Madge Bigham Berta (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Berta and Elmer Hader (illustrator). Wonderfully illustrated children book. Title page and frontispiece in color. All other illustrations in black and white. Front cover with green decoration of elephant. Tan cloth has wear to it. Pages inside are bright and clean.

Condition: Fair-good. No Jacket. Berta and Elmer Hader (illustrator). Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1958. Our copy does NOT have a dust jacket. Tan cloth on boards binding has frays and rub-throughs to corners, wear to bottom of spine and shelf rubbing and frays along bottom edge. A school stamp on front free endpapers but there are no other library defacements. One or two faint finger smudges in text but a nice readable copy. Text is quite nice. Fair-good/No Jacket. Illus. by Berta and Elmer Hader.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Hader, Berta and Elmer (illustrator). Pictorial hardcover binding shaky, hinges cracked with threads shown, cloth aong spine is torn and split, but overall binding integrity okay; 151 pages. Illustrated in color and black and white. scarce title. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Berta and Elmer Hader (illustrator). 1930 copyright; 1940 printing date on title page. Bright boards with rubbed edges and brown cloth spine with black lettering and elephant head. Spine cloth is weakened but intact. Small amount of surface color missing on back board. Green book tape repaired the back inside hinge. Brightly colored end papers and illustrations as well as some black and white illustrations. Binding is solid and pages are clean and complete. A rare book in very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Free of markings. Price on dust jacket flap is $3.00.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hader, Berta and Elmer (illustrator). Quarter cloth over color printed paper boards. Stain to tail of spine. Rubbing to pastedowns but still quite bright and clear. Edges rubbed through. A few scattered school stamps. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Still a neat enough copy, sound and handsome copy. Very scarce in any condition or edition. 151pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

First Edition. Hardcover, no jacket, good with covers rubbed, mottled and abraded, slightly pulled at spine ends, shelf wear, foxing and toning, owner name, wear to front label. Illustrated.

No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. Hader, Berta and Elmer (illustrator). Hader, Berta and Elmer. 115 ORIGINAL PEN, INK AND WATERCOLOR DRAWINGS BY BERTA AND ELMER HADER PUBLISHED IN SONNY ELEPHANT BY MADGE A. BIGHAM. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1930. This lot consists of 115 pen, ink and watercolor drawings by the Haders including six different border designs, numerous drawings which were utilized within text, numerous drawings that were utilized as full page illustrations and one double page drawing which was utilized for the front and back endpapers; this lot includes all but seven of the drawings which were used to illustrate the first edition of Madge A. Bigham's book, Sonny Elephant; the 115 drawings are on a total of 79 sheets of artist board of varying sizes; most boards with adhesive residue in the margins from previous mattings. The Haders were an illustrating couple who jointly illustrated more than 70 children's books, about half of which they also wrote. They won the Caldecott Honor Book Award in 1940 for Cock-a-Doodle-Doo and in 1944 for The Mighty Hunter. In 1949 they won the top honor in their field, the Randolph Caldecott Medal, which recognizes the preceding year's "most distinguished American picture book for children" for their book, The Big Snow. The condition of the drawings is NEAR FINE OR BETTER. Included with the drawings is a first edition reading copy of Sonny Elephant where the drawings were originally published. Signed by Illustrator(s).