2 Vintage Sesame Street Books 1st appearance of Elmo Jim Henson Muppets Circus

The Sesame Street Circus of Opposites and the Sesame Street Storybook The Sesame Street Circus of Opposites: Featuring Jim Henson's Sesame Street Muppets by Emily Perl Kingsley Cookie Monster and Betty Lou enjoy the Circus of Opposites, with Guy Smiley as ringmaster. Various Muppet characters perform different acts to demonstrate opposite concepts; Herry dives into a water tank, showing dry & wet, Frazzle and Barkley show first & last with a line of clowns, and Big Bird and Little Bird with (of course) big & little. 24 pgs, hardcover, 1981, minor cut at top of the first endpapers This book features some of the earliest illustrations of a dark orange Elmo, Telly, the Honkers, Pearl, and Deena, as well as one of the few appearances of Grover Knover (Grover's daredevil alter ego!) The Sesame Street Storybook: Stories and Verse Based on Material from the Sesame Street Show, Featuring Jim Henson's Muppets Stories and verse featuring characters from the show introduce number concepts, the alphabet, and word meanings. Characters pictured in the book include: Bert, Betty Lou, Big Bird, Bob, Cookie Monster, Ernie, Grover, Herbert Birdsfoot, Herry Monster, Lefty, Little Bird, Oscar the Grouch, Roosevelt Franklin, Roosevelt Franklin's Mother, Sherlock Hemlock, and Willy. The two-page illustration for the book's endpapers includes Jim Henson and Frank Oz looking out the 123 Sesame Street window (9th image). Originally published in 1971, this is a 1986 edition.