childrens poetry

Softcover. Akron, OH, Saalfield, Unknown, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with blue cloth spine. Tipped-in color frontis (by Frances Partridge). B&W drawings by Helene Nyce. Blue

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf/Ariel, 2nd pr., 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 87 pages illustrated in color by Atkinson.

Hardcover. UK, Oxford University Press, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glossy boards. 80 pages illustrated in color by Wildsmith. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Platt and Munk, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with pictorial label. Beautiful full page color plates by Eulalie, Victor G. Becker and Arthur O. Scott. Corners worn, cloth spine with a short tear. Previous owner's color sticker on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

New York, Harcourt Brace Janovich, 1st, 1992, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by David Diaz, his 1st book. Ex-lib with light stamping, residue. From family pictures to pinatas, from the "gato "with a meow like a rusty latch to Fourth of July fireworks, the poet celebrates the startling and often overlooked moments that define childhood. Affectionate without being overly sentimental, the collection provides a good introduction to contemporary poetry as well as a fine homage to a Chicano community.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Designed and illustrated (in color) by Ivan Chermayeff. Dust jacket shows some chipping and wear. Hardbound.

Hardcover. New York, Young Scott Books, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. 2-color illustrations by Leonard Weisgard. Ex-lib, but clean except for rear end paper residue.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 64 pages. INSCRIBED BY DENNIS LEE ON TITLE PAGE. Illustrations in full color and black & white by Frank Newfeld. Dust jacket with minor wear. Clean, tight copy. A collection of thirty nonsense poems including the tale of Nicholas Knock and his friendship with a silver honkabeest.

Hardcover. NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 127 pages. Color, black and white illustrations by Leslie Brooke. Dust jacket price-clipped. Clean.

Hardcover. London, Methuen & Co., 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 103 pages, b&w drawings throughout by Ernest H. Shepard. Dark red cloth with gold gilt image to front board of Christopher Robin playing with his train and gold gilt image to back cover of Pooh Bear & Piglet. Also gilt edge rulings, gilt titles to spine & gilt to top leaf edge. Tight binding with only minimal wear to top of spine. Pictorial pink endpapers, front & back, showing Christopher Robin with Pooh and various other friends, are very nice. Pale blue dust jacket has darkening to spine and tiny chips to corners, larger chip to top of spine. Front and rear panels with Shepard's drawings.

Hardcover. London, Duckwoth & Co., 1st, 1916, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 63 pages, hardcover. illustrated in B&W by Macdonald Gill. Weak hinges.

Hardcover. New York, Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1st Thus, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Hardcover. 1925 date is estimate. Full color and black & white illustrations by Anne Anderson. Red cloth with full color paste down illustration on front cover. Endpapers with Illustrations in red. Foxing to preliminary/dedication page. Light foxing to page 73. Light rubbing to cover corners, top/bottom of spine. Three small spots on back cover. Hinges intact but tender. Overall very good.

Softcover. El Paso TX, Cinco Puntos Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages. SIGNED ON THE TITLE PAGE BY BYRD. "Byrd sure shoots a mean game with words. His language, his subject matter, his sensibility are there to remind us that 'we really inhabit / the holy body of God,' that we are all 'hungry ghosts / all of us." Ultimately, Byrd's book is about the community Byrd has learned to embrace--his book is a work that pays homage to those who have formed him--his neighbors, his children, his wife, the poets whose voices still urge him to write. This is a book for everybody." --Benjamin Alire Saenz. Small name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Damrell & Upham, 1st, 1892, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 117 pages. lllustrated throughout with b&w reproductions of original woodcuts. Super condition in red cloth with bright gilt design. With the scarce dust jacket in white with a red design that mimics the cloth cover. There is edgewear and tiny holes in the paper along the spine, otherwise all there. A blue ink check mark in the top corner of the front fly leaf is the only internal mark.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 78 pages. Yellow spine cloth with aqua & white flower pattern covers. Spine label intact. Previous owners stamp on front endpaper. Illustrated with black & white drawings by Elizabeth Montgomery. Some darkening to covers. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Illust. with black & white line drawings by Elizabeth Montgomery. 77 pges. Browning to front and back end-papers. Dust jacket with wear to corners, spine edges. Dust jacket with color illustration on cover. Scarce.

Softcover. Minneapolis, University Of Minnesota Press, reprint, 2021, Softcover, 329 pages. Many adoptees are required to become people that they were never meant to be. While transracial adoption tends to be considered benevolent, it often exacts a heavy emotional, cultural, and economic toll on those who directly experience it. Outsiders Within is a landmark publication that carefully explores this most intimate aspect of globalization through essays, fiction, poetry, and art. Moving beyond personal narrative, transracially adopted writers from around the world tackle difficult questions about how to survive the racist and ethnocentric worlds they inhabit, what connects the countries relinquishing their children to the countries importing them, why poor families of color have their children removed rather than supported--about who, ultimately, they are. In their inquiry, the contributors unseat conventional understandings of adoption politics, reframing the controversy as a debate that encompasses human rights, peace, and reproductive justice. Clean copy.

New York, North-South Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 61 pages. SIGNED BY HAGUE on half title-page. Color illustrations by Michael Hague.

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 467 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w plates. Light edgewear to black covers. Dust jacket has heavy chipping and short tears. Gutter cracking in places.

Hardcover. New York , Oxford University Press , 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 224 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w by Joan Hassall. Dust jacket is worn, torn and sun-faded, protected by a mylar cover. Book itself is in lovely condition. Contains 800 nursery rhymes and ditties which are the heritage of our oral tradition. All the well-known rhymes are included as well as many rare ones.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustration in color, black & white by Erik Blegvad. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1st US, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 127 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Gilt decoration of peacock on front. Moderate wear to edges. Tight copy. Illustrations by C. Lovat Fraser.

Hardcover. New York , Doubleday and Co., 1st US, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 page, green cloth covers. Illustrated in 2-colors by Edward Ardizzone. Light shelf wear, clean.

Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1st US, 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 63 pages, illustrated throughout by Edward Ardizzone. Light edgewear to dust jacket with tiny hole on front cover and small chip missing from lower edge of rear flap. Clean, tight copy.