Three Young Rats and Other Rhymes. Drawings by Alexander Calder

New York: Curt Valentin, 1944. 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.