Lullabies and night songs / music by Alec Wilder ; pictures by Maurice Sendak ; edited by William Engvick
1969, First Edition. London ; Sydney ; Toronto : Bodley Head. Very good copy in the original colour-printed title-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Marking to front. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #403877
ISBN: 0370011082
Contents; Night / Lois W. McKay -- Go tell Aunt Rhody -- The starlighter / Arthur Guiterman -- Now the day is over -- The Golux's song / James Thurber -- All through the night -- The cuckoo is a pretty bird -- The nut tree -- Where do you sleep? / William Engvick -- Chinese baby song -- Fiddle-dee-dee -- The crocodile / Lewis Carroll -- The Christ child's lullaby -- Many million years ago / William Engvick -- Baby bunting -- Minnie and Winnie / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Rock-a-bye, baby -- Evening is a little boy / Frances Frost -- The answers / Robert Clairmont -- Cradle song / William Blake -- All the pretty li'l horses -- Wee cooper o' Fife -- The journey / William Engvick -- Windy nights / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Sleep, baby sleep -- Night herding song -- Bobby Shaftoe -- Do, do, l'enfant do -- Hush, little baby -- Good night / Thomas Hood -- The huntsmen / Walter de la Mare -- Hark, hark, the dogs do bark / James Thurber -- Infant innocence / A.E. Housman -- Bingo -- The elephant present / William Engvick -- The cottager to her infant / Dorothy Wordsworth -- The telephone book lullaby / Alec Wilder -- Buckee Bene -- Seal lullaby / Rudyard Kipling -- Raisins and almonds -- The night will never stay / Eleanor Farjeon -- Douglas Mountain / Arnold Sundgaard -- Fais dodo, Colin -- Wee Willie Winkie -- Baby bye, here's a fly -- Tiptoe night / John Drinkwater -- Close your eyes / William Engvick -- Star wish. Subjects; Children's songs. Lullabies, English. Children's poetry. Songs with piano. Children's songs ; Juvenile literature. Lullabies ; Juvenile literature.
Price: €225.00