NY, Villard, 1st , 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 86 pages + paintings from Botkin's portfolio. Illustrated with black & white photos and color paintings by Botkin. Text compiled by Botkin's daughter Marina Schweitzer. Foreword by Greg King. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, American Heritage Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 92 pages illustrated in color by Parsons. Name on page opposite the title page, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Egielski. Very nice, clean condition with similar dust jacket.
Hardcover. Prague, SNDK, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. An adventure tale set in Central America and the Yucatan . B&w illustrations by Vaclav Junek. Map, 191 pages.
Hardcover. NY, Bradbury Press, 1st , 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Goble. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR DAHLOV IPCAR ON TITLE PAGE. Color illustrations by Dahlov Ipcar. Degree of fading to spine. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages.
Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Minor wear to dust jacket. Light rubbing to covers, fading to spine. Illustrations by Wendy Watson.
Hardcover. New York , Bantam Little Rooster, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Simont. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, Reilly & Lee, 1st, 1942, Hardcover, 290 pages illustrated in b&w by John R. Neill. Blue-green cloth covers with color illustrated pastedown on front. B&w endpaper drawings by Neill. Exceptionally bright, clean copy. A small light green bleed from cloth cover to front plate along 3 inches at bottom.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Agee. An early and scarce title by Agee. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover otherwise clean. Dust jacket with wear, closed tears.
Hardcover. Vaduz, Liechtenstein, 2nd pr., 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 53 pages, illustrated in b&w by Franz Deak. SIGNED BY GALLICO on the front fly leaf, additionally INSCRIBED BY VIRGINIA BARONESS LUDMILA VON FALZ-FEIN just below Gallico's signature. Dated 7/6/57. This charming tale about a little Liechtenstein cow with great ambitions was the first of his works to be published in Liechtenstein. The story was first printed in the Christmas issue of The Sketch (London). Mild edgewear to dj, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, price-clipped. B&w drawings by Emily Arnold McCully. Luigi, who lives on the streets in the French port of Marseilles, believes a gypsy has put a curse on his family. Against a vivid background of assorted characters, the author has created exciting and humorous story.
New York, Holt Rinehart Winston , 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 74 pages, b&w illustrations by Diane deGroat. Fading to endpapers. "Chronicles of a young boy's search for security after his stepfather leaves home, his mother becomes ill and goes into the hospital and he and his brother are placed into a childrens home."
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket. A poem in celebration of the special love between parents and their children around the world. Pictures adapted from Faith Hubley's awqrd-winning film Step By Step. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace & Co., 2nd pr., 1934, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 277 pages. Illustrated by Henry C. Pitz. Soiled edges. Markings to covers. Edgewear. Corners a bit bumped, rubbed. Illustrated endpapers.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, reprint, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 214 pages, with illustrations by Sarah S. Stilwell throughout. Gilt titles and top edge. Minor corner and edge wear, frontispiece illustration loose, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise, clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Frederick Warne, 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover pictorial boards with cream cloth spine. Non-Paginated. The Alphabet illustrated in full color by Edmund Dulac. (25) leaves, printed on one side only, being the title and 24 leaves each with a colored illustration and a 5 line verse (X, Y, and Z are on the same leaf). Original pictorial boards, Previous owners inscription on front endpaper. Pencil marking with faint smudges and light foxing on some pages. 2" closed tear at top of XYZ page. Clean, bright plates. Rear internal hinge gutter slightly loose. Standard wear to cover edges.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Juvenile, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 318 pages, illustrated throughout by Bemelmans. Very clean and tight copy. Includes Madeline; Madeline and the Bad Hat; Madeline's Rescue; Madeline and the Gypsies; Madeline in London; Madeline's Christmas, and The Isle of God (or Madeline's Origin.)
Hardcover. NY, Viking Juvenile, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 318 pages, illustrated throughout by Bemelmans. Very clean and tight copy. Includes Madeline; Madeline and the Bad Hat; Madeline's Rescue; Madeline and the Gypsies; Madeline in London; Madeline's Christmas, and The Isle of God (or Madeline's Origin.)
Hardcover. NY, Viking Juvenile, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 318 pages, illustrated throughout by Bemelmans. Very clean and tight copy. Includes Madeline; Madeline and the Bad Hat; Madeline's Rescue; Madeline and the Gypsies; Madeline in London; Madeline's Christmas, and The Isle of God (or Madeline's Origin.)
Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 6th pr., 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a bright, but chipped and worn dust jacket, 56 pages. Green cloth cover with a line drawing of a girl on a horse on the front, with brightly printed endpapers and full page color illustrations of Bemelman's charming paintings throughout. This was the authors fourth (4th) title in the "Madeline" series of seven titles. Small stain to dust jacket at the bottom of the spine. Internally clean and bright.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 3rd pr., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, turquoise cloth stamped in dark blue with a sketch of Madeline on a horse on the cover. 56 pages illustrated in color by Bemelmans. No dust jacket. Light wear to corners otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 12th pr., 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, but chipped dust jacket with Caldecott sticker, 56 pages. Green cloth cover with a line drawing of Madeline in water with her dog. Brightly printed enpapers and full page color illustrations of Bemelman's charming paintings throughout. Madeline is saved from drowning by a dog who then returns with the girls and Miss Clavel. Wouldn't you know it, the dog will need the help of Madeline and her friends very soon after. Awarded the Caldecott Medal for 1954. No markings.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY SIS on copyright page with bird sketch. Madlenka has a brand-new soccer ball and aspirations to be a soccer star. As she dribbles it around her urban neighborhood, she encounters plenty of opponents willing to play with her: A mailbox, a dog, and a parking meter. She plays with a group of cats at the local park with a tree acting as a goal, of which she easily scores. Goal!! The crowd goes wild! She meets of with Cleopatra who also wants to play. "Are you ready?" Madlenka asks and off they go. The author's thin black line illustrations give a an overhead perspective of the soccer field surrounded by tall buildings as other neighborhood children come to join the game.In the back of the book, Sis gives a history lesson about the early versions of soccer along with how soccer is pronounced by countries all over the world because "The whole world wants to play soccer!"