CHILDREN'S BOOKS from Downtown Brown Books, ABAA

London: Michael Joseph... in Association with Goldsboro Books, 2017. First British edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A YA SF novel; the first volume in the Nyxia Triad. This is one of 250 numbered and signed copies of the UK first edition. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Row, 1970. Later printing. Hardcover. Near fine/Fine. A Caldecott Honor picture book (one of seven honor books by Sendak, following Where the Wild Things Are, which won the award). [40] pages. Roughly 8-3/4 by 11-1/4 inches. Hanrahan, Works of Maurice Sendak, A75. A later, but early printing, with no price on the jacket… Read more about this item

New York: Knopf, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. 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.

New York: Viking, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A picture book. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author-illustrator on the title page.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003. First Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Originally published in 1973 in two volumes, this is a revised one-volume edition of some of Grimms' fairy tales illustrated by Maurice Sendak. The stories were selected by Lore Segal and Maurice Sendak. Translations by Lore Segal and Randall Jarrell. [ix], 334 pages. 5-3/4… Read more about this item

Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. One of 500 signed, numbered copies of the author's debut middle-grade novel about America's national pastime vs. the undead. 231 pages. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This is no. 343 of 500 signed by Bacigalupi.

New York: Blue Sky / Scholastic, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. An illustrated rendition of Ecclesiastes 3: 1 to 8 plus chapter 1, verse 4. This is one of 150 numbered copies signed on a tipped in page at the back. This copy is housed in a cloth slipcase. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a… Read more about this item

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. A classic Texas folk tale in picture-book form. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. With the owner's embossed stamp on the last leaf (a long-time San Antonia elementary school principal). A… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Row, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. A Caldecott Honor picture book (one of seven honor books by Sendak, following Where the Wild Things Are, which won the award). [40] pages. Roughly 8-3/4 by 11-1/4 inches. Hanrahan, Works of Maurice Sendak, A75. First edition (first printing, with no indications of later printings,… Read more about this item

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. A retelling of the fairy tale in picture book form. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A near fine copy in a very good to near fine dust jacket (top of spine bumped), preserving the original $13.00 price. This copy is… Read more about this item

London: Basil Blackwell, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. The British poet laureate's first children's books, an adventure yarn about the son of a feared sea captain who takes up the family business and has adventures fighting the Spanish in the 16th century. This is one of Day-Lewis's most sought-after books. Published as Tales of Action… Read more about this item

New York: Philomel Books, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. A large-format book about Eric Carle and his work, illustrated with more than 60 full-color images of his work. Carle is best-known for his book The Very Hungry Caterpillar. 125 pages. 9 by 11-1/2 inches. First edition (first impression stated, with a numberline ending in 1).… Read more about this item

New York: Dutton Children's Books, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A picture book set in Cameroon by a Newbery Award-winning writer and a Caldecott Award-winning artist. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by both artist and author on the title page.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Good. Milne's own selection of his greatest hits, excerpted from the four Pooh books, When We Were Very Young, Now We Are Six, Winnie-the-Pooh, and The House at Pooh Corner, with the original illustrations by E. H. Shepard and a new introduction by Milne. This is one… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Row, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. A story written by Maurice Sendak's father about growing up in a Polish-Jewish shtetl, immigrating to America, and starting a new life. With illustrations by his son, the Caldecott Award-winning artist. Translated and adapted from the Yiddish by Seymour Barofsky. 42 pages. Hanrahan bibliography,… Read more about this item

New York: Hyperion, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The Christmas installment in Wells's series of picture books about a West Highland White Terrier, illustrated by Jeffers. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by both Wells and Jeffers on the title page.

New York: Knopf, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. 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.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 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… Read more about this item

New York: Clarion Books, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 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.

New York: Knopf, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 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: "Para el… Read more about this item