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I SAW ESAU: The Schoolchild's Pocket Book
by Opie, Iona; Opie, Peter
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Fine/Very Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1564020460
- ISBN 13
- 9781564020468
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 1992. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me." That's what children chant when they are being teased; it's what their parents chanted, and their grandparents and their great grandparents before them. Collected in this invaluable book are the wit and wisdom of generations of schoolchildren-more than one hundred and seventy rhymes ranging from insults and riddles to tongue twisters, jeers and jump-rope rhymes. With Iona Opie's introduction and detailed notes and Maurice Sendak's remarkable pictures-vignettes, sequences, and full-page paintings both wickedly funny and comically sad-this book offers knowledge and entertainment to all who open it. Like a collection of Mother Goose nursery rhymes or Grimms' fairy tales, I SAW ESAdeserves a place among the classic texts of childhood. Very fine, first edition, first printing, in very fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. [Not remainder-marked or price-clipped] BUND
Synopsis
Iona and Peter Opie were married in 1943 and worked together for nearly forty years, studying and writing about children’s lore and literature until Peter’s death in 1982. Among their collaborations is The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes . Iona Opie lives in England. Maurice Sendak has created texts and illustrations for more than seventy books, which have sold millions of copies around the world. He has won numerous awards, including a Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are , and the Hans Christian Andersen Award for his body of work. He lives in New England.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Joe Staats, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 024865
- Title
- I SAW ESAU: The Schoolchild's Pocket Book
- Author
- Opie, Iona; Opie, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1564020460
- ISBN 13
- 9781564020468
- Publisher
- Candlewick Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, MA
- Date Published
- 1992
- Pages
- 160
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
Terms of Sale
Joe Staats, Bookseller
Books shipped in secure packaging via USPS Media Mail, Priority Mail or Global Priority Mail, upon receipt of payment, unless customer requests another method of delivery. Shipping is within 24 hrs. of receipt of payment for money orders, and after three business days for personal checks. All book jackets are protected in mylar covers from Brodart. Customers have three business days within which to contact us with complaints about merchandise by e-mail. Returns must be approved, in original packaging material, and in the same condition as when shipped. Because we make every effort to have the best possible merchandise in the best condition, to describe it accurately and to package it securely, we will in most cases accept approved returns. Approved returns will be cheerfully refunded, or credit given toward other books. Our aim is to please, and to earn your return business with superior service and prompt delivery.
About the Seller
Joe Staats, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2003
Los Angeles, California
About Joe Staats, Bookseller
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We specialize in collectible, contemporary signed first editions. First edition means the first printing. (Later printings of the first edition are typically not printed on acid-free paper, and should be avoided by collectors.) Signatures are obtained by us in person. Inscribed books sold by us may contain a line, a phrase, or a sketch that the author has chosen to add. Our signed books are not dedicated to anybody in particular (not to your grandmother, your Aunt Gladys, your ex-lover or your former cellmate), except in the rare case of a presentation copy from an author to a noteworthy person. All our books are hardcover, unless the book is an Advance Reading Copy, Uncorrected Proof, or PBO. You can expect that the books we send you will be as described, and in a physical condition worthy of the author’s having signed them. We do not sell remainder-marked books, signed or otherwise
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