Edited Althea Clinton (8 results)

Condition: As New. Peat, Fern Bisel (illustrator). Unread copy in mint condition.

Condition: New. Peat, Fern Bisel (illustrator). Brand New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: poor jkt. 7 X 8-inches, illustrations by George Lawson, color illustrated textured paper and blue cloth over boards, matching jacket in plastic cover. Extremities lightly worn, free endpapers slightly darkened, contents fine; edges of front panel lightly worn, rear panel lightly soiled, two patches missing in lower outside portion, spine lightly soiled and ends chipped, flaps age toned around edges with fold ends chipped. Brick and mortar bookshop since 1975!

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Later Edition. ISBN . Hardback. No statement of later printing on copyright page. ABRIDGED FOR YOUNG READERS. No dustjacket; bound in heavy pictorial boards. Some wear to edges and corners of boards ; slight wear to page edges and corners; minor browning throughout; otherwise tight, sound and unmarked in Good condition. No Signature.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Boards (HB) in good + condition for the hinges which are separating. The back hinge open but just slightly. The frong hinge has a bigger gap and is held on by the cloth underlay. Inside the book, aside from the browned pages you'd expect from a childrens book of thei time period, there are no marks, folds or smudges. The front cover, protected by the dust jacket is full color and charming. Dust jacket is in fair condition, tattered on the edges and missing a piece from the bottom of the front and bottom of the spine. Again in color and mostly intact. Scarce title from the golden age of childrens books.Unpaginated.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Bailey, Bill (illustrator). Some edgewear and rubbing. Text has yellowed and has foxing throughout but remains tight in binding. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Akron, Ohio: The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1931. First edition with the Bill Bailey illustrations. Collected stories and verses for children including Dick Whittington, but also such stories as Little Half-Chick; The Little Red Hen and the Grain of Wheat; Five Little Chickens; Faithful Goldie; The Magpie's Nest; Wee Robin's Christmas Song; Something About Tommy; The Cats and the Monkey; many others. Illustrated throughout with detailed line drawings in black and white. Vividly colored pictorial front cover with white rear cover, brown cloth spine, matching illustrated dustjacket. The book has minor rubbing to the extremities, good hinges, sound text block, name neatly written at top of front pastedown, pages otherwise unmarked and very clean. The mylar protected dustjacket is brightly colored and has a few very tiny closed edge tears and some minor edge rubbing, effectively no paper loss. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. Near fine in a colorful illustrated dust jacket. Saalfield Pub. Co. NO. 365. A large storybook, (10 by 8 inches by almost 2 inches thick), with a colorful pictorial cover and in what must be a very scarce pictorial dust jacket--these rarely survive on childrens books, espescially on large ones. One minor chip to otherwise very good + jacket. Contains fairy tales & stories such as the Three Bears, The Princess and the Fairy, the Three Little Kittens, etc. (c. 1931).