Search Results: Children's from Brillig Books

New York: Little Simon, 1996. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. First printing. Small square quarto, green cloth spine over red, white, green and purple decorative paper covered boards with gilt spine title. 6 double page pop-ups and 6 flap pop-ups make the 12 days of Christmas from the Christmas carol. All pop-ups in excellent condition. (Swans are a bit stiff!). A clean, bright, fresh, unmarked and unblemished volume. Fine..

Owings Mills, MD: Stemmer House Publishers, 1978. Book. Illus. by Pat Marriott. As New. Hardcover. First American Edition. Octavo, black textured paper spine over green textured paper boards with gilt cover decoration and gilt spine titles. 231pp. Illustrated with full page color plates by Pat Marriott. A very tight, fresh, clean, unmarked and unread volume in a crisp, very tight, sharp, sparkling dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket. Flawless. AS NEW..

Lausanne: Guild du Livre, 1953., 1956. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo, cream cloth covered boards with brown spine, gilt spine titles and gilt cover decoration. Red and gilt decorated endpapers. 234pp. A very tight, unmarked volume. Touches of browning at edges and light fading a spine ends, else fine. Very good plus to Near fine. Uncommon..

New York: Little Simon, 2004. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Small thick quarto. glossy shiny paper covered boards. 7 incredibly elaborate pop-ups. First edition, first printing. A very tight, clean volume with all pop-ups in excellent working condition. Golden gate bridge pop-up has tiny crease at top of one bridge tower. Very near fine..

Owings Mills, MD: Stemmer House Publishers, 1978. Book. Illus. by Pat Marriott. As New. Decorative Cloth. First American Edition. Octavo, black cloth spine over green faux leather covered board with gilt decorattion. 231pp. Illustrated by Pat Marriott. A very tight, clean, fresh, bright, unmarked and unread volume in a crisp, sharp, sparklinjg dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket. AS NEW..

Minneapolis, MN: Buckbee-Brehm, 1927. Book. Illus. by Bruce Barton. Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. Octavo, stiff card with unitary elaborately illustrated dust jacket in gilt and color. Unpaginated (approx. 12 double folded heavy cream bond). Brilliant gilt decorated endpapers. Illustrated and decorated with strong stylized woodcuts and printed in a striking antique script. Dust jacket shows boy on background landscape in maroon, green, dark plum and crem with gilt highlights, borders with gilt decorations and marootn script titles. A charming small book production of a children's Biblical story in a lovely presentation. This copy is very crisp, bright, clean, sharp, unmarked and with NO tears, NO creases etc. Virtually as new, the only flaw is a barely perceptible, small curve of faint stain at the bottom front from damp, but really hard to see. Very near fine. SCARCE..

New York: Arthur a Levine, 2007. Book. As New. Soft cover. First Edition. First Printing. Advance Reading Copy. Fine. Flawless. AS NEW..

New York: Collins, 2008. Book. Illus. by A.G. Ford. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto, color illustrated paper covered boards (matching dust jacket). Unpagineated (approx. 34pp.) Illustrated throughout with full color pictures by A.G. Ford on every page. A very fine, tight, clean, fresh, unmarked an unread volume in a crisp, sharp, bright dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket. Pristine. AS NEW..

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Horn Book, 1982. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. Quarto, burgundy cloth covered boards with gilt spine titles. 215pp. including index. A collection of correspondence from Beatrix Potter to her American admirers. A tight, clean, unmarked volume with fresh white pages but a sign of water/damp at bottom corner noticeable only at the endpapers, else fine in a crisp, sharp, clean, tight dust jacket with moderately sunned spine not affecting the printed spine title or decoration. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket..

No Place: Fragment Press, 1982. Book. Illus. by Norton Peterson. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Illustrator(s). First Edition. Small octavo, brown cloth covered boards. Unpaginated. Illustrated by Norton Petersen. LIMITED EDITION 1/82 SIGNED by illustrateor NORTON PETERSON in pencil at colophon. A tight, clean, unmarked volume with very fresh bright pages and illustrations. Some small compression marks at top of front board and pastedown and practically colorless damp mark at top of front pastedown, else fine. Very good plus. SCARCE..

New York: Dutton, 1990. Book. As New. Hardcover. F. First Edition. Quarto, color illustrated glazed paper covered boards. 120pp. A cooperative anthology for peace by leading children's authors and illustrators including, inter alia, Lois Lowry, Jean Craighead, Charlotte Zolotow,Nancy Willard, Maurice Sendak Barbara Cooney, Leo & Diane Dillon, Jerry Pinkney and Trina Schart Hyman. Dust jacket and matching illustrated front board by Maurice Sendak. A very tight, fresh, clean, unmarked volume in a crisp, sharp, sparkling dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket. Virtually AS NEW..

Akron, OH: Saalfield Publishing Co., 1910. Book. Illus. by Arthur DeBebian. Very Good. Hardcover. Later Printing. Small quarto, (9" x 7"), hardcover with full color brightly illustrated (identically on front and back boards) paper covered boards with brown spine and black spine titles. 187 pp. plus 3 pages of ads. Illustrated with 6 full page brilliantly full color illustrations (aside from the cover illustrations) by Arthur DeBebian plus many in-text line drawings. The11th volume in the popular "Billy Whiskers" Series. This copy surprisingly well-preserved, with strong undamaged brown spine and very solid text block. All 6 of the vivid color illustrations are fine, bright and flawless. All interior pages are bright, clean and without defect (i.e. no tears, creases, foxing. stains,marks childish scrawls etc.) with the exception of a smattering of faint dust smudges or faint stains; none larger than a dime. The paper at the board edges is, inevitably lightly to moderately rubbed,… Read More

Akron, OH: Saalfield Publishing Co., 1907. Book. Illus. by Carll B. Williams. Very Good. Hardcover. Later Printing. Small quarto, (9" x 7"), hardcover with full color brightly illustrated (identically on front and back boards) paper covered brown boards. 187 pp. plus 3 pages of ads. Illustrated with 6 full page brilliantly full color illustrations (aside from the cover illustrations) by Arthur DeBebian plus many in-text line drawings. The 4th volume in the popular "Billy Whiskers" Series. This copy surprisingly well-preserved, with strong undamaged blue spine, (except for a faint bit of fading near top) and very solid text block, (albeit with two short tears at the inner front hinge). All 6 of the vivid color illustrations are fine, bright and flawless. All interior pages are bright, clean and without defect (i.e. no tears, creases, foxing. stains, marks, childish scrawls, etc.) with the exception of a few small dust smudges or very faint stains; none larger than a dime. The paper… Read More

Berkeley, California, U.S.A.: Pub Group West, 1993. Book. Fine. Cloth. Reprint. Quarto, brown cloth covered boards. 127 pp. Very generously illustrated throughou with full color paintings by Ciruelo Cabral and text by Montes Sant. A vivid illustrated review of dragons in history, myth and legend up to the modern tales of Ursula Le Guin and J.R.R. Tolkien, vividly illusttrated in full color. A very tight, clean volume with fresh cloth and pristine interior, unmarked and unread, in a crisp, sharp, bright, glossy dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket. Virtually as new..

Boston: Ginn and Company, 1906. Book. Fine. Hardcover. F. First Edition. Octavo, dark green decorated cloth covered boards with gilt rabbit in black blindstamped "brier-patch" with gilt titles and gilt spine titles. Top edge gilt. Illustrated and decorated in black and white by Charles Copeland. Color fronitspiece of rabbit (a la Beatrix Potter of whom some collectors consider this a knock off). Promotional color reproduction of rabbit frontispiece laid in. Fine. Deep, rich color and brilliant fresh gilt cover decoration. Spine gilt just a bit less bright. Very slight short wrinkle to cloth (binder's flaw) along fore edge of front panel else fine. The interior is really tight, fresh and clean. A beautiful copy..

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986. Book. Illus. by Watson, Richard Jesse. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto, beige cloth spine over blue blindstamp titled paper covered boards. Unpaginated. Colorfully illustrated throughout with full page plates by Richard Jesse Watson. A very tight, clean, fresh, bright, unmarked volume in a crisp, sharp, dust jacket with a couple of light, soft creases at edge, else fine. Fine in near fine dust jacket..

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946. Book. Illus. by Katherine Milhous. Fine. Original Cloth. First Edition. 16mo, original illustrated pink cloth covered boards with matching dust jacket. 50pp. Illustrated throughout by Katherine Milhous. (Scribner's A present). A lovely fresh and fine volume in a tight, crisp dust jacket with moderate sunning to the spine, a short closed edge tear at rear and minor touches of soil. Fine in very good dust jacket. An attractive and very presentable volume..

New York: Robert Carter and Brothers, 1881. Book. Very Good. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Red cloth covered boards with black rules and gilt decoartive title panel and black decorations on spine. 223pp. Frontispiece full page engraving with tissue guard plus two more full page engravings. An uncommon title in the Peep Of Day series of Bible educational tracts for children. A sound copy with bright unmarked interior and bright clear decorations and gilt. Rear endpaper. Light soil and a water staind on rear cover. Half of rear endpaper torn away on the diagonal. Very good..

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. Book. Illus. by W.L. Jacobs. Fine. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. 12mo, green cloth covered boards with deocoration and tile in yellow, blue and white. Top edge gilt. 81 pp. Illustrated with 4 full page color drawings by W.L. Jacobs on glossy stock including frontispiece with tissue guard. A very bright, tight, clean, fresh volume with undiminished cover decorations and all images fine, crisp, and bright. Prior owner gift inscription on free front endpaper in neat copperplate handwriting and light foxing to tissue guard (not affecting frontispiece). No marks, stains, tears, creases, spots ertc. A very attractive copy. Near fine..

New York: Platt & Munk, 1933. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto, (10" x 12"), orange cloth covered boards with full page color illustrated paper illustration pasted on. Unpaginated. [Approx. 80pp.]. Illustrated throughout with black and white silhouette style drawiings by W.C. and Lucille W. Holling. With 5 vivid full color full page illustrations of exotic lands. A very tight, sound, clean, volume with fading to edges of endpapers, a small bump to lower front corner and faint rubbing to cover paste on. Minor marks of soil. Despite the catalogue of minor flaws, this is actually a very attractive volume with nor significant blemishes, No dust jacket. Very good plus..