Search Results: Children & Illustrated Books from A&D Books

San Francisco: Chronicle, 2004. Hardcover. SIGNED with an original drawing. First edition, first printing. Fine hardcover in a Fine dust jacket with a hint of shelf wear. All dust jackets are protected by a clear mylar cover. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. A counting rhyme, based on a traditional favorite children's rhyme. Written by Alice Schertle; illustrated by Caldecott-winner Emily Arnold McCully. SIGNED BY MCCULLY on the title page with an original drawing of the lead character and a non-personalized inscription. Unpaginated [32 pages]; color illustrations throughout; 8.75 x 10.75 inches.

New York: HarperCollins, 2005. Hardcover. SIGNED. First edition, first printing, with "$25.99 Can" price. Fine/As New hardcover with two wrinkles to the rear paste down over the "squeak" button (as is common) in a Fine/As New dust jacket with the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award sticker to the front panel; "squeaker" works. All dust jackets are protected by a clear mylar cover. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. Based on a news story, Carle tracks ten rubber ducks from production through their adventures after falling off a cargo ship. Written and illustrated by Eric Carle. SIGNED BY CARLE on the title page; no inscription. (Note that the signature on the ffep in the first printing and on the colophon page in later printings is a facsimile.) Sound design by Wesley Talbot. Unpaginated [36 pages]; color illustrations throughout; 9.25 x 12.5 inches. LAID-IN is a flyer for a book signing with Carle in NYC.

New York: Viking, 2002. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Fine hardcover in a Fine dust jacket, protected by a clear mylar cover. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. "After Mr. and Mrs. Armadillo are married, they decide to have children and lots of them, so their friends must scramble to get just the perfect gifts for the ten new additions to their friends' growing family." Written and illustrated by Vladimir Radunsky. Unpaginated [32 pages] with 1 gatefold; color illustrations throughout; 8.75 x 11.25 inches.

Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel, 2000. Hardcover. First US edition. Fine/As New hardcover; no dj as presumed issued. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. "This cleverly designed book illustrates a classic children's rhyme featuring infants dressed as dolls. In the beginning, "There were 10 in the bed and the little one said... 'Roll over, roll over.' So they all rolled over and 1 got out." Then the countdown is on, as one by one, the babies leave the bed and the little one is left alone. Not for long, however. Turn the book over, and you'll find them all back in bed -- until the rolling begins again." Adapted and photographed by Anne Geddes. Unpaginated [34 pages] with every other page die-cut, as are the free endpapers; color photographs throughout; 9.75 x 13.5 inches.

New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1954. Paperback. First edition, first printing. Fine paperback in the original envelope, soiled and worn. SHIPS THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING AND CARDBOARD. "Linoleum blocks by Antonio Frasconi to illustrate Twelve Fables of Aesop newly narrated by Glenway Wescott and published by the Museum of Modern Art, New York." Adapted from a limited edition designed by Joseph Blumenthal. Staple-bound card wraps; unpaginated [32 pages]; 19 b&w illustrations, 12 full-page; 6 x 8.5 inches.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970. Hardcover. First American edition. Near Fine clothbound hardcover with very light signs of handling, light bumping along the bottom edges of the boards, a tap to two tips, and a gift inscription to the ffep in a Good+ price-clipped dust jacket with tears/creases to the front panel, rubbing along the top edge and at the crown, and a "library edition" sticker to the spine; not an ex-library book. All dust jackets are protected by a clear mylar cover. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. The second book in the Mr. Benn series of children's books: "When Mr. Benn steps into the fitting room to try on a convict uniform, he finds he is a prisoner in a very drab correctional institution." Written and illustrated by David McKee. Unpaginated [48 pages]; color and b&w illustrations throughout; 9.25 x 9.25 inches.

Ephemera. This is not a book. The original bumpersticker to promote the 2003 "Junie B. Jones Stupid Smelly Bus Tour," the occasional "national tour that brings Junie B. Jones, live and in person, across the country to meet her fans." Junie B. Jones is of course the main character in the children's book series written by Barbara Park and illustrated by Denise Brunkus. 11.5 x 3-inch bumpersticker with peel-off backing. New and unused. Will be sandwiched securely between stiff layers of cardboard and shipped the next business day.

Ephemera. This is not a book. The original bookmark issued to promote the 2003 "Junie B. Jones Stupid Smelly Bus Tour," the occasional "national tour that brings Junie B. Jones, live and in person, across the country to meet her fans"--"The Smelliest Bookmark Ever!" Junie B. Jones is of course the main character in the children's book series written by Barbara Park and illustrated by Denise Brunkus. Thin card, printed both sides, with the books-to-date to the back; 2 x 6 inches. Condition: Fine. Will be sandwiched securely between stiff layers of cardboard and shipped the next business day.

New York: Henry Holt, 1999. Hardcover. SIGNED. First edition, first printing. Fine hardcover in a Fine dust jacket, protected by a clear mylar cover. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want." Illustrated by Michael Hague. SIGNED BY HAGUE on the title page with an original drawing; no inscription. Unpaginated [32 pages]; color illustrations throughout; 8.25 x 9.25 inches.

New York: Little Simon, 2007. Hardcover. SIGNED. First edition, first printing. Fine/As New hardcover in the original plastic bag with the publisher's promotional/author's introduction sheet laid-in; no dj as issued. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. A scavenger hunt pop-up book by one of the contemporary masters of paper-engineering. Written, illustrated, and paper-engineered by David A. Carter. SIGNED BY CARTER on the front paste down with a non-personalized inscription: "Tickle your mind." Unpaginated [20 pages] with 12 pop-ups and pull-tabs; color throughout; 9.25 x 9.25 inches.

New York: Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin, 1999. Hardcover. SIGNED. First edition, first printing. Fine quarter-clothbound hardcover in a Fine dust jacket with the silver Caldecott-honor medallion to the front. All dust jackets are protected by a clear mylar cover. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. On a school trip to the Empire State Building, "a boy makes friends with a mischievous little cloud, who whisks him away to the Cloud Dispatch Center for Sector 7 (the region that includes New York City). The clouds are bored with their everyday shapes, so the boy obligingly starts to sketch some new ones." Written and illustrated by David Wiesner. SIGNED BY WIESNER on the title page, with an original drawing and dated 2001; no inscription. Unpaginated [48 pages]; color illustrations throughout; 9.5 x 11 inches.

Photograph. A binder full of original photographs of antique teddy bears and vintage stuffed animals including Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, and Tigger, shot against a white backdrop. They appear to have been made by a professional photographer, probably for a book. We count 43 different objects photographed and 58 different photographs plus an additional 17 of alternative exposures for a total of 75 unique color Polaroids, all housed in plastic sleeves. Some of the images are alternative poses and many have information about the bear written on the back. Kanga, Piglet, Eeyore, Tigger, and Winnie-the-Pooh are identified on the back of some images and placed at the New York Public Library and so it is assumed that they are photographs of the original stuffed animals once owned by Christopher Robin Milne. It is unclear where the other stuffed bears are from. Note that not everything is pictured. Will be wrapped securely in padding, packaged in a box and shipped the next business day after payment is… Read More

New York: Knopf, 1994. Hardcover. SIGNED by 19 contributors. First edition, first printing. Fine clothbound hardcover with a touch of rubbing to the bottom edges of the boards in a Fine dust jacket. All dust jackets are protected by a clear mylar cover. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. "From Jessie Willcox Smith and N.C. Wyeth to Maurice Sendak and Chris Van Allsburg, Children's Book Week posters tell the story of children's books in America. Here, in one glorious volume, are all sixty-nine posters, truly a celebration of great American children's book illustrators." Introduction and text by Leonard Marcus. This copy has been SIGNED by 18 of the artists, each on the page with their poster: Alice and Martin Provensen (by Alice), Emily Arnold McCully, Uri Shulevitz, Anita Lobel, Laurent de Brunhoff, Rosemary Wells, Trina Schart Hyman, Tomi dePaola, Marc Brown, Chris Van Allsburg, Marc Simont, Steven Kellogg, Richard Egielski, Ed Young, Paul O.… Read More

New York: Coward McCann, 1933. Hardcover. First edition, later printing. Good hardcover with small spots of wear to the tips and a three-inch tear to the spine at the hinge on the back cover, otherwise very good overall; interior is clean and bright; lacking dj. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. An abc book that also tells a story set to rhyme. "All through this lovely book, with its big soft pictures that you want to touch, you will find the bunny scampering. He has adventures, meets other animals, and on every page is a different letter of the alphabet. At the very end even YOU come into the story." A 1934 Newbery Honor Book. Written and illustrated by Wanda Ga'g; hand lettered by Howard Ga'g. The "ABC Bunny" text has been set to music by Flavia Ga'g and printed across the endpapers. Unpaginated [32 pages]; b&w illustrations + spot color + color illustrated endpapers; 9 x 11.25 inches.

New York: Disney Press, 1998. Hardcover. SIGNED. First edition, first printing. Fine hardcover with the publisher's promotional sheet laid-in; no dj as issued. The book is virtually as new except the we've tested the pop-ups; they're all intact and in working order. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. Characters from Disney animated films represent all the letters of the alphabet, each rendered as a pop-up figure. Paper engineering by Robert Sabuda. SIGNED BY SABUDA on the second page with the non-personalized inscription: "Happy Disney Popping up!" Unpaginated [14 pages] with 28 flaps, 26 of which conceal a pop-up; color throughout; 10.25 x 7.75 inches.

Plattsburgh, NY: Tundra, 2005. Hardcover. SIGNED. First edition, first printing. Fine/As New hardcover; no dj as issued. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. "A unique ABC for the very young. The book works perfectly in three languages, English, Spanish, and French. In each case, deceptively simple paper cuts will delight the eye while young readers explore words in three languages. The book has been carefully constructed to accommodate each language, including the letters which occur in Spanish, but not in English or French. Earlier collaborations by Tom Slaughter and Marthe Jocelyn have received raves from critics. This new addition to their library is yet another excellent introduction to modern art, to words, and this time to the fun of languages." Written by Marthe Jocelyn; illustrated by Tom Slaughter. SIGNED BY both JOCELYN & SLAUGHTER on the title page; no inscription. Unpaginated [32 pages]; color illustrations throughout; 8.25 x 10.25 inches.

Milpitas: Adaptec, 1996. Hardcover. SIGNED. First edition. Near Fine hardcover with light traces of shelf wear; no dj as issued. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. The 1996 annual report for Adaptec, the data processing and digital storage company. Illustrated by Richard McGuire; written by Lindsay Beaman and Kevin Roberson. SIGNED BY MCGUIRE on the title page; no inscription. 54 pages; color illustrations throughout; 8.75 x 10.25 inches.

New York: McCall, 1968. Hardcover. First American edition, first printing. Fine cloth-bound hardcover, virtually as new, in a Near Fine dust jacket with a touch of soiling, a small scuff, and one short closed tear. All dust jackets are protected by a clear mylar cover. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. Stories and illustrations by Charlotte Hough. 81 pages; b&w spot illustrations sprinkled throughout; 6 x 9 inches. Eight modern fairy tales about magic, animals, and bandits.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1985. Paperback. First thus, first printing. Very Good minus paperback with a light crease to the edge of the front and a small crease to the corner of the back cover and light shelf wear; no creasing to the spine. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. Dumped on an uninhabited island by a flood, Abel must reexamine the easy way of life he had always accepted and discover skills and talents in himself that hold promise of a more meaningful life, if and when he should finally return to his dear wife again. Written and illustrated by William Steig. 128 pages; b&w illustrations throughout; 5 x 7.5 inches.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1999. Hardcover. SIGNED. First edition, first printing. Fine hardcover with a tap to the tips in a Fine dust jacket with a hint of rubbing to the extremities. All dust jackets are protected by a clear mylar cover. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. "Leaping into a shirt and thrusting his arms into his pant legs, the Absentminded Fellow dashes out into the London streets, frantically hails a cab, rushes through the train station and right into an abandoned car. Three days later, to his surprise, he's still in London...This droll character portrait will quickly have listeners chiming in on the chorus." Written by Samuel Marshak; illustrated by Marc Rosenthal; translated by Richard Pevear. SIGNED BY ROSENTHAL on the title page with an original illustration of the main character; additionally, the designer of the book, Eileen Rosenthal, has signed and inscribed the book. Unpaginated [32 pages]; color illustrations throughout; 9.25… Read More