COUSIN GRACE'S PRETTY STORY BOOKS NO. 4: NURSERY RHYMES
First edition of this scarce little collection of illustrated nursery rhymes, including classics like Little Miss Muffet and Bah Bah Black Sheep.
First edition of this scarce little collection of illustrated nursery rhymes, including classics like Little Miss Muffet and Bah Bah Black Sheep.
Gilded Age McLoughlin Brothers publication of the traditional rhyme "This Little Pig Went to Market" from Aunt Mary's Little Series.
First edition thus of this rare chapbook version of the classic accumulative rhyme, with charming woodcuts.
Charming Edwardian edition of the classic nursery rhyme.
Die-cut Mother Goose rhymes, in the shape of a little girl carrying a pig.
First edition of this philatelic activity book that encourages children to match pictorial stamps to fairy tales — a stunning unused copy, complete with the stamped in the unopened glassine envelope.
First edition of a combination of two shorter nursery rhymes about TOM, with a humorous reference to the Napoleonic Wars to tie them together.
Second American edition of the popular English nursery rhyme about bird-based crime and justice.
First edition of this evocatively illustrated MOTHER GOOSE book, a scarce and highly sought version in particularly nice condition.
Scarce first printing of the first book with Parrish's illustrations and the first book Baum published for children.
A delightful Mother Goose book, in which dozens of favorite characters are used in stories instead of rhymes.
Traditional nursery rhyme structures are updated with new stories of various insects and animals, with the real star at the end: a "bird fair" of anthropomorphized birds getting together to socialize.
First edition, first printing, the story behind the nursery rhyme of "This Little Piggy Went to Market,"a great copy.
First edition of this book of classic nursery rhymes adapted for cats with characteristically eccentric and charming illustrations by Wain.
First issue of this slightly off-center collection of classic children's stories in unusual settings.
Signed original watercolor entitled "Chased into the Lake," used as a double-page spread in Conover's FROGGIE WENT A-COURTING published by FSG in 1986.
Signed original watercolor entitled "Walking to the Wedding," used as a double-page spread in Conover's FROGGIE WENT A-COURTING, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1986.
Signed finished watercolor used in Conover's 1989 book MOTHER GOOSE AND THE SLY FOX.
Large and wonderful finished pen-and-ink drawing that would later be published in the book YE OLD TIME NURSERY RHYMES BY MOTHER GOOSE.
Large and dynamic finished pen-and-ink drawing, later published after its rediscovery in the book YE OLD TIME NURSERY RHYMES BY MOTHER GOOSE.
Large and wonderful finished pen-and-ink drawing that would later be published in the book YE OLD TIME NURSERY RHYMES BY MOTHER GOOSE.
First edition, second issue, with fabulous color plates by Denslow facing text hand-lettered by the influential typographer Goudy.
Collection of nursery rhyme themed jig-saw puzzles – The Three Little Pigs, Mary and Her Lamb, and Old King Cole – in the original pictorial box.
Signed first edition of this illustrated collection of moral tales and poems, including "The Honest Woodman," "The Boy Who Cried Wolf," and "The Little Red Hen."
First edition, first printing, the story behind the "This Little Piggy Went to Market" nursery rhyme, a great copy.