Hardcover. 16mo. Title, hand-colored; [24] pp; limitation. Inscribed on the ffe "For Frank Bidart, Who should be working, instead of poking into odd little books. 6/3/78 / Nora + Fred." Limitation page reads in full "These rhymes have been selected from Mother Goose's Melody: or Sonnets for the Cradle, originally compiled by the 18th century publisher, John Newberry, but not published until after his death, first appearing in 1781. The 'maxims' are sometimes attributed to novelist Oliver Goldsmith.  Printed by F.W. Hegeman [Fred] and N.K. Kelley [Nora] in an edition of fifty copies.  The typeface is Bembo, the paper mouldmade Frankfurt Rough. Printed May, 1978." In publisher's patterned paper boards, very fine.

Scarce. We have not located any other copies of this lovely volume, inscribed or otherwise, in WorldCat or in the trade.

From the library of the important American poet Frank Bidart, who received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award, and the 2017 National Book Award for Poetry for his book Half-light: Collected Poems 1965–2016.