Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 194 pages. Hardcover, no dust jacket. B&W Illustrations by Reginald Birch & Charles Copeland. Slight slant to spine o/w bright, clean copy w/ elaborate gilt decorated covers.
Hardcover. Brookfield CT, Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated in color by Macdonald. Square-jawed, muscle-bound Jack awakens and embarks on a host of fabulous adventures. Shot from a cannon directly into a spiffy blue suit, he grapples with an alligator and conquers a space alien and giant robot from the wings of his personal airplane- all on his way to work as Chief Flavor Tester in the World's Best Ice Cream Company. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Macrae Smith Company, 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 265 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Moderate soil to red cover boards with faded gilt decoration on front and spine. Front hinge starting to crack and tear. Fragile. Previous owner's bookplate pasted on front end paper. Illustrated by Grace Norcross and Albert W. Force.
Hardcover. NY, Putnam, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. Light edgewear to dust jacket. ABC book illustrating words that contain "ant" in them.
Hardcover. NY, Silver, Burdett and Company, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated cloth, 146 pages plus glossary. Illustrated in color and b&w by Constance Whittemore. Children's reader to introduce children to Switzerland through adventures with Anton and Trini. The World's Children Series. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in illustrated boards. Malachy Doyle's fanciful "small" tale, illustrated in delightful detail by Carll Cneut, will bring smiles to anyone who has ever missed the comforts of home. When Antonio visits his grandmother on a tiny island on the other side of the world, he has a whale of a time. But there's one slight problem: he seems to be getting smaller and smaller. Before long, he can't even throw jam sandwiches to the sea monsters because he's too small to see over the side of his grandmother's boat. "You're missing your mom," notes his granny, who tells him it's time that he headed for home. So he finds a job on a sailing ship - and then the increasingly small Antonio's big adventures really begin. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Yellow cloth covers, green dust jacket with color illustration, dust jacket acetate-protected, beautiful large full-color illustrations by Watson. Light chipping to front top edge of dust jacket, price-clipped, pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a lovely children's book in great condition.
Hardcover. New York, Four Winds Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 34 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Steven Kellogg. Clean, tight copy with only minor rubbing to edges.
Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard , 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Emily Arnold McCully (1994 Caldecott winner). Minor wear to dust jacket, mostly nice condition.
Hardcover. London, Folio Society, 4th Printing, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 239 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. color paintings by Detmold throughout, gilt decorated cover and spine, red slipcase. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Dodge Publishing Co., na, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 435 pages, color frontispiece and title page, 130 line illustrations. Bright blue cloth covers with gilt, red and white design. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Minton, Balch and Co, 1st, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 84 pages. Illustrated by Erick Berry. Stamp on front end paper. Illustrated endpapers. Rear hinge cracked. Soiling to covers, edges. Edgewear. Bottom corners bumped.
Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY ROSENTHAL with sketch of monkey drinking from coconut. Ahoy, landlubbers, prepare yerselves for a rip-roaring adventure . . . with a shipwrecked monkey, a sweet-singing ibis, a ferocious tiger, and a band of rough, smelly, no-good pirates! Coconuts fly, danger lurks, and only one clever monkey can save the day: Archie!
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Fujikawa. Glazed cardboard covers. TIght copy.
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, color illustrations by Nancy Winslow Parker. Amy watches as everyone leaves the house and as neighbors are busy in the street, but when Grandpa finally comes Amy goes out too. Clean copy, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Dial Press, 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Dust jacket shows wear, chipping and some tears. Internally clean. Quentin Blake illustrations in black & white & blue. Hardbound. One summer, whilst on holiday in northern France Aristide is given a blue Li-Lo by his Grandmother. Despite being told not to go too far from the shore Aristide manages to float all the way across the channel to England where he is captured and held prisoner by some boys. (Robert Tibber is the nom-de-plume of Rosemary Friedman)
Hardcover. London, Blackie and Son, Ltd., 1st, 1921, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nonpaginated (about 24 pages). Hardcover. Undated, assumed it's a 1st edition. Fun, engaging, color illustrations with text below throughout. Stitch binding with a few stitches missing, but still intact with no pages missing. The gray paper-covered boards are bound at the spine in gray cloth, and the front board has a full coloured pictorial panel pasted to it, with a scene of the Ark on a white background, with red and black lettering. Red cloth spine. Back cover's illustration has been romoved from board. Back cover board has been previously torn off and repaired with tape. Previous owner stamp on preliminary page with a crayon decoration. Some stray makes made with pencil on back cover board. Pages clean inside. In good condition for its age.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A set of Three Little Books in a slipcase. Slipcase a bit warped but otherwise very good condition and books excellent condition. No dust jackets as issued.
Hardcover. London, Cassell & Company , 2nd, 1892, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 248 pages, hardcover. Gilt titles and embossed decoration to spine. Children's book on English history. Pasted color illustration to front panel. Heavy bumping and chipping to front and rear panels, mostly to fore edge and corners. Pasted advertisement to rear panel. Minor fading and bumping to spine. Small stain to lower right front panel. Moderate age toning to prelim pages. Age toning to text block edges. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. Scarce. A tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages illustrated in color by Burningham. In a lightly edgeworn dust jacket that's unclipped.
Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Tan cloth covers with gilt titles and gilt pictorial to front board, white dust jacket with color illustration, mylar protective covering to dust jacket, decorated end papers, lovely color illustrations throughout by Burningham. IBumps to rear cover and rear dust jacket panel, slight edgewear to covers and dust jacket though otherwise clean, price-clipped, slight foxing to prelim pages, pages crisp and otherwise unmarked; overall, a very neat, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY WIESNER on half title page. Max and Arthur are friends who share an interest in painting. Arthur is an accomplished painter; Max is a beginner. Max's first attempt at using a paintbrush sends the two friends on a whirlwind trip through various artistic media, which turn out to have unexpected pitfalls. Although Max is inexperienced, he's courageous and a quick learner. His energy and enthusiasm bring the adventure to its triumphant conclusion. Beginners everywhere will take heart. David Wiesner is one of the best-loved and most highly acclaimed picture book creators in the world. His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages and have won numerous awards in the United States and abroad. Three of the picture books he both wrote and illustrated became instant classics when they won the prestigious Caldecott Medal: Tuesday in 1992, The Three Pigs in 2002, and Flotsam in 2007, making him only the second person in the award's long history to have won three times. He has also received two Caldecott Honors, for Free Fall and Sector 7.
Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 191 pages, color illustrations. Still in publishers shrink-wrap. Rear cover of dust jacket shows some bubbles/de-lamination. Otherwise like new. Retrospective of Brunhoff's paintings (watercolors) that show the detail, the richness and the finnesse of the original's.