Rue Mabel (40 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Lois Lenski (illustrator). Small, square 4to. Hardcover. Pictorial, paper-covered boards with blue cloth spine. Thin, unpaginated book. Profusely illustrated in color and b&w by Lois Lenski. Covers quite edge-worn. Interior good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Maud and Miska Petersham (illustrator). Revised Edition. The book shows signs of age with a worn cover, featuring some fading and edge wear. The binding remains intact, and the pages are clean, though there is some yellowing typical of books from this period. There is no dust jacket present, and the book is free from inscriptions or library markings.

Pictorial Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Maud and Miska Petersham (illustrator). Gray cloth. Black letters. Cover illustration is black and orange. The corners and ends of spine are faded from rubbing. Gray endpapers. Pastedowns have State of Texas stamped labels. Front free endpaper has a stamp about the book's contract price. 110 pages. The illustrations are orange, gray, black, and white; some also have brown. Most pages have soiling, most often on the front margin. a peeled tear on the contents page has been neatly rejoined with glue. Scans e-mailed upon request.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Petersham, Maud and Miska (illustrator). Light blue/gray hardcover binding with orange and dark blue illustration on front showing a bear walking with a rabbit and a squirrel (all upright and wearing clothes) - general wear, rubbing along edges. Normal usage wear to interior with a few closed tears. 19 stories with a word to the teacher plus word list - book originally published 1924, this is a 1926 printing. An easy reader with lots of orange/black/white illustrations throughout by the Petershams. 157 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Maud Amd Miska Petersham (illustrator). Revised Edition. In blue cloth covers with illustration in blue and orange on front cover and blue lettering on spine. Square, tight, and intact binding. Clean and unmarked endpapers and text pages. Bumping of ends fo spine and corners. Light to moderate shelf wear. Photos upon request. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. Petersham, Maud and Miska (illustrator). Later printing. Very good hardcover (no dust jacket) shows mild rubbing with bit of rub through to couple of corners and touch of soil to covers, ownership marks at front endpaper and occasional wrinkle and soil to text block. 110 pages illustrated in color. Solid copy of this early learner.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Shelf wear, light tanning to covers. Light corner and edge wear. Sound binding. No jacket. Prior owner's name inked to front paste down. Interior pages are slightly toned, clean. 111 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor - Cash. Heavier wear to the cover, corners and edges. 1931 written on front cover. Library stamp inside cover. There is soiling and rubbing/surfacewear to the cover and pages, with creases and tearing. Several pages have chipping. One page torn out. Binding tape on spine. Corners have some heavy rubbing and fraying, the boards are exposed. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Tips of corners show some wear and small scuffs, some light edgewear, some light overall rubbing, binding shaken but still holding well. otherwise book is clean with good color. Photos on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+/NO DUSTJACKET. Color Illustrations (illustrator). Later Edition. New York, NY: Macmillan Company . Good+/NO DUSTJACKET. 1928. Later Edition. Hardcover. 12mo., 146pp., cover light shelf wear on edges and corners, very light soiling to front cover, otherwise quite good; Former owner's signature on front free-endpaper, few pages with light pencil notes, otherwise pages clean and unmarked. .

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Petersham, Maud and Miska (illustrator). Light blue/gray hardcover binding with orange and dark blue illustration on front showing a cricket, a terrier dog, a toy elephant and a little boy reading a book - general wear, rubbing along edges. Name fep, usage wear to pages with a few closed tears. 16 stories plus word list - book originally published 1923, this is a 1926 printing. An easy reader with lots of orange/black/white illustrations throughout by the Petershams. 139 pages.

1st reprint. 1920s schoolbook reader, many deco-period color illustrations. Rare book. 5-3/4 x 7-1/2, 176 pp, period color illus, orange endpapers. Good with sporadic pencil notes & underlines, last leaf (pp175-6) torn away. Hardback in blue illus cloth boards, no jacket .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. Ex-Library. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good +. Illustrated. Photos available upon request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Good. Petersham, Maud and Miska (illustrator). Reprint. New York: Macmillan, 1927. First edition, third printing. 12mo. Decorative cloth binding, 176 pp. Illustrated throughout by the Petershams, who won the Newbury Award in 1946. Binding edgeworn along edges, soiling to endpapers. Spine sunned. No writing inside. Good.

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. No Jacket. Petersham, Maud and Miska (illustrator). Lightly soiled blue hardcover cloth b inding with impression of rabbit on front, bumped corners, inteiror clean and tight with some rubbing on endpapers. 176 pages lightly soiled and foxed. A few tiny closed tears. Stories for young readers with questions at end of each story. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall 4th Printing.

Hardcover. Illustrated by Maud and Miska Petersham (illustrator). Eleventh Printing. Very Good- with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Previous owner's name, light soiling inside in endpapers; 105 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Book has some moderate wear to corners, some scuffing to edges, some moderate overall rubbing with small marks to covers, small one inch tears to bottom of pages near inside to title page. otherwise a presentable copy but not sharp, with a good binding and clean pages.

Condition: Very Good minus. Dust Jacket Condition: Without dust jacket if issued. First Edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the front endpaper. Octavo, 7 1/2? tall, 157 pages, illustrated blue cloth. A very good minus, generally clean nut slightly foxed and handsoiled, neat hard cover with moderate shelf wear, hinges and binding solid, BUT paper lightly yellowed. Without dust jacket, if issued.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition, Illustrated Edition. First published 1923. Blue cloth with pictorial cover and black titles, plain gray endpapers. Illustrated by Maud and Miska Petersham. A collection of 16 stories printed in large type for young readers, and gentle lessons in responsibility and behavior. Includes a word list at the end. From the Wikipedia entry on the illustrators: "Maud and Miska met across the drawing board of the IAS studios, and married three years later in 1917. . . They obtained their first children's book work through Miska's Hungarian friend Willy Pogany, an established illustrator, and in a few years they had steady illustration commissions." This is a little-known title.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Charlotte Becker (illustrator). First Edition. Near Fine in Near Fine jacket An excellent copy. There is a gift inscription on the front endpaper, but few signs of use. The marvelous jacket is only slightly chipped. It is now protected by a mylar Brodart cover. The Scribner's first-edition A is present. Clean and tight.

Unbound. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Mary Stevens, (illustrator). 1st Edition. DJ ONLY NO BOOK, 1st EDITION , , 1950, 1st edition, , DJ Only! VG-, uses a vocabulary & style easily handled by youngsters. Toosey family take a trip to the city, Tiny has 6 brothers & Sisters.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1942 hardcover book VERY GOOD clean copy no writing in or on book, binding is Solid, cover has some wear to edges /corners, no dustjacket issued.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 40 pages. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. In about Very Good condition. Some light foxing to the endboards and a bit of toning from the slightly acidic paper. Stamped price to the top back endboard and very old paper sticker from a bookstore to the bottom. Bottom corner tip and bottom edge show light shelf wear, a bit more to the corner tip and bottom of the spine. The interior is very clean and bright with no writing or markings. Very nice illustrations, many full page. Dust jacket shows some light soiling and wear to the extremities. Also a 2-inch tear to the front bottom and bottom corner. Chipping to the top and bottom of the spine. Jacket protected with a Brodart. A charming children's story of cats. We pack all our books with care and ship in cardboard boxes. We accept all major credit cards and paypal. Additional photos emailed upon request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Illustrated by Lois Lenski (illustrator). First Edition Thus. A Story Parade Picture Book; Color and b&w Art ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 28 pages; 1942 Grosset & Dunlap. Square format HC/DJ. 1st separate book edition; the story was first published in a "Story Parade" collection published by Whitman in 1938. Soundly bound and neat in original blue quarter cloth backed spine and color pictorial paper boards; wraparound color pictorial dust jacket with identical color design as that of the boards, from art by Lois Lenski. Trace shelf tapping to boards bottom front corners; mild spotting to cloth of the spine along the rear joint. Dust jacket lightly rubbed with a few nicks at edges and mild shelf soiling to surfaces. Illustrated throughout by Lenski's charming and distinctive color and b&w art work. VG/VG-.