La Jolla, CA: Kane/Miller Book Publishes, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Charming children's book with movable shutters that reveal different illustrations. A near fine copy in boards. No dust jacket as issued. Item #146659 More
Price: $25.00
New York: Clarkson Potter, Inc, Publishers, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. A children's book from the author of "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings." Includes photographs by Margaret Courtney-Clarke. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Item #144903 More
Price: $15.00
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. A review copy with the slip laid in. Introduction by Ruth Stephan and drawings by Donald Weismann. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with minor wear along the top edge. Item #115509 More
Price: $40.00
New York: North-South Books, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Number 152 from an edition of 500 copies. Includes numerous color illustrations by Zwerger. A fine copy with green glasses in a pocket affixed to the rear pastedown in a fine dust jacket and very good die-cut cloth slipcase with a small stain. Tipped in original piece of art on handmade paper using a screenless lithographic technique. Signed and numbered by Zwerger. A terrific new interpretation of this classic. Despite the size of the limitation this would seem to be fairly uncommon. Item #157778 More
Price: $350.00
Chicago, IL: the Reilly & Britton Co., 1906. Hardcover. 325 pages. The first book in this popular children's series that was written by the author of the "Wizard of Oz" series L. Frank Baum using a pseudonym. A tight near fine in illustrated cloth boards in a very good later state dust jacket that is spine sunned and with some edge chips and tears and minor wear. Scarce in any jacket. Item #164613 More
Price: $500.00
New York: Ariel Books - Workman Publishing, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Her first children's book. Color illustrations by Winslow Pels. A fine copy in a fine price clipped dust jacket. Item #104676 More
Price: $30.00
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Children's book with poems and pictures by Behn. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket that has some minor indentations to the front panel. A bright clean copy. Item #104341 More
Price: $30.00
New York: Cupples & Leon Company, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. A charming collection of cartoons that first appeared in the Chicago Tribune. The title character has adventures in which he meets Babe Ruth and others. A close to near fine copy in pictorial boards with cloth spine some minor wear and a small former owner signature to the front pastedown in an about very good dust jacket that is missing a chunk from the base of the front panel near the spine, several edge tears, smaller chips and other minor wear. Uncommon in any dust jacket. Item #168306 More
Price: $650.00
Chicago, IL: Press of Rand McNally & Company, 1917. First edition. Hardcover. 31 pages. Includes 6 illustrations. A close to near fine copy with some slight soiling to the boards. No dust jacket. Signed and nicely inscribed by Binford on the front free endpaper in 1920. Scarce thus. Item #146217 More
Price: $85.00
New York: G.P. Putnam's & Sons, 1995. First edition and first printing. Olbong hardcover. Children's book written and illustrated by Brett. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Brett on the title page with a little drawing of a boot. Item #176104 More
Price: $25.00
London: Frederick Warne and Co. Ltd. Later printing. Hardcover. Attractive edition of this classic with numerous color illustrations by Greenaway. A near fine copy in illustrated boards in a very good dust jacket that has a number of small edge tears, chips and other wear. Still, a very nice copy in the uncommon dust jacket. Item #130309 More
Price: $75.00
Atlanta, GA: Peachtree Publishers, Ltd., 1987. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. A posthumously released children's book which was originally written by Capote in 1946 and only rediscovered in 1984. Features text by Capote and new illustrations by Bary Moser. A clean very near fine copy in a close to near fine dust jacket with some sunning to the bottom corners. Item #179368 More
Price: $15.00
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1955. Later printing. Hardcover. A collection of Canadian stories retold by Carlson and illustrated by Roger Duvoisin. A very good copy with darkening to the pages in an about very good that has some minor edge wear and some tears and tiny chips. Item #141323 More
Price: $12.00
Racine, WI and Chicago, IL: Whitman Publishing Co., 1916. First edition. Hardcover. Children's book written and illustrated by Warner Carr. Includes several color plates. A near fine copy with some minor wear and a former owner signature to the front free endpaper in an about very good dust jacket that has a large chip to the base of the front panel, some small chips to the spine ends and some other minor wear. Still a pleasing copy of this book which is fairly uncommon in any dust jacket. Item #177838 More
Price: $150.00
New York: Pantheon Books, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. A now classic young adult novel. Made into a movie. A clean and tight near fine copy with a small remainder mark to the bottom of the page edges in a very near fine dust jacket. Signed by Robert Cormier on the title page and additional warmly inscribed as well. A very nice copy. Item #165577 More
Price: $200.00
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1962. Hardcover. No additional printings on copyright page. Charming children's book with text by M. Jean Craig accompanied by illustrations by Kelly Oechsli. A close to near fine copy with some slight foxing and a small former owner signature to the front pastedown in a close to near fine dust jacket that has the bottom corner of the front flap clipped (by the publisher) with some minor wear and some minor foxing. Despite the minor flaws a nice copy of this somewhat uncommon book. Item #180132 More
Price: $75.00
Homesdale, PA: Boyds Mills Press, 2005. Later printing. Hardcover. Children's book with text by Crawley. Includes color illustrations by Tamara Petrosino. A very near fine copy in illustrated boards in a very near fine dust jacket. Signed and very nicely inscribed by Crawley on the title page. Item #174819 More
Price: $17.50
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. First printing. The follow up to Dahl's wildly popular books "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory." Includes illustrations by Joseph Schindelman. An about very good copy with some light bumping to the corners and spine ends, a spot to the fore edge and a skinned area to portion of the rear board that is paper covered in a very good dust jacket that has some minor wear and a tear with some associated wear to the top of the spine at the edge of the rear panel. Despite the flaws a solid copy of this classic. Item #161525 More
Price: $65.00
New York: Pantheon, 2019. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. A children's book from the author of the cult classic "House of Leaves." An interesting book that can be read in several different ways. Features art by Regina M. Gonzales and Danielewski. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Danielewski with his customary Z and dated Nov 11, 2019 for his appearance at the Strand Bookstore. An as new copy. Item #178168 More
Price: $45.00
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. Later printing. Hardcover.A book by De Paola that features his text and color illustrations. This copy was from a private family library and is in about very good copy with minor tape stains to the edges of the boards that have also slightly left stains to the endpapers as well and a small former owner signature to the front free endpaper and in a very good dust jacket with some minor wear. Signed and nicely inscribed by De Paola on the half title page. Uncommon signed. Item #169011 More
Price: $30.00
New York: Holiday House, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. A book by De Paola that features his text and color illustrations. This copy was from a private family library and is in about very good copy with minor tape stains to the edges of the boards that have also slightly left stains to the endpapers as well and a small former owner signature to the front free endpaper and in a very good plus dust jacket with some minor wear. Signed and nicely inscribed by De Paola on the title page. Uncommon signed. Item #169010 More
Price: $40.00
London: Burke Publishing Co. Ltd., 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Dorothy Clark. The first book in this series about a Glasgow message boy. A near fine copy with a bookplate to the front free endpaper in a near fine price clipped dust jacket that has a small tear to the top of the front panel as well as one to the back panel. A very nice copy. Item #103982 More
Price: $45.00
London: Burke Publishing Co. Ltd., 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Dorothy Clark. The second book in this series about a Glasgow message boy. A fine copy in a bright very near fine dust jacket that has a two small tears one to the top and one to the bottom of the back panel. Item #103983 More
Price: $35.00
London: Burke Publishing Co. Ltd., 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Dorothy Clark. The third book in this series about a Glasgow message boy. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket that has a little wear to the spine ends. Item #103984 More
Price: $30.00
