Nutshell Library Alligators Around Chicken by Sendak Maurice (37 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. Sendak, Maurice (illustrator). Outer box is damaged (set) Cover/Case has some rubbing and edgewear. Access codes, CD's, slipcovers and other accessories may not be included.

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 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: 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.

Hard Covers. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good-. Maurice Sendak. (illustrator). Four books (approx. 3 3/4" H) in slipcase. Early reprint with darker blue band at bottom of dust jacket spine on 'Chicken Soup with Rice'. Bound in pinkish/beige cloth with purple lettering on spines and acorns/oak leaves decoration on front boards. Colour illustrations. 1. One Was Johnny - unpaginated. 2. Alligators All Around - unpaginated. 3. Chicken Soup with Rice - 30 pp. 4. Pierre - 48 pp. Very light rubbing to the edges of the boards, slight lean to the spines. Dust jackets have light to moderate edge wear/wrinkling, one or two small scuffs, a few tiny edge chips and edge tears. Slipcase has moderate to heavy edge wear with some small edge paper pieces missing. Not Signed.

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.

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. 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.

7 x 9,5 x 4 Sehr gut, ungelesen. ISBN: 0060255005. 900 Gramm Sprache: Englisch. Karton mit Original Schutzumschlag. Im Schuber.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Four miniature hard cover books (reddish / orange in colour) with dark brown type on spine & acorn / leaf design on face - enclosed in a worn, illustrated slip case (squared with some loss of surface covering). The front & back face of the open-face slipcase differ - alligator / lion / little boy. Copyright 1962, uncertain of printing history - Library of Congress catalog card number 62-13315. Boards measure 3 & 3/4" by 2 & 5/8" No dust jackets are present & with respect, obviously no ISDN number present.

Illustrated by author in color. (LC(ccn): 62-13315). 4 volumes. Pale pink cloth, black print spines, acorn/leaves topboard emblems. 48mo (9cm). pp. [32]; 30, [2] full page illustration, [1] blank; [48]; 48. Very Good/Lacks jackets/Very Good slipcase. Restored set by our in-house binder KTB: tinted covers with printed backstrip spine labels in color restored and reinforced slipcase with proprietary sealant. Alligators has repaired page tears, Pierre has 3 tiny clipped rear corners not affecting text.

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Maurice Sendak (illustrator). Reprint. 16mo (books measure 2.75 x 3.75 inches). Four volumes in slipcase. Varying pagination. Color illustrations throughout. Uniformly bound in red paper-covered boards with illustration printed on front covers in black, black lettering on spines. Each volume in the pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrated slipcase. Books, dust jackets and slipcase all Fine. Four classic Sendak works presented here in a charming format. A fresh set with no detracting qualities. Hardcovers with Dust Jackets in Slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: near fine/very good/very good. First edition. 48mo. (4" x 2 1/2") Four volumes in color pictorial box. Pink cloth. All volumes in dust jackets with some light chippng. (Chicken Soup with Rice has white edge on bottom of dust jacket. A lovely little set with Maurice Sendak's illustrations. Slipcase has just a bit of corner edge rubbing.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Tan buckram with cover illustration in brown of acorns and oak leaves, brown spine lettering, a lovely set in Near Fine dust jackets in a Near Fine illustrated slipcase. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This is a boxed set of four mini-books, each measuring 2.75 x 4 inches. Sendak illustrations are featured on the covers and throughout each. These first editions are a real treat to read and to peruse, as Sendak's illustrations connect so well with the text and resonate with readers old and young. The books' condition ranges from Very Good+ to Fine. The dust jackets complete, The completed, Very Good condition box is illustrated on all but the bottom surface by Sendak; wear to box limited mostly to the tips.

4 volumes, miniature format. Original pink cloth; printed dust jackets; pictorial slipcase. First edition, without price sticker. Undisputed children's classics, in miniature. Hanrahan A51. A well-preserved set. Fine copies in very clean jackets that have some light fading to the spines; light wear to slipcase at corners. Generally a very attractive set.

Hardcover. 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 salmon-pink cloth, in dust jacket; 32 - 48 pages; color illustrations throughout; 6.8 x 9.4 cm. All are Fine in a Fine dj with a hint of soiling. Illustrated paper-bound card slipcase; 7 x 10.2 x 4 cm. Very Good+ with light rubbing to the extremities. First edition, first or second printing. Ref: Hanrahan, Works of Maurice Sendak, A51. Books ship the next business day, wrapped in padding, in a box.

hardcover. Condition: Collectible-Good. Three volume set in case. Bindings unblemished, text blocks clean, boards straight, without highlights or markings. Rubbing/chipping to dust wrapper edges, rubbing shelf wear to slipcase. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. Partnered with Friends of the Library since 2010.

New York. Harper & Row, Publishers. 1962. 24mo. 4 volumes, housed in original pictorial card slipcase; original pink cloth bindings lettered in purple to spine, with oak leaf device to upper covers; each in pictorial dustwrapper and collected in the slipcase; pp. [32]; [v], 6-30 + [i]; [iv], 5-48; [47]; each work illustrated throughout in colour by Sendak; a fresh set in equally nice dustwrappers with light rubbing, small nicking and shadowed darkening to lower panels of 2 books; the slipcase with minor abrasion to corners. First edition, as published in the U.S., without the price sticker of $2.95 on the slipcase which remains on some boxes and sets the seal on the first edition status. It is generally recognised that sets in pink cloth bindings are first editions; later editions use variant coloured cloth. This miniature set comprises an alphabet, a counting book, a book of months and a cautionary tale.