Mid-Century Modern
What's On My Plate? children's book by Ruth Belov Gross, illustrated by Isadore Seltzer (1st ed., likely 1960s, Parents' Magazine/Random House style dust jacket with bold mid-century graphics)
Estate sale in Omaha, NE: Nov 14
Photos: Ruth R. Hirsch via EstateSales.NET · 50 photos in the full listing
| When | Sat, Nov 14 · 1:00 PM–11:59 PM |
| Where | Omaha, NE 68136 (exact address not listed yet) |
| Run by | Ruth R. Hirsch |
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- What's On My Plate? children's book by Ruth Belov Gross, illustrated by Isadore Seltzer (1st ed., likely 1960s, Parents' Magazine/Random House style dust jacket with bold mid-century graphics)
- A Day in the Zoo reproduction antique pop-up book (Realistic Pictures of Birds, Beasts and Fishes)
- Because Amelia Smiled by David Ezra Stein, signed hardcover picture book with dust jacket
- Lothar Meggendorfer's International Circus pop-up book (reproduction of antique 1880s-era pop-up)
- The Doll's House pop-up book, adaptation of antique Meggendorfer pop-up by Lothar Meggendorfer
- A Day in the Life of Petronella Pig hardcover picture book by Tatjana Hauptmann
- A Kwanzaa Celebration pop-up book by Nancy Williams, illustrated by Robert Sabuda
- A Wish for Wings That Work by Berkeley Breathed, hardcover with dust jacket (Opus Christmas story)
- Berkeley Breathed's Flawed Dogs hardcover children's book, The Year-End Leftovers at the Piddleton "Last Chance" Dog Pound
- Books and Libraries by Jack Knowlton, illustrated by Harriett Barton, hardcover children's book with dust jacket
- Brian Froud's Goblins! hardcover book analyzed and interpreted by Ari Berk, with included Anti-Goblin Device
- Brundibar picture book by Maurice Sendak and Tony Kushner (hardcover, 2003 era)
- Chris Van Allsburg "The Chronicles of Harris Burdick" hardcover book, 1st edition 2011 with introduction by Lemony Snicket and contributions from 14 authors including Stephen King, Kate DiCamillo, Sherman Alexie, Cory Doctorow
- Cookie Count: A Tasty Pop-Up by Robert Sabuda hardcover children's pop-up book
- Creepy, Crawly Halloween Fright pop-up book by Thomas Beach
- Cynthia Rylant, The Cobble Street Cousins: In Aunt Lucy's Kitchen, hardcover children's book illustrated by Wendy Anderson Halperin
- Dear Mili by Wilhelm Grimm, illustrated by Maurice Sendak, 1988 hardcover with dust jacket
- Edward Fudwupper Fibbed Big by Berkeley Breathed hardcover with dust jacket (1986 first edition, if confirmed)
- First Editions of Dr. Seuss Books: A Guide to Identification by Helen and Marc Younger and Dan Hirsch (hardcover reference guide)
- Flawed Dogs: The Novel hardcover by Berkeley Breathed (2005, Little, Brown, first edition with dust jacket)
- Goodnight Opus by Berkeley Breathed hardcover picture book (Little, Brown, 2010)
- Grandpa Green by Lane Smith hardcover picture book
- Hello, Sailor children's picture book by Ingrid Godon with words by André Sollie, hardcover
- James C. Christensen "Voyage of the Basset" art book in maroon slipcase
- Little Red's Riding 'Hood by Peter Stein, illustrated by Chris Gall, hardcover picture book
- Mockingbird Morning by Joanne Ryder, illustrated by Dennis Nolan, children's picture book
- My Father by Judy Collins, illustrated by Jane Dyer, hardcover children's picture book with dust jacket
- No Star Nights by Anna Egan Smucker, illustrated by Steve Johnson, hardcover picture book (Alfred A. Knopf, c. 1989)
- Pinocchio by C. Collodi, illustrated by Ed Young, hardcover children's book with dust jacket
- Puss in Boots by Nicola Bayley, illustrated hardcover picture book
- Robert Priest "The Town That Got Out of Town" hardcover book with dust jacket, black and white illustrated cityscape with fish
- Robert Sabuda 'America the Beautiful' pop-up book, Statue of Liberty cover
- Robert Sabuda "America the Beautiful" pop-up book hardcover
- Robert Sabuda "The 12 Days of Christmas" Anniversary Edition pop-up book, hardcover, green cloth cover
- Robert Sabuda "The 12 Days of Christmas" pop-up book (hardcover, green cover with red bow and white doves)
- Spirit Child: A Story of the Nativity, translated from the Aztec by John Bierhorst, illustrated by Barbara Cooney, hardcover picture book
- Spread Your Wings and Fly: An Origami Fold-and-Tell by Mary Chloe Schoolcraft Saunders, illustrated by Carla McGregor Mihelich (hardcover children's book, origami instructions)
- The Arabian Nights hardcover book, blue cloth binding with gold lettering on spine (spine view)
- The Faeries' Oracle by Brian Froud, text by Jessica Macbeth (boxed card deck and guidebook)
- The Jolly Jump-Ups Vacation Trip pop-up book by Geraldyne Clyne, McLoughlin Bros. 1942 copyright, Springfield Mass.
- The Twelve Days of Christmas: A Piñata for the Piñon Tree by Philemon Sturges, illustrated by Ashley Wolff, hardcover picture book
- The Wretched Stone by Chris Van Allsburg hardcover picture book
- The Wretched Stone by Chris Van Allsburg, hardcover picture book with dust jacket
- Tomie dePaola: His Art & His Stories hardcover book by Barbara Elleman
- Tony Dungy "You Can Do It!" hardcover children's picture book, illustrated by Amy June Bates
- What Can You Do With a Shoe? by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers, illustrated by Maurice Sendak, hardcover with blue cloth slipcase
- Willy and May by Judith Byron Schachner hardcover children's picture book with dust jacket
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