Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited To 700 Copies. 85 Illustrations By Alexander Calder.
Seller: Feldman's Books, Menlo Park, CA, U.S.A.
. Three Young Rats. Curt Valentin, New York, 1944.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Three Young Rats and other rhymes Large book with yellow board binding and tan cloth spine. Front and back have red-lined drawing/depiction, identical on both sides. Pages are thick and rough-cut with slight light foxing. Red printed title on spine. Blue marker inscription on first end-page.
Seller: Pleasant Street Books, woodstock, VT, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: 1/700. Small Folio. xviii (i), (1) 130 (6)pp. Original light brown half cloth over illustrated yellow boards with red lettering on spine, in original light blue dustjacket with red lettering on spine. Publisher's device on title page. With an introduction by James Johnson Sweeney. One of seven hundred unnumbered copies containing eighty-five drawings by Alexander Calder. Printed by S. A. Jacobs at The Golden Eagle Press, Mt. Vernon, in Granyon type on Arnold Unbleached paper. Dustjacket with sunning along edges and spine. Small dealer sticker on inside back cover. Very light foxing of top and foredge of block. Dustjacket in overall good, binding and interior in very good condition.
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$185.35 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Heavy wear including loss to spine and boards and separated spine cover. Missing DJ. First edition, limited to 700 copies - in our rare books collection Oversized.
Seller: Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
. Three Young Rats and Other Rhymes. Curt Valentin, New York, 1944.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 4to. Yellow pictorial boards with gray cloth spine. 1/700 copies. 130pp. B&w illustrations. Both end-papers have creases on fore-edges. Rear end-paper has a 1" tear on fore-edge. Else very good in dust jacket that is chipped, worn & soiled.
Seller: Kevin T. Ransom- Bookseller, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
Calder, Alexander. Three Young Rats and Other Rhymes. Curt Valentin, 1944.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Folio. Pp. xvix, 130. Reproductions of 85 drawings by Calder. Decorative yellow paper boards, tan linen spine. Partially unopened. Dj mildly sunned at right front and at folds. Mild bump at right margin of front board possibly during binding process. Else very clean and tight. One of 700 copies printed at the Golden Eagle Press, Mount Vernon, NY. This copy unnumbered.
Seller: Alphaville Books, Inc., Hyattsville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Drawings by Alexander Calder. 1st ed. limited to 700cc. Covers shelfworn and darkened around the edges. Bookplate on front endpaper.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Calder, Alexander. Three Young Rats and Other Rhymes. Curt Valentin, 1944.
Price: US$725.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover. 1944. Curt Valentin. 130 pages. Limited Edition. Deckled cut fore edge on pages. Small indent in front cover, and toning to Dust Jacket spine else Book and Dust Jacket are in Very Good Plus condition. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 130 pages
Seller: Book Gallery // Mike Riley, Phoenix, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Inscribed by Calder on ffep. Stated first edition of 700 copies (this copy is not numbered). Brown cloth spine with red lettering; yellow papered boards, pictorially stamped on front and rear covers. Exposed board at spine ends and corners. Short non-authorial gift inscription on flyleaf. Dust jacket spine is toned, has some large chips and is very fragile; hinges split (very light archival tissue mending on reverse); front and rear panels show light edgewear and have toning around edges; not price clipped ($12.50); in a clear archival sleeve. 4to. xviii, [4], 130, [6] pages. 12.25 x 9.5 inches. The inscription reads: ''2 (or 4) / A Silver Anniversary / A Calder''. Calder's 85 drawings were executed in the spring of 1944. Printed by S. A. Jacobs at The Golden Eagle Press, Mt. Vernon, in Granjon type, on Arnold Unbleached paper. Rhymes from Mother Goose and other classic sources provide the inspiration for the eighty-five illustrations by Alexander Calder (1898-1976). Originally published in 1944, this compilation of the artist's frank depictions of nudes adds a decidedly adult cast, as well as a new depth and resonance, to a host of familiar chants and verses. James Johnson Sweeney, who selected the verses, contributes an insightful introductory essay. His scholarly study of the significance of the nursery rhyme tradition corresponds in wit and subtlety to the expressive brilliance of Calder's drawings.
Seller: Boyd Used & Rare Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
CALDER, Alexander. Three Young Rats and Other Rhymes. Curt Valentin, New York, 1944.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Folio. Cloth and illustrated papercovered boards. Edited with an introduction by James Johnson Sweeney. 85 drawings by Calder. Corners a little bumped, still fine in fine dustwrapper with a very faint dampstain at the crown, and very slightly spine-faded. One of 700 numbered copies, this copy unnumbered. Small envelope laid (and formerly lightly tipped) in with the calling card of Mr. and Mrs. James Johnson Sweeney, with a handwritten presentation from them.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Calder, Alexander. Three Young Rats; And Other Rhymes. Curt Valentin, New York, 1944.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Description: 4to. [xviv], 130 pp. Drawings by Calder. SIGNED. Cloth in dustwrapper, edge of spine archivally mended, else very good copy. (76298). Edited with introduction by James Johnson Sweeney.â"Sixty numbered copies, signed by artist, include one original pen and ink drawing; present copy unnumbered, lacks drawing, signed by Calder on colophon.
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1210.34 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition; Signed Limited edition. xix, 130 pp. Red cloth spine and pictorial cream card boards, in dustjacket. With 85 drawings by American artist and sclptor Alexander Calder. Copy number 11 of 60 signed copies on Sevir mould made paper (without the additional pen and ink drawing). Rubbing to spine and corners of binding alongside an inkstrain to the foot of the front board. Jacket edgeworn with some markings and torn at spine with tape to the inside. Edges rough with some occasional markings to leaves. Rare. 4to. Illustrated
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. One of 60 copies on Sevire mould made paper. Fine copy (gift inscription on front free endpaper) in very good to near fine dust jacket with a small triangular chip at the lower right corner of the spine panel. Unnumbered copy, although signed by Calder below the colophon as called for. Lacks the original drawing which came with this issue, although probably this out-of-series copy never had one. A superbly produced book, much more attractive than the ordinary edition of 700 copies. All copies, both this limited issue and the ordinary edition, were printed by S. A. Jacobs at the Golden Eagle Press.
Seller: Alexanderplatz Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.