Three Young Rats and Other Rhymes. by CALDER, Alexander (illustrator) - 1946

Dover Publications, Incorporated. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Museum of Modern Art, 1946. Hardcover. Very Good. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Curt Valentin, 1944. First edition, one of 700 copies on Arnold Unbleached paper. This copy is unnumbered. 4to. Illustrated with reproductions of eighty-five quirky drawings by Calder. 136 pp. Original linen spine and yellow decorated paper over boards. Boards are slightly marked, browned and bumped, slight rubbing/wear to spine ends and corners, spine ends a little soiled and stained, small split/strain to stitching at top opposite title page, pages rough-trimmed and foxed/browned to edges, blobs of foxing within, more marked to prelims and endpapers, final 14 pages and rear endpapers have a pale oval waterstain (affecting neither text nor drawings) reflected in browning and wrinkling to rear pastedown and exterior of rear board. Predominantly good plus. D/w stained and torn, comprising separated front and rear panels with flaps, and fragments of wrapper spine. Extra postage required.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Poor.

New York: Curt Valentin, 1944. First edition. Hardcover. g to vg condition. 1/700. Small Folio. xviii (i), (1) 130 (6)pp. Original light brown half cloth over illustrated yellow boards with red lettering on spine, in original light blue dustjacket with red lettering on spine. Publisher's device on title page. With an introduction by James Johnson Sweeney. One of seven hundred unnumbered copies containing eighty-five drawings by Alexander Calder. Printed by S. A. Jacobs at The Golden Eagle Press, Mt. Vernon, in Granyon type on Arnold Unbleached paper. Dustjacket with sunning along edges and spine. Small dealer sticker on inside back cover. Very light foxing of top and foredge of block. Dustjacket in overall good, binding and interior in very good condition.

NY: Curt Valentin. Very Good+/Very Good. 1944. Hard Cover. Folio. Pp. xvix, 130. Reproductions of 85 drawings by Calder. Decorative yellow paper boards, tan linen spine. Partially unopened. Dj mildly sunned at right front and at folds. Mild bump at right margin of front board possibly during binding process. Else very clean and tight. One of 700 copies printed at the Golden Eagle Press, Mount Vernon, NY. This copy unnumbered. .

Hardcover. Good. VG- in fair, unclipped dustjacket. True first edition. New York: Curt Valentin, Hardcover First edition, one of 700 copies on unbleached Arnold paper; this copy not numbered. Printed by S.A. Jacobs at the Golden Eagle Press. 4to. llustrated with reproductions of eighty-five drawings by Calder. 136 pp. Original linen spine and yellow decorated paper over boards. Occasional spotting, foxing at endpapers. No reader's marks.

New York: Curt Valentin, 1944. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Folio. Cloth and illustrated papercovered boards. Edited with an introduction by James Johnson Sweeney. 85 drawings by Calder. Corners a little bumped, still fine in fine dustwrapper with a very faint dampstain at the crown, and very slightly spine-faded. One of 700 numbered copies, this copy unnumbered. Small envelope laid (and formerly lightly tipped) in with the calling card of Mr. and Mrs. James Johnson Sweeney, with a handwritten presentation from them.