MOTHER GOOSE
First Heritage Club edition of this large and colorful collection of classic nursery rhymes — one of the great American editions of Mother Goose, in the scarce original slipcase.
First Heritage Club edition of this large and colorful collection of classic nursery rhymes — one of the great American editions of Mother Goose, in the scarce original slipcase.
Mid-century American Christmas and nursery rhyme-themed pop-up book, following Santa as he visits Mother Goose and her friends.
A delightful Mother Goose book, in which dozens of favorite characters appear in short stories instead of the traditional rhyme format.
Signed second printing of this collaboration between the eminent folklorist and the beloved children's artist, signed by Wells and with a signed bookplate from Opie laid in.
First edition, featuring stories in verse of Mother Goose characters adapted with Lemony Snicket-like viciousness, such as "The Commendable Castigation of Old Mother Hubbard" and "The Gastronomic Guile of Simple Simon."
First edition thus, featuring two Mother Goose rhymes interpreted by Sendak and updated to reflect the 1990s.
First edition of the final Roosevelt Bears book — the series that popularized the teddy bear — in which they are solve nursery rhyme mysteries.
Signed first US trade edition of this book of traditional nursery rhymes, newly illustrated by Maurice Sendak.
First edition of this compilation of old English children's rhymes about cats, chosen by Lenore Blegvad and charmingly illustrated by Erik Blegvad.
First printing of this particularly chaotic version of the compounding rhyme, with hilarious illustrations by Steven Kellogg.
Scarce first edition of these traditional Chinese children's poems, rendered in English by Wyndham with pictures by the multiple award-winning Young.
Delightful large-format edition of this collection of classic nursery rhymes, with vibrant color wrapper.
Signed first printing of this retelling of the classic nursery rhyme, positing that the wall from which Humpty fell was not such a benign construction.
First printing of this portfolio of colorful nursery rhyme illustrations, from Mary Had a Little Lamb to Jack and Jill and more.
First edition of this delightful tale of young Jack and Betty's romp through various fairy tales and nursery rhymes, with doors to open and holes to peep through.
First edition, third issue of this gloriously Golden Age Mother Goose, one of Jessie Willcox Smith's best-loved works.
McLoughlin edition of this vibrantly illustrated nursery rhyme set to music, featuring humanized frogs, rats, and cats, part of their Aunt Louisa's Big Picture Series.
First Michael Hague-illustrated edition of this collection of short rhymes for young readers.
First printing of this story of the Roosevelt Bears' adventures as private eyes, on a mission to solve a variety of nursery rhyme mysteries — the rarest of the series to find with dust jacket intact.
Attractive Gilded Age edition of the nursery rhyme, featuring nicely executed color illustrations.
Scarce first edition of this clever US book playing on the mythology of nursery rhymes, featuring the adventures of Baby Goose when he slips away from Mother Goose and Father Goose.
Early 20th-century clever and humorous children's book with illustrations on every page.
Signed first printing of this pair of Mother Goose nursery rhymes with rather surreal illustrations by Maurice Sendak.
Illustrator's presentation copy of Untermeyer's anthology of poetry for children, warmly inscribed by Birch, with an elaborate original watercolor drawing of a young boy receiving this book from a kindly Mother Goose and a testy actual goose.
First edition thus of this pair of beloved stories, published in the early years of "one of the most important" booksellers in Cleveland (Maurice Joblin).