Cullen Countee and Christopher Cat (13 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Pinkey (illustrator). Reprint. book clean and tight. DJ: slight wear Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Pinkney, J. Brian (illustrator). FIRST THUS. First Edition Thus, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Silver Burdett Press, 1992. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is like new. Dust jacket is like new.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

1968 1st printing ex-library hardback.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First printing of the second ediiton. Hardcover. 224 pages. Charming children's book by Countee Cullen. Features illustrations by Rainey Bennett. A near fine copy with some slight pushing to the bottom of the spine and in a near fine dust jacket with some minor wear to the base of the spine and some other light wear.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Joseph Low (illustrator). First Edition. Originally published in 1940 by Harper & Brothers Publishers of New York. Reprint. 95pp. Color illustrations. Pictorial cloth boards illustrated by Joseph Low, blue spine with title and title on front board. Pc pictorial Dust Jacket. A fine copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Joseph Low (illustrator). "With warm regards Ida M. Cullen (Mrs. Countee Cullen) May 1973 on ffep; clean and tight, a few spots of foxing and very light wear to the unclipped dust jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Bennett, Rainey (illustrator). 1st This Edition. Brown hardcover boards binding clean square and tight - slight smudge ffep. DJ has minor wear at corners. 221 pages. Christopher Cat is enjoying his ninth - and last life, which in his opinion is guarded much too carefully by Mitzi a beautiful Persian. His previous eight lives = some brief, some longer - were filled with adventure and romance. His curiosity was his undoing in each of those lives, which is recounted with humor and wit. Book written in a unique man-cat language; delightful illustrations throughout. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dj. Charles Sebree (illustrator). Second Edition. 72pp. Illustrated endpapers. Yellow cloth, Green lettering. Prev.owner stamp on the front free endpaper.16 full color, vibrant illustrations by Charles Sebree. Dampstains along the gutters, bottom corners are worn through. Intended for children, the poems explain why one will not find such animals as the Wakeupworld, Squilililigee, Sleepamitmore, and the Treasuretit in any zoo we know. Size: Octavo. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First Edition. 95p octavo, illustrated A fine copy in a fine dust jacket inscribed by Ida M Cullen to author and scholar Richard Long. Ida was the wife of Countee Cullen. Someone has signed Countee Cullen's name below her inscription. He died in 1946.

Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. This copy is a survivor of the Brooklyn fire in 1970 in which Hall Johnson died. The orange boards are warped and water-stained and have dark brown discolored strip along the bottom 1" of the front and rear boards. The interior of the book is good plus and the 16 colorful illustrations by Charles Sebree throughout the text are very bright and charming, as are the illustrations on the front and rear endpapers and paste-downsns. This copy is inscribed by Countee Cullen and Christopher Cat to musician and composer Hall Johnson:"Countee Cullen/ His Copy. (Underlined) of The Lost Zoo. Admiringly surrenderd to Hall Johnson with the best wishes of Christopher Cat also! (underlined) New York Dec. 1940. (Underlined) In addition to the inscription there is an autographed letter signed (ALS) by Countee Cullen with its original envelope: Mr. Hall Johnson/ Hotel Theresa on the front: "940 St. Nicholas Ave./ New York, N.Y. December 21, 1940Dear Hall, It was nice seeing you for a moment last night. As I promised, here is a copy of my book the only copy I had on hand which accounts for the peculiar type of inscription. I hope it pleases you, and that you may find in it the type of fantasy to recommend to some of the Hollywood bigwigs Walt Disney preferred. Every good wish to you. Countee Cullen (underlined)." Note: Johnson worked with Walt Disney; and the Hall Johnson Choir was featured in the soundtracks on Snow White, Dumbo, and Song of the South. Hall Johnson was a highly regarded African American choral director, composer, arranger, and violinist who dedicated his career to preserving the integrity of the Black spiritual as it had been performed during the era of slavery. His Hall Johnson Choir, the first professional group of its kind, enjoyed a successful concert and recording career for more than three decades in the United States and abroad. During his professional life Johnson coached hundreds of distinguished musicians, including the famous opera singer Marian Anderson. Virtually every Black singer of note has performed Johnson s solo compositions and arrangements. Born on March 12, 1888, in Athens, Georgia, Hall Johnson was the son of William Decker Johnson, a minister, and Alice Virginia Sansom, a former slave. Johnson was given his first at age 14, with which he taught himself to play. Athens was home to a large, prosperous African American middle class, with excellent schools, and Johnson did well. He graduated from the preparatory school in 1903 and then moved on to Allen University in Columbia, South Carolina, where his father had recently been named president. In 1908, Johnson switched his studies to the University of Pennsylvania. After receiving his college degree in 1912, Johnson returned to Athens. Johnson gained a reputation as an excellent music teacher, and played violin in the orchestras of several Broadway productions, performing behind great entertainers such as Eubie Blake, Noble Sissle, and Josephine Baker. He found additional work in more than one dance band, including a stint touring the United States with a group known as the Southern Syncopated Orchestra. In 1923, he took the seat of the violinist in a chamber music group he helped form called the Negro String Quartet. The group performed pieces across a wide spectrum from the standard classical canon to contemporary pieces by African Americans. Johnson produced his own Broadway musical in 1933, Run Little Chillun, a production he called a folk opera. Johnson worked with Walt Disney; and the Hall Johnson Choir was featured in the soundtracks on Snow White, Dumbo, and Song of the South. Over his lifetime, Johnson was a consummate breaker of barriers, and not just between White and Black or between the world of churches and the world of mass entertainment. On April 30, 1970, Johnson died when a fire broke out in his New York apartment building. This volume is from Hall Johnson s library, much of which was salvaged from the Brooklyn fire. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author.

8vo, pp. 95. This seems to be a proof with the text (only) with a metal strap binding, grey wraps, laid in to the eventual dj (some rubbed). Does not include the illustrations. Very good copy. A children's story in prose and verse by noted African American poet Countee Cullen and his pet cat. First edition, thus, originally issued in 1940.Proof Copy.

Condition: Very Good-. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, [1940]. First Edition Stated with letter code K-P. Octavo (23.5cm); publisher's yellow cloth lettered in blue; [12],72pp.; color frontispiece, fifteen leaves of color plates (collated complete). Ex-District of Columbia Public Library with their gift ex libris from the Beatrice M. Murphy Foundation to front free endpaper, otherwise free of institutional markings; cloth a bit dust-soiled, scuffed and worn at spine ends and corners; about Very Good, internally clean and sound. Provenance: Ownership rubber-stamp of the aforementioned Beatrice Murphy, poet, educator, and founder of the Negro Bibliographic and Research Center in Washington, DC.