Three Young Rats and Other Rhymes

  • New York: Curt Valentin, 1944
By Alexander Calder [illus.]; James Johnson Sweeney [intro. & ed.]
New York: Curt Valentin, 1944. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Curt Valentin, 1944. Limited Edition of 700 copies; this one unnumbered out of series. Quarto. 130 pages plus index and colophon. 85 black and white drawings by Calder. Printed dust jacket with $12.50 price intact. Yellow pictorial boards in brown cloth stamped in red. Housed in custom-made slipcase.

Dust jacket expertly repaired along edges with what appears to be substantial reinforcement to entirety of verso. Spine and edges sunned. Edges of boards lightly bumped with very light soiling along edges. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.

A series of classic nursery rhymes illustrated for adults by Calder.

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