Hader Bert (3 results)

4to, hardcover with dust jacket. Third printing. Owner name written in pencil on title page. Hint of wear to corners, hint of toning to pages, lower corner of book bumped, rubbing to dust jacket, DJ price-clipped, with chipping to DJ spine and corrners.

Condition: Very good minus. First printing. Scarce first edition of this uncommon Hader title, a charming animal story, jointly illustrated by the Caldecott winners. 8'' x 7''. Original black cloth with pictorial paste-on to front board. Illustrated in color and black and white. Lacking jacket. Contemporary child's bookplate to front paste-down. Later ownership markings to front free endpaper. Light scuffing and edgewear to boards, offsetting and light soil to endpapers.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Bert and Elmer Hader (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition: date on title page and no indication of later printings on the copyright page. Thin 4to blue decorated cloth stamped in white. Illustrated throughout with full-page and in-text color and b/w drawings by the Haders. A fine copy in a good plus dust jacket which is lacking the front flap and thus the price, and with two one-inch chips at the center spine and wear to the spine tips and corners. The absence of a Caldecott sticker and inclusion of only previous titles in the advertisements on the rear flap strongly suggest a first printing jacket. Winner of the Caldecott Medal for 1949.