childrens poetry

Hardcover. Evanston IL, Northwestern University Press, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A portrait of Black America in the nineteenth century. Over the course of two decades, award-winning poet Patricia Smith has amassed a collection of rare nineteenth-century photographs of Black men, women, and children who, in these pages, regard us from the staggering distance of time. Unshuttered is a vessel for the voices of their incendiary and critical era. Smiths searing stanzas and revelatory language imbue the subjects of the photos with dynamism and revived urgency while she explores how her own past of triumphs and losses is linked inextricably to their long-ago lives. Clean copy.

NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Uphill with Archie is a beautifully written and deeply involving look at the life and the world of the great literary icon, poet Archibald MacLeish, by his youngest son. Partly an homage, partly an attempt to come to terms with the man (and the legend), Uphill with Archie speaks to all sons and daughters who have never completely resolved their feelings about powerful parents. Young William MacLeish grew up both captivated and cowed by the fame of a father who won Pulitzer Prizes for his poetry and comparable honors for his work as a lawyer, playwright, teacher, and government official. William's mother, Ada, began her marriage as a successful concert singer in Paris but later felt compelled to give up her art for her family. When Archie was working for Henry Luce and Fortune magazine, his younger children, watched over by a governess, stayed with their grandfather in Connecticut. But it is of the time spent with his family at Uphill Farm, a beautiful old house above a Massachusetts hilltown, that MacLeish has his fondest and most telling memories: "Archie and Ada gave me great gifts: music, the sound of the language beautifully spoken, the draw of knowledge, the arts of humor," William writes. "I learned to perform for them, and in time found myself addicted to getting a nice tan from Archie's sun. And the more I bathed in his light, the harder I found it to go looking for my own."

Softcover. El Paso TX, Cinco Puntos Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages. One evening, Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Jose Galvez heard Luis Alberto Urrea read "Hymn to Vatos Who Will Never Be in a Poem" with its chant-like repetitions and its evocation of Chicano manhood. As Luis read each line, an image clicked in Jose's memory, and he knew that he had already taken that photograph. The result of that experience is this remarkable book.A unique collaboration of two acclaimed artists, Vatos is a tribute to Latino men who are too often forgotten, ignored and misrepresented by the larger culture-children playing in the streets, migrant workers toiling for a better life, homeboys in the barrio, young men with their girlfriends and their mothers, blue collar workers, activists on the streets, sons, uncles, fathers, and grandfathers. Vatos recognizes their joys, their sorrows, their tenderness and their strength. Through Galvez' photographs and Urrea's words, they will not be forgotten. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 12 heavy paper sheets plus cover, bound together with blue cord in punched holes at top. One and two color illustrations by Shepard, verse for every month by Milne. Some light pin-size spotting to corner of cover, otherwise clean and bright.

Hardcover. NY, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 48 pages, color illustrations by Brian Selznick.SIGNED by illustrator Selznick. No dj as issued. The pioneering team that brought you Caldecott Honor Book The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins lends their vision, flair, and unique style to Walt Whitman--poet, American icon, Civil War hero.Did you know that poet Walt Whitman was also a Civil War nurse? Devastated by his country dividing and compelled to service by his brother's war injury, Walt nursed all soldiers--Union and Confederate, black and white. By getting to know them through many intense and affecting experiences, he began to see a greater life purpose: His writing could give these men a voice, and in turn, achieve his highest aspiration--to capture the true spirit of America. Dramatic, powerful, and deeply moving, this consummate portrait of Whitman will inspire readers to pick up their pens and open their hearts to humanity.

Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated by Donald Sultan. Light edge wear to covers. Otherwise, clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color Illustrations by Sendak. In very good condition in a bright dust jacket. The famous children's illustrator joins two classic nursery rhymes within a contemporary setting. Our heroes make their way out of the urban dumps to rescue a small homeless boy. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Color Illustrations by the author. In very good condition. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Philomel Books, 1st thus, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy pictorial boards. Stated first impression of this reproduction of Nister's work from the late 1800's. Includes poetry, fold-outs & reproductions of antique dimensional pictures. All 4 pop-ups perfect. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press , 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 95 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in 2-colors by Daugherty. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1956, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 95 pages. Two-tone illustrations by Daugherty. Dust jacket with small tears, rubbing.

Hardcover. London, Methuen & Co., 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 100 pages, b&w drawings throughout by Ernest H. Shepard. Dark blue cloth with gilt image to front board of three characters after Shepard's drawings and gilt image to back cover of girl peeking through curtain. Also gilt edge rulings, gilt titles to spine & gilt to top leaf edge. Tight binding with only minimal wear to edges. Blank endpapers, front & back, with light tanning and ripples from publisher's glue. Dust jacket has darkening to spine and chipping to corners, larger chip to top of spine. Front and rear panels with Shepard's drawings, two spots of soil to front around type of title. This is the first of the four Pooh books and scarcest with a print run of about 4,000. Second state of the true first with ix on contents page.

Hardcover. New York , Harcourt Children's Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated in color by Vladimir Radunsky . SIGNED BY RADUNSKY. In this soothing rhyme we explore the sleeping habits of some favorite inhabitants of the world of fairy tales and find fairies, wizards, goblins, and even children all find peace under the same bright moon.

Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 48 pages. Color illustrations by Lobel. Clean. Lacks dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1st UK, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Color illustrations by Janina Domanska. In a lightly edgeworn, price-clipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. no place, Whitman, 1st, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non Paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Full color & one-color illustrations by Pettee. Previous owner's name on half-title page.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in embossed green boards with a yellow cloth spine. No dust jacket, but both flaps glued nicely to front fly leaf, the rear one with a photo of Tudor. Ageless poems selected by Tudor, and interpreted artistically and charmingly in many pencil and charcoal drawings, and five color plates. 119 pages, over 50 poets are represented. Color card art by artist pasted to inside front cover.

Hardcover. New York, Scholastic Inc., reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 40 pages. Poems selected by Barbara Rogansky with illustrations by Trina Schart Hyman. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. INSCRIBED WITH 2 DRAWINGS BY ILLUSTRATOR STEVEN KELLOGG ON PRELIMINARY PAGE. Full color illustrations by Steven Kellogg. Rear endpaper has 6" X 2.5" piece removed from bottom edge with scissors. Dust jacket with closed tear along spine, stain to title area, light wear to corners - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 88 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY LYNN MUNSINGER ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Full color illustrations. Dust jacket with darkening along spine, edges. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 88 pages. Colorful illustrations by Lynn Munsinger throughout accompanying short humorous poems by various poets. Clean inside and out, in great shape!