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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1952. Printed at The Riverside Press. First Edition. Hardcover. Thin quarto. 9.25 x 6.25 inches. 122 pages. Very Good+. Lacking dust jacket. Illustrated by Lisl Weil. Yellow cloth on board. Green lettering and illustration on front board, with green lettering on spine. Binding tight and square. Case very lightly soiled with bottom edges of both lower tips rubbed through (no bumping). Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, else clean and unmarked throughout. Some pages age toned. Upper corners dog-eared on pages 87/88 and 89/90. This extremely rare children's book, printed at The Riverside Press, was written by renowned American historian Henry Steele Commager, who helped define modern liberalism in the United States with 40 books and 700 essays and reviews, and illustrated by Lisl Weil, an Austrian-American graphic artist associated with the Zinkenbacher Malerkolonie.

New York: Random House, 1960. First Edition thus, First Printing. Hardcover. Thin octavo. 9.25 x 7.5 inches. 62 pp. Very Good+ / Good. Translated by Doris Orgel. Pictures by Maurice Sendak. Preface by Phyllis McGinley. Unclipped dust jacket. Cloth-backed pictorial boards. Spine lettering stamped in black and white. Top edge dyed red. Illustrated endpapers. Profusely illustrated in black, white, and olive in text and plates by Sendak. Conforms to all points in Hanrahan A38. Binding solid, tight, and square. Black and white stamped board illustrations bright and sharp. Tips sharp. Light shelf wear at head and tail of spine. Cloth back strip and text block edges slightly age toned. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Else, internally clean and unmarked throughout. Dust jacket rubbed, edge worn, torn and taped with some loss (see photos). Dust jacket now in protective archival sleeve.

New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, Inc. 1942. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. Thin quarto. 10 x 9 inches. 37 pp (unpaginated). Near Fine / Very Good. Unclipped dust jacket. Publisher's cloth-backed illustrated boards. Illustrated end papers. Illustrated by author. Boards clean and unmarked. Tips lightly rubbed and bumped. Text block edges slightly age toned. Interior clean and unmarked throughout. Dust jacket shows light soiling and moderate edgewear, with minor chipping at tips. Dust jacket now in protective archival sleeve.

New York: Harper and Row, 1970. First Edition, First Printing. Signed. Hardcover. Thin quarto. 11.25 x 8.75 inches. 40 pp (unpaginated). Near Fine / Good+. Inscribed in pencil, with full signature in ink, and dated by author on front free endpaper recto, "to Peter, hello!, Maurice Sendak, Nov.'73." Publisher's original oatmeal linen binding with circular color pictorial onlay to front board. Light brown endpapers. Fully illustrated in color by author. Full color pictorial dust jacket has all points present (per Hanrahan) for first issue: front flap clipped on bottom corner, price of $4.95 intact at top, 1070 at bottom left; seven titles listed on rear flap. Silver Caldecott Honor Book sticker on front dust jacket panel, indicating that this copy was not distributed until after the award was given. Binding tight and square. Case has sharp tips and no edge wear. Boards clean with exception of a small smudge at lower center of front board and a small spot of stain at the center of the top edge of the… Read More

New York: Rand McNally, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Thin octavo. 9.25 x 7 inches. 102 pages. Very Good+ / Good. Illustrated by the author. Tan cloth on board. Front board stamped in blue with pictorial pastedown. Spine stamped in blue. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated in color throughout. Binding tight. Boards clean, tips sharp. Pages age toned. Previous owner's bookplate and some smudging on half title, else internally clean and unmarked. Dust jacket rubbed, edge worn, torn with some loss (see photos). Dust jacket now in protective archival sleeve. Scarce in dustjacket.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948. Little Golden Book. "D" Printing. Hardcover. Small octavo. 8 x 6.75 inches. Unpaginated. Very Good+. No dust jacket as issued. Pictorial paper on boards. Rear cover shows price of 25 Cents and listing of The Little Golden Book Library, with Johnny Appleseed, D11, as last book in the series. Gutter code D on last page. Told and illustrated by Elizabeth Orton Jones. Clean, unmarked covers with light rubbing and edge wear. Previous owner's name ("DICKIE") appropriately penciled in "This book belongs to" field inside front board. Pages clean, lightly age toned, and free of markings.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948. Little Golden Book. "D" Printing. Hardcover. Small octavo. 8 x 6.75 inches. Unpaginated. Very Good+. No dust jacket as issued. Pictorial paper on boards. Rear cover shows price of 25 Cents and listing of The Little Golden Book Library, with Johnny Appleseed, D11, as last book in the series. Gutter code D on last page. Told and illustrated by Elizabeth Orton Jones. Clean, unmarked covers with light rubbing and edge wear. Previous owner's name ("DICKIE") appropriately penciled in "This book belongs to" field inside front board. Pages clean, lightly age toned, and free of markings.