Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY MATTEO PERICOLI ON TITLE PAGE WITH ILLUSTRATED SKETCH. Two-sided book with drawings of the Manhattan skyline: "Matteo Pericoli began his drawings of the Manhattan skyline in 1998. More than two years, fifteen hundred buildings, and nineteen bridges later, he finished two continuous scrolls, one of the West Side and one of the East Side, each thirty-seven feet long." Hard blue and red covers with white titles and yellow graphic illustration, full page b&w illustrations. Very slight rubbing to covers, pages clean, crisp and unmarked, binding stiff and tight; an excellent copy of a beautiful and unusual book.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st thus, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 136 pages. Very good pictorial dust jacket in mylar. Illustrated with color plates by Wendell Minor. SIGNED BY WENDELL MINOR.
Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins Publishers, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color and black and white illustrations by Maurice Sendak. SIGNED BY SENDAK. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins Publishers, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Small hardcover with dust jacket. Color and black and white illustrations by Maurice Sendak. SIGNED BY SENDAK. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Dutton Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR Paul O. Zelinsky on half title page. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Little, flat Sonny Shivers and his family only know it's cold and dark where they live, and whenever the earth quakes, a monstrous hand, reaching forth in a great flash of light, snatches away part of their landscape --Buttery Cliffs, towering Mt. Ketchup . . . and with the landscape goes his family, one by one, until only Sonny is left to face the monsters. Who are they? What and where is the Shivers family? Children will delight in puzzling it all out before the Shivers do. Fran Manushkin's dry but juicy humor, spiced with food puns, carries this droll saga through shivery perils to a warm reunion on the refrigerator door. As ever, Caldecott-winner Paul O. Zelinsky's wit makes theater of the most improbable situations.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, color illustrations by C.F. Payne, SIGNED by author. This inspirational picture book is based on the true story of Shoeless Joe Jackson and his bat, two of the greatest players in baseball history. Some say Shoeless Joe Jackson was the greatest hitter ever. But Shoeless Joe had a partner: his bat, Black Betsy. And if not for the faithful Black Betsy, Joe might never even have made it to the major leagues. Clean copy
Hardcover. NY, Simon $ Schuster, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color by C. F. Payne. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 48 pages. Reissued edition. Red woven boards with black vignette of boy playing to lower portion. Black titles to spine. Pristine inside, as new. SIGNED by Maurice Sendak on the half title page without dedication.
Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AVI on front fly leaf., Black & white illust. by C.B. Mordan and SIGNED BOOKPLATE BY MORDAN laid-in. In the early years of the twentieth century, a Swedish family encounters separation and other hardships upon immigrating to New York City until the son is cast in a silent movie. Bold b/w illustrations, inspired by Charlie Chaplin's soulful expressions.
Hardcover. NY, Toon Books/ Raw Junior, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR. Lilly is a spunky little girl who delights in the unexpected pleasures of each season, peering inside shells in the summer and tasting different kinds of apples in the fall. In this charming and subtle book by one of France's premier children's book authors, Lilly learns more about the outdoors, and introduces the youngest readers to the colors, words, and shapes that arise in nature. Silly Lilly's intimate monologues deftly capture a child's sense of wonder, in five whimsical episodes that cycle through the calendar from Spring back to Spring again
Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Children's Books, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED WITH AN ILLUSTRATION by the author and illustrator on front fly leaf, minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight.
Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY GENNADY SPIRIN opposite title page in gold ink, and SIGNED BY JULIE ANDREWS EDWARDS in blue felt pen ink in title page. Tight copy with minor wear to cover boards.
Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a very good dust jacket. Non-paginated. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR WENDELL MINOR ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran and Co., 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth stamped in black, illustrated in color and b&w by De Angeli. INSCRIBED BY DE ANGELI on the dedication page, dated 1966. No dust jacket. With his German family, Eli crosses the Atlantic on The Charming Nancy. From Philadelphia, oxen pull their wagon into Penn's Woods, where they make their new home in the Skippack area. Eli loves outdoor work and play, but Mom says he must go to school. Though Eli expects the teacher to be cross, Master Christopher Dock is kind, firm, and patient.
Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 181 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very good pictorial dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Clean, tight copy, otherwise.
Hardcover. US, Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non paginated. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR on title page. Extensive illustrations by Patrick McDonnell throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
New York , Harper Collins, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrated by Egielski and SIGNED BY EGIELSKI on title page.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow , 1st, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped with black design and lettering. Illustrated with four 2-color plates and endpapers art by Richard Rogers. SIGNED BY STACKPOLE on title page. Light pencil marking to pages throughout otherwise a nice, tight copy. Uncommon title of an adventure set on Nantucket Island.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 7th pr., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Mary Azarian. A early printing of the Caldecott Winner (sticker on the dust jacket ). This copy INSCRIBED BY AZARIAN on title page.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 6th pr., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Mary Azarian. A early printing of the Caldecott Winner (without the sticker on the dust jacket ). This copy INSCRIBED BY AZARIAN on title page. Two original color photos of Azarian pasted to front end papers with previous owner's inscription under both. Also a local newspaper interview with Azarian folded into envelope pasted to rear end paper. Dust jacket with light edgewear.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY SHULEVITZ on title page. In a sleepy sleepy house everything is so sleepy - until music drifts in through an open window. Chairs begin to rock, dishes begin to dance, and a sleepy boy opens his eyes to the revelry of the once-sleepy house. Then, softly, the music drifts out, and everything is sleepy sleepy once more. With his soothing text and gentle, whimsical illustrations, Uri Shulevitz has created the ultimate sleepy sleepy bedtime story. So Sleepy Story was a 2006 New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year.
Hardcover. New York , Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY SHULEVITZ on title page. In a sleepy sleepy house everything is so sleepy - until music drifts in through an open window. Chairs begin to rock, dishes begin to dance, and a sleepy boy opens his eyes to the revelry of the once-sleepy house. Then, softly, the music drifts out, and everything is sleepy sleepy once more. With his soothing text and gentle, whimsical illustrations, Uri Shulevitz has created the ultimate sleepy sleepy bedtime story. So Sleepy Story was a 2006 New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year.
Hardcover. NY, Philomel, 2nd pr., 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 52 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR ON TITLE PAGE. Color illustrations by David Small. Winner of the Caldecott Medal. Clean, tight copy. Second printing, no medal sticker on cover.
Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR JULES FEIFFER. Originally pub. in 1969 but this edition newly illustrated by Feiffer in color.