Grammar Fun by Leaf Munro (25 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. An about fair copy. Soiling and shelf wear. Stain across spine panel. Bumped corners, etc. The edition remains tight. Small stray markings. Previous owner names. Appears to have had a small amount of liquid contact. The text is very bright and the edition in excellent reading condition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Book has modest scuffing to cover, mild rubbing to edges of spine and corners of cover, mild toning to edgeblock, a small inscription to front endpage (blue ink), and a mild storage odor to pages. otherwise book is in very good condition with a bright cover, clean pages, and a solid binding. *Photos available upon request.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. August 12, 1937 printing. Very good condition book with the original owner's crayon illustrations on the last few (formerly) blank pages. The dustjacket is in Good- condition with closed tears and a few chips but is NOT price-clipped. [i-4]. Munro Leaf (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 5th or later Edition. Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1939. Hardcover. No DJ. Thirteenth Printing. Red cloth boards with the title and cartoon illustration on front cover in black. VG condition. Uncommonly good condition with no names or marks; solid square binding; bright type, no cracks in binding. Measures 7 3/4 by 10 1/4 inches.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Eighteenth Printing. The dust jacket is tearing on the corners and worn on the edges, spine is darkened and tearing at the head/tail, top and bottom edges of front are worn. Red cloth boards with black Munro Leaf illustration are rubbed on the corners and bottom edge which is also sunned. Page 5 has an edge tear, pg 9 has a small dent, endpapers are drawn on by a child with some pressure, the pressure has gone through to page 41, the last page of text. These endpapers were actually thoughtfully provided for scrawling by the publisher. 18th printing All orders packed with care, most dust jackets protected by Brodart sleeve, independent bookseller since 2011.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. 41 pp. Red paper boards with black lettering. Discoloration to the back board. Wear to the corners with rubbing, discoloration. Unlettered spine is torn in two places. Binding has separated from pages, at both front and back. Inside pictorial endpapers are foxed and show owner's name in pencil. Signed in blue ink on the title page by popular and controversial author/illustrator Munro Leaf, author of kids' classic, "Ferdinand." Interior pages are in good condition. Size: Octavo. Author Signature. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Eighth Printing. No marks and minimal wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. Near fine hardcover, twenty-ninth impression. Red boards, black lettering. Decorative end-papers, .faint stamp to rear paste-down. Jacket near fine, bright, a couple of small tears. No writing. A classic! M04449.

HARD BACK RED. Condition: FAIR. JACKET: TATTERED DJ. thirteenth. General wear and rubbed cover. Tight binding. No bookplate. dust jacket is extremely damaged ant torn, rest of book in fairly good shape DATE PUBLISHED: 1934 EDITION: thirteenth 41. MUNRO LEAF (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good-. Eighth printing. Small quarto, 41pp., illustrated. About very good in the publisher's red cloth, soiled on the front board; else a clean, square copy. Dust jacket shows commensurate soiling (nothing atrocious) and a quarter-sized chip at the bottom right corner of the front panel; overall about very good. Spine darkened. Apart from noted flaws, a clean copy internally.…

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

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Later printing. 4to, red cloth; yellow pictorial dj: dj and endpaper have an inked name; tears in dj. A companion volume to his HEALTH CAN BE FUN, MANNERS CAN BE FUN, and SAFETY CAN BE FUN. Written and illustrated by the incomparable Munro Leaf. "Irresistibly amusing drawings and captions make clear such things as the difference between can and may, and the reason why one does not say 'he done it" or "she come.".…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Binding and pages are intact. All pages are free from any markings. Scuffing and bumping visible to boards. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 4to. pp 47. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered black on the front cover. Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. No date, [1951]. The publisher's own retained copy with their label on the front cover, reading 'file copy'. Very good indeed in slightly used and nicked, close very good dust jacket. …

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First American Edition. Twenty-sixth impression, circa 1960s. 4to, 42pp. Printed in red & black, fully illustrated with drawings by the author. Hardcover, bound in original red cloth with bold red & cream pictorial dustjacket. Illustrated endpapers. In excellent condition. A very clean, tight, copy, with no signs of prior ownership. The dustjacket is unclipped, retaining original $2.00 price, with minor wear to corners and spine ends and a little scuffing to the very top edge of rear panel. Now protected in a new clear Mylar wrapper. A beautiful copy! Scarce in this condition. …

Philadelphia/New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, (1934). First edition, 22nd impression (1940s). Hardcover book complete in its original pictorial dust jacket. 26 cm. 41 pp. Two-color illustrations by Leaf throughout. In very good condition. No ownership marks/writing present within. Hinges tight. Light toning to the interior pages. Light edge wear/bumping/soiling to the dust jacket. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Illustrated Edition. This is a lot of two children's books signed and inscribed by author and artist MUNROE LEAF. Included are "Manners Can Be Fun" (October 26, 1937 - 9th printing), and "Grammar Can Be Fun" (October 26, 1937 - 8th printing). Published by Frederick A. Stokes Company in New York. Both books are inscribed and signed by Leaf with sitck-figure drawings on the front end papers. Both books feature red and black & white drawings by Leaf on nearly every page. "Manners Can Be Fun" uses simple text and stick-figure drawings to teach kids the basics of etiquette and social behavior. Opening with the line "Having good manners is really just living with other people pleasantly," the book explains why being polite makes life better for everyone. "Grammar Can Be Fun" functions as a playful "grammar without tears" guide. It aims to teach proper speech and correct common grammatical errors to children without nagging. Munro Leaf was an American author and illustrator of children's literature who wrote and illustrated nearly 40 books during his 40-year career. He is globally recognized as the creator of "The Story of Ferdinand," a timeless juvenile classic. Condition: Both books are tightly bound with no cracks and no loose pages. All covers are firmly attached. Both books have an inscription by Munroe Leaf written in pen on the front end paper. Both books have clean text pages with no notable issues found. Both books have sharp cover corners. GRAMMAR - clean front cover; some small, dark stain spots on the back cover. MANNERS - heavy staining to the back cover; small stain spots on the front cover; some mild foxing on the end papers and pastedowns. Overall the lot is in Good- condition - the lot would grade higher if not for the staining on the back cover of "Manners. Munro Leaf (illustrator). Inscribed by Author(s). …

HARD BACK RED. Condition: GOOD. JACKET: WORN DJ. twenty-fifth p. price clipped; dj worn and fading with signs of water stain along edges of dj; small tears and chipping along edges. general wear and rubbed cover. Broken hinge. No markings. DATE PUBLISHED: 1934 EDITION: twenty-fifth p 41. MUNRO LEAF (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardcover with DJ. Gray cloth over boards with black stamped lettering and illustration on front cover. No date on title page, copyright page dated 1934. Stated 22nd Impression. 41 pages. Book and DJ are in good condition. A bit of wear along the edges of the cover, with boards peeking through split cloth just slightly at corners. A few light spots staining back cover. Stamping on front cover is crisp and unfaded. Binding is strong. Majority of pages are undamaged. Bottom corner of one page is torn off. Some pages have the occasional light spot from age. The final page of text reads "These next pages have mistakes I make and the pictures are drawn by ME." On this page and the next few blank pages are a child's drawings in thick black marker, which bleed through to the pages on either side. DJ is slightly dingy and discolored, with some tearing along the edges. Lettering and illustration remain deeply colored and vibrant. DJ is now protected in clear mylar sleeve. Vintage children's book is overall charming and well-preserved. Features simple black and red illustrations throughout.…

HB RED. Condition: Good. General wear, rubbed extremities, bumped corners, age toned pages, previous owners name on front endpaper. DATE PUBLISHED: 1941 EDITION: 40+40+48.

HARD BACK RED. Condition: good. JACKET: DJ. 12 PRINTING. removed stickers from front and back end paper; dj corners rubbed; pages yellowing; DATE PUBLISHED: 1938 EDITION: 12 PRINTING 41PGS.

HARD BACK RED. Condition: GOOD. DATE PUBLISHED: 1936 EDITION: 41. LEAF, MUNRO (illustrator).

HARD BACK RED. Condition: FAIR. JACKET: GOOD DJ. Dust jacket in mylar protector. Library binding with a great cover. Pictorial dust jacket and cover. Illustrated end papers. Price clipped. Ex-library - rubber stampings and numbers on title page and last page and some stickers on spine. Some stains/soiling on pages. Shelf and edge wear, corners rubbed. Some major wear on bottom edge of cover. Some pencil writings on back free fly paper. DATE PUBLISHED: 1934 EDITION: 41. LEAF, MUNRO (illustrator).…

Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good. Stated Second Printing. This book is hard-bound in red cloth with black stamping on the upper cover, in a nice dust jacket with light soiling and light edge-wear. The covers show light soiling and light rubbing to the corners and spine-ends. The binding is solid. The contents are bright and clean, but with some offsetting from the illustrations. This book is Signed/Inscribed by Munro leaf on the front free end-page, with a doodle of a girl, a boy, and a mouse in a tree. ; Signed by The Author.…

1 vols. 4to. dj. First edition. First edition. 1 vols. 4to. With inscription on p. 3 inside prone body of "AIN'T", "For Elizabeth Riley who has been nice to me when I felt like this. With best wishes 'Mun' Leaf." Miss Riley at the time was Book Buyer at Macy's. Red cloth. Very good, with slight fading to top of spine. In yellow pictorial spine and back cover missing, but unclipped dust jacket. Signed.…