Felter Ilstr (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. PLEASE READ FULL DESCRIPTION. Original issue, presumed first edition thus (no additional printings listed). Green cloth, 4x6 inches, 134 pp, MISSING 1 of the 3 called for plates. Hardcover, fair. Corners bumped with a bit of cardboard exposed there, some soil and scuffing on cloth, 1/4 inch fraying at head and foot of spine. Internally, frontispiece stuck to paste-down front endpaper, no free rear endpaper (as issued? ) , some foxing, hinges cracked between a few of the gatherings, otherwise clean and unmarked, decent reading copy. Children's; whales; endangered species; adventure; Christian.

Hardcover. First edition (NAP) . Hardcover, in original paste-down paper covered pictorial boards (seashore scene of children with adult woman, and boy writing in the sand by John Karst on front board, decorative publisher's colophon on rear board ) , black cloth spine, 160 pp, illustrated with drawings (frontispiece of classroom, and 4 in-text of various domestic scenes, including a nice one of children ice skating) . Good, no dustjacket. Corners bumped with a bit of cardboard exposed there and along edges of boards, four approximately 1 to 3 inch tears and some fraying along spine cloth, moderate scuffing, previous owner's sgn top edge of front board. Internally, children's sgns on front endpapers, 1/2 to1 inch tears on approximately 4 or 5 leaves, paper lightly age yellowed, hinges tender, a stray word or so underlined on approximately 4 or 5 pages, faint yellow pencil(? ) mark on 2 pages, but overall tight, clean, relatively crisp and unmarked, in somewhat better shape than the usual textbook of the period. School; children's; Victorian.