Childrens Books as Memorable Gifts

New York: Harper & Row, 1963. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition with the publisher's price and the correct first issue code on the front flap. Cloth and papercovered illustrated boards. A bit of foxing to the boards, near fine in a modestly toned, very good dustwrapper with a couple of faint splash marks. Nicely Inscribed by Sendak in 1966 with a small drawing of a dog.

Educational Publishing, 1892 HBNODJ, 1892, 1st Edition, VG-/GOOD, AS-IS, NOJACKET, SMALL Grey WITH BLUE TITLES & ILLUSTRATION ON FRONT of Various characters form tales, 6 1/4 X 7 1/2 in. INTERIOR nice tight clean , light Fox, scuffing on Occasion, Wear, & few pgs blank margin light small stains & tiny dogeared pg, 144 pgs. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1938. Hardcover. Good. First edition. 32mo. A well-worn, good only copy with rubbing small stains, edge wear to a few pages , and other general wear, lacking the dustwrapper. A worn copy of the author's first book.

Simon & Schuster. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1948. First Edition; Third Printing. Hardcover. 0307021343 . ; Cover has wear but is bright and overall in good+ condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Former owner's name neatly written at top of title page. Pages are clean and in very good+ condition. ; A Little Golden Book; 7.8 X 6.5 X 0.2 inches; 24 pages .

London: Methuen, 1928. First editions. Overall fine in near-fine jackets.. Complete set of first editions of the Pooh Books, all in original dust jackets, with WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG signed by Milne and Shepard. In 1933 Compton Mackenzie described the publication of the first Pooh Book, WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG as marking "an epoch as positively as any children's book has ever marked one. It is not extravagant to surmise that a distant posterity may find in that volume of children's verse a key with which to unlock the present more easily than with any contemporary novel, poem, or play" (quoted in Thwaite). The series is an evocative reflection of English childhood in the 1920s, yet transcends the time and place of its making for each new generation to discover - and fall for. As the first book in the series, WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG is the most difficult to find signed, making this an especially desirable set. 4 volumes, 7.5'' x 5'' each. Original blue, green, red and pink cloths. In original color… Read More

New York: Harper and Row Publishers, 1963. Pictorial boards. Very Good +. Maurice Sendak. A crisp, surprisingly well-preserved copy of the 1963 correct 1st edition, with the olive green/gray cloth spine, the Library of Congress # AND the 1963 copyright on the title page. Bright and VG+ to Near Fine in its Sendak-illustrated boards, with one small name and date at the front free endpaper. Otherwise, clean as could be and legitimatley approaching Near Fine to Fine. Oblong quarto, wonderfully illustrated throughout by the great maestro. Lacking the dustjacket.

(New York): Harper, 1963. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition in first issue dustwrapper. Near fine with some light wear and toning to the outer edges of the boards in about very good dustwrapper with toning, sticker shadow on the front flap and moderate edgewear including small chips and tears. A relatively nice copy of one of most popular and influential children's book of the 20th Century. Hanrahan. *Works of Maurice Sendak 1947-1994* A58.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1982. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof. Red wrappers. Illustrations by Quentin Blake. A crease on the rear wrapper else fine.

PATERSON, Katherine. Bridge to Terabithia. Illustrated by Donna Diamond. NY: Thomas Y Crowell [1977]. 8vo, [x] 131pp. Black cloth with spine stamped in silver, front cover stamped in blind. 8 full-page and 4 half-page half-tone illustrations. Spine ends and lower corners lightly rubbed; faint, tiny discoloration in midst of front free endpaper; else a fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (a fw tiny chips at spine ends, spine a tad sunned, medal affixed). With a bookplate signed by two-time Newbery Medalist Katherine Paterson laid in.
First edition. 1978 Newbery Medal Winner! This moving novel of two friends who create a magical kingdom for themselves to deal with the stresses in their lives has been beloved since its publication. The basis for a 1985 PBS TV movie and the 2007 Disney feature film starring Josh Hutcherson and written by the author's son, David Paterson (whose loss of a dear friend as a child inspired the book).

[New York]: Harper & Row, 1963. Near fine in very good plus jacket.. Lovely first edition of the subversive Caldecott-award winner, in the rare original first-issue dust jacket. After illustrating nearly 50 other books, WILD THINGS was Sendak's first full-color picture book with his own text and illustrations. He took full advantage of that control to push the boundaries of the children's picture book genre. The story of a boy who gets in a fight with his mother and lets out his pent up feelings in a fantastical Wild Rumpus, WILD THINGS focused on the complex inner experience of little Max, acknowledging the reality that children deal with anger, frustration, and fear just as adults do. For this reason, the book was initially not well received: before the rise of New Realism in children's literature, many critics felt children's books ought to model ideal behavior rather than accurately reflect children's emotional experiences. The book made a splash from the very beginning, as Sendak expected it… Read More

HBDJ, Has the letter 'A' on the last page just inside the spine. Pages are tanning , 1942 1ST EDITION, EARLY ISSUE, VG-/VG , . Hardcover WITH SCUFF RUB TO EDGES. . General use wear, surface and edges rubbed. Corners bumped and show wear. Pages show reader wear. Corners are bumped. Previous owner's name inside. Unmarked pages. Pages are tanning, Half navy cover (spine) with pictorial boards

New York, Evanston, and London: Harper & Row, 1964. First edition. Hardback. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed. 9" by 7". Shel Silverstein. A lovely first impression copy of Shel Silverstein's important and influential children's novel, illustrated by Silverstein throughout, in an early impression dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of this work, with the four line colophon to the copyright page. The dust wrapper is not the first issue dust wrapper, with the price $2.95 and not $2.50. Thus the dust wrapper is an early issue, possibly the second.In the original clipped dust wrapper, however the price is not clipped.'The Giving Tree' is a classic American children's fantasy picture book, following the relationship of an apple tree and a young boy who grows into adulthood.Though it was popular when published, this work also garnered a lot of controversy, with people debating whether the relationship between the boy and tree is positive or abusive. There are many different interpretations of the… Read More

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943. First Edition. Good. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's salmon cloth stamped in maroon, lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with light edge wear, bump to bottom corner, former owner Christmas gift inscription to front free endpaper and vertical crease to rear free endpaper. A rather nice copy.

New York: Random House. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1957. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. 0394800796 . Publisher's printed boards, illustrated endpapers. Illustrated with color drawings by Dr. Seuss. First edition, first printing, with all first issue points present: (1) Cat in the Hat advertisement on rear panel of dust jacket with a price of $2.00; (2) 14 titles (up to now) listed on the rear flap; (3) list of 13 books printed under Other Books by Dr. Seuss on the last page of the book; (4) Dust jacket code is "250/250." [Younger & Hirsch 33].. The volume is in excellent condition, showing only light shelf-wear at heel of spine, else fine; unmarked, tight, square, and clean. The unclipped dust jacket (now in Mylar) is mildly worn at the corners and at the head and heel of the spine, else fine. An extremely nice copy. NEAR FINE/VERY GOOD. . Color Drawings. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Unpaginated pp .

London: Frederick Warne and Co, 1909. Hardback. Good Only. 5.5" by 4.5". Beatrix Potter. An early edition of Beatrix Potter's beloved tale of Peter Rabbit, with her original colourful illustrations. An early edition, dated 1909, with dots in the O's to the front board, Plate VII endpapers in Quinby, and without the plate of Mrs McGregor to the plate facing page 14, and 'shed' to page 51. One of the most popular children's work's ever published, 'Peter Rabbit' follows the mischievous and disobedient young bunny as he falls into trouble with Mr. McGregor. Beautifully illustrated in colour in Potter's typical style, with a colour frontispiece, twenty-six colour plates.Collated, complete. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, with plastic lamination to the front board and spine, plastic lifting to the spine, with remnants of plastic to the extremities of the rear board. A few light marks to the rear board. A few spots to the fore edge. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto to the… Read More