Books with author Shel: Silverstein

An Amazon Best Book of 2017 * A Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2017 * A NCTE 2018 Notable Poetry BookRunny Babbit, the lovable star of Shel Silverstein’s New York Times bestselling poetry book, is back in this instant New York Times bestseller! Runny Babbit Returns, a collection of 41 never-before-published poems and drawings, features Runny and other woodland characters who speak a topsy-turvy language all their own.This carefully compiled work from the Silverstein archives is filled with spoonerism poems that are both playful and poignant. With tongue-twisting word play and uproarious characters, the endearingly befuddled Runny Babbit and his friends embody Shel Silverstein’s singular style, the one we all know and love. Fans of all ages won’t want to miss their chance to follow their favorite Runny in this New York Times bestseller of laugh-out-loud adventures!

As new, stated 1st Scholastic Printing, gray cloth with gilt facsimile Silverstein stamped signature on cover, gilt font on spine, 167 pps + additional poem, index + blk & white illustrations. Appears unread without any writing or marks, binding is tight. Dust jacket is equally fine and now mylar wrap protected. GIFT QUALITY. "...'A genius ... his is an enduring influence' The Times 'Resonates beyond words' Guardian 'That rare adult who can still think like a child' The New York Times

Growing up in suburban Detroit, David Hahn was fascinated by science, and his basement experiments—building homemade fireworks, brewing moonshine, and concocting his own self-tanning lotion—were more ambitious than those of other boys. While working on his Atomic Energy badge for the Boy Scouts, David’s obsessive attention turned to nuclear energy. Throwing caution to the wind, he plunged into a new project: building a nuclear breeder reactor in his backyard garden shed.In The Radioactive Boy Scout, veteran journalist Ken Silverstein recreates in brilliant detail the months of David’s improbable nuclear quest. Posing as a physics professor, David solicited information on reactor design from the U.S. government and from industry experts. (Ironically, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission was his number one source of information.) Scavenging antiques stores and junkyards for old-fashioned smoke detectors and gas lanterns—both of which contain small amounts of radioactive material—and following blueprints he found in an outdated physics textbook, David cobbled together a crude device that threw off toxic levels of radiation. His unsanctioned and wholly unsupervised project finally sparked an environmental catastrophe that put his town’s forty thousand residents at risk and caused the EPA to shut down his lab and bury it at a radioactive dumpsite in Utah.An outrageous account of ambition and, ultimately, hubris that sits comfortably on the shelf next to such offbeat science books as Driving Mr. Albert and stories of grand capers like Catch Me If You Can, The Radioactive Boy Scout is a real-life adventure with the narrative energy of a first-rate thriller.

1964 TRUE FIRST edition, Harper & Row Publishers, w/ original DUST COVER. Hardcover Book: Very Good condition, near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Printing with the four line copyright page and NO ISBN number. NOT an ex-library. This ORIGINAL price-clipped dust jacket jacket has the 0964 code on the front flap. The back of this dust jacket also has a full torso photo of Silverstein on the back cover with hair on his head. The book is in wonderful GIFT condition. The binding is tight and the boards are crisp with slight wear to the edges. There is NO gift inscription, writing, marks in the book. Minimal wear as expected for age. A small bookseller seal on inside back cover at gutter. A beautiful copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION in collector's condition. SUPER RARE. Ideal GIFT for any Silverstein collector.