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"Old Woman, Old Woman," a nonsense Mother Goose rhyme in Wright's classic collection, features an old woman "tossed in a basket" who is sailing off to "sweep the cobwebs from the sky."

Works Cited:
Chatton, Barbara. "The Real Mother…

A congratulations letter for the SLIS 25th anniversary from the Banff Centre Library

Binding: good to very good ; leather bound (brown) ; a small hole in back cover (board visible) ; some cracking ; rubbed edges ; some visible wear ; embossed border and designs on front and back cover ; end papers contain print (seem to be discards…

Binding: good ; limp vellum binding ; laced at spine ; slightly worn ; binding on bottom left corner of inside front cover seems to be lifting, and endpaper has been lifted by the vellum

Spine: good ; faint hand-lettered text seems to read…

Binding: good to very good ; insert that reads "G. HUSER BINDING" ; deep red leather binding ; 5 raised bands on spine ; gold tooling on edges and inside covers ; "G. HUSER" in gilded print on inside front cover border detail ; marbled endpaper ;…

Binding: poor to fair ; front cover completely separated from material ; spine and back cover are still connected ; red leather with gold tooling [border detail and a crown with the initials "A" and "R" on either side of the top of the crown on the…

Told in first-person narrative, this book is set in Manhattan in the late 1980s and follows the life of the young and wealthy investment banker, Patrick Bateman. Bateman describes his daily life on Wall Street and recounts his evening outings in…

A congratulations letter for the SLIS 25th anniversary from Monash University in Australia

"This is one of the nicest things Margaret Wise Brown has done, and Clement Hurd has made enchanting pictures, with line drawings and eight double spreads in four colors, beautifully reproduced. The text pattern is a successful dialogue with almost…

"The rhyming simplicity of the text still brings comfort to both mother and child, even after 50 years. Brown's ability to describe just what a small child notices is the essence of this book. The black-and-white details interspersing Hurd's…