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. 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.
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.
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!
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. 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.