Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition and first printing (no subsequent printings listed), hardcover in excellent, unmarked, near-pristine condition (slight handling, tiny point of fraying at the upper spine). The dust jacket is good with small edge chips and tears, spine background faded (lettering unaffected), and is protected by a new, clear, removeable cover. 216 pages. [1 lb]. Book.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Published by Albert Whitman & Co., Chicago, 1940
Seller: Turn-The-Page Books, Skyway, WA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Full blue cloth binding with illustrated pastedown on front. Lightly shelf rubbed along edges. Illustrated endpapers. Child's name in colored pencil on half title page, otherwise clean inside. 95pp. Size: 4to - over 9" - 12" Tall.
Published by The Viking Press, New York, 1963
Seller: Betty Mittendorf /Tiffany Power BKSLINEN, Ralston, NE, U.S.A.
Cloth. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Hedvig Collin (illustrator). Green cloth binding. B & w illust. 216 pages. Chapter book. Usual library markings. Pocket on fep. Dj flaps pasted to inside of covers. A few small soil markings on covers. Spine slightly worn at ends.
Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Significant damage due to wetness. Boards are moderate to severely edgeworn. Binding is moderately loose. Some pages are falling out. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.
Published by Viking Press 1955, 1955
Seller: Virginia Martin, aka bookwitch, Concord, CA, U.S.A.
Condition: Good. No Jacket. Octavo, hardcover, VG ex school library copy in orange boards with hinges and cover reinforced. Clean and unmarked internally. No dj. Some b/w ills. 29 short chapters, 216 pp. Author's impressions of the great story-teller's early life written in celebration of the 150th anniversay of his birth. Book.
Published by Macmillan Company, 1953
Seller: Library House Internet Sales, Grand Rapids, OH, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.
Published by ALBERT WHITMAN, Chicago, 1940
Seller: John Wielinski, Noblesville, IN, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. HEDVIG COLLIN (illustrator). 1st Edition.
Published by Whitman, , 1st printing. Blue cloth with full paste-on plate, 7.3x9.3; 95 pp., 1940
Seller: Truman Price & Suzanne Price / oldchildrensbooks, Monmouth, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
/Hedvig Collin, illustrator. (illustrator). CONDITION: Good without jacket; plate is worn with 1" pull tear, loosening, pages clean. Juvenile hardback. Ollie wants to be a general in a Swedish match factory, Tillie wants to be another Jenny Lind; a story of venturesome children. Many bright drawings of a Swedish family throughout the text by a famous illustrator. ABE Heritage Seller since 1996; conservative AB condition grading. We ship all our books in cardboard protection. International shipping. /Hedvig Collin, illustrator.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Later Edition. ISBN Hardback. No Dustjacket. Very Good Condition. Tight sound copy with owner's inscription on second front free endpaper, some browning to edges of interior pages, heavy browning to spine, minor rubs to edges and corners of covers. Reinforced Library binding but NOT an ex-library copy.
Language: English
Published by Horn Book Inc, NY, 1951
Seller: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Frontis: Hedvig Collin (illustrator). 1st. stapled pictorial wraps; owner's sramp; pp. 66-136;; clean, unmarked pages; includes items by/about: Children's Literature; Editorial Teen Children's books on a Desert island); Anne Parrish (Writing for Children); Marc Simont (Artist's Choice); Katherine B. Shippen (review: Landmark Books); Leone Garvey (Regional Book ) Margery Williams Bianco (Easter Rabbits and Others); Etc.
Published by Albert Whitman, 1940
Seller: Dorothy Meyer - Bookseller, Batavia, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: good. no jacket. First Edition date same on title. NOT an ex library book. Book with yellow cloth spine, blue boards. Book has some wear on spine ends and corners. 95 pages with color illustrations.
Condition: As New. Collin, Hedvig (illustrator). Unread book in perfect condition.
Condition: New. Collin, Hedvig (illustrator).
Published by Macmillan, New York, 1953
Seller: Village Booksmith, Hudson Falls, NY, U.S.A.
Hard Cover. Condition: Good to Very Good. No Jacket. Collin, Hedvig (illustrator). 141 pages. Corners rubbed. Small spot on lower edge of back cover. Former owenr's name stamped near top edge of front paste-down endpaper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Language: English
Published by Viking Press, New York, 1951
Seller: NWJbooks, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Hedvig Collin (illustrator). 1st Edition. Pictorial grey covers. 4to. 92 pages. Ex-Harvey Johnson Junior High School (P.S. # 106) library book. Light rub to spine ends, otherwise fine.
Published by Chicago: Junior Press Books/Albert Whitman & Co., 1940, 1940
Small 4to; cloth covered boards with pictorial pastedown; hardcover; pictorial endpapers; 95 pages; color and black and white illustrations; lightly sunned and edgeworn covers else a very good clean tight copy.
Published by Albert Whitman & cO., Chicago, 1939
Seller: Tubac Book, Tubac, AZ, U.S.A.
Hedvig Collin (illustrator). Very clean with no interior marking,
Published by Viking, New York, 1957
Seller: Neil Williams, Bookseller, Victoria, BC, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: NF/VG. First US Edition. One of the delightful Nils stories from Denmark illustrated by the author. Nice copy in price clipped DJ that shows a little wear and soil.
Condition: Good. First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. (Denmark, travel, children's stories).
Published by Albert Whitman & Company, 1940
Seller: Recycle Bookstore, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Book has modest rubbing to covers with prominent aging scuffs and several smudges, a light gap between top area binding and spine cover, moderate wear to edges and corners. in good condition due to cosmetic/aging wear, otherwise binding is intact with no missing pages, unmarked text and pictures.
Published by Herbert Stuffer Berlin, 1933
Seller: Kunst und Schund, Plauen, Germany
Zustand: Befriedigend Einband: Leinen 340 S. Ohne Schutzumschlag, Einband etwas fleckig bzw. abgegriffen. 600 gr.
US$ 33.68
Quantity: Over 20 available
Add to basketHardback. Condition: New. Collin, Hedvig (illustrator).
Published by Viking Press, NY, 1945
Seller: Browsing Is Arousing, Middlebury, VT, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good. Hardcover, light beige cloth with blue lettering on spine and drawing on front cover, 96 pages illustrated in color and b&w by the author. Mild soil to covers. Record # 400826.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First printing. 7 x 10 in . Cloth boards with color litho. Condition is VERY GOOD ; corners worn, covers rubbed. Binding tight and text unmarked. Chil. Stax.
Published by Albert Whitman & Company, Chicago, 1932
Seller: Kevin T. Ransom- Bookseller, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hedvig Collin (illustrator). 1st Edition. 4to. Hardcover. Green cloth with full-page pictorial paper paste-down on front cover. Unpaginated. Color illustrations. 1st edition. Small damp-stain at bottom of covers not affecting text. Previous owner's name in ink at top of front end-paper dated 1932. Couple small chips in dust jacket.
Published by Albert Whitman & Company, Chicago, 1932
Seller: Friends of the Curtis Memorial Library, Brunswick, ME, U.S.A.
Association Member: MABA
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Printing. No other dates. The book is bound in coated cloth with title ,author and princess illustration on the front cover. There are several indentations on the front cover. The fore-edges of the covers have abraded areas. Light shelf wear on the corners and spine caps. Several areas of erasures on the ffe. Endpapers in the color yellow. Small notation in pencil on front paste-down and one light tan smudge on the title page. Otherwise, the book is clean, tight and unmarked. Filled with lovely illustrations in color by the Danish painter Hedvig Collin. Unpaginated. Printed in Germany.
US$ 38.06
Quantity: Over 20 available
Add to basketHardback. Condition: New. Collin, Hedvig (illustrator).
Published by Viking, 1957
Seller: My Book Heaven, Alameda, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First edition. Near Fine book in a Very Good dust jacket.
Published by Viking Press, New York, 1955
Seller: By Books Alone, Woodstock, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. "Charley" in ink on front flyleaf. Dust jacket wiith a few short edge tears.