New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. Patrick Benson. First U.S. Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Tall 8vo, blue quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over off-white boards, illustrated by Patrick Benson with full-color dust jacket & map endpapers plus many B&W chapter headings & other in-text B&W pictures..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. Patrick Benson. First U.S. Edition, Second Printing. Cloth and boards. 8vo, black quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over off-white boards, illustrated by Patrick Benson with full-color dust jacket & map endpapers plus many B&W chapter headings & other in-text B&W pictures, an..... More
New York: Paul S. Eriksson, Inc., 1969. Arouni. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Oblong 24mo (5" x 7 1/2"), black cloth with silver lettering on spine, pictorial dust jacket in black & white (unclipped) by Arouni, who also illustrated the book, [n.p.: 60] pages. James Mercer Langston Hughes (1901 –..... More
London: Chatto and Windus, [1886]. Kate Greenaway. First Greenaway Edition. Pictorial boards. Square 8vo, tan cloth with black lettering on spine & brown and black lettering with rules plus a colored Greenaway drawing of three children on the cover, colored frontispeice by Kate Greenaway and 27 smaller colored illustrations, all..... More
New York: A Mulberry Paperback Book, 1994. Kevin O'Malley. First Mulberry Edition, First Printing. Wrappers. INSCRIBED & SIGNED by the ILLUSTRATOR Kevin O'Malley with his ORIGINAL SKETCH, small 4to (10 7/8" x 8 3/8"), colorful wrappers of a shoe on a fancy pillow, [32] pages. Cute and amusing modern take-off..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlop, 1973. G&D Edition: 1973 later printing. Boards. 8vo, sky blue textured boards with black lettering and verticle rule on spine & front cover, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting Ramona being led by an Indian through the mountains, several B&W in-text illustrations, 424 pages. Helen..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1982. Margot Tomes. First Edition. Cloth and boards. PRESENTATION Copy SIGNED by the Author on the half-title, 8vo, gray quarter cloth over light blue boards with "Jean Fritz" in gold on cover, Illustrated with frontispiece drawings by Margot Tomes and photographs, Mylar-protected dust jacket..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003. Steve Jenkins. First Edition. Boards. 4to, glossy pictorial boards, profusely illustrated with colorful animals by Steve Jenkins, [32] pages. With the Silver "Caldecott Honor Book" Medallion on the cover. EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION! First Edition, later printing. More
Robbinston, Maine: PaXart Publishing / Pax-Art.com, 2009. Peter Johannes. First Printing. Pictorial boards. Square quarto [4to] (9 7/8" x 10"), glossy photographic boardsdepicting a mouse beneath a mushroom, image repeated on dust jacket (unclipped), illustrated with color photos and text by Peter Johannes, 91 pages. Peter Johannes is an award-winning..... More
New York Toronto London Auckland Sydney Mexico City New Delhi Hong Kong Buenos Aires: Scholastic Inc., June, 2002. David Cantrow. First Scholastic Printing. Wrappers. SIGNED with a SKETCH by the Illustrator, 4to, pictorial colorful wrappers by David Cantrow, [36] pages. The first cloth (?) edition is copyrighted 2001; this appears..... More
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1985. Steven Kellogg. First Edition, Later Printing. Pictorial boards. SIGNED & Extra-Illustrated by the Author-Illustrator with an original cartoon of Chicken Little on a front endpaper, 4to (11 1/4" x 9"), full-color pictorial boards with Kellogg montage of cartoon characters repeated on the pictorial..... More
New York: Holiday House, 1989. Trina Schart Hyman. Reprint. Cloth and boards. Small 4to, black quarter cloth with silver lettering on spine over charcoal gray boards, profusely illustrated in color by Trina Shart Hyman, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting Hershel with candle and goblin (with Silver Caldecot Honor..... More
London and Melbourne: Ward, Lock and Co., Limited, No date [1922?]. Harry G. Theaker. Reprint of Illustrated Edition. Cloth. Tall 8vo (~10" x 8"), paper-covered pictorial boards with green cloth backstrip lettered in black, 24 color plates by Harry G. Theaker, 176 pages. (The earliest date we have found for this..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1949. Harry G. Theaker. Reprint of 1941 Edition. Half leather over cloth. 8vo (~10" x 8"), red half leather over red cloth, illustrated with B&W frontispiece reproduction photo of Kingsley and 15 B&W plates, top edge of pages gilt (t.e.g.), red ribbon page-marker, 634..... More
Robert Byrd. First Edition. Pictorial boards. INSCRIBED by the Illustrator Robert Byrd on the title page with an ORIGINAL SKETCH, 4to (9 3/8" x 11 1/4"), glossy pictorial boards by Byrd, profusely illustrated with full-color art by Byrd, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) reproducing cover art, red endpapers, 48..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969. Symeon Shimin. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo, blue cloth with silver lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a baby boy facing a dancing male lion by firelight, illustrated throughout in umber & blue tones by Symeon Shimin, yellow-gold sand dune..... More
New York: Ariel Books, [1964]. INGA. First Edition. Cloth. SUGNED, Presentation Copy by the Author, tall 8vo, red cloth (Mylar-protected), profusely illustrated by INGA with sketches both colored as well as Black & White, 56 pages. Exceptional Condition! RARE volume SIGNED by the famed author (1918-2007). Lacks dust jacket. Published two..... More
San Diego New York London: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1995. Janet Stevens. First Edition, First Printing. Pictorial boards. Quarto/4to (9 3/8" W x 11 !/4" H), glossy pictorial boards depicting a windswept old woman, donkey, & cat painted by Janet Stevens, image repeated on the pictorial dust jacket (unclipped), illustrated..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1979. Jean Laureuse. First Edition. Pictorial cloth. SIGNED & EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED by the Author with a DRAWING of an appealing "Devil" on the half title adding "Un sourire de France" and 1979 date, small quarto [4to] (, mauve cloth with white lettering on spine and white..... More
New York: Harper Entertainment/HarperCollins, 2004. Brandon Oldenburg, Limbert Fabian, & Jake Parker of ReelFX Creative Studios. First Edition. red and black cloth. Author's First Children's Book, SIGNED, 8vo, red cloth spine and black, 14 illustrations in B&W with bold color opposite each chapter head, 149 + [3] pages. SIGNED, Near..... More
New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1996. Jerry Pinkney. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Small 4to, pictorial glossy paper-covered boards, dust jacket (unclipped) repeats the design of the cover,purple endpapers, [40] poages. Weight: 1 lb. 4.5 oz. SUPERB illustrations by Jerry Pinkney in this update of Little..... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Incorporated, [1936]. Norman Lindsay. Early American Edition. Cloth. Royal 8vo, red cloth with black lettering on spine and front cover, Mylar-pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting Bunyip Bluegum, Bill Barnacle, and Sam Sawnoff against a blue & red background, [158] unnumbered pages. Norman Lindsay (1879-1969), artist..... More
New York London Toronto Sydney: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. Pictorial boards. SIGNED by the Author-Actor-Writer on the half title, quarto, pictorial green decorative boards by Igor Oleynikov, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) repeating the dust jacket by Oleynikov, yellow endpapers, 40 pages..... More
New York: Dial Books < Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2011. Laurel Long. First Edition, First Printing. Glossy pictorial boards. 4to (9 1/4" x 11 3/4"), glossy pictorial boards depicting a partridge in a pear tree, Illustrated with full-color plates by Laurel Long, green pictorial endpapers, [32] pages. Laurel Long is a distinguished illustrator of children's books. Some notable titles include Hans Brinker by Bruce Coville, The Magic Nesting Doll by Jacqueline K. Ogburn and The Lady & The Lion. Her picture book, The Mightiest Heart by Lynn Cullen was awarded the Gold Medal..... More
New York: North Point Press [a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux], 1990. Tom Pohrt. First Edition. Cloth. Signed by the Author, 4to (11 3/4" x 9 3/8"), black cloth with gold lettering on spine and cover, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) by Tom Pohrt of a crow and weasel..... More