Childrens Poetry

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. London, Frederick Warne & Co., Reprint, 1883, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated covers with green cloth spine and corners. Full color illustrations by Kate Greenaway. All edges yellow. 1" narrow area of chipping at lower right edge of front cover. Clean, unmarked pages.

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. New York, Hyperion Books for Children, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non=paginated. Hardcover with clear plastic dust jacket. SIGNED BY CHRIS RASCHKA on title page. Clean, tight, signed copy.

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. 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.