Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st U.S., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Color illustrations by Errol Le Cain. Dust jacket price clipped.

NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 2nd pr., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright price-clipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Errol Le Cain. Previous owner's inscription front fly leaf. Three poems from Eliot's rollicking ode to felines, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, are gloriously and elegantly illustrated by Le Cain. ``Growltiger's Last Stand,'' ``Of the Awefull Battle of the Pekes and Pollicles,'' and ``The Song of the Jellicles'' spring to life with Le Cain's stylish paintings that match and extend each verse of the rich text. Sinister Siamese arranged in triangles represent Growltiger's foe ``armed with toasting forks and cruel carving knives''; chaos reigns as the Pugs and Poms ``Bark bark bark bark/ Bark bark BARK BARK/ Until you can hear them all over the Park''; suave black-and-white cats ``like to practice their airs and graces/ And wait for the Jellicle Moon to rise.'' The clean typeface and layout make Eliot's poetry take center stage framed by the wonderful illustrations.

Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st thus, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with a award sticker. An illustrated edition of the classic poem, in which a British soldier recalls his experiences in the army in India and pays homage to the courage of the Indian water carrier Gunga Din. Lovely watercolor art by Robert Andrew Parker. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday and Co., reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, illustrations in 2-colors by Leonard Weisgard. Twelve poems reflect the author's feelings about various colors. A nice early printing ($3.95 on flap) of this classic first published in 1961.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, color illustrations by Jerry Pinkney. While Susan sleeps in this mesmerizing bedtime book, crickets, owls, raccoons, bread bakers, and saxophone players enact their nighttime activities.

Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow Books, 4th pr, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 40 pages. INSCRIBED BY PRELUTSKY on dedication page. Black & white illustrations by Arnold Lobel. Dust jacket with edgewear, some residue, clipped.

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Color illustrations by Wendy Watson. SIGNED BY BOTH CLYDE AND WENDY WATSON on title-page. Dust jacket with rubbing, price-clipped. Minor wear on dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards, 39 pages illustrated in color by Bernie Fuchs. No dust jacket. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. London, Macmillan and Co., 1st, 1882, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 48 pages. Hardcover with lightly rubbed boards. Previous owner's inscription. Boards have wear and chips to the top and sides. Corners lightly bumped. Partially detached front board and nearly detached back board. A fragile copy. Gutter cracked in several places. Unmarked, bright illustrations throughout by noted illustrator George Cruikshank.

NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Illustrated with color watercolor pictures by Ted Rand. This slim volume includes 19 poems about nature, including 8 about birds, all of which are illustrated with bold, realistic watercolor paintings. The poems describe animal appearance and behavior in natural, clear images that any nature-watcher can understand. The cardinal, for example, ``Tries not to look conspicuous/ In red, but doesn't quite know how,'' and the spaniels have ``Periscope tails and hairy feet.'' Several poems such as ``The Beaver, Alas'' are wry commentaries on human attitudes toward nature. The few poems which try for an arch tone (``Slothful the sloth is certainly noth'') are less successful. Rand's detailed close-up paintings of individual birds and animals and his more humorous montages of animals for poems such as ``At the Zoo'' balance beautifully with the text.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A Knopf, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 40 pages illustrated in color by Nola Langer. Humorous tale told in rhyme by the noted poet. Library binding, NOT ex-library. Ownership stamp inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton-Century, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 132 pages. Black & white illustrations by Reginald Birch. Light soiling to covers, endpapers. Soiling & chipping to dust jacket. Brodart cover.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Candlewick Press, 1st US, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket, 160 pages. Color illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Candlewick Press, 1st US, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with scarred dust jacket, 160 pages. Color illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Clean, tight copy. Front panel of dj has scuff leaving white paper. Otherwise a super clean copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Candlewick Press, 1st US, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket, 160 pages. Color illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 2nd pr., 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In this story in verse, Godden has created a new & delightful myth out of the story of the Flood. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 32 pages illustrated in color by Kaufman and inscribed by him with a large b&w drawing covering the front endpapers.

Hardcover. New York, Jump At The Sun/Hyperion, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. SIGNED AND DATED BY CHRISTOPHER MYERS ON BACK OF FRONT ENDPAPER. Clean, bright hardcover in a very good dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light gray booards with red and blue pictorial design, 124 pages + 1 ad. Illustrated with black & white drawings by Oliver Herford. Ex-lib with label pasted on front pastedown. Die-cut library stamp on title page. Covers soiled, worn. Interior bright and clean.

Softcover. NY, John Martin's Bookhouse Dodd Mead, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A collection of stories and verse illustrated in black and red by various artists. In unusually sharp, clean condition. Illustrated cardboard covers with very minor wear to corners.

Hardcover. Mankato MN, Creative Editions, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. In 1949, SPORT magazine published Lineup for Yesterday, a collection of poems by Ogden Nash celebrating the greatest big-league baseball players of the 1800s and early 1900s. Using an alphabetical approach, the famous wordsmith paid entertaining tribute to 24 legends of the diamond, encapsulating each in just 4 clever lines. Creative Editions is proud to present this masterpiece to a new generation of fans, reintroducing icons from the formative years of professional baseball. The masterful mixed-media illustrations of C. F. Payne portray these heroes of summer in their athletic primes in this, the first-ever picture book publication of Nash s classic. Clean copy.

New York, Atheneum, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 87 pages. Black & white and 3-color illustrations by author. Dust jacket has some small tears.

Hardcover. NY, North-South Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Transl from the German by Anthea Bell. Color Illustrations by Lisbeth Zwerger. SIGNED BY ZWERGER opposite title page.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Kestrel, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Some soiling to top-edge of cover, shows some minor wear. Internally completely clean and new-looking with nice color illustrations by Barbara Cooney. Remainder line bottom edge. Hardbound, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Minor wear to dust jacket. Light rubbing to covers, fading to spine. Illustrations by Wendy Watson.

Hardcover. NY, Harpercollins Childrens Books, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, color illustrations by Barry Moser.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 88 pages. Black silhouette illustrations by Decie Merwin. Rubbing to spine, corners. Spine faded.

Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne, reprint, nd, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout by Greenaway. Some foxing to illustrated endpapers, otherwise very good, clean. Illustrated cardboard covers with brown cloth spine. Mild edgewear to covers.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 124 pges. Blockprint illustions by Helen Sewell. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down. Discreet tape repair page 88. Dust jacket with chips bottom edge, bottom corner.

Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated. BOOKPLATE ON FRONT ENDPAPER SIGNED BY AUTHOR JACK PRELUTSKY AND ILLUSTRATOR PETER SIS. Full color illustrations. Bright, clean copy. Once again the collaborators of The Dragons Are Singing Tonight have combined their extraordinary talents to concoct an irresistible collection of trolls, wizards, witches, giants, ogres (and a solitary yeti). "Jack Prelutsky is up to his usual hilarious no good in this new collection of witchy, wizardly, ogreish poems....Among the subjects of these briskly amusing poems is a wizard who rashly makes himself disappear, a seven-century-old apprentice witch....and a family-type ogre....Prelutsky's skill with catchy rhymes and delightfully fiendish subject matter is complemented by Peter Sis's humorously foreboding and cheerfully nonchalant illustrations."

San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in bright pictorial boards. Color illustrations by Sylvia Long. Small stamp, scribble to front fly leaf, otherwise Very Good. A fairy tale poem written at the turn of the century takes place in a medieval bunny kingdom where knights win prizes for proving their fear and leave it to the princess to rule.

Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, Lee and Shepard, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Watson. Clean, tight copy. SIGNED BY WATSON ON TITLE PAGE.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Inc., 2nd, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. SIGNED BY LEO AND DIANE DILLON ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations. Bright, clean copy. The numbers are on the loose--hiding and dancing, skipping and laughing through the rhymes of Mother Goose! It's a good thing Caldecott Medal-winning artists Leo and Diane Dillon have helped gather up all these mischievous numbers in a stunning celebration of counting, rhymes, and imagination.

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. 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. London, T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 48 pages. Illustrated with 24 color illustrations and numerous b&w drawings by Fraser. Illustrated boards, gray cloth spine. Clean, unmarked copy.

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.

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.

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.