childrens poetry

New York , Harcourt, 2nd pr., 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by J. Otto Seibold. A PIG in a spigot? An AX in a taxi? An ELF in a belfry?It can mean only one thing. . . . Richard Wilbur has been playing with his words again! Aided and abetted by illustrator J.otto Seibold, Richard Wilbur reveals that words must be used carefully--because you never know what you'll find in them!

Hardcover. New York, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1st, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 122 pages. Five black & white and color plates by Earl Oliver Hurst. Soiling to endpapers, covers. Faded yellow top edge.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st illust. thus, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with pictorial pastedown on the front cover. With 9 color plates by Maxfield Parrish, including the illustrated title page. 199 pages, two-color drawing on endpapers by Parrish. Spine has a 1/2" tear to top front edge, otherwise very good. No markings.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st thus, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Stated on copyright page "Published, September, 1904" with Scribner seal and 1904 printed on title page A clean, unmarked copy complete with 8 color plates plus a color illustrated title page. Bound in black cloth hardcover with illustrated color pastedown on front, gilt titled spine. Printed endpapers with wonderful lobster art. NOTE: No tissue guards on plates which has caused some foxing/tanning to the color plates (mostly in the margins), no top edge gilt, A clean, sound copy otherwise.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with color pastedown on front cover, gilt lettering on spine, 198 pages. Illustrated title page and 8 color plates plus endpapers illustration by Maxfield Parrish. Despite the 1904 date on title page, this is a reprint with a 1922 date on the copyright page, and a list of many Scribner illustrated classics (published later than 1904) on the last printed page. Gilt lettering on spine mostly gone or faded, but the rest of the book is clean and bright. There is a small scar to front label on scroll at top right.

hardcover. NY, Doubleday , 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Unpaginated, color and b&w illustrations by Aldren A. Watson. In a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR on title page.

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st, N.D., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. White lightly soiled covers with blue and silver lettering. Light foxing on piliminary pages. Featuring stories and poems by the likes of J.M. Barrie, Algernon Blackwood, and Rudyard Kipling, & illustrations by Walt Disney Studio, Paul Bloomfield, A.P. Payne, Sylvia Salisbury, A.H. Watson, H.S. Foxwell, etc, this book was printed as part of a charitable drive for the Princess Elizabeth (now Queen Elizabeth II) of York Hospital For Children

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated. Previous owner's inscription title-page. Nice color illustrations by Emma Chichester Clark. Lovely, new-looking condition. Hardbound, dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st US, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 80 pages, Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w cartoon illustrations by Quentin Blake. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, blue cloth covers stamped with design and title. Worn dust jacket with a small sticker on front. Calligraphy and silhouette drawings by the author showing children's adventures in NY city. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1st, 1892, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth stamped in silver, 143 pages. Black & white illustrations by various artists, including Harriet Roosevelt Richards and E. H. Garrett. Tear to middle of front end paper. Lower part of front hinge cracked. Spine frayed at top & bottom and corners worn.

Softcover. Boston, Expression Company, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 40 pages illustrated in b&w and colors by Edmonds. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front cover.

Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, reprint, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardover in a worn dust jacket. Illustrated black & white "Hoosier Pictures" by Will Vawter. 188 pages. Previous owner's signature front end-paper. Dust jacket with chunk gone from top edge. Chips to bottom edges. Scarce in dust jacket,

Hardcover. Mrs. Clayton M. Richardson, 1st thus, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 77 pages, line illustrations throughout and gilt title on cover. Minor corner and edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight. Poems reprinted from popular children's publications along with the drawings that accompanied them.

Hardcover. Mrs. Clayton M. Richardson, 1st thus, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 77 pages, line illustrations throughout and gilt title on cover. Minor corner and edge wear, fading to parts of cloth otherwise tight. Poems reprinted from popular children's publications along with the drawings that accompanied them. no marking.

Hardcover. Boston, David Godine, 1st , 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Ted Harrison. Dust jacket with closed tear otherwise very good.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. 80 pages illustrated by Hilary Knight. Sprinkled throughout this cheery volume of familiar poems are pictures of people readinga lady in a straw hat reading to a toddler on an old-fashioned porch, a kangaroo reading to babies in her pouch. True to the title, the poems collected are perfect for reading side by side. There are story poems; counting rhymes; verses about seasons, holidays and animals. Every page is filled with Knight's rollicking watercolors of exuberant, bright-eyed children. What will ensure this book's popularity, however, is the inclusion of poems many parents and grandparents will remember, including "A Visit from St. Nicholas," "The Three Little Kittens" and "The House that Jack Built." Clean copy.

New York, Clarion Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket., 32 pages, illustrations by Emily Arnold McCully, very clean, tight copy, like new. From skiing in January, to surfing in July, to giving in December, two energetic piglets romp through the months of the year in this delightful calendar in verse.

New York, Clarion Books, 4th pr., 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket., 32 pages, illustrations by Emily Arnold McCully, very clean, tight copy, like new. From skiing in January, to surfing in July, to giving in December, two energetic piglets romp through the months of the year in this delightful calendar in verse.

NY, Lothrop Lee Shepard, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Lubin. Light edgewear to dust jacket..

Softcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled wraps, 16 pages illustrated in color by Ethel Bonney Taylor. Well-known nursery rhymes set to a musical score. No markings.

Hardcover. New York , Viking, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages, Hardcover with dust jacket. including index. Black and white illustrations by Michael McCurdy. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Honesdale PA, Boyds Mills Press, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 64 pages, b&w illustrations by Edward Gorey. A reissue of a 1970 edition with a new preface by Paula Danziger.

Hardcover. New York, Dial Press, 2nd Printing, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. 1980 Second Printing. Previous owners name at top left corner of preliminary page opposite title page, Also - INSCRIBED BY ILLUSTRATOR TOM FEELINGS on same page. Black & white illustrations by Tom Feelings. Faint foxing to endpapers, small moisture stain at very bottom right corner of pages. Dust jacket with short closed tears along edges, areas of rubbing - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked pages.