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MISSISSIPPI MUD: Three Prairie Journals.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Poems reflecting the points of view of three pioneer children describing their family's journey from Kentucky to Oregon" in a covered wagon. Illustrated in full color by Robert J. Blake. Large format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-06-024433X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 57570More details Price: $17.50 -
SHAKER HEARTS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The Shaker way of life - "Hands to work, hearts to God" - is here shown through Turner's poetic text and Wendell Minor's beautiful paintings. ISBN: 0-06-025369X.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (a little bleeding from the bottom of the cloth spine to the interior of the dj.)
Book ID: 52655More details Price: $15.00 -
WALKING TO SCHOOL
Edition: First American edition.
New York: Orchard Books, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - A little boy sets off to school alone for the first time: "Now that I am five, my father says/ (and what he says you've got to mind)/ That mother's not to hold my hand, /or even follow me behind." A charming poem by this Australian writer written when her son turned 5, and illustrated with crayon and watercolor paintings by Peter Gouldthorpe. ISBN: 0-531-057992.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dustjacket (closed tear.)
Book ID: 8250More details Price: $20.00 -
WALKING TO SCHOOL
Edition: First American edition.
New York: Orchard Books, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - A little boy sets off to school alone for the first time: "Now that I am five, my father says/ (and what he says you've got to mind)/ That mother's not to hold my hand, /or even follow me behind." A charming poem by this Australian writer written when her son turned 5, and illustrated with crayon and watercolor paintings by Peter Gouldthorpe. ISBN: 0-531-057992.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped)
Book ID: 20295More details Price: $24.00 -
PAUL BUNYAN, THE WORK GIANT.
Edition: Early printing.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated boards (previous owner's name) in a very good dust jacket with some toning, especially to the spine and front flap, and a few small chips to the edges. Laid in ephemera is fine.
Book ID: 85573More details Price: $30.00 -
FLAXEN BRAIDS: A Chapter from a Real Swedish Childhood.
Edition: First thus.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, (1959.) dj. Hardcover - Originally published in 1937, this charming story about a family moving to northern Sweden was based on the childhood experiences of the author's mother. Written for older children, this is a revised version with new illustrations by Polly Jackson. 197 pp.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (some toning to the spine of the dj.) Uncommon in this condition.
Book ID: 49641More details Price: $18.00 -
ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN: Retold for Boys and Girls.
Edition: First thus.
Springfield, Massachusetts: McLoughlin Brothers, Inc. (1940.). Hardcover first edition - A title in the 'Little Big Classics' series. Illustrated by A. Rusk. Small format - 17cm tall by 13 cm. 92 pp.
Condition: Good overall in illustrated boards (remnants of prev owner's name on back cover, spine starting to tear, usual toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 80312More details Price: $15.00 -
JIM BAKER'S BLUEJAY YARN
Edition: First printing.
New York: Orion Press, 1963. Hardcover first edition - Uncommon first separate printing of this story from "A Tramp Abroad." A story arising from Twain's stay in Calaveras County among the gold rush miners, Jim Baker was a "middle-aged, simple hearted miner who had lived in a lonely corner of California among the woods and mountains a good many years, and had studied the ways of his only neighbors, thebeasts and the birds, until he believed he could accurately translate any remark which they made."
Condition: NF/VG (pc.)
Book ID: 7757More details Price: $35.00 -
POOR LITTLE STEPHEN GIRARD.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Schocken, 1981. dj. Hardcover first edition - A rather sardonic, and wonderfully illustrated short story from Twain about two little boys, and their varying fates. Winner of the 1979 Bologna Graphic Prize for the best illustrated book of the year. ISBN: 0-8052-37844.
Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket. (some general edgewear.)
Book ID: 18813More details Price: $20.00 -
MAKOTO, THE SMALLEST BOY
Edition: First printing.
New York: Crowell, 1970. dj. Hardcover first edition - Story of an ordinary young Japanese boy and his search for something that he could be the best at, illustrated in black & white by Akihito Shirakawa. Set in Kyoto in modern Japan.
Condition: Ex-library with very few markings, overall tight and clean in a beautiful near fine dj (pc.)
Book ID: 11794More details Price: $15.00 -
THE HAPPIEST ENDING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atheneum, 1985. Hardcover first edition - Set in Oakland, California, in the 1930's, this is the story of 12 year old Rinko who decides it is up to her to stop an arranged marriage between a young girl from Japan and an older man. 111 pp. ISBN: 0-689-503261.
Condition: Very good in tan cloth with navy blue lettering, no dust jacket..
Book ID: 48394More details Price: $12.50 -
WALTER HAD A BEST FRIEND.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2022) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A perceptive story by this Caldecott-Honor award winning writer about friendships changing and ending - and finding new ones - written for very young children. Illustrated by Sergio Ruzzier. SIGNED on the title page by Underwood. Unpaginated. Large format. ISBN: 978-1534477001.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 88557More details Price: $28.50 -
THE WITCH'S HAND.
Edition: First US printing.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated boards in a fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81395More details Price: $20.00 -
WINGFIN AND TOPPLE.
Edition: First edition.
Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Co., (1962.). Hardcover first edition - The story of a fish who doesn't quite fit in - he is not sleek like the other herrings - illustrated in both black and white and in color by Clement Hurd, including some two page spreads. Large square format, unpaginated.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated boards.
Book ID: 55196More details Price: $17.50 -
GOOD DREAM, BAD DREAM / SUENO BUENO, SUENO MALO: The World's Heroes Save the Night!
Edition: First printing.
San Francisco: Immedium (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Los heroes del mundo salvan la noche! Bilingual Spanish/English book for young children colorfully illustrated on every page. SIGNED on the page facing the title page by author Serena Valentino. Oblong format, unpaginated. ISBN: 978-1597021036.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated boards in a fine dust jacket (as new)
Book ID: 63488More details Price: $21.50 -
THE GARDEN OF ABDUL GASAZI.
Edition: 14th printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1979.) dj. Hardcover - Van Allsburg's first picture book - winner of at least 8 awards, including being selected as a Caldecott Honor Book. Oblong format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-395-27804x.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a good dust jacket (label on spine, front flap "thinned" from being pasted down to endpapers.)
Book ID: 56688More details Price: $15.00 -
JUST A DREAM.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. dj. Hardcover - Ben, the litterbug, gets a glimpse of the future if people continue to ignore and damage the environment. Beautifully illustrated in full color. Large format. ISBN: 0-395-533082.
Condition: Near fine in a good only dust jacket (short tears with associated creasing and chipping to upper edge of dj, now protected by an archival cover).
Book ID: 57066More details Price: $13.50 -
QUEEN OF THE FALLS.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2010. dj. Hardcover first edition - The true story of Annie Edson Taylor (1838-1921), a plump grandmotherly woman of 63 who, hoping for fame and riches, decided to be the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, as told by this Caldecott award winning writer. She was not only the first one to do so - she remains the only woman to successfully do this alone. Illustrated by Van Allsburg in sepia toned drawings. Tall format, unpaginated. ISBN: 978-0547315812.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dust jacket (an unread copy but with a remainder line.)
Book ID: 68527More details Price: $18.50 -
JUST A DREAM.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Ben, the litterbug, gets a glimpse of the future if people continue to ignore and damage the environment. Beautifully illustrated in full color. Large format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-395-533082.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 77208More details Price: $25.00 -
THE WRETCHED STONE.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Excerpts from the log of the 'Rita Anne', Randall Ethan Hope, Captain. Another totally original, imaginative and beautiful book by Van Allsburg, illustrated with double page full-color paintings. ISBN: 0-395-533074.
Condition: SIGNED and dated on the title page. Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 23027More details Price: $75.00 -
THE WRETCHED STONE.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Excerpts from the log of the 'Rita Anne', Randall Ethan Hope, Captain. Another totally original, imaginative and beautiful book by Van Allsburg, illustrated with double page full-color paintings. ISBN: 0-395-53307-4.
Condition: SIGNED and dated on the title page. Fine in a very near fine dustjacket (price-clipped.)
Book ID: 23028More details Price: $65.00 -
THE STRANGER.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A beautifully told and illustrated story of the changing of the seasons. His second book to be illustrated in full-color. SIGNED and dated on the title page. Oblong format. ISBN: 0-395-423317.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dj. (prev owner's name and small blacked over spot on front endpaper, some rubbing and light edgewear to dj.)
Book ID: 23069More details Price: $95.00 -
THE WRETCHED STONE.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Excerpts from the log of the 'Rita Anne', Randall Ethan Hope, Captain. Another totally original, imaginative and beautiful book by Van Allsburg, illustrated with double page full-color paintings. A very special copy: this has a gift inscription dated Christmas 1991 from a little girl to her teacher 'the world's best teacher' and Van Allsburg also inscribed this to the teacher with the comment 'a wonderful teacher.' Van Allsburg's illustrations touch both children and adults - as this pair of inscriptions so vividly illustrate. ISBN: 0-395-53307-4.
Condition: INSCRIBED and dated in the year of publication on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dustjacket (price-clipped, inscription.)
Book ID: 27972More details Price: $55.00 -
JUST A DREAM.
Edition: Book club edition.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. dj. Hardcover - Ben, the litterbug, gets a glimpse of the future if people continue to ignore and damage the environment. Beautifully illustrated in full color. ISBN: 0-395-533082.
Condition: Near fine in very good- dust jacket. (edgewear to dj.)
Book ID: 35142More details Price: $12.50 -
BEN'S DREAM.
Edition: 5th printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982. dj. Hardcover - Early printing of Van Allsburg's third book: Lulled to sleep by the rain, when he is studying his geography book, Ben has a dream in which he and his home float by the great monuments of the world, half submerged under water. Illustrated with intricate black and white drawings - many pages are wordless to induce the reader to look more carefully at the pictures. Square format. 31 pp. ISBN: 0395-320844.
Condition: Fine in a very good dustjacket (short closed tear to dj.)
Book ID: 35709More details Price: $20.00 -
JUST A DREAM.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Ben, the litterbug, gets a glimpse of the future if people continue to ignore and damage the environment. Beautifully illustrated in full color. Large format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-395-533082.
Condition: Near fine in a good only dust jacket (short tears with associated creasing and chipping to upper edge of dj, now protected by an archival cover).
Book ID: 40451More details Price: $17.50 -
A CITY IN WINTER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A beautiful book, a modern fairytale, a sequel to the story told in Swan Lake, with text by Helprin, and illustrated with 13 stunning full-color paintings by Van Allsburg. ISBN: 0-670-86843-4.
Condition: INSCRIBED and dated by Van Allsburg on the half-title page. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 23024More details Price: $75.00 -
A CITY IN WINTER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A beautiful book, a modern fairytale, a sequel to the story told in Swan Lake, with text by Helprin, and illustrated with 13 stunning full-color paintings by Van Allsburg. ISBN: 0-670-86843-4.
Condition: SIGNED and dated by Van Allsburg on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket (a bit of bleeding to the interior of the dj, at the ends of the spine.).
Book ID: 36686More details Price: $75.00 -
THE VEIL OF SNOWS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third and final book in the collaboration between Helprin and Van Allsburg - a trilogy that began with 'Swan Lake' and continued with 'A City in Winter.' Illustrated with thirteen full color plates by Van Allsburg. 121 pp. ISBN: 0-670-874914.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dustjacket (closed tear along side of spine, some other edgewear to dj).
Book ID: 69775More details Price: $18.50 -
SWAN LAKE.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED by the illustrator Van Allsburg under the small drawing of a swan on the first page. The beautiful full page paintings by Van Allsburg complement the text by Mark Helprin in this beautiful new edition of a classic story, the first of several collaborations between Helprin and Van Allsburg. This book was hailed as a "remarkably enchanting production" and as an "elegant and beautiful"" book. Bound in deep navy blue cloth with silver lettering and a full color illustration pasted on the front cover. While a first printing, this has the dustjacket which was added later, at the request of bookstores. 80 pp. ISBN: 0-395-498589.
Condition: Near fine in a very near fine dustjacket (erasure on first page, otherwise fine.)
Book ID: 45701More details Price: $75.00