Animals, Animals, Animals from Smarty Pants

First Printing with full number line. New and Complete in New jacket. Author's first book.

First 'A' Printing. Pictorial boards. Splits along spine seam and rubbed points, else tight, bright and unmarked. A Golden Sturdy Happy Book. Scarce. Illus. by June Golsborough.

Probable First Printing -- No statement. Matte pictorial boards. Fine in lightly worn, unclipped jacket (coded $1.95) with a micro spine chip. Color illustrated by Berson. A traditional story of a horticulturalist rabbit and his struggle to pull up the enormous turnip that appears in his garden..

Stated First Printing. Publisher's Dolphin Binding produced for libraries -- sturdy, superior and beautiful in pictorial cloth. NOT former library book. AS NEW. No jacket. Early Jerry Pinkney pictures.

Stated First Impression -- First Printing. Glossy pictorial boards. NEW in NEW jacket. Five bunnies emerge from their nest for the very first time.

First American Edition. Tight, bright and unmarked in crisp, clean jacket with small tears, clipped top flap and $3.50 price on flap bottom. Author illustrated who pulls out all stops in color, composition and technique.

First Printing. Decorative yellow cloth with light soil. Gift note on front end paper partially covered in white tape and small tear along gutter, else a very nice copy with pristine binding and text pages. No jacket. Nice - NOT a former library book.

First Printing of this 1987 reissue -- originally published in 1974. AS NEW in AS NEW jacket. Illustrations by Jose Aruego and Ariane Dewey. An ALA Notable Children's Book and IRA-CBC Classroom Choice. A rain-soaked ant takes refuge under a mushroom, which expands to shelter several of his waterlogged friends including a butterfly, mouse, sparrow, and rabbit.

First Printing. Blue cloth with lightly faded edges, else fine. Lightly worn jacket has tiny spine tip chips.

First Printing. Decorative turquoise colored cloth. Sweet little rectangular book measuring just 5-inches tall. Nice copy -- tight, bright and unmarked. Lacks a jacket. Scarce in nice condition -- Not a former library copy.

Possible First edition -- unstated. Glossy pictorial boards. Spine ends lightly worn, else a Fine unmarked copy. Color illustrations by E. F. Vaughan.

Stated First Edition. Tight, bright and unmarked throughout. Soiled, price-clipped jacket. Illustrated by Marcello Minale. .

First Printing. Glossy pictorial boards. New in New jacket. Illustrated by Liz Pichon ~ her first children's book. Scarce in collectible condition. African folktale tradition about a young girl's journey through the lush African jungle.

Stated First Edition. Golio. Glossy pictorial boards. Near Fine -- no flaws. No jacket.

SCARCE First Edition indicated by "A" on last page. Beautifully preserved decorative red cloth. Small amount of white out (probably covering former owner name) on front end paper. Price-clipped jacket has light edge wear. Pictures by Esther Friend. This is not the more common "elf" book.

First "A" Printing. Decorative cloth with lightly worn / frayed edges, else tight, bright and unmarked. No jacket. Illus. by Paul Brown.

First Printing. Flawless, Like New copy with Review slip laid in. Issued without a jacket. Illustrated by Hans de Beer..

Early Printing. Pictorial boards are lightly rubbed at tips, else fine, unmarked in clean, un-clipped ($1.50) jacket with light wear and two-inch closed tear along spine. Illustrated by the author. (First issue has $1.25 price.)

TRUE First Edition of the original published by Harper & Brothers -- reprinted by Harper & Row in the 1960s. Edges rubbed, exposing a tiny bit of the boards at corners. Sparse, light foxing on a few pages, else fine. Edge creased, shelf worn, jacket with $2.75 flap price has tiny tears and chipped spine ends. Photographs by Gregor.

Second Impression of First American Edition. Fine in Near Fine, unclipped ($3.95) jacket with small chip. Illustrated by Carol Barker.