Nutshell Library by Sendak, Hardcover (86 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Sendak, Maurice (illustrator). Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Sendak, Maurice (illustrator). Text and Illustrations clean and unmarked : Solid tight binding : (SEE SELLER IMAGES) : Minimal cover wear : An old price label on cover : Written and Illustrated by Maurice Sendak Caldecott Medalist.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 4-volume set in slicpase. shows minor wear, rubbing, chipping, tanning.

Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. (Alphabet, Juvenile Literature, Miniature Books) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Hardcover. Sendak, Maurice (illustrator). SIGNED. A very attractive four-volume set of books written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak, in a card slipcase titled Nutshell Library. The four are: Alligators All Around, An Alphabet; Chicken Soup with Rice, A Book of Months; One Was Johnny, A Counting Book; and Pierre, A Cautionary Tale in Five Chapters and a Prologue. Each volume: hardcover, bound in decorated red cloth, in dust jacket; 32 - 48 pages; color illustrations throughout; 6.8 x 9.4 cm. All are Fine in a Fine dj; they appear as new. Illustrated paper-bound card slipcase; 7 x 10.2 x 4 cm. Fine with a hint of rubbing to the extremities. The slipcase has been SIGNED BY SENDAK to one side and inscribed "For Scott" to the opposite side. A later edition with ISBN numbers. Books ship the next business day, wrapped in padding, in a box.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Sendak, Maurice (illustrator). 1968 (1964) Good/Good. Hard turquoise boards with a little rubbing to edges/spine, a little browning. Contents clean and tight but for very minor spotting/soiling. date to ffep. Nice price-clipped DW with a little rubbing/chipping to edges/spine, minor loss to bottom of spine, a little scuffing, minor soiling/browning. Gift inscription to front flap. Charming colour illustrations by Sendak throughout. An amusing alphabet of alligators doing various activities.

Condition: New. Sendak, Maurice (illustrator). 1962. Illustrated. Hardcover. . . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2 3/4 in. x 3 3/4in. size miniature book. Light wear to jacket including wearing through at top of spine. Previous owner name dated 1966 on FEP. Binding is tight and inside is clean.

HARDCOVER. HARPERCOLLINS PUBL., INC. HARDCOVER. 1962. .

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Sendak, Maurice (illustrator). Later Printing. Four adorable little books in a miniature box set. Reissue of the original first published in 1962. Books are fine in a barely worn cardboard slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Maurice Sendak (illustrator). Salmon colored cloth. A four-volume set of books written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak, in a card slipcase titled Nutshell Library. The four are: Alligators All Around, An Alphabet; Chicken Soup with Rice, A Book of Months; One Was Johnny, A Counting Book; and Pierre, A Cautionary Tale in Five Chapters and a Prologue. Slipcase and dust jackets with light edge wear. Chicken Soup with a partially pulled signature holding by three cords. No ISBN no blue/green bar on Chicken Soup.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Maurice Sendak (illustrator). 1st Edition. First Edition with no price printed on box. Pink boards. Chicken Soup and Pierre are paginated; the other two are not. The box is holding up with scuffs and one small tear. We made dust jackets for this set from our first edition set. The previous owner, little Ransom, has his name on the pastedown endpapers. He even illustrated the free endpaper in "One Was Johnny" and attempted to write his name on the front boards. A charming intact set.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Sendak, Maurice (illustrator). 1st Edition. X-lib binding in a VG jacket. Bright and securely bound. This is one of the books in the Nutshell Library. Maurice Sendak received the 1964 Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are and is the creator of such classics as In the Night Kitchen, Outside Over There, Higglety Pigglety Pop!, and Nutshell Library.

Hardcover With Slipcase. Condition: Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Four volume set.Hardcover with slipcase. All four volume dust jackets show very light signs of handling and reading wear. Pierre shas light chipping to outer spine of dust jacket. Wrinkling to page 30. Foxing to back cover and inner flaps. One Was Johnny has 3 pages separated from text block but attached by binding thread. Slipcase shows signs of handling and shelf wear. Rubbing to corners. Creasing to bottom front.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Four small volumes in jackets and decorated slipcase. Pinkish cloth. No price sticker to the slipcase. CHICKEN SOUP has a light colored band along the top and bottom of the front panel of the jacket and to the bottom edge of the spine panel. Apparently this is a printing state. Contents: Pierre, Chicken Soup with Rice , Alligators All Around and One was Johnny. Overall Very Good copies in jackets with wear and scuffing in a somewhat roughened up slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Four small volumes in jackets and decorated slipcase. Pinkish cloth. No price sticker to the slipcase. CHICKEN SOUP has a light colored band along the top and bottom of the front panel of the jacket, though the bottom edge of the spine panel is printed in a somewhat darker blue shade than the rest of the spine panel. Apparently this is a printing state. Contents: Pierre, Chicken Soup with Rice , Alligators All Around and One was Johnny. Johhny lacks the jacket. Overall Very Good copies in jackets (except for Johnny) in a somewhat roughened up slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Four small volumes in jackets and decorated slipcase. First English Editions. Sharp copies in a mildly worn slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. Four miniature children's books written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak in an illustrated slip case. All books are the 1962 first edition. Each book dust jacketed. Books in Very good condition. Top of the slip case dented upwards but it is still sturdy and the illustrations on the case show little wear or soil. Dust jackets have some wear on the spines, nothing on the covers of any of them.

hardcover. Condition: Used, very good. Almost like new. Very small light brown hardcover with acorn and leaf design on front cover, Harper & Row, 1962, no jacket. As new except tip of corner of one page is creased. **We provide professional service and individual attention to your order, daily shipments, and sturdy packaging. FREE TRACKING ON ALL SHIPMENTS WITHIN USA.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Blue band to bottom Chicken Soup dust jacket spine with no price label to slipcase. 2 5/8 x 3 3/4 Books; bindings tight, Mauve boards straight and clean; texts appear barely read with no to minor soiling. Mild rubbing to mostly slipcase corners. Dust jacket spines have mild to moderate chipping with small paper loss to Alligator and Pierre ends. Color sharp to covers. Under archival quality mylar cover. Photos upon request. Packed well and shipped in a sturdy box.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. 10 cm. Copyright date only. No ISBN. Chicken Soup has the blue/green bar on the dust jacket indicative of a reprint. A set of four titles in a slipcase. The books and the dust jackets have a tiny amount of wear to the spine ends and the corner tips. I believe the spines are sunned. Pierre has a tiny mark to the cloth of the upper board, possibly a flaw in the cloth. Otherwise they have virtually no discernable wear. Lightly, if ever, read. The sleeve has a sticker pull mark, and some rub wear at the corners. A very sweet set of children's stories by Maurice Sendak.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Maurice Sendak (illustrator). First Thus. Salmon colored cloth. A four-volume set of books written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak, in a card slipcase titled Nutshell Library. The four are: Alligators All Around, An Alphabet; Chicken Soup with Rice, A Book of Months; One Was Johnny, A Counting Book; and Pierre, A Cautionary Tale in Five Chapters and a Prologue. No ISBN with blue/green bar on Chicken Soup. A very clean and tight set with no marks or inscriptions.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Maurice Sendak (illustrator). Four tiny volumes (3 3/4 by 2 5/8 inches) in slip case. Titles: One was Johnny; Pierre; Chicken Soup with Rice; Alligators All Around. Each is fine, in mauve boards decorated in brown. Dust jackets lightly sunned at spines, with 1/8 inch tear to end of One Was Johnny. Slipcase has a tiny bit of rubbing at corners. The yellowish stripe at the foot of jacket of Chicken Soup with Rice indicates first printing. All in all a near fine to fine set.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 4 volume set in very good condition. 6th impression. Pictorial slipcase also in very good condition.

Hard Back / Miniature in Dj. Condition: Good Clean Cond. Fully Illustrated (illustrator). Box retains beautiful color and shows someedgewear. Books and jackets are both in nice condition for the age. Except for the spine corners of Firefly and Night Before, which each have one slightly chipped/worn/frayed corder. Otherwise in good plus condition, some wear to edges, as normal for age. Overall good copy of this scarce title. Excellent read. A good book to enjoy and keep on hand. Or would make a great gift for the fan / reader in your life. Lightweight tales that will intrigue young minds. A readers stocking stuffer set from the early 1960s, classic children's literature in a miniature size to encourage the enjoyment of reading during the Holiday season for young readers. All books are in similar Condition. Wonderful miniature classic children's literature. 4 books in box as issued. 0060231653 / 0060255005. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible; Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDVery good four-volume mini hardcover book set, in cardboard sleeve. Includes: Chicken Soup with Rice; One was Johnny; Pierre; and Alligators All Around. Each tiny book is hardcover, bound in decorated cloth, in dust jacket. Clean pages, color illustrated. Dust jackets are a little chipped and edgeworn. Cardboard sleeve is worn but sound. Approx 4 x 2.75 inches.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. This is four Sendak-illustrated, dust-jacketed mini-books (4 by 2.5 inches) in an illustrated slipcase; a second state or an early reprinting, with a blue bar at the base of the spine of Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months. The other titles are One Was Johnny: A Counting Book, Pierre: A Cautionary Tale, and Alligators All Around: An Alphabet. They are each bound in reddish-pink boards with an oak decoration on the front; the boards show some fading. The dust jackets have some spotting to the spines but only minor edgewear and no tears. The slipcase is edgeworn.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Gift quality set of four miniature books in slipcase. All four books bound in salmon cloth making this the first edition, first series. Unmarked, no names, tears or soil on slipcase or books. 4 books, each 3.75" high by 2.75". In moderately rubbed pictorial cardboard slipcase. Includes: One Was Johnny, Pierre - A Cautionary Tale, Alligators All Around, and Chicken Soup with Rice.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Gift quality set of four miniature books in slipcase. All four books bound in pink cloth making this the first edition, first series. Unmarked, no names, tears or soil on slipcase or books. 4 books, each 3.75" high by 2.75". In a very attractive illustrated slipcase with negligible color loss at tips, displays beautifully. This is the nicest set we've had in over 25 years of bookselling. Includes: One Was Johnny, Pierre - A Cautionary Tale, Alligators All Around, and Chicken Soup with Rice.

Hardcover set in slipcase. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition Thus. 32mo 4" - 5" tall; 1970 Diogenes. 1st German edition. 4 volumes in orange paper covered boards and color pictorial dust jackets in pictorial slipcase. Original dust jackets generally bright and neat, just a trifle toned at spines. Aligatoren has a short closed tear to the jacket at the crown. Slipcase lightly rubbed edges and perhaps a little toned top edge A few mild spots of rub and bump to DJ spine edges. Books are stiffly bound; NF in VG+ dust jackets and slipcase.