SANTA VISITS MOTHER GOOSE
Mid-century American Christmas and nursery rhyme-themed pop-up book, following Santa as he visits Mother Goose and her friends.
Mid-century American Christmas and nursery rhyme-themed pop-up book, following Santa as he visits Mother Goose and her friends.
Signed miniature panorama, illustrated with orange highlights by Gorey.
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."
Turn-of-the-century Christmas Stocking Series book, featuring original fairy tales starring a boy-monkey named Snug that lives in Way-Over-There.
First edition of this charming insect adaptation of the 1001 Nights, in which Fuz-Buz the fly buys himself time after being caught in Mother Grabem's web.
Signed first printing of Gorey's illustrated interpretation of the Grimm Brothers tale.
Signed limited first edition, one of 500 numbered copies signed by Pogany.
First edition of this collection of flowers portrayed as darling babies and children, accompanied by short verses.
Large and dynamic finished pen-and-ink drawing, later published after its rediscovery 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.
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 of this miniature book, an early title from Frank and Eleanor Irwin's Hillside Press.
First edition of this collection of nine Native American stories, many featuring the trickster Coyote.
Second American edition of the popular English nursery rhyme about bird-based crime and justice.
Portfolio of classic nursery rhyme figures printed in outline, with directions for painting in the forms using "Prang's non-poisonous water colors for children."
Ephemeral color printed production of classic nursery rhymes, an uncredited piracy of excerpts from Robinson's illustrated BIG BOOK OF NURSERY RHYMES (1903).
Early 20th-century "Golden Books" version of the Italian fairy tale, part of "the most attractive series of Children's Classics ever published."
First edition of Maud Humphrey's interpretation of several MOTHER GOOSE tales, beautifully illustrated and with calligraphic text.
Uncommon American moral story for children, loosely modeled on Hoffmann's STRUWWELPETER.
Scarce early 20th century American Struwwelpeter, with bright and jaunty Walter Hayn illustrations.
First printing of Wisniewski's interpreation of this Icelandic legend about the a blind girl with the gift of second sight.
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 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 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.