Farmyard Book
A picture book, with a farm-animal theme, printed in seven colors on cloth. This is Dean's Rag Book no. 282. 8 pages. 6 by 8-1/2 inches. Light staining to cloth pages.
Price: $30
A picture book, with a farm-animal theme, printed in seven colors on cloth. This is Dean's Rag Book no. 282. 8 pages. 6 by 8-1/2 inches. Light staining to cloth pages.
Price: $30
First Edition. An illustrated picture book about an astronaut and Lulu, the strange creature that returns with him from the moon. First edition (stated). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by Agee, "To Ellen, John Agee, 1996" with a small sketch of Lulu.
Price: $40
First Edition. One of a series of groundbreaking Chicano Movement children's picture books, written and illustrated by some of the most important Chicano activist writers and artists. The author was Alurista, the main illustrator was one of the original activist-artists of Chicano Park in San Diego, Victor Orozco Ochoa, along.....
Price: $200
First Edition. One of a series of groundbreaking Chicano Movement children's picture books, written and illustrated by some of the most important Chicano activist writers and artists. The author was Alurista, the main illustrator was one of the original activist-artists of Chicano Park in San Diego, Victor Orozco Ochoa. The.....
Price: $250
First Edition. One of a series of groundbreaking Chicano Movement children's picture books, written and illustrated by some of the most important Chicano activist writers and artists. The author was Alurista, the main illustrator was one of the original activist-artists of Chicano Park in San Diego, Victor Orozco Ochoa. The.....
Price: $250
10 pages. 8-1/4 by 6-1/4 inches (oblong). One of 100 copies. Colección Clásicos. Introduction by Teresita Burgos. This is one of several works in translation published by Vigía in 1989. Those books were reprinted with new designs in the 1990s; the original editions are scarce. The text is mimeographed on.....
Price: $250
First Edition. A children's picture-book about the late, great tennis player and his six-year-old daughter, written by his wife. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs showing their father-daughter relationship. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This copy is inscribed on.....
Price: $85
A half-page typed letter addressed "Dear Robert" and signed "Wilbert Awdry" discussing Awdry's research in the archives of the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway ("B'ham & Glos. Rly"). "The Birmingham (Working) Committee Minutes are fascinating, full of almost day to day incidents in the running of the railway, and plenty about.....
Price: $400
First Edition. A picture book about a queen, a prince, and their dog. First edition (stated). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket; ISBN sticker on the back panel. Signed by Babbitt on the title page.
Price: $50
First British edition. A survey of the paintings by the author and artist behind the Madeline series of children's picture books. This volume includes 34 color plates and reproductions of 28 works in black and white. The first 64 pages are an illustrated memoir of Bemelmans life and art. 64.....
Price: $500
A charming original painting by the author and artist of the Madeline books. The scene shows a farmhouse, a barn, and a field being plowed with a tractor. SIZE: 7-7/8 inches square. MEDIUM: Gouache, watercolor, or both on paper. Signed "Bemelmans" in pencil at the lower right. Very good to.....
Price: $2,500
First Edition. Includes Bradbury's 1967 screenplay, a draft of the novel from 1971, the final version with a tally of changes made from the galley proofs, a teleplay, and companion materials. Certainly the definitive version. This lettered version includes content not found in the regular version, including several previously unpublished.....
Price: $1,250
First Edition. The "2004 Catalogue of the Piddleton Dog Pound's Very Available Leftovers," a picture book by the author of the Bloom County cartoon strip. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine hardcover copy; not issued in a dust jacket. Signed by Breathed on the.....
Price: $125
First Edition. A newly illustrated edition of this picture-book story. First edition with these illustrations (first printing, with numberline ending in 1). Front free endpaper a bit wavy, else a fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by both illustrators on the title page. Goodnight Moon sticker on the.....
Price: $75
First Edition. A full-color picture book. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the illustrator, "To Alison, love Jan Brett" and then signed by Eve Bunting, who adds the date, 1991. Uncommon signed.
Price: $85
Nice examples of the small-format stories published by Spanish children's book specialist Saturnino Calleja's "Recreo Infantil: Cuentos morales para niños" series. These child-size books, each 16 pages, measure (roughly) 2-7/8 by 4 inches, with a chromolithograph cover and one or more steel engravings inside. Calleja had a staff of writers.....
Price: $250
First Edition. A picture book about a farm during a snowstorm, with acetate overlays for the illustrations, showing what the various animals look like buried in the snow. The farmer in the story is modeled after the author's neighbor, the wood engraver and book artist Barry Moser. This book also.....
Price: $150
First Edition. A picture book with many fold-out pages. First edition (first printing, with no additional printings noted). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Inscribed by Carle "For Alec" with a drawing of a moon. One of the fold-out pages has a two-inch tear; a couple.....
Price: $200
One of the most beloved of children's picture books, Tenth printing of the revised (1987) edition. A fine copy (one corner bumped) in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Carle in ball-point pen on the title page.
Price: $300
First edition. Cisneros' first children's book, illustrated by Terry Ybáñez, First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1 on the last page). A fine copy in a near fine, slightly bumped dust jacket. Signed by Cisneros on the title page.
Price: $40
First edition. Cisneros' first children's book, illustrated by Terry Ybáñez, First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1 on the last page). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. A seldom seen copy signed by both Cisneros and Ybáñez, in this case, with nice inscriptions by both.....
Price: $100
First edition. Cisneros' first children's book, illustrated by Terry Ybáñez, First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1 on the last page). A fine copy in a near fine, slightly bumped dust jacket. Signed by Cisneros on the title page.
Price: $40
Seuss's second book for children, first published in 1938. This is a 1960s vintage copy, in a dust jacket priced at $2.95 (the book was mentioned in the Idaho State Journal on 1 December 1967 with that price). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket with wear.....
Price: $100
First Edition. A small format picture book about the popular 1960s fashion model, Peggy Moffitt. 32 pages. 6-1/4 by 8-1/4 inches. First edition (no statement of later printings; date code 0468 and $2.95 price on front jacket flap). A near fine copy in a very good toned dust jacket with.....
Price: $400
First Edition. A picture-book retelling of the Grimm fairy tale. First edition (first printing, with no statement of later printings). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. With a publisher's bookplate signed by both authors affixed to the copyright page (opposite the title page).
Price: $75