Search Results: Poetry from E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA

New York: McLoughlin Bros, 1910 Circa 1910. Color-printed, die-cut card wraps, edge & spine wear, loss to base of spine and at the edges of a few pages, pages brittle, will need to be handled with care. Illustrated with 6 pages printed in color, the balance in line. Fables and humorous verses about animals. The cover is a pirated version of Louis Wain's Dandy Lion, some of the b&w artwork is by George Henry Thompson. . Early Printing. Original Wraps. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Louis Wain (cover, piracy), George Henry Thompson. Folio.

New York: Saml Gabriel Sons No date, Circa 1930. Eight linen-textured booklets with light wear, "Puppies" with 3" spine split, no writing or foxing. Eight booklets with simple rhymes and printed in color, most featuring humanized animals. The titles are: Pussies, Puppies, Chickies, Teddies, Piggies, Duckies, Pups & Pussies, and Bunnies. While no author or illustrator is credited, Mary LaFetra Russell did a lot of animal-themed books for Sam'l Gabriel at the time and these books are almost undoubtedly by her hand or an extremely good imitator. The books come housed in the original box which is well-worn with some losses, tears and crude repair.. Original Wraps. Very Good to Fine/No Jacket As Issued. Illus. by Mary LaFetra Russell (Attrib). Square 8vo.

Garden City: Garden City Books / Artists and Writers Guild, 1951 Pictorial boards with some rubbing to spine ends and corners, one page with a vertical crease. A selection of stories and poems which originally appeared in Story Parade Magazine. A few stories were published as separate books, but most only appeared in the magazine and here. The book was meant to be a gift to magazine subscribers and was inexpensively produced, for this reason not many collectible copies have survived. The stories & poems included: Boy Who Owned and Elephant, Tracks in the Sand, Fairy Kittens, Stowaway the Squirrel, Tails, Long Half Mile, Oscar Takes a Job, Enchanted Rabbit, Invaders, Twin Fauns, Rabbit Reasons, Jimmy Had a Heifer, Mice Poems, Donkey Business, & Fox and the Pig. Included with the book is a shipping box from Weekly Reader which the previous owner had stored the book in, which also contains an ad for Weekly Reader and other educational publications--none of which originally belonged to the… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991 Mustard boards with green cloth spine, corners bumped; dust jacket with light creasing around edges, slightly age-toned, original price intact ($24.95). A detailed biography of famed poet, Anne Sexton.. First Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo.

New York: Macmillan, 1925 431 pgs. Grey cloth pictorially stamped in red & black, minor shelf wear, else clean and fine. A large collection verses for children illustrated with a color frontis and title page plus 18 full-page line drawings, other smaller line drawings throughout.. Reissue. Pictorial Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by F D Bedford. Thick 8vo.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007 Pictorial boards in dust jacket. A cumulative tale about all that goes into the baking of an apple pie. Beautiful, graphically interesting artwork. Received a starred review from Booklist. First Printing. Fine/Fine. Small Square 4to.

Rochester, NY: Stecher Litho Co., 1927 Color printed die-cut card covers, light spine wear, else fine. Verses about baby animals and their mothers. Six pages printed in full color plus front and rear covers (repeat the same image), the balance in navy and red.. Near Fine. Illus. by Uncredited. Narrow 4to..

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1989 Cloth backed boards, small dent at top edge; in color illustrated dust jacket with small edge tears. The story of Irish wisewoman Biddy Early told in poetry by Willard and illustrated with breathtaking watercolors by Barry Moser.. First Edition First Printing. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Barry Moser. 4to.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913 101 pages. Mustard cloth pictorially stamped and titled in blue and red, covers and edges rubbed, a dime-sized abrasion to one plate, occasional finger soil but clean overall. Verses about the doings and adventures of imaginary folk called the Be-Ba-Boes who "Have no feet and have no toes." Wonderful b&w artwork throughout. Scarce.. First Edition. Pictorial Cloth. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. Illus. by Katharine Maynadier Daland. 4to.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1911 Orange pictorial cloth, light rubbing to cover and extremities, gift inscription. Humorous ballads with illustrations by various, uncredited illustrators.. First Edition. Very Good. Illus. by Various. 8vo.

London, Paris, New York: Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1890 Unpaginated. Stiff paper covers shaped like a basket, printed in color depicting a basket full of children, small chip from top of cover else, Fine. Opens from top to bottom, 4 full page color chromolithographs and one double page color chromo, all very lovely bright and clean. Also sepia printed illustrations and verse. Illustrations are signed E.A.C. . Original Wraps. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Chromolithographs.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell (1906). Pictorial cloth, a few bits of soil to cover, foxing to first and last few pages, previous owner's book plate, occasional light soil inside but clean overall. A collection of humorous rhymes about animals and beasts illustrated in line and monochromatic plates. This book comes from the collection of author, Susan Aller. The bill of sale from when she and her husband purchased the book is included.. First Edition. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by E. Warde Blaisdell. 12mo.

New York: Harper & Row, 1976 Pictorial boards in matching dust jacket with light wear and a few edge tears, original price intact ($5.95). A poem originally written for Plath's own children. Illustrated in color throughout by Emily Arnold McCully. . First American Edition. Pictorial Boards. Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Emily Arnold McCully. 4to.

New York: Viking, 1942 Turquoise cloth with pastedown label to upper cover, faint spotting to cloth and browning to endpapers; dust jacket age-toned with tiny chips from extremities, original price intact ($2.50). A lovely book of poems by de la Mare with color illustrated endpapers and b&w chapter heads and end pieces by Lathrop. A nice copy.. Stated First Edition. Cloth Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Dorothy P. Lathrop. 8vo.

Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1924 Pictorial boards, corners worn through, cracking along spine, one page with mended tear, gift inscription. Mother Goose rhymes with artwork taken from The Real Mother Goose by Blanche Fisher Wright.. Early Edition. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Blanche Fisher Wright. 12mo.

New York: Stonehill (1973).Green paper over boards, light wear to corners, illustrated dust jacket with light edge wear. A collection of fantasy stories and poetry by authors such as Christina Rossetti, John Ruskin, George MacDonald, Tom Hood, Mrs. Clifford, Mark Lemon and Mary de Morgan. Illustrated with reproductions of Victorian fantasy and fairy tale art.. Stated First Printing. Near Fine/Near Fine. Thick 4to.

New York: Abingdon Press, 1914 White paper over boards printed in color, light cover soil, paper along spine moderately chipped, wear to corners, previous owner's name. Verses about Billy and Bumps and their struggles to behave. Illustrated with monotone sepia artwork on every other page that was intended to be colored in by the child. This copy is unused. My OCLC search returned one institutional holding.. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

New York: Sterling, 2005 Pictorial boards in matching dust jacket. A poem about a little boy who wants to be an artist and dreams of a certain shade of blue every night so goes on a journey to find it. Stunning color artwork. Prix Saint-Exupery 2004.. First American Edition. Fine/Fine. Square 4to.

London: Hutchinson & Co, 1934 (1934). Light brown cloth boards pictorially stamped in gilt, one corner bumped, book plate on flyleaf. A selection of old ballads illustrated by Brock with 16 beautiful color plates. . First Edition. Near Fine. Illus. by H M Brock. 4to.

New York: Dial Press, 1981 Pictorial boards, bottom corner bumped, foxing to first and last few pages; matching dust jacket with light edge wear, paper clip impression to front panel, faint foxing, original price intact ($9.95). Retold with a cumulative rhyme by Verna Aardema from an old Kenyan folk tale and beautifully illustrated by Beatriz Vidal. . Stated First Printing. Pictorial Boards. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Beatriz Vidal. Oblong 4to.