James Johnson Sweeney Ed (7 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. pbk 12mo illus slight toning at spine prev owner's insc on front endpaper otherwise a very good clean tight copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Binding is solid. Pages unmarked but a little tanned. Red cloth cover has some shelf-wear, but otherwise okay. Dustjacket is tanned and worn at edges, including several small chips and tears.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Quarto hardcover in fine red cloth, unworn with clean unmarked pages, tight binding, covers unworn else FINE in NFINE DJ, one tiny tiny chip, now in clear mylar jacket protector. Solid readable copy. The Calder drawings remain faithful to the text, harmonizing with the beautiful typography, and the selection of rhymes ".is one of the finest (selections) ever made." These emphasizing poetic beauty that has long been said to be wasted on the young, emhasizing modernism, with emphasis on 'folk psychology' can be found in ancient texts--ironically. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. Staple bound exhibition catalog. Name of previous owner (famed art historian Peter Selz) on inside front cover, otherwise unmarked. Covers lightly yellowed.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition. Publisher's original stiff card wrapps; beveled edges. Lettered to front and spine. Spiral-bound leaves. 35pp. + plates. Incl. 2 tipped-in serigraph colour prints; 1 photo by Joseph Albers; 65 b/w plates. Printed tissue guard to second col. plate. [None issued for first col. plate.] Complete; all prints present. Slight age-toning and rubbing to covers; short closed tear to lower fore-edge. A near fine copy. Thick leaves; the colour prints are stunning.…

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Indeed. A bright facsimile of this anthology edited by James Johnson Sweeney, with illustrations by Alexander Calder. A facsimile of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper, printed by the Crafton Graphic Company, New York. Originally published as a limited edition work in 1944, this is a facsimile of a delightful anthology of classic, surprising and darkly amusing nursery rhymes. This work was compiled, introduced and edited by James Johnson Sweeney (19001986), and illustrated throughout by Alexander Calder. Rhymes include 'Fee, Fie, Fo, Fum', 'Solomon Grundy', 'Jack and Gill went up the hill', 'One, two, buckle my shoe', 'The twelfth day of Christmas', and many more. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, cloth is in excellent condition. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Dust wrapper remains bright and generally smart, with shelf wear to the joints and two small closed tears to the front of the wrap. Fine. Alexander Calder (illustrator). book.…

dj. First, Limited Edition. "Regular" issue, one of 700 copies (there were an additional 60 signed and numbered copies issued with an original drawing). Quarto (32cm). Tan linen over canary-yellow paper-covered boards; titled in red on spine, with pictorial decorations to front and rear covers, xx,129,(5)pp. A straight, attractive copy with a few stray spots of marginal foxing; text mostly unopened; Very Good to Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, faded on spine panel and extremities, small loss and a closed tear at crown; just Very Good. Eighty-five whimsical drawings by Calder, printed on Arnold hand-made paper, accompanying nursery and nonsense rhymes collected by Sweeney. …