Art & Literature Living Books for Sale

Children’s art & literature living books for sale including: architecture, fine art, art instruction, music, poetry, Shakespeare, literature, mythology, fairy tales, legends, and My Book House.

Updated: July 18, 2017 1:00 pm MT

Architecture:

Amazing Buildings, Philip Wilkinson, 1993, HB, VG, DJ w/tears, $4

Castle, David Macaulay, 1977, xlib Library Rebound, G, $6

Castle, David Macaulay, 1977, 1980, HB, VG, $6

Cathedral: The Story and Its Construction, David Macaulay, 1973, PB, VG, $5

The Fantastic Cutaway Book of Giant Buildings, J. Kirkwood, 1997, xlib HB, G-, $6

Pyramid, David Macaulay, 1975, PB, G+, $3

The X-Ray Book of Big Buildings of the Ancient World, Joanne Jessop, 1994, PB, VG, $5

Art:

The Arts, Hendrik Willem Van Loon, 1939, HB, VG, spine faded, $7

The Story of Painting: The Essential Guide to the History of Western Art, xlib HB, G-, mylar covered DJ, $7

The Art of the Old West, Shirley Glubok, 1971, xlib HB, G-, mylar covered DJ, $5

A Child’s Book of Prayer in Art, Sister Wendy Beckett, 1995, xlib HB, VG, mylar covered DJ, $4

Edgar Degas, Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Artists, Mike Venezia, 2000, xlib HB, VG, $7

2nd copy: Edgar Degas, Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Artists, Mike Venezia, 2000, xlib HB, G+, $6

Henri Matisse, Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Artists, Mike Venezia, 1997, xlib HB, G, $8

Katie and the Sunflowers, James Mayhew, xlib HB, G, mylar covered DJ, $5

(SALE PENDING) Leonardo DaVinci, Diane Stanley, 1996, HB, VG, DJ, $7

Linnea in Monet’s Garden, Christina Bjork, 1985, 1990, xlib HB, G, binding a little loose, mylar covered DJ, $4

Michelangelo, Diane Stanley, 2000, xlib HB, VG, mylar covered DJ, $7

Picasso, Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Artists, Mike Venezia, 1988, PB, VG, crease on front cover, $3

Rembrandt, Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Artists, Mike Venezia, 1988, PB, VG, $3

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, Betty Edwards, 1979, PB, VG, $5

Music:

George Gershwin, Mike Venezia, 1994, xlib Library Binding, G, $5

The Gift of Music: Great Composers and Their Influence (expanded & revised), Jane Stuart Smith, 1987, PB, G+, $5

The Heroic Symphony, Anna Harwell Celenza, 2004, xlib HB, VG, mylar covered DJ, CD recording of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 “Eroica” missing – should be easily replaced with another Beethoven recording, $7

The Star-Spangled Banner, Peter Spier, 1973, HB, 1 library stamp, G-, edge wear, $6

Stories from the Opera, Shahrukh Husain, 1999, xlib HB, G, binding cracked at back endpage, mylar covered DJ, $5

The Story of Mozart, Signature Books, Helen L. Kaufmann, 1955, HB, binding tight but spine torn off at end cap, $5

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Mike Venezia, 1995, xlib Library Binding, G, $5

The Story of Stephen Foster, Signature Books, Esther M. Douty, 1954, HB, VG, DJ front only, $7

Then Sings My Soul: 150 of the World’s Greatest Hymn Stories, Robert J. Morgan, PB, VG, $5

Poetry:

Carl Sandburg, ed. Frances Schoonmaker Bolin, Poetry for Young People, 1995, HB, VG, DJ tear on back & peeling around edges, $5

A Child’s Garden of Verses, Robert Louis Stevenson, ill. by Eulalie, 1929, 1932, xlib HB, G-, heavy cover corner wear, tape covered spine, scribbles on front end pages, binding tight, $8

A Child’s Garden of Verses, Robert Louis Stevenson, ill. by Tasha Tudor, 1981, HB, G+, $5

Edgar Allan Poe, ed Brod Bagert, Poetry for Young People, 1995, HB, G, binding pulled from back end page, $5

2nd copy: Edgar Allan Poe, ed Brod Bagert, Poetry for Young People, 1995, 2000, PB, G, school stamps, $4

Favorite Poems Old and New, Helen Ferris, 1957, ex-church library HB, VG, $6

Hailstones and Halibut Bones, Mary O’Neill, 1961, 1989, xlib HB, G-, needs front hinge taped, mylar covered DJ, $4

In for Winter, Out for Spring, Arnold Adoff, 1991, xlib HB, G, mylar covered DJ, $4

(SALE PENDING) Lavender’s Blue: A Book of Nursery Rhymes, compiled by Kathleen Lines, 1954, 1973, xlib HB, G+, mylar covered DJ, $8

Now We Are Six, A.A. Milne, FIAR, 1927, 1992, xlib HB, G+, mylar covered DJ, $4

When We Were Very Young, A.A. Milne, FIAR, 1924, 1950, HB, VG, slight corner wear, DJ has some chips & tears, $5 (shown with & without DJ)

Paul Revere’s Ride, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ill. by Ted Rand, FIAR, 1990, xlib HB, G+, mylar covered DJ, $5

Poems to Read to the Very Young, Josette Frank, 1971, PB, G, $2

The Rooster Crows: A Book of American Rhymes and Jingles, Maud and Miska Petersham, 1945, 1973, xlib HB, G, mylar covered DJ, $4

2nd copy: The Rooster Crows: A Book of American Rhymes and Jingles, Maud and Miska Petersham, 1945, 1973, xlib HB, VG, mylar covered DJ, $5

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Robert Frost, FIAR, 1978, HB, G+, DJ with tears, $4

A Visit to William Blake’s Inn, Nancy Willard, 1981, xlib Library Rebound, VG, $4

2nd copy: A Visit to William Blake’s Inn, Nancy Willard, 1981, xlib HB, G, mylar covered DJ, $4

Walt Whitman, ed. Jonathan Levin, Poetry for Young People, 1997, 2002, PB, VG, $4

Shakespeare & Literature:

Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of the Iliad, Rosemary Sutcliff, 1993, xlib HB, G, cover edge wear, mylar covered DJ, $6

The Wanderings of Odysseus: The Story of the Odyssey, Rosemary Sutcliff, 1995, 1996, xlib HB, G+, FFEP torn out, DJ, $7

Tales From Shakespeare, Charles & Mary Lamb, not dated but very old copy from the Mershon Company (probably between 1897 & 1906), HB, cover dirty but not much wear, hinge showing at front & back endsheets but binding still tight, pages slightly wavy at top, $9

West From Home: Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder San Francisco 1915, Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1974, 1999, PB, G, $4

Fairy Tales & Legends:

The Adventures of Robin Hood, Anonymous, Collins Clear-Type Press, nd, G+, fading on cover, nice black & white and color illustrations, $7

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, Howard Pyle, ill. by Scott McKowen, 2004, HB, VVG, DJ, $6

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, Howard Pyle, ill. by Don Irwin, 1968, HB, G, $4

Robin Hood of Sherwood Forest, Ann McGovern, 1968, laminate covered PB, Fair, $1

The Aesop for Children, ill. by Milo Winter, FIAR, 1947, newer printing, HB, G, $4

The Aesop for Children, ill. by Milo Winter, FIAR, 1947, HB, G+, cover wear & inside nice, $4

Androcles and the Lion, Janet Stevens, 1989, xlib HB, G, mylar covered DJ, $4

Dick Whittington and his Cat, Marcia Brown, 1950, xlib HB, VG, mylar covered DJ, $4

The Egyptian Cinderella, Shirley Climo, 1989, xlib HB, G, mylar covered DJ, $4

The Jack Tales: Folk Tales from the Southern Appalachians, Richard Chase, 1943, xlib HB, G+, mylar covered DJ, $5

King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table, Illustrated Junior Library, Sidney Lanier, 1950 HB, G, $5

Paul Bunyan, Steven Kellogg, 1984, PB, VG, $2

The Revenge of Ishtar, Ludmila Zeman, 1993, PB, New (very slight shelf wear), $7

The Three Princes: A Tale from the Middle East, Eric A. Kimmel, 1994, xlib HB, G+, mylar covered DJ, $4

Anthologies:

Collier’s Junior Classics: The Young Folks Shelf of Books

Volume 1, A,B,C: GO!, 1962, HB, G, $4

My Book House

12 Volume set (missing Vol 1 In the Nursery, but includes In Your Hands: A Parents’s Guide Book), Olive Beaupre Miller, 1937, 1948 printing, HB, overall good condition for the set, most books VG, a little cover wear, some end page creases or slight staining, 1 page corner torn off Vol 5, Vol 2 has yellowing tape on hinges and end pages and a few page tear repairs with a little more wear and staining, $65