Nutshell Library by Sendak, Set, First Edition (9 results)

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: 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.

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 chipping. (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.

First Edition. NUTSHELL LIBRARY, Harper & Row, 1962, first edition (mixed issue?), 4 volumes, fine in like full color pictorial dust-wrappers with like illustrations on virtually every page and bit worn slip-case. Collects ONE WAS JOHNNY, CHICKEN SOUP WITH RICE, ALLIGATORS ALL AROUND & PIERRE. This set does not have any price nor price sticker on the slip-case; is in rose pink cloth bindings; and has a small teal colored strip to the base of the spine of CHICKEN SOUP WITH RICE. The bibliographic points of issue do seem a bit murky for this title.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. 32mos. Slipcase measuring approximately 2 ¾" x 4". Four volume set. Fine in near fine dust jackets with light toning, all housed in a near fine decorative papercovered slipcase with slight rubbing. Four volume set containing "Alligators All Around", "One Was Johnny", "Chicken Soup With Rice", and "Pierre.".

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. 32mos. Slipcase measuring approximately 2 3/4" x 4". Four volume set. Fine in near fine dust jackets with small nicks on spine heads and faint stains on spines, all housed in a very good decorative papercovered slipcase. Four volume set containing "Alligators All Around", "One Was Johnny", "Chicken Soup With Rice", and "Pierre.".

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.