Search Results: Children's & Illustrated from Knickerbocker Books

Random House Inc., 1937. 1937 First Edition with 1937 printed on title page. VERY GOOD in VERY GOOD- price intact dust jacket. A clean, unmarked and firmly bound copy. Superbly illustrated, including black and white line art as well as several full page color plates, and color cover art by Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge. Light marginal toning and a few scattered small spottings to pages, otherwise pages are fine. Endpapers clean and unmarked but toned along hinges. Bound in hardcover of cloth printed with color illustration wrapping across full front and back, spine titled in gilt within dark green panel. Cover has light edge rubbing but is clean, bright and colorful. Unclipped jacket, printed in art matching cover, is clean with $3.50 price intact on front flap. The jacket is uncommon in any condition; this is clean and colorful though very edgeworn with several shallow chips and tears, most heavily worn at spine ends and flap corners. Jacket is in a new clear protector. Binding is firm; hinges intact, spine… Read More

New York: Morrow Junior Books, 1991 Morrow. 1991. First Edition, First Printing with "1" in printing line. Beautifully illustrated in color by the Russian-born illustrator Robert Rayevsky. NEAR FINE in NEAR FINE, unclipped dust jacket. No writing or other markings - pages clean and fresh. Tightly bound in hardcover or printed paper over boards - design matching the dust jacket. Jacket is intact and clean - slight rubbing to top corners but no tears, chips or creases. 8-1/4 x 11-1/2"; 40 pages. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Rayevsky, Robert . 4to.

Irvington-on-Hudson, NY: Harvey House, Inc., 1971 NEAR FINE in VERY GOOD jacket. A fresh, totally unmarked and tightly bound hardcover. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering is bright and clean. Beautifully illustrated dust jacket is clean and unclipped, lightly rubbed at edges and along rear hinge but no tears or chips. Binding tight and square. Clearly written for pre-teen audience (and older) and well-illustrated with black and white diagrams and photos. 7 x 9-1/4"; 95 pages numbered pages (including endpapers).. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Barry, James E.. Large 8vo.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1910. 1910 First Edition. Stated "Published, May, 1910." NEAR FINE. Complete with 4 color plates by Harrison Fisher. Page border decorations by Theodore B. Hapgood. A clean, bright, well bound copy. Gift inscription neatly inscribed on half-title page. Pages, top edge gilt are near fine. Two leaves toned from old newsprint clipping (clipping now removed) - all else fine. Bound in violet cloth with white titling and decorative pearl gray and blind stamping front and spine. Overall the cover is bright and clean though spine is slightly darkened and the spine stamping rubbed. Cover edges lightly rubbed; a few small 'bubbles' to cloth along front top edge. Binding very good, hinges intact, all pages secure. No jacket. 5-1/4 x 7-3/4"; 121 text pages.. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Fisher, Harrison. 8vo - ~6 x 9.

Chicago: Rand McNally & Co., 1934 A superlative copy of the 1934 printing of the illustrated edition first published by Rand in 1919. 42 poems and more than 40 charming black and white illustrations. A classic many will fondly recall from their childhoods. This a clean, unmarked copy - pages very crisp, cover colorful and clean, binding tight. A triangle has been cut from lower corner of front pasted endpaper and cover is rubbed at spine ends. Otherwise a fine copy. 5-1/2 x 6-3/4"; 64 pages.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Hallock, Ruth Mary. 16mo.

New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1901 VERY GOOD. Hardcover. 1901 reissue by McClure, Phillips & Co. of the work originally published in the September 1828 issue of "Blackwood." Published in a Limited Edition of 2500 copies, with black and white vignette sketches by Alex McLellan as well as 8 full-page prints hand-colored by McLellan. A "delightful chronicle of sporting life and exquisite idyll of natural boyhood." A clean, totally unmarked copy. Pages and tissue-guarded color prints or plates (mounted onto pages) are fine. Bound in hardcover of pebbled gray paper over boards with tan cloth spine, gilt lettering and decoration on spine, black titling on front. Cover lightly rubbed and toned at edges, a few soil spottings to back cover but overall in very good condition. 5-1/2 x 8-1/4"; xix + 133 text pages plus color plates. First Limited Edition. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by McLellan, Alex M. . 8vo.

London: John C. Nimmo, 1890 No. 151 of 780 Limited Edition, hand-numbered. English transl. by George Saintsbury. 110 wood engravings from Toudouze drawings. Bound in rust cloth over beveled board with decorative gilt stamping on front, gilt decoration and lettering on spine. Printed brown endpapers. TEG. This a clean, pretty copy. Tasteful bookplate of Arthur K. Brewer on front pasted end, and small bookseller label on rear end, no other markings. Text pages crsip and fine. Cover clean and bright, rubbed along hinges and edges, spine ends with short tears and minor fraying, corner bumped with board showing. Binding is moderately cocked but hinges are intact, no splits or cracks to spine, all pages are secure. 7-1/2 x 11"; [xvi] + 309pp and printer's colophon page at end.. Numbered Limited Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Toudouze, Edouard. 4to.

New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1988 1988 Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Color illustrations by Maurice Sendak throughout. STATED First Edition. A NEAR FINE, fresh tightly bound copy in Near Fine, unclipped dust jacket. No makings of any kind, pages crisp and clean and in new condition. Bound in light gray-green cloth hardcover with blind embossing on front, gilt lettering on spine. Slight color fade to bottom edge of cover, otherwise fresh and unworn. Dust jacket is clean and complete with faint edgewear and few light markings to back panel near corners. Jacket is in clear archival protector. Binding tight and intact, boards straight. 10 x 9-1/4"; 10 x 9-1/4" (oblong); 40 pages.. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Sendak, Maurice. Small 4to.

Berlin and Leipzig: Franz Schneider Verlag, 1926 Copyright 1926. A scarce Reinheimer title. 4 color plates & charming B/W chapter head illustrations by Erich Schuss. 1926 inscription neatly penned on FFEP and owner name penned on front pasted end. A few scattered light spottings but otherwise text clean and nice. Cover of pictorial paper over boards with blue cloth spine strip is moderately foxed with toning toward edges. Binding is good: front hinge started but still holding, rear hinge fine; no splits or breaks. No dust jacket. (In German) 6 x 8". 137 pages. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good +/No Jacket. 8vo.

New York, London and Berlin: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2005 2005, Bloomsbury Publishing. Stated First Edition, First Printing. SIGNED by AUTHOR on title page and dated "9/29/05". FINE in FINE, unclipped, dust jacket. A tightly bound copy in New condition. Jacket is in a clear protector. 5-1/2 x7-1/2"; 437 pp. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 12mo.

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1927 George H. Doran Company, Copyright 1927. Doran logos on title and copyright pages. A retelling of the epic tale of Gessar-Khan, the legendary hero with magic powers sent by Buddha to restore peace to Asia. With 40 two-color woodcut illustrations,17 full-page, by Theodore Nadejen. NEAR FINE in G++ Dust Jacket. Book is clean and totally unmarked. Page edges lightly spotted, otherwise pages are pristine. Bound in bright orange cloth hardcover with red stamping on front and spine, and with brightly printed colorful endpapers. The cover has some shelf rubbing, but is remarkably bright and clean. Colorful printed endpapers. Scarce dust jacket present, clean and bright: 2-inch chip from the top left of front panel. Back of jacket lightly rubbed. Top of front flap unclipped with two early bookseller markings (pencil mark and rubber stamp), bottom of the front flap clipped. The jacket is now in a clear protector. Binding is Very Good, all pages secure and intact, and… Read More

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1919 Copyright 1919, Frederick A. Stokes; no printing stated, presumed First Ed. Near Fine. Clean, totally unmarked and well-bound copy. Hardcover of green cloth with a color printed pastedown and gold lettering on the spine. Top of page edges slightly dusty, but pages are otherwise fine. Cover lightly rubbed at corners and spine ends and there is a light spot to the spine; the pastedown has a few faint scratches but is near fine. Binding is very good with hinges intact, no breaks or splits; boards and spine straight. The story of a valiant little canary and other pets belonging to a warm family of animal lovers. Dedicated to Saunders' fellow members of the Toronto Humane Society. 5 x 7 1/2" xi + 280 text pages. Color frontis plate with tissue guard.. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo.

Minneapolis, MN: Fairview Press, 1996. Stated First Printing, October 1996, with '1' in printing line. BOLDLY INSCRIBED by KEESHAN in blue felt tip on half title page: "To Ruth - Love - + Happy Birthday! Captain Kangaroo, B J Keeshan. 10-03-96." NEAR FINE. A clean, otherwise unmarked, and tightly bound soft cover. Pages clean and fine & firmly bound in clean, color pictorial paper cover with folded flaps. Cover is clean with price intact; slightly shelf rubbed but no tears, chips or creases. Binding secure, no creasing to spine, no splits. A fascinating autobiography of Captain Kangaroo, with his Treasure House friends (yes, Mr. Green Jeans, Mr. Moose, Bunny Rabbit, Grandfather Clock, Dancing Bear, and of course Tom Terrific and Wonder Dog, Mighty Manfred, and many others). Generously illustrated with black and white photos. 9 x 12"; 208 pages. Signed by Author. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 4to.

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Warner Books Inc, 2002 Warner Books. Stated First Warner Printing, October 2002 and with "1" in printing line. Introduction by Mike Wallace; Foreword by Allida M. Black and with contribution by HRH Princess Margaret of the Netherlands. Illustrated. For pre-teen/teen readers to adult. FINE in FINE, unclipped dust jacket. A clean, crisp, tightly bound "As new" hardcover: totally unmarked; no tears, creases, chips. Wonderful vintage photos throughout. 8-1/2 x 10"; xii plus 244 pages. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to.

New York: Philomel Books, 2006 2006 Philomel Books, STATED First Edition and with "1" in printing line. A FINE, fresh, unmarked copy in FINE, unclipped, dust jacket. ARC with publisher's slip laid in. Tightly bound in hardcover reinforced binding of printed paper over boards. In New condition. Hanne is the littlest and quietest hen in the henhouse, but is she the one that will save their home? A beautiful and brilliantly illustrated tale for young readers. 9-1/4 x 8-1/2" (oblong); 96 pages,. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Dunrea, Olivier. Small 4to. Advanced Reading Copy (ARC).

San Francisco: Determined Productions, Inc., 1966 Copyright 1966, United Feature Syndicate. Published by Determined Productions. First Edition; printing unstated - early, possibly first. NEAR FINE copy in Very Good Dust Jacket- completely unmarked, clean, no tears or chips to text. Cover of preprinted paper over boards lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners with some white showthru, otherwise clean and unworn. Dust Jacket is clean and complete; lightly rubbed and with crease on top of back panel. Gimbel's store price sticker on front flap. There is no United Feature Syndicate slug at bottom of front flap. Jacket is in a clear archival protector. Binding solid and square. 5-1/2 x 5-3/4"; 64 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 16mo.

Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 2005 2005 Candlewick Press. Stated First Edition, First Printing. An exuberantly illustrated verse - for young readers to adult. Jerry Hannah wrote and illustrated the scene at the Body and Soul Cafe - a night of A-1 night featuring some greatest names in jazz. The Dust jacket unfolds to become a large color poster. A pristine copy in New, unused, condition. 10 x 12"; 40 pages.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1925 1925 First Edition (1925 printed on title page). VERY GOOD+. A clean, totally unmarked, firmly bound copy. Striking line illustrations by Merwin. Text pages and endpapers are fine. Black cloth cover with gilt lettering on front board and spine has some light spotting but is overall very good: clean, gilt bright and minimal edgewear (rubbing to crown of spine and to lower front corner). Binding very good with hinges intact, no loose pages. Printed endpapers. No dust jacket. 5 x 7-1/2"; 210 pp.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/No Jacket. Illus. by Merwin, Decie. 8vo.

New York: Yorkville Press , 2003 Yorkville Press. 2003 First Printing with "1" in printing line. A Meditation in both words and beautiful color photographs on the special relationship between man and man's best friend. SIGNED on title page by Brother Christopher for the Monks of New Skete. FINE copy in FINE unclipped dust jacket. Copy is in "as new" pristine, condition. A special and very collectible copy! 8-3/4 x 8-3/4"; 80 pages.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Sann, John; Stauder, Monique (Photographers). Small 4to.

New York: Abbeville Press, Inc., 1984 "A POP-UP GUIDE to the wondrous world of personal computers" - at the time when the PC was in its infancy. With 6 pages of pop-ups as well as pull-tabs and spinning dials, all in very good, working condition. A clean, bright copy that appears to have been very lightly used. Boards covered in printed paper with film lamination. Laminate lightly rubbed, spine ends slightly bumped otherwise the cover is fine. 12-1/4 x 9-1/4".. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket.