THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR
Rare first edition copy of this landmark picture book with an entirely intact dust jacket priced at $4.25 — i.e. not price clipped.
Rare first edition copy of this landmark picture book with an entirely intact dust jacket priced at $4.25 — i.e. not price clipped.
Beautiful mockup with original watercolors and line-drawings for the 1905 FUNNY BUNNIES picture book, with manuscript notes.
First printing of the pacifist children's classic, soon to be banned in Franco's Spain at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.
First trade edition of the first book by one of the giants of the Golden Age of Illustration, and of children's picture books.
First printing of the classic picture book, a carefully designed balance of text and image by the author, in the scarce original dust jacket.
First edition, first state of this subversive update to DICK AND JANE, based upon the idea that kids would get more excited about reading if they enjoyed the material.
First edition of Seuss's second book, a HORNBOOK review copy with their name stamped on the front endpaper.
First edition of the beautiful meta-picture book on the power of the creative imagination, rarely seen with the original dust jacket so intact.
Original ad-hoc mockup for a never-published children's book by US illustrator Andrew Loomis.
First edition of Pène du Bois's notoriously scarce first book, about the ghost of a cow who is a little too sweet to scare people.
Scarce first edition of this avant-garde German picture book, incorporating new concepts in child psychology that the author learned in part from her uncle, Sigmund Freud.
First edition of this subversive update to DICK AND JANE, based upon the idea that kids would get more excited about reading if they enjoyed the material – one of a small group with jackets lacking a printed price, issued between the transition from the "200/200" of the first state and the "195/195" of the second.
First edition, first state of this spellbinding read-aloud masterpiece.
First edition, in the rare original dust jacket, of this famous trick book, with the text, illustrations, and the book itself all slanted.
First printing of the first Curious George book, one of the most scarce and sought-after classic children's books.
First printing of the fifth book in the CURIOUS GEORGE series, which sees the beloved monkey engaging in kite and bunny-related mischief.
First printing of this beautifully designed picture book, evoking pleasant winter days in mid-century American towns.
Inscribed first printing — with publisher's mockup containing original art by Wiese, the copy of Rose Dobbs, a Coward-McCann editor.
Signed early printing of Seuss's second book.
First edition of this picture-book history of the African diaspora, with special focus on famous Black leaders from Phillis Wheatley and Mary McLeod Bethune to Frederick Douglass and Thurgood Marshall.
First printing of Krauss's first book, terrifically illustrated by abstract expressionist Ad Reinhardt.
First printing, in later printing dust jacket, with 3 Christmas cards from the Leaf family laid in.
First edition, first issue of this early Seuss title, a beautiful copy directly from the stock of Aleph-Bet Books, the firm of Seuss bibliographers Helen Younger and Marc Younger.
First edition, in the scarce original dust jacket, about a little Chinese duckling who lives on a houseboat in Peking.
Rare and fantastic German hand-colored picture book, featuring several characters similar to those in Meggendorfer's famous moveable books.