Hardcover. New York, Dial Books, 4th printing, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, unpaginated, color illustrations by Brad Sneed, very clean, tight copy, like new. Jean Van Leeuwen has written a simple, poignant, yet powerful story about how such a little thing as acknowledging a mistake and saying "I'm sorry", can change the course of lives forever. Her expressive text with its gentle message and air of sadness, is beautifully complemented by Brad Sneed's bold, rich watercolor illustrations, full of wonderful farm life detail, that pull you into the story and the brother's lives.
Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket. B&w cartoons about life in 60's suburbia first published in the Saturday Evening Post.
Hardcover. New York , Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by New Yorker cartoonist George Booth. The other hens in Farmer Brown's Tennessee henhouse think that Starlight LaPoule - (hush! Her real name is Ethel Fae Klucksworth) - is short a few feathers. They may be right. For Starlight is a chicken with a ridiculous dream. She wants to become a high-fashion model in Paris or Milan. And with the surprise help of her very own chicken fairy godmother, anything is possible. Or is it?
Hardcover. New York , Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color cartoon illustrations by George Booth. The other hens in Farmer Brown's Tennessee henhouse think that Starlight LaPoule - (hush! Her real name is Ethel Fae Klucksworth) - is short a few feathers. They may be right. For Starlight is a chicken with a ridiculous dream. She wants to become a high-fashion model in Paris or Milan. And with the surprise help of her very own chicken fairy godmother, anything is possible. Or is it? With antic illustrations by renowned cartoonist George Booth, Harry Allard's funny story about a hen with outsize expectations is sure to crack up even the most hard-boiled of readers.
Hardcover. New Milford CT, Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR AMY SCHWARTZ ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrators. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Julian Messner, Inc., 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. 41 black & white drawings of cats engaged various activities by Peggy Bacon. Spiral bound cardboard covers, 3" separation at top of spiral hinge. 3/4" of paper missing at bottom of spine. Some light chipping to paper along cover edges. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. Cleveland, OH, The World Publishing Company, Reprint, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 130 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gray cloth cover boards, gold gilt title on spine. Some tanning to top and bottom of spine. Dust jacket unclipped, has some agewear. "Humor, drama and beauty woven out of memories of a fantastic boyhood by Hugh Falkus..."
Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w cartoons by Frank Modell. Clean, unmarked copy with light wear to dust jacket. Frank Modell was a well known New Yorker cartoonist from 1945 to 1997. He studied at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and illustrated the children's books on "Marvin and Milton".
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.
Softcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics Books, 2nd pr., 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 68 pages. Softcover with light wear to paper wrappers. Black and white illustrations by Gorey. Tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, Book Club Ed., 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket.158 pages. Black & white illustrations by Jamie Wyeth. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagrahics, 1st thus, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed pictorial boards, 202 pages. Book presented in both English and French in a collaboration between Fantagraphics and Editions de l'An 2. Preface by Thierry Smolderen. A. B. Frost born in 1851. An anthology of Frost's works Stuff and Nonsense (1884), The Bull Calf and Other Tales (1892), and Carlo (1913). Comics in B/W. Most have both English and French translations. No DJ (as issued).
Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 2nd pr., 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, color illustrations by Robin Preiss Glasser. Determined to be as perfect and neat as her older sister Olivia, Sophie tries to be tidy, but the more she tries the messier she becomes while her sister watches in exasperation, in a delightful book that keeps readers amused as they follow Sophie's funny and appealing antics. Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Full color illustrations by Ron Barrett. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a chipped, lightly worn dust jacket, 262 pages. A collection of short stories by a Tennessee humorist. His creation of Sut Lovingood, a Southern mountaineer who opines on various subjects. Popular in the pre-Civil War era. Introduction by Brom Weber has 2 lines with underlining, otherwise clean copy.
Softcover. Kansas City, Andrews McMeel, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Softcover with light wear to paper wrappers. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Tight copy. Cartoons by Cullum.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Unpaginated, color illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Light edge wear to dust jacket, small scratches on rear. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Montreal, Drawn and Quarterly, 2nd, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 200 pages. Softcover. Light edgewear to wrappers, Color, Black and white pictures throughout.
Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st Thus, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 112 pages plus "A Word to Grown-Ups" and Ad. Hardcover. Features 4 full color illustrations by Harry L. Smith. Dust jacket with light chipping at corners, top and bottom of spine - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Max Parrish, 7th pr., 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 128 pages, illustrated in b&w by Ronald Searle. Dust jacket with light soil, price-clipped. Previous owner's inscription on the front fly leaf.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, hundreds of b&w cartoons from the magazine's golden age. Tan cloth spine with blue boards. No lettering on spine. Clean copy, no dust jacket.