Children's Illustrated
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The Wind In the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame
The Wind in the Willows is a classic children's book by Kenneth Grahame, published in 1908. The story follows the adventures of four animal friends - Mole, Rat, Badger, and Toad - as they explore the English countryside, battle against weasels and stoats, and learn about the value of friendship, loyalty, and the joys of a simple life. Through their adventures, the characters discover the importance of home and the pleasures of a peaceful existence. With its charming characters, vivid descriptions of...
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The Pied Piper Of Hamelin
by Robert Browning
Robert Browning (1812-1889) was born in Camberwell, London, the son of a clerk in the Bank of England. The strongest influence on his education were the books in his father's extensive library, particularly the writings of Byron and Shelley. His dramatic poem Paracelsus, published in 1835, established his reputation and brought him the friendship of the actor-manager William Macready. When Macready's eldest son Willie was ill in bed, Browning wrote for the boy's entertainment the poem of The Pied Piper,...
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When We Were Very Young
by A A Milne
This collection of poetry by A. A. Milne and illustrated by E. H. Shepard has been delighting children and adults alike since being published in 1924. While dated, most of the simple, humorous poems remain magical and relevant to today's children.The book begins with an introduction entitled "Just Before We Begin," which introduces a narrator that might be Christopher Robin. Winnie the Pooh is included in the poem, "Teddy Bear," which originally appeared in Punch magazine in February 1924.
Snow Goose
by Paul Gallico
Paul Gallico was born in New York in 1892. He became a minor celebrity as a sports writer and then began writing short stories for magazines. Gallico went on to write many more short stories and novels, including The Poseidon Adventure in 1969. He died in 1976.
We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea
by Arthur Ransome
ARTHUR RANSOME was born in Leeds in 1884. He had an adventurous life -- as a baby he was carried by his father to the top of the Old Man of Coniston, a peak that is 2,276 ft high! He went to Russia in 1913 to study folklore and in 1914, at the start of World War I he became a foreign correspondent for the Daily News. In 1917 when the Russian Revolution began he became a journalist and was a special correspondent of the Guardian. He played chess with Lenin and married Trotsky's personal secretary, Evgenia...
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The Snowman
by Raymond Briggs
Raymond Briggs was born in London in 1934. At the age of 15, he went to Wimbeldon Art School to learn how to draw, as he wanted to become a cartoonist. But there he was told that cartooning was not a profession for gentlemen and that he ought to be a painter. Raymond then went on to the Slade School in London to study painting as a full-time student. During his spare time, he began work on a portfolio of illustrations of all kinds, including jackets...
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The Adventures Of Tom Bombadil
by J R R Tolkien
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil is a collection of poetry written by J. R. R. Tolkien and published in 1962. The book contains 16 poems, only two of which deal with Tom Bombadil, a character who is most famous for his encounter with Frodo Baggins in The Fellowship of the Ring (the first volume in Tolkien's best-selling The Lord of the Rings). The rest of the poems are an assortment of bestiary verse and fairy tale rhyme. Two of the poems appear in The Lord of the Rings as well.
Children's Illustrated Books & Ephemera
Rags M. D.
by Lewis Dutton
Frederick Warne & Co. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Edgar Northfield. Rare Undated Limited Edition 546/950, printed in Great Britain by w & j Mackay & co LTD., Chatham.
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$175.00
Sale 29/30 November 1989: Illustrated and Private Press Books, Children's Books and Juvenilia, The Performing Arts, Related Drawings.
by SOTHEBY'S - LONDON
Book. Good. Binding see description. 480 nos. 167pp. Richly illus. in b/w. Wrs. 0.
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€25.00
The Aesop for Children
With pictures by Milo Winter. 112 pp. 31x25 cm. Rand McNally & Co., Chicago, 1928.
--- Cloth-bound (publishers cloth), gilt lettering on spine. Wear to extremities. Pictorial front cover. Previous owners name written on first blank page. Illustrated endpapers. The book is richly illustrated (colour illustrations, full-page and in the text). Pages britght and clean. Unmarked.
--- Cloth-bound (publishers cloth), gilt lettering on spine. Wear to extremities. Pictorial front cover. Previous owners name written on first blank page. Illustrated endpapers. The book is richly illustrated (colour illustrations, full-page and in the text). Pages britght and clean. Unmarked.
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€105.00
Little Black Sambo
by Bannerman, Helen
New York: Platt and Munk, 1972. reprint . Hardcover. Good/Good. Unpaginated. Hardcover. Edited by Watty Piper. Color illustrations by Eulalie. Dust jacket with edgewear, small tears, light soiling. Hinge lightly cracked. Record # 511020
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$28.00
The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
by Brothers Grimm
[RACKHAM, Arthur]. The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Translated by Mrs. Edgar Lucas. London: Constable & Company, 1909. 4to, xvi 326pp. Velum pictorially stamped in gilt; t.e.g. 40 mounted color plates with tissue guards and numerous b&w illustrations. Spine lightly sunned, light rubbing to covers, silk ties missing, plate at frontispiece bearing small crease at lower right corner, else a remarkably bright, tight copy in custom-made slipcase (a bit worn). Signed by the...
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$6500.00
George Cruikshank's Fairy Library
by George Cruikshank
CRUIKSHANK, George. George Cruikshank's Fairy Library. Puss in Boots. Hop O' My Thumb. Jack & the Bean-stalk. Cinderella. London: Routledge, Warne, & Routledge (ca. 1864). 8vo, [143]pp: Title followed by 4 separately paginated volumes bound together: Puss in Boots 40pp; Hop O' My Thumb [iv] 30pp; Jack & the Beanstalk [ii] 32pp; Cinderella; [ii] 31pp. Red cloth pictorially stamped in gilt and blind. Cream endpapers; 24 b&w plates. Corners and spine ends lightly rubbed, two small indentations on foredge of...
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$4500.00
Bingleman's Midway (SIGNED BY MOSER)
by Ackerman, Karen/Barry Moser
Honesdale: Boyds Mills Press, 1995. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Barry Moser. SIGNED. 31 pages. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR BARRY MOSER ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations. Clean, bright copy. Record # 612195
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$30.00
The Marvelous Land of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
BAUM, L[yman] Frank. The Marvelous Land of Oz. Pictured by John R. Neill. The end-papers from life poses by the famous comedians, Montgomery and Stone. Chicago: Reilly & Britton, 1904. 8vo, 287pp. Dark red cloth pictorially stamped in dark navy blue, silver and green. Pictorial endpapers; 16 full-color plates and 118 b&w illustrations. A remarkably clean, tight copy, with spine ends and corners lightly rubbed, faint damp-staining to rear board, front hinge starting, a few pages soiled in margins.
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$2750.00
THE MONSTER RUPERT PICTURE & STORY BOOK WITH COLOUR CUT-OUTS
by -----
LONDON: SAMPSON LOW MARSTON & CO, 1950 Illustrated paper covered boards with red cloth quarter binding, 255 x 190 mm approx. Un paginated and undated but [1950] dated by reference to Russell - Tartarus Press. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Good (Shelf wear to paper covered boards, Ink gift insc. to top margin "this book belongs to" page with such completed in a child's hand with copying of wording to same and illustrations to...
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£12.00
Macy's on Parade!: A Pop-Up Book for Children of All Ages
by Pease, Pamela
Chapel Hill NC: Paintbox Press, 2002. 1st. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover with a dust jacket, Matte Pictorial Boards with Black Cloth Backstrip, 14 pages, 7 large pop-up, parade map, bag of confetti, all in excellent condition, no tears or creases; binding is tight; corners are square; hint of edge wear. Record # 353621
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$30.00
The Boy's King Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's History of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table (Scribner's Illustrated Classics)
by Lanier, Sidney (Ed); Wyeth, N. C. (Illustrator)
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1989. Reprint . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Wyeth, N. C.. One of a lovely series of classic books for young readers illustrated by famous artists of the day, this one by N. C. Wyeth. Orig. published in this format in 1917, with the copyright renewed by Wyeth & the Lanier family in 1945; this edition is from 1989, with full number line indicating a First Printing. It is a hardcover with soft blue cloth-covered boards & gilt lettering...
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$20.00
Crazy Bear
by McNaughton, Colin
NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1983. 1st US. Softcover. Very Good/None. Colin McNaughton. Color illustrations by McNaughton. Four graphically illustrated stories:"Cowboy Crazy", "Snow Crazy", "Pirate Crazy" and "Rock and Roll Crazy". Red laminated cardboard covers, no dust jacket issued. Record # 502535
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$12.00
Young Ranchers at Oak Valley
by Nixon, Lucille M
Menlo Park CA: Lane Book Co.,, 1960. 1st. Hardcover. Good/Good. Hardcover. 64 pages. Contains black & white photography by Martin Litton and Frances Coleberd. A Sunset Junior Book. Tim and Maria Black live at Oak Valley Ranch, where their days pass in a gay mixture of fun and work. They go on hayrides, search for wildflowers, and at one point in the story Maria gets lost! Buck, a blacksmith, comes to work at Oak Valley. Buck discovers there is a great deal to learn from the children about the ranch. In...
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$12.00
Snow Fun (Wind in the Willows square format)
by Grahame, Kenneth
Paperback. Very Good.
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£2.28
Boris's Glasses
by Peter Cohen , Olof Landstrom
NY: R & S Books, 2003. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. One evening when Boris is watching television, he notices that the picture looks blurry. The repairman who comes over tells him that the problem is not the television but, rather, Boris's eyesight. A trip to the eye doctor confirms the diagnosis – Boris is an astigmatic. How important this sounds! When he gets his glasses, a whole new world unveils itself to him. Boris decides to get a job with his "talent"...
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$12.00
Silver From the Sea
by Tooze/Kurt Wiese, Ruth
New York: Viking Press, 1962. 1st. Very Good/Very Good. Kurt Wiese. Hardbound, 40 pages. Color illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Rubbing to dust jacket. Small stain on back cover. Record # 500868
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$25.00
Every Friday
by Yaccarino, Dan
NY: Henry Holt and Co., 2007. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Dan Yaccarino. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, color illustrations by Yaccarino. All week long, a boy and his father look forward to their Friday ritual―breakfast at their favorite diner. The leisurely walk through the neighborhood is just as good as the pancakes at the end. Record # 351822
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$20.00
The Cat in the Hat
by Dr. Seuss
SEUSS, Dr. The Cat in the Hat. [NY]: Random House [1957]. 8vo, [ii] 62pp. Color pictorial boards. Color pictorial endpapers; color illustrations on every page. Minute wear to spine ends and corners, slight foxing to interior edges of boards, hinges mended, else a clean, bright copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (light wear to corners and edges, minute scratching to front and some light soiling to rear).
First edition, first state (Younger/Hirsch #7). Challenged by Josh Hersey to create a basic... Read more about this item
First edition, first state (Younger/Hirsch #7). Challenged by Josh Hersey to create a basic... Read more about this item
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$5500.00
Science Model Making
by Hopwood, Robert R
Hopwood, Robert R: Science Model Making. PHYSICS. MODEL-MAKING. Macmillan First American Edition, 1963. EXLIB. Good Condition/ Good- Rare Original Dust Jacket.
Front flap states $4.95 original price. No other printings listed. Written by physics master Robert R. Hopwood. These projects are Illustrated with over 100 diagrams on: Astronomical telescope/One transistor radio receiver/ microscope/ steam turbine/ pocket sundial/ electric motor. "Science Model Making is a complete guide to the construction of... Read more about this item
Front flap states $4.95 original price. No other printings listed. Written by physics master Robert R. Hopwood. These projects are Illustrated with over 100 diagrams on: Astronomical telescope/One transistor radio receiver/ microscope/ steam turbine/ pocket sundial/ electric motor. "Science Model Making is a complete guide to the construction of... Read more about this item
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$350.00
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
by Roald Dahl
DAHL, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Illustrated by Joseph Schindelman. NY: Alfred A. Knopf [1964]. 8vo, [xii] 164pp. Red cloth with spine stamped in gold and front cover in blind; top edge red. Mustard endpapers; b&w illustrations throughout. Slightest wear to corners and spine ends, else a remarkably fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (some minor wear along top and bottom edges). With a bookplate signed by the author, Roald Dahl, laid-in.
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$6000.00
Favorite Nursery Rhymes from Mother Goose (SIGNED COPY)
by Gustafson, Scott
Seymour: Greenwich Workshop Press, 2007. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Scott Gustafson. SIGNED. Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 100 pages. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR SCOTT GUSTAFSON ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations. Clean, bright copy. Record # 610514
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$30.00
The Emerald City of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
BAUM, L[yman] Frank. The Emerald City of Oz. Illustrated by John R. Neill. Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co [1910]. 8vo, 296pp. Dark blue cloth with spine pictorially stamped in silver and black and color pictorial label affixed to front. Two-color pictorial endpapers; 16 full-color plates and numerous b&w illustrations. Spine ends lightly rubbed, lower corners a bit rubbed, with front corner lightly bumped (with some resulting light damage to lower corner of label), else a clean, tight copy with all...
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$2500.00
Needle in the Haystack, The
by Matheson, John
New York: William Morrow, 1930. 1st. Hardcover. Good/None. Parin d'Aulaire. 189 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Heavy fraying to cover boards and gutter fragile throughout. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf and one page. Record # 368211
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$36.00
ZUCCHINI
by Barbara Dana
New York: Harper & Row, 1982. ZUCCHINI- Barbara Dana- Illustrated by Eileen Christelow- Harper & Row- New York- 1982- 1st Edition-1st Printing- Stated- Signed dedication by author to author Mordecai Richler- "For Mordecai (Richler) with admiration and best wishes, Barbara."- Hardcover:-8vo-FINE/VG++-Near Fine dj is unclipped at $10.50- clipped at bottom to denote examination copy or gift copy.-light rubbing and shallow nicks- but bright and clean in mylar- b&w illustrations by...
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$249.95
Dawn (SIGNED COPY)
by Bang, Molly
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1985. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Non-paginated. Hardcover with price clipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MOLLY BANG on title page. Dust jacket shows light wear with sticker on top right corner. Tight copy. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Record # 368270
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$20.00
