1st edition hardcover with one poke through padded front cover image that is barely visible on the busy illustrated cover. Internally as new. No names, tears or soil. Profusely illust with full page color & black /white plates by Frank Adams whose art reminds us of Randolph Caldecott. 32 un-paginated leaves. A two in one book, read the story, color the pictures. View More...
6th printing paperback as new. Cassette in case appears fine. Includes card and clear plastic carry bag w/handle. Rare Home Book Pack set. 32 pp book is like new and has an ISBN of 0590410814 View More...
Near fine first limited edition paperback. Exceedingly rare, only 500 copies of this title were issued with only 100 copies being distributed to the public overall. The margins of pages 19-22 have five, small, light (grease?) spots on both sides of the two pages. The upper fore-edge corner lightly brushed and there is a minuscule amount of rust on the staples. The author's second work is Slipstream's Fifth Annual Chapbook Contest Winner. Shared in part from the rear cover: "Sherman Alexie is an enrolled Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian from Wellpinit, Washington, on the Spokane Indian... View More...
Adorable 5th printing miniature book 3 1/5" x 3 3/4" 46 pp. Illustrated with b/w line drawings. A smashing little book full of poems about friends. View More...
First edition hardcover in yellow slick boards with removable mylar overwrap. Corners and spine ends bumped and rubbed, light-moderate surface soil. One page has a crescent shaped open chip with the chip present but bound into backstrip 1/2" away from the remaining words on the chip. All text can be read. Remainder of 62 pp text is flawless. Illustrated Alphabet Block Rhyme Endpprs. No names, not exlib. View More...
2nd printing paperback, author's presentation copy signed on title page: Bridge, Best Wishes, Enjoy Your Book Mike Ashby. Faint curl to lower cover tip and text. 40 pp. A collection of stories in rhyming verse, each ending with a moral theme. The book's text and artwork are enjoyable for the young and old alike. View More...
Hardcover with slightly bumped tips. 40 pp text crisp and unmarked. For Fathers everywhere, Whether the skies be blue or gray, A father's love is ever true. So here's a book that's meant to say: Let every day be "Father's Day"! A book of verses NOT all about fathers. View More...
Cute hardcover with moderate corner wear, white background covers are slightly darkened along spine edges, text re-glued into boards but is tight and bright with some closed and taped tears. Front board slightly bowed. Some finger prints and soil in the 20 pp text. Solid working copy. A picture book of short nursery rhymes, all surrounded by Attwell's colored illustrations View More...
Illustrated card covers with florals and dark green title in cardboard box with matching design. Box split on short ends, now repaired. Book bound with cotton ribbon, very light surface soil on rear cover. Charming poems in rhyme including: A Farewell, Success, Daffodils, Waiting and many more. View More...
1st edition hardcover, author's presentation copy, dedicated on fep For Annie Laurie Deane A Friend in Need Affectionately, Josephine Powell Beaty August 1964. Fine copy in gold boards with a card with an additional poem by Beaty laid in. DJ shows fading at edges, has one brown spot on spine, and shows 3 micro abrasion holes on dj flap folds. Has kept this book in fine form. Not pretty but all there. 70 pp of poems about life, love, liberty, hope and courage. View More...
Rare 1st edition hardcover book of poems 73 pp. in green cloth with orange title plate on cover, dj in new mylar shows small chips and bits of loss at extremities but displays well. It is a grand and glorious America that stands revealed in Charlotte Beckelman's varied verses. Hers is a complete knowledge of people old and young, past and present, humble and proud. At ease in the divers poetic forms and techniques, she sends her message to the heart. There is a profound and warm appreciation of living that establishes an immediate rapprochement between poet and reader. Life has had few interpr... View More...
Reprint exlib hardcover with bumped tips, tape marks on endpprs and dj flaps. 61 pp text tight. Unclipped dj in new mylar has call tag on spine. Card pocket on rep. Darling little brown line drawings by the author. Includes 35 poems. Like the stories of Hans Christian Andersen, some of these small poems touch deep currents. They are as fresh as first experience - but children will seem always to have known a few of them, for children have always hummed the same tunes when they saw a kite for the first time, or snow on a hillside, or the sea, or a new playmate. Windy Morning is a happy b... View More...
Exlib 2nd printing hardcover with tape marks on paste downs, text tight and bright, was only borrowed 2x from library. Very crisp condition. Unclipped dj in new mylar has call tag, card pocket on rep. "Sir John Betjeman CBE (28 August 1906 - 19 May 1984) was an English poet, writer and broadcaster who described himself in Who's Who as a 'poet and hack'. He was born to a middle-class family in Edwardian London. Although he claimed he failed his degree at Oxford University, his early ability in writing poetry and interest in architecture supported him throughout his life. Starting his career a... View More...
Negligible surface wear, 32 pp text as new. Adorable miniature book measures 4.25" at spine x 5.50" long. A cacophone of noises, a riot of color, and illustrations that simply leap off the page! Perfect for sharing with all children: noisy ... and quiet! View More...
1st US edition glossy hardcover, no dj. Very colorful pictorial boards with very slight bumping on spine ends, light color loss on still sharp tips. Unpaginated text (32 pp) is tight & bright View More...
First edition hardcover with slight bow to boards, marker doodle on fep, title page loose at foot 1", remainder of 28 pp text is tight and bright. Cute illustrated endpps. Book measures 8" x 10". Nice cover w/Start-Right educationally sound banner across foot of board (as published). Working copy. View More...
1st edition paperback. 4 1/2" x 6 1/2". 116 pp. Facsimile edition of the Munroe & Francis 1833 version with approx 100 Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes with the original woodcuts. No names, cellophane coated paperback has light abrasion at upper edge of purple background frt cover, 116 pp text as new, negligible color loss to uncreased stiff card covers. View More...
1st edition paperback, 54 pp. Negligible rubs to tips, internally as new. In his fifth volume of poetry, Michael Blumenthal explores the costs and compensations of the three ruling obsessions in our lives: love, grief, an virtue. View More...
1st edition in specially handmade paper covered boards. Signed by author " To Mrs. Mary McNeill Fenollosa, with the cordial respect of the author Walter Hart Blumenthal New York, Oct 1925" A well worn quarter bound, 1st edition hardcover which has some color loss, water stains, shelf wear along the bottom edge which shows boards, lower tips have been bumped with boards showing, upper edge has a hard bump and rear upper tip has small portion missing with boards showing. Clipped dj has several small chips missing on front cover & tips, head of spine has a chip missing and rear cover has two ... View More...
Blue/grey card covers with black titles. Possible author sig on fep, very hard to make out. 47 pp. No tears or soil. Moderate sunning on edges of covers. Charming poems of one of our very favorite places. Speaks of Truro, P-town, etc. View More...
