pages, illustrations by Donald A. Mackay throughout. Dust jacket edge wear and minor tear on top edge. Clean and bright pages and tight binding. Story of a young boy who feels out of place in his own family. Gus Oliver lives with his several siblings and parents in rural upstate New York. He is nicknamed "the stone face boy." Gus is a strange and awkward boy but likable. When a stray dog is befriended by his sister, he doesn't take an immediate like to him. When the dog goes missing one night, it appears only Gus can find him before the dog is hunted or trapped in the cold winter night.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 225 pages. Black & white illustrations by Bronson. Color illustrated endpapers. Review copy stamp on half-title page. Corners bumped, rubbed. Soiling to covers. A tale of two adolescent Native American boys on islands off the coast of Spanish-conquered Mexico. 47 illustrations by the author.

Hardcover. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 120 pages. Illustrated by Jean Harper;

Hardcover. Milan, Mondadori, 1st, 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 6 unnumbered pages including the inside of both covers. Publisher's thick pictorial boards backed in white cloth-patterned paper & saddle stapled. Lightly soiled, edges slightly rubbed, otherwise very good. A nice example with all flaps and concealed color illustrations in perfect working order. Three stories of birds each with it's own open-the-flap text and graphic art. Laid in is a typed English translation of the text. Bruno Munari was "one of the most celebrated names in twentieth century Italy in graphic designing who fundamentally altered the landscape of many fields of visual arts, futurism and modernism He is credited for his contribution to industrial design, sculpture, painting, literature, film and concrete art." A collector's copy of this scarce title.

Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Acclaimed British children's author and artist Shirley Hughes presents a selection of poetry and prose in this winter-time collection, with text accompanied by her atmospheric illustrations. The nine selections here include six poems and three stories, one of them wordless. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Dial Press, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 353 pages. Hardcover with pictorial front cover. Illustrated by Edna Cooke. Previous owner's name and bookplate near front. Tight copy. Spine faded.

Hardcover. NY, Platt & Munk, reprint, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bound in green cloth with full color paste-down on front cover. 10" x 12", former owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise unmarked. Vivid color illustrations throughout along with b&w drawings by Eulalie, Lois Lenski and others.. Contains nine traditional stories: Little Red Riding Hood, The Story of Peter Pan, Dick Whittington and His Cat, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, The Three Bears, Puss in Boots, Tom Thumb and Jack and the Beanstalk.

Hardcover. NY, Barse & Co., 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color pictorial boards, illustrated with 6 full color plates and spot illustrations by Millicent Sowerby. Light tape reinforcement to spine where paper has chipped. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Toronto, Groundwood Books , 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 144 pages with color illustrations by Gary Clement. Lottridge uses her storyteller's ear to bring ancient stories from the Hebrew Bible to a young audience, tailoring them to make them more age appropriate. Sometimes blending several stories together, she introduces the familiar characters--Adam and Eve, Abraham and his kin, Moses, Daniel--and writes about them in ways that bring them near. The numerous, well-drawn ink-and-watercolor illustrations are reminiscent of Warwick Hutton's work. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Somerville MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, color illustrations by Gwen Millward. What may appear to be an abandoned garden is actually home to an unusual array of insects. Meet a ladybug who prefers making mud angels to acting like a lady, a roly-poly bug who loves to roll ("wa-hoo!"), a cricket who dreams of grand adventures, and a whole neighborhood of bugs gazing up at a fireworks show of flowers bursting into bloom. These inviting vignettes are sure to have readers seeing bugs in a whole new light. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Calla/Dover, reprint, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 328 pages. For over 150 years, the enchanting fairy tales of Danish author Hans Christian Andersen have delighted people all over the world. This beautifully designed treasury gathers his most beloved tales in a gilt-stamped, hardcover edition, illustrated with 28 full-color images by Golden Age artist Edmund Dulac. Filled with such favorites as "The Snow Queen," "The Nightingale," and "The Emperor's New Clothes," this masterful collection will excite the senses of book lovers everywhere. Originally published in 1911 by Hodder & Stoughton.

Hardcover. Chicago, American Colortype Company, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with red cloth spine. 96 pages illustrated in 2-colors by Dorothy Wagstaff. 22 short stories of a stereotypical black boy done in the style of the time. Chipping and wear to paper on the covers, interior clean, solid binding.

Hardcover. Morehouse Publishing, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket. 56 pages illustrated by Tony Morris. Small inscription to front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. London, Hutchinson's Books for Young People, 1st, unkn., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 176 pages. Hardcover with clipped dust jacket. Illustrations by C. Gifford Ambler. Dust jacket shows minor wear, covers good. Internally, previous owner's name on front fly leaf. tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Bodley Head, reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in brilliant color by Wiese. Dust jacket has soil, edgewear, chipping. Book itself is near fine with color illustrated boards very bright.

Garden City, NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1963, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 71 pages. Black & white illustrations by Jim McMullan, his first book. Previous owner's inscription front end paper. Dust jacket price clipped. Creases, large tears, light soiling. Clear plastic protective cover.

Hardcover. New York, J. H. Sears & Company, Inc., 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 241 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Front hinge intact but tender. Full color and black & white illustrations by Milo Winter and Charlotte Becker. Light foxing to front cover color paste down illustration. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harlin Quist Inc., reprint, 1973, Dust Jacket: Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. English translation Ciba Vaughan. Color illustrations by Jean-Michel Nicollet. Violet end papers, burgundy cloth covers with gold lettering on spine. Dust jacket faded by sun with minor tears. Dust jacket protected by acrylic cover.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint , 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 286 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by A.B. Frost. Top edge gilt. Embossed cover with gilt decorations. Light edgewear to covers.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , reprint , 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black & white illustrations by Oliver Herford. First published a year earlier. Beautiful, clean copy. all edges green, decorated cover with gilt lettering.

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, 1st US, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Color illustrations by author.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 48 pages illustrated in color by the author. This is a facsimile of the original 1933 0versized edition that introduced the iconic elephant to American audiences. In a bright dust jacket that matches the laminated boards.

Hardcover. New York, North-South Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. From the gospel of Luke, illustrated by Eleonore Schmid. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.