Children's Books from Motte & Bailey, Booksellers

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Squarish, thin, octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. Name of former owner writen on the pastedown.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Squarish, thin, octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. Sticker residue on rear panel of dj. Name of former owner writen on the pastedown and again on the flyleaf.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Thin squarish octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. Small nick in dj at spine. Full number line 10 to 1. 21st in the Arthur series, but uncommon in a nice, clean, first printing.

New York, NY: Rand McNally & Company, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/poor. Thin quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Corners lightly bumped. Spine slightly faded. Name of former owner written in ink on endpaper. Dj is in poor condition, with small tears at edges, and to large tears at lower front ( one… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Macmillan, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. A series of monsters, each scared of the one that comes after. For older children.

New York, NY: Seabury Press, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/good, unclipped. Thin quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dj. DJ has more wear and a couple very small tears. SIGNED by the author on a pasted in complimentary card from the publisher on the endpaper. A retelling of a Slavic folktale where… Read more about this item

New York, NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Thin quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dj. SIGNED and inscribed by the author / illustrator on title page. Cupid joins his parents, the goddess of beauty and the god of thunder, in visiting Earth, but steals a… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Clarion Books, 1990. Second [ 2nd ] printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Thin quarto (standard size). SIGNED and inscribed by the illustrator on the half title page with an ink drawing of a cat with small stars on one side. Slight wear to edges and corners of dj and boards. A lovely version of this… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Lothrop, Lee, and Shepard Books, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good, price clipped. Quarto in landscape format (standard size). SIGNED and inscribed by the author on the half title page with ink drawings of musical notes and Frog dancing with flies on either side. Slight wear to edges and corners of dj and boards.… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Random House, 1958. First edition. hardcover. Good/fair. Thin Quarto (oversized). Some wear to edges of boards, more so at head and heel of spine and corners, where some are worn through. Dust jacket has wear and small closed tears at edges, some creases, and wear at the head and heel of spine. Small pice nissing… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Squarish, thin duodecimo (smaller than standard). SIGNED and inscribed by the illustrator on tile page, with a small drawing of mouse's head added. Slight wear to edgs and corners of dj and boards. Front dj flap has old sticker residue. The first Christmas of… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good, price clipped. Thin octavo (standard size). SIGNED and inscribed by the author AND illustrator on dedication page, with a small drawing of a mouse added. Slight wear to edges and corners of dj and boards. A farmer and her daughter go to the… Read more about this item

Princeton, NJ : Bristol. Rhein, and Englander, 2001 (1990). Second printing. Hardcover in attractive red patterned binding. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Thin octavo ( standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of dj and boards. A bit of sticker residue at rear. A tale of a young orphan Jewish boy working in the private… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Cobblehill Books / Dutton, 1998. Third printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Small octavo ( standard size). SIGNED with small inscription on tltle page. Slight wear to edges and corners of dj and boards. A boy spends a summer with his grandparents in Vermont and learning to run and gaining lessons about… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Good in Fair dust jacket. Octavo (standard size). Dj has wear to edges and corners, with small tears and chipping. Front cover still bright. Some wear to edges and corners of boards. Some staining to edges of textblock. Book is slightly musty.

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. , 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Octavo (standard size). SIGNED and inscribed on title page with a drawing of a quarter moon with face and a star by Willard. Some wear to edges and corners of dj, less so to boards. 2 friends discover an… Read more about this item

Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 1994. First edition. Hardcover w/glossy pictorial boards. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has minor wear and slight scuffing to covers. Unpaginated illustrated alphabet book.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. First edition. Hardcover w/glossy pictorial boards. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Quarto-sized. SIGNED and hand illustrated. Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has light wear along edges and minor scuffing to covers. Bookplate on front pastedown endpaper. Unpaginated illustrated children's book. Title page features an inscription… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. Oversized. Slight wear to edgs and corners. A charming book about eggs, from hummingbird to ostrich, with lovely illustrations by Long, who is well known for her illustrations of nature and of books with Native American themes.

London: Country Life, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Good in Rough dust jacket. Folio. Price clipped dj has tears at front bottom and at right front corners, and a pieces missing from lower spine and back cover. Upper left corner of dj back crinkled. Cellophane tape stains to areas around tears. Corners and lower edges of boards have noticeable… Read more about this item