Copper Khan: First Edition (10 results)

Condition: Fair. 1952. First Edition. 232 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout with colour frontispiece. Binding is shaky, pages slightly loose. Pages and illustrations are lightly tanned throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Dent to top edge of front board.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Brown hardcover cloth binding clean, square and tight. Name inked out fep. Clean and tight interior with some foxing. Dustjacket missing a couple large chips on spine, quite wrinkled, not price-clipped - protected from further damage in clean Brodart jacket. List of 11 Stories for Girls on back of jacket includes description of three other Lyons titles: Midnight Moon, Silver Birch, and Golden Sovereign. 232 pages. A continuation of the story Golden Sovereign by the same author. In this one, Connemara McGuire of Shamrock Stables rescues a thoroughbred with a broken leg, nurses him back to soundness, and with the help of her friends Tom and Di, gets Copper Khan to the races. Scarce title in DJ. Stated first edition. Dennis, Wesley (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Connie buys a copper colored TB stallion with a broken cannon bone hoping to save him as well as race him again even though her stable does not need another stallion. C: 1950, First Edition, Harcourt, Brace and Co. Ills: Wesley Dennis. 5-1/2" x 8-1/4", 232 pgs. Gd+/VG- hardcover, no DJ. Cover edge wear, light speckling on spine and back top corner, numbers stamped on back endpage. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition hardcover in tan cloth covered boards with light mark along foot of boards, no damage to the 232pp text. No names, tears or soil, not ex-lib. Color illustrated dust wrapper is a professional reproduction that has a tiny chip at the head of spine, negligible color loss along foot of frt panel. Connie buys a copper colored Thoroughbred stallion with a broken cannon bone hoping to save him as well as race him again even though her stable does not need another stallion.…

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Good. No Jacket. Stated first edition, hardcover, no dust jacket, 1950, good condition. Some rubbing/mild abrasions to boards, though design and text are well preserved. Some foxing to endpapers. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is in strong shape. A solid copy without a jacket. Will pack carefully.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Gift inscription on front free end paper. Stated First Edition. Small tears and tiny chips missing from the edges of the dust jacket, in a protective cover, $2.50 on the front flap. Wesley Dennis (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition hardcover in light blue paper covered boards showing bumped tips and spine ends. Gift ded on fep, not ex-library, hinge papers fine. 232pp text is spotted on edge of page block. Unclipped color illustrated dust jacket is a reproduction that has the same art as the color frontispiece. Shows loss at spine ends but title remains legible and it displays well in new mylar. Dot Lyons writing again of Connemara McGuire, (from Golden Sovereign), it is her first day home for the holidays, when a horse trailer is forced off the road near Shamrock Stables, Connie rushes out to help, and when one of the young thoroughbreds is about to be shot because of a broken leg, Connie pleads for a chance to save him and is given the horse by an owner whose only interest is racing. This impulsive act leads Connie herself to the race tracks eventually. Copper Khan gives every indication of being a winner, slowly building a fine reputation until his former owner, jealous of Connie's success, tries by fair means and foul to bar Copper Khan from the tracks.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The boards have quite heavy fading to the spine and along narrow strips along the top of the front and rear panels. The rear panel also has a little fading along the right hand side. The page edges are a little browned with some light spotting. Previous owner's name in ink to top of front free endpaper. The endpapers have some scattered brown spotting but the pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. No jacket. Illustrated by Wesley Dennis. First printing of the first UK edition. Originally published in the US by Harcourt Brace in 1950. Dennis, Wesley (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Blue cloth red titles Octavo hardback, 238 pp, Illustrated including colour frontispiece Very Good condition Good unclipped dust jacket (lacks bottom inch of material on spine area, tiny nibbles at corners) No inscriptions. Wesley Dennis (illustrator).…

1st ed. The hard-to-find 1st UK edition, with illustrations by Wesley Dennis. Small stains on a few pages; binding tight; spine browned, with wear at head & foot. Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket) Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket).