Hardcover. NY, Scholastic/ Michael Di Capua, 2nd pr., 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 128 pages, b&w illustrations by Babbitt. Name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf , 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Color illustrations by Dale Gottlieb. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping, and rubbing.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Norman Eyolfson. The trouble starts when Jacob Two-Two's father brings home a little green lizard from abroad. Unfortunately, the little lizard grows into a huge dinosaur, as fat as an elephant, as tall as a giraffe, and with a huge appetite. When Dippy is threatened, he and Jacob take to the road.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 2nd pr., 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn price-clipped dust jacket, 84 pages. Illustrated in b&w by Fritz Wegner. Summary: "Unjustly Imprisoned by The Hooded Fang and other big people Jacob Two-Two awaits the aid of members of The Child Power to save him and over two hundred other children."
NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Light edgewear and soil to the dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Gail Owens. A Parisian mongrel successfully leads a double life until both of his "owners" enter him in the same dog show. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2nd pr., 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, red cloth with blind-stamped wreath around a portrait of a boy to front, gilt-stamped title to spine; lime green endpapers. Illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. Colophon page mentions this is the first book written by Roald Dahl for children, second issue with 4-line colophon, bound by The Book Press. Covers show wear and light soil, esp. rear panel. No markings.
Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, Book Club Ed., 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 44 pages. Laminate dust jackets illustrated to appear as classic b&w composition notebook, blue dust jacket with b&w illustration, mylar protective covering, lovely b&w illustrations by Amy Schwartz. Price-clipped, previous owner's short ink inscription to front endpaper, clean boards, pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy of a lovely children's book.
Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally & Co, 1st, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth, pink, black and dark green pictorial design of crow on branch. Illustrated in color by Sanchi Ogawa. 80 pages, all with decorative borders, many with color illustrations. Shelf wear. front hinge partially cracked, sort tear to frontispiece at gutter, not affectin image. Otherwise clean, no markings.
Hardcover. NY, Lothrop Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ann Grifalconi. Jasmine helps her mother prepare to sell fish and sugar cakes at their parlour, or market stand, on market day on the island of Trinidad. Review slip laid in.
Hardcover. Somerville MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Illustrated throughout in color by Paul Rogers. Light shelf-wear to boards, else a clean, tight copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. Somerville MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Illustrated throughout in color by Paul Rogers. Light shelf-wear to boards, else a clean, tight copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. Somerville MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Illustrated throughout in color by Paul Rogers. Light shelf-wear to boards, else a clean, tight copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. Paris FR, E. Plon, Nourrit , unknown, nd, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 47 pages. Color illustrations by the author. Red top edge. Lavender covers with green and gold decoration. Corners and spine rubbed. Light soiling to covers. Spine a bit loose.
Hardcover. Somerville MA, Templar, 1st US, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Winner of the New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book Award. Glorious artwork, on each and every page.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Color illustration throughout. Light edgewear to dust jacket, cover boards. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, New York Review Children's Collection, reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover with laminated boards. Illustrated in red, black and white throughout by author. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, New York Review of Books, reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong format in pictorial boards. It's a big day for Jenny Linsky, the shy little black cat of Greenwich Village, when her brothers, Checkers and Edward, take her out for her birthday. They pick up her notorious friends along the way, including the twins Romulus and Remus, who have brought a special present, and Pickles, the Fire Cat, who gathers everyone into his red fire truck to take them to the park. There they will invite friends and strangers to share a picnic supper and dance the night away. First published in 1954. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 40 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w illustrations by Wendy Watson. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to edges. Light gutter crack.
Hardcover. NY, Four Winds Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, b&w illustrations by Emily Arnold McCully. Dust jacket with edge wear, otherwise, clean and tight.
Hardcover. Garden City NY, Junior Books - Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1947, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, pictorial boards. Black & white and color illustrations by Tousey. Edgewear. Corners rubbed. Soiling to covers.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace and Co., 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 197 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. B&w illustrations by Lattimore. Bright blue decorated cloth. Bottom of spine has fraying, scuffing to edge otherwise very good, clean.
Hardcover. NY, Literary Guild/Doubleday Doran & Co., reprint, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers with black stamping, 281 pages. Endpapers and b&w illustrations by Thomas Fogarty. The boyhood adventures of Jerry Foster set in rural Wisconsin in the 1800s. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 28 pages with color woodcuts by David Frampton. Through lilting poetic prose and glowing woodcuts, Kuskin and Frampton present a hommage to the holy city of Jerusalem, home of the three major religions. Four thousand years of the city's history are described, beginning with King David's conquest over Goliath, continuing through the Six Day War. In spite of all the battles, burnings, and rebuildings, the city stands majestically "shining still.'' It is to Kuskin's credit that she describes the city's 4000-year history in such a brief form, while still conveying a personal sense of the place. Clean copy.
NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Bruce Degen. The scarce first printing (all numbers starting with 1 present) of the first Jesse Bear book. Also Carlstrom's first book. Minor edgewear in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.