Luling Elizabeth (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. book has moderate wear to corners and edges, heavy toning to spine, w chipping to paper title box, some pencil and pen to flypages, bit of smudging to cover, otherwise in very readable shape.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. No dust jacket. Tight binding, solid pictorial boards with gently rubbed edges and corners, bright spine label, some foxing to text blocks and pages, but unmarked and very readable. In archival quality Stated 1st edition. Salter, Georg (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. First Edition. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Book Condition: Good+. Jacket Condition: No Jacket. Oxford University Press, 1937. First Edition. 1st Printing. 95 pages. Moderate general wear. Size: 9.1 x 6.5 x 1.1. Children Fiction Modern::Children's 6023.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good+ dust jacket, a brodart dust jacket cover has been added, light wear at the head and foot of spine and edges of front cover.  The Near Fine binding is pink paper over boards, dark blue cloth-backed,  with multiple illustrations are on the front and back paper cover, the spine has a paper past-on with the title of the book.  The binding is tight and pages are clean.  The color illustrations are great. with a full color frontispiece. About the book: (From the dust jacket) Sylvia Thompson was busy writing a long novel, and she put on her door DO NOT DISTURB, Elizabeth, aged seven, wished that she could sit in a room and have DO NOT DISTURB on her door. So she decided to write a book. And this is it-the adventures of the two Teddy Bears, published just as she wrote it; and Georg Salter has made the pictures, by no means the least fascinating and original part of the book. One surprising thing in this story (and there are many) is the number of difficult words spelled correctly. The reason is this. Occasionally, during the mornings when Elizabeth was writing her book, the door. on which DO NOT DISTURB hung, opened a crack Elizabeth poked her head out, asked how some word was spelled, and disappeared again Mostly she was too busy to stop for this Authors frequently are. Salter, George (illustrator).…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good +. very good +. First edition, as stated. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or writtten inscriptions to pages. Dust jacket has light wear around edges and some fading on spine. Pictorial coverboards with light shelfwear on edges. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Georg Salter (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A Fine copy. Clean, square and tight copy. Unmarked within but some light toning. Bright fabric over square and sharp boards. A complete, bright and only minimally shelf worn wrapper with some soiling. very nice copy. Gift condition copy or a very obscure title.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo hardcover volume in pictorial paper boards with cloth spine. Dust jacket in near fine condition with light edge wear. Book fine with no faults. 95 pages. Stated 1st edition.

Condition: Near fine in near fine jacket. dj. First edition (stated). First printing of this tense domestic drama by the seven-year-old daughter of novelist Sylvia Thompson. The child author offers a florid imagination and a rather pessimistic view of marriage: "Meanwhile Teddy in England was falling in love with another lady!" Well: these things do happen. A lovely copy. 6.25'' x 4.75''. Original blue cloth spine with orange pictorial boards. In original unclipped ($1.00) pictorial dust jacket designed by George Salter. 93, [3] pages. Illustrated in color by Salter. Light edgewear to boards and rubbing to dust jacket.…