Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace, 2nd pr., 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, rose color cloth stamped in black, 276 pages, b&w illustrations by W.C. Nims. Number 2 on copyright page so presumed 2nd printing. Previous owner's signature inside front cover otherwise clean. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton, Osgood and Company/Riverside Press, Reprint, 1879, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 532 pages. "Authors Edition". Black & white illustrations by M. L. Stone and V. Pedersen. Previous owners inscription on Preliminary page. Small piece of paper (pea sized) missing from bottom right corner of front endpaper. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, J. B. Lippincott, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 203 pages. SIGNED BY LENSKI ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Black & white illustrations by Lenski. Spot of soiling/darkening to paper on inside front pastedown. Blue cloth covers with light fading to spine - standard wear otherwise. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 2nd, 1903, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictures in color, B&W by Frank Verbeck. 1st Edition, 2nd State - July on copyright page. Previous owner's pencil signature on blank preliminary page. Front hinge cracked.
Hardcover. New York, Wendy Lamb, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 259 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very good pictorial dust jacket in mylar. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, David McKay , 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth stamped in black. 158 pages, illustrations and text in brown. Dust flap taped to inside front cover. Otherwise a clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Clarion, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 167 Pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY CUSHMAN on title page. Dust jacket illust. by Trina Schart Hyman. Dust jacket spine faded, otherwise, clean, tight copy with minor wear to cover boards.
Hardcover. NY, Robert M. McBride, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 217 pages. Hardcover with illustrated cover boards. What appears to be written on title page under author's name is "and Elizabeth Kent Tarshis" in black print letters. Black & white illustrations by Eloise Wilkin. Light foxing to copy throughout. Tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 212 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping.
Hardcover. London, Pavilion, 1st UK, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 284 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illust. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR MICHAEL FOREMAN on title page. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Bradbury Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with price clipped dust jacket with chipping. Illustrated in color by Rosemary Wells. SIGNED BY AUTHOR.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original dark blue cloth with large color illustrated paper label on front cover. Gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with 8 color plates and pictorial endpapers by F.C. Yohn. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE AND FRONTIS by Thomas and Yohn. Scarce thus. Three small chips to cover label, name on inside blank page, otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, lightly soiled dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. B&w illustrations by Toni Patten. A young reader's novel set in Jamaica.
Hardcover. London, Methuen & Co., 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 103 pages, b&w drawings throughout by Ernest H. Shepard. Dark red cloth with gold gilt image to front board of Christopher Robin playing with his train and gold gilt image to back cover of Pooh Bear & Piglet. Also gilt edge rulings, gilt titles to spine & gilt to top leaf edge. Tight binding with only minimal wear to top of spine. Pictorial pink endpapers, front & back, showing Christopher Robin with Pooh and various other friends, are very nice. Pale blue dust jacket has darkening to spine and tiny chips to corners, larger chip to top of spine. Front and rear panels with Shepard's drawings.
Hardcover. London, Methuen & Co., 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 100 pages, b&w drawings throughout by Ernest H. Shepard. Dark blue cloth with gilt image to front board of three characters after Shepard's drawings and gilt image to back cover of girl peeking through curtain. Also gilt edge rulings, gilt titles to spine & gilt to top leaf edge. Tight binding with only minimal wear to edges. Blank endpapers, front & back, with light tanning and ripples from publisher's glue. Dust jacket has darkening to spine and chipping to corners, larger chip to top of spine. Front and rear panels with Shepard's drawings, two spots of soil to front around type of title. This is the first of the four Pooh books and scarcest with a print run of about 4,000. Second state of the true first with ix on contents page.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow & Co., 1st US, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth stamped in red. When the family's inn burns down, Father Fortune decides to purchase a caravan so the family can travel through France making their living as a circus. 120 pages, illustrations (some color) by Maggie Salcedo. Covers with light soil/darkening to areas. interior bright and clean.
Record # 385220
Price: $18.00
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