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A Child's Bestiaryby: John Gardner

A Child's Bestiary
by: John Gardner

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. A collection of humorous verses about animals, friendly or otherwise. Additional poems by Lucy Gardner & Eugene Rudzewicz. Drawings by Lucy, Joel, Joan & John Gardner. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 380499

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A. Nonny Mouse Writes Again!by: Prelutsky, Jack

A. Nonny Mouse Writes Again!
by: Prelutsky, Jack

New York , Knopf, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrated by Marjorie Priceman. Fans of Poems of A. Nonny Mouse will rejoice in this effervescent sequel containing more than 50 wittily illustrated short verses. In an introductory letter, Ms. Mouse acknowledges that since the successful publication of her first volume, she's "been able to afford the occasional wedge of imported cheese" and "put away something for her old age." Along with traditional offerings, tongue twisters, limericks and four unlabeled poems by Prelutsky--identified as the editor of Ms. Mouse's scribblings--the book includes the familiar poem about infamous "Ooey Gooey," the worm who ends up squashed on a railroad track, and a subversive rendition of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" that concludes with "Throw your teacher overboard / And listen to her scream." Priceman's watercolors, like those she executed in Prelutsky's For Laughing Out Loud , are frolicsome and frisky, mischievously expressive.

Record # 301481

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Alpha Beta Chowderby: Steig, Jeanne/William Steig

Alpha Beta Chowder
by: Steig, Jeanne/William Steig

New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, unpaginated, color illustrations by William Steig, very clean, tight copy, like new.

Record # 800961

Price: $15.00 
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Awful Ogre's Awful Day (SIGNED COPY)by: Prelutsky, jack/Paul O. Zelinsky

Awful Ogre's Awful Day (SIGNED COPY)
by: Prelutsky, jack/Paul O. Zelinsky

Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 40 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY PRELUTSKY AND ZELINSKY ON TITLE PAGE. Bright, clean copy.

Record # 611172

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Beastly Feasts: A Mischievous Menagerie in Rhymeby: Forbes, Robert and Ronald Searle

Beastly Feasts: A Mischievous Menagerie in Rhyme
by: Forbes, Robert and Ronald Searle

Hardcover. NY/London, Overlook Duckworth, 2nd pr., 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 93 pages, illustrated throughout in color by Ronald Searle. Light wear o pictorial dust jacket with small tear to lower edge of spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453689

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Every Thing On It: Poems and Drawings by: Silverstein, Shel

Every Thing On It: Poems and Drawings
by: Silverstein, Shel

Hardcover. NY , Harper, reprint, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 196 pages. From New York Times best-selling Shel Silverstein, celebrated creator of Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, and Falling Up, comes an amazing collection of never-before-published poems and drawings. Copyright page says First Edition, but line below suggests 2013 printing. First published in 2011. Clean copy.

Record # 396563

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Fairy Godmother-in-Law, Theby: Herford, Oliver

Fairy Godmother-in-Law, The
by: Herford, Oliver

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 104 pages with B/W illustrations by author. Soiled ivory colored covers with orange, blue and black printed design on front, black lettering on spine. Hinge cracking but binding solid. Pages clean. Previous bookseller's label on back end papers.

Record # 802641

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Four and Twenty Toilersby: Bedford, F. D./E. V. Lucas

Four and Twenty Toilers
by: Bedford, F. D./E. V. Lucas

Hardcover. New York, McDevitt-Wilson, Reprint, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Book rebound. Full color illustrations by F. D. Bedford. Poetry by E. V. Lucas. Book illustrates the lives and occupations of 24 laborers. Marking on some pages in pencil or ink. Light foxing, closed tears to some pages.

Record # 613471

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Grimm Tales Made Gayby: Carryl/Albert Levering, Guy Wetmore

Grimm Tales Made Gay
by: Carryl/Albert Levering, Guy Wetmore

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st , 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth covers, 143 pages. Black & white pictures by Albert Levering. Tear to top of plate opposite page 24. Spine lettering faded. Some browning to pages. Otherwise clean.

Record # 501825

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Monday's Troll (SIGNED COPY)by: Prelutsky, jack/Peter Sis

Monday's Troll (SIGNED COPY)
by: Prelutsky, jack/Peter Sis

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."

Record # 611244

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Rhyme Stewby: Dahl/Quentin Blake, Roald

Rhyme Stew
by: Dahl/Quentin Blake, Roald

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.

Record # 602029

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Scenes from the Mesozoic and Other Drawings By Clarence Day by: Day, Clarence

Scenes from the Mesozoic and Other Drawings By Clarence Day
by: Day, Clarence

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 82 pages. pre-World War II collection of satire on history, man and current events. Periwinkle linen-lilke cloth with bright red cover lettering and decoration. Day illustrates his humorous verse with Thurber-like cartoons. Nice dustjacket with light edgewear, mild tanning, unclipped.

Record # 363430

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Sonnets to a Red Haired Lady By a Gentleman with a Blue Beard and Famous Love Affairs by: Don Marquis

Sonnets to a Red Haired Lady By a Gentleman with a Blue Beard and Famous Love Affairs
by: Don Marquis

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1sr, 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in faded blue boards with a black cloth spine, title label on front cover. 138 pages, humorous poetry with fabulous b/w illustrations by Stuart Hay. The author was a humorist, journalist, and author. He was variously a novelist, poet, newspaper columnist, and playwright. He is remembered best for creating the characters Archy and Mehitabel, supposed authors of humorous verse. Despite cover fading, a clean, tight copy.

Record # 387217

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The Bid for Fame: A Story in Rhyme for Boys and Girlsby: Cornelia Fitzgerald

The Bid for Fame: A Story in Rhyme for Boys and Girls
by: Cornelia Fitzgerald

Hardcover. NY, Exposition Press, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn jacket with fading to spine. B&w drawings by the author. Clean copy.

Record # 380455

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The Jumblies and Other Nonsense Verses by: Edward Lear

The Jumblies and Other Nonsense Verses
by: Edward Lear

Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne and Co, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black. 76 pages, seven color plates & numerous b/w illustrations by L. Leslie Brooke. No date, probably 1950s. Small ownership stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 387661

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Theatre Guyedby: Levy/Rea Irvin, Newman

Theatre Guyed
by: Levy/Rea Irvin, Newman

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, 90 pages. Humorous verse describing famous plays, illustrated with black and white drawings by Rea Irvin. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket is present but poor condition. Book itself is clean and bright.

Record # 363423

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There Goes Feathertop!by: Norma Farber/Marc Brown

There Goes Feathertop!
by: Norma Farber/Marc Brown

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Based on a tale by Nathaniel Hawthorne, here retold in verse. Black and white drawings and silhouettes by Marc Brown. Dust jacket with closed tear, edgewear at top of cover.

Record # 380438

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Uncle Switch: Loony Limericks by: X. J. Kennedy/ John O'Brien Illustrator

Uncle Switch: Loony Limericks
by: X. J. Kennedy/ John O'Brien Illustrator

Hardcover. NY, Margaret K. McElderry, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by John O'Brien. A collection of limericks about Uncle Switch, an eccentric who does everything topsy-turvy. Clean copy.

Record # 379477

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Whiskers & Rhymesby: Lobel, Arnold

Whiskers & Rhymes
by: Lobel, Arnold

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

Record # 204342

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Yak, The Python, The Frog, The (SIGNED BY KELLOGG)by: Belloc, Hilaire/Steven Kellogg

Yak, The Python, The Frog, The (SIGNED BY KELLOGG)
by: Belloc, Hilaire/Steven Kellogg

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.

Record # 613273

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Yawcob Strauss Series (4 volumes): Leedle Yawcob Strauss, Yawcob's Dribulations, Der Oak und der Vine, and Vas Marriage a Failure?by: Strauss, Leedle Yawcob (Charles

Yawcob Strauss Series (4 volumes): Leedle Yawcob Strauss, Yawcob's Dribulations, Der Oak und der Vine, and Vas Marriage a Failure?
by: Strauss, Leedle Yawcob (Charles

Softcover. Boston, L. Prang & Co, 1st, 1894, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 4 volumes, stiff light-green covers with color illustration, b&w frontispiece in each. Leedle Yawcob Strauss: 14 pages, 5 color plates. Yawcob's Dribulations: 17 pages, 7 color plates. Der Oak une der Vine: 15 pages, 5 color plates. Vas Marriage a Failure?: 14 pages, 5 color plates. Slight rubbing to covers; volumes in excellent condition.

Record # 806148

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Zooful of Animals, A (SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR)by: Cole, William/Lynn Munsinger

Zooful of Animals, A (SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR)
by: Cole, William/Lynn Munsinger

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.

Record # 612643

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Zooful of Animals, Aby: Cole (Ed.)/Lynn Munsinger, William

Zooful of Animals, A
by: Cole (Ed.)/Lynn Munsinger, William

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!

Record # 30144

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