Nutshell Library SIGNED: Alligators All Around; Chicken Soup with Rice; One Was Johnny; and Pierre

Sendak, Maurice

ISBN 10: 0060255005 / ISBN 13: 9780060255008

Published by Harper & Row, New York, 1962

About this Item

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. Seller Inventory # 28206

Bibliographic Details

Title: Nutshell Library SIGNED: Alligators All ...

Publisher: Harper & Row, New York

Publication Date: 1962

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: Sendak, Maurice

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis:

From Maurice Sendak, the Caldecott Medal-winning genius who created Where the Wild Things Are, comes Nutshell Library, which will enchant readers with four classic titles.

Containing pocket-size versions of perennial favorites Alligators All Around, Chicken Soup with Rice, One Was Johnny, and Pierre, this pint-size library is perfect for small hands.

Learn the alphabet with silly alligators, drink chicken soup with rice every month, count visitors with a boy named Johnny, and survive a scare with a boy who doesn’t care. Endless adventures await in these lyrical stories that children, and their grown-up readers, will love reading and sharing over and over again.

A wonderful stocking stuffer or baby shower gift, Maurice Sendak's Nutshell Library will evoke powerful memories for many, and the rhymes and stories continue to speak to new generations of little ones.

And if you prefer your Nutshell Library books on their own and not quite so tiny, each is also now available in a board book edition.

From the Back Cover:

This 4-volume boxed set contains an alphabet book, a book of rhymes about each month, a counting book, and a cautionary tale all written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Includes the titles Alligators All Around, Chicken Soup with Rice, One Was Johnny, and Pierre.(Titles available separately in library and paperback editions.)