Dance Desert, First Edition (41 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Condition: Fine. First Edition. Used book that is in almost brand-new condition. May contain a remainder mark. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardback in near fine condition with a near fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Shimin, Symeon (illustrator). 1st Edition. Book and dust jacket in very solid overall condition. Bookplate with inscription affixed to front endpaper. Edges of jacket flaps had previously been taped to boards, and effects of tape removal are subtle but evident. Jacket has been placed in new mylar sleeve.

Paperback. Condition: As new. 1st Edition. Signed and inscribed by Kolb on first leaf, this first edition softcover is fresh and crisp: gift qualilty. "A richly metaphorical" story of women and their horses in the desert.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Symeon Shimin (illustrator). 1st Edition. This unusual and universally admired book is one of those works that, if you have to describe it as a children's picture book, you really have to put quotation marks around the words "children's picture book" to signify that it is so much more than that. A book to be appreciated by anyone of any age. And appreciated as much for the illustrations of Symeon Shimin as for the haunting text. These pictures are deceptively simple at first glance - done in the duo-tones of firelight and shadow - but the more you look at them the more you become amazed, not only at the painterly skill of the artist, but at a mysterious intensity that flows from them. This guy (or rather that guy - he died in 1984) can sure draw animals. See his work in such books as "Young Kangaroo" by Margaret Wise Brown, and Carol Fenner's "Gorilla Gorilla" for further evidence of this. Anyway, good stuff. I usually see this book listed as being in blue cloth, but this first edition copy is in a glorious orange cloth, which suits very well the cast light of the night fire that features in the illustrations. There is an inscription on the front endpaper, which is all but hidden by the artwork, and a small bookshop label on the pastedown. Otherwise a fine copy in a very good dust jacket indeed, price-clipped, slightly faded on spine panel, and with just minor wear to spine ends.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Signed by the author and dated 2000, this copy has a solid tight binding with clean unmarked pages, "No personal Inscription". Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Shimin, Symeon (illustrator). First Edition. Dust jacket missing. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Text is clear of markings. Binding is secure. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. VG trade paperback. Signed with inscription on ffep. 273pp. Light to moderate general wear. Fiction west. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Shimin, Symeon (illustrator). 1st. 1st printing; dj w/unclipped price, lite wear only, in mylar; orange c w/black spine titles; ; illustrated end papers; unpaginated.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. This is an as new copy of the epic journey across the Arabian desert.

hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 1969 1st First Edition. Former library copy, may have usual markings. The dust jacket is missing.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Shimin, Symeon (illustrator). 1st Edition. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1st printing. incidental signs of handling. unmarked, clean, tight.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. BOARDS SQUARE CLEAN WITH SHARP CPRNERS,DJ AS NEW,INTERIOR CLEAN BRIGHT NO MARKS,FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINT,NOT CLIPPED OR REMAINDERED.

8vo Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Shimin, Symeon (illustrator). 1st. Text is unmarked on bright pages with full color illustrations. Blue cloth boards are clean and pointed with gilt lettering on spine. Binding is tight, hinges are securely attached. Jacket is unclipped with original price of $4.95, lightly chipped spine ends and minor wear on edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York, 1969. Hardcover, unpaginated. 1st edition (stated). Illustrated by Symeon Shimin. Very good condition in a good jacket. Dust jacket has edge wear, a rough edge with loss at head of spine, a scuff on front panel (visible in photo), a tiny chip on rear panel. Original price is intact on the front flap. Jacket is in a new mylar sleeve.

No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. UNBOUND PROOF WITH FIRST EDITION PROOF DUST JACKET FROM THE LIBRARY OF L'ENGLE WITH COA.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Minus. Symeon Shimin (illustrator). 1st Edition. Stated First Edition. Not a bad combination Madeleine L'Engle & Symeon Shimin. You can see the blue covers in the photos. They look pretty good. They have slight darkening around the margins. The edges and corners are in very good shape. Same with the spine ends. The gilt lettering on the spine is very bright. The book is square and very solidly bound from cover to cover, nicely tight pages, no binding issues. The inside covers and end papers, front and rear form the same illustration. Both are perfectly clean and unworn. There is a penned inscription at the top corner of the front illustrated end paper. It gets a little lost in the colors (not a bad thing) but one can still make out 'Merry Christmas, 1969, from Uncle Niles (?).' There is no other writing to be found anywhere in the book. The pages are in top-notch condition, perfectly clean, no creasing of any kind, no markings, no attachments. The illustrations are dramatic and unusual. You can see the dust jacket in the first few photos. It is very clean. You can see that the color got changed just adjacent to the front middle edge. Note that the light at the top and bottom edges is just glare coming off the top edges of the plastic protective cover. The jacket's imperfections are slight, scuffing at the tips of the corners and top and bottom edges of the spine, also a small tear off the bottom edge at the juncture between the front and spine (that tear is pretty well concealed by the protective cover). The flaps are white. They are clean and unworn. However the top of the front flap is clipped and the price is gone. The rear cover looks pretty good. There is a 1/2 inch closed tear off its bottom edge. I've had the jacket in a fitted protective cover for as long as I've owned the book. As you likely know, Madeleine L'Engle won the Newbery Medal in 1963 for her A Wrinkle in Time. Symeon Shimin 'has exhibited at the Whitney Museum Of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the National Gallery in Washington, D.C.' Dance In The Desert was the first book he illustrated in full color. Dance in the Dark 'is a story in which the miraculous and near-miraculous freely happen. And an unstated time, long, long ago when the world we know was young, a father, a mother, and their infant son searched for a caravan to join so that they might safely cross the desert. For a family alone there was much to fear in the desert--- ferocious animals, venomous snakes, marauding bandits----and the protection of a caravan was very necessary. This, then, is the story of the wondrous things that happened "the night in the desert when nobody was afraid and everybody danced.'.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY - customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. Signed and dated by author in year of publication on title page. Small white spot of wear on d/j near top spine. ; 9.90 X 6.60 X 1.20 inches; Signed by Author.

Unknown. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. First edition, third printing. Cover and binding are worn but intact. A reading copy in fair condition. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Shimin, Symeon (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, hardcover, has slightest skew to spine, and very slight bumps to lower corners, otherwise a bright, clean Near Fine copy in VG+ dustjacket which has very slight bumps to spine ends and corners with a tiny tear to front panel at top of spine, faint sunning to spine, and a touch of shelfwear to edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Shimin, Symeon (illustrator). First Edition. Dust jacket in very good condition. First edition, first printing. SIGNED and inscribed by the illustrator. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. *Signed by the illustrator Symeon Shimin on the half title page* Minor creasing to the dust jacket. Light wear to the boards. Sound binding. Clean interior pages new mylar added to the dust jacket. Secure packaging for safe delivery. inscribed by illustrator.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Symeon Shimin (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition. Pictures by Symeon Shimin. Book is VG with inscription on flyleaf. Dustjacket is VG- with a couple of rubs on corners of spine.

First Edition. First Edition Hardbound Good+/Good-., DJ Symeon Shimin, illus. 8vo, Unpaginated, General wear to covers. Clean copy - no school or library markings. DJ has general edge wear with a 1" tear on the top edge front panel. DJ is price clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine, Clipped Dustjacket. Symeon Shimin (illustrator). 1st Edition. Previous owners gift inscription on the half title page. Striking illustrations by Shimin highlight "the story of the night in the desert when nobody was afraid and everyone danced.".

Condition: Very Good. Signed hardcover first edition in very good condition with a mylar wrapped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: fine/very good. First edition. Octavo. 8 1/2' x 6". Blue cloth in color pictorial dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Symeon Shimin. This is a review copy with review slip loosely laid in. Dust jacket has a few tears with some chipping.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. BOOK RATES AS NEW CONDITION, NEVER READ. ONLY MARKING IS AUTHOR'S SIGNATUREON HALF TITLE PAGE. 219 pp + Glossary, bibliography & sundry.UNIQUELY & PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED. SCANS ON REQUEST. THANKS. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A FINE copy of the FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. In a FINE, unclipped jacket. Signed by BRUCE KIRKBY on title page. Signed by Author(s).