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Published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1978
ISBN 10: 0395273994ISBN 13: 9780395273999
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The history of the Mississippi River Valley is told in text and pictures through the adventures of Minn, a snapping turtle, as she travels downstream. The history of the Mississippi River Valley is told in text and pictures through the adventures of Minn, a snapping turtle, as she travels downstream. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Houghton Mifflin, 1951
Seller: Trip Taylor Bookseller, Boise, ID, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Solid straight and clean copy, full cloth hard cover. A few pages and dustjacket show a faint at bottom edge. Dustjacket has a few chips and tears not much loss. Apparently first printing with no additional printings indicated.
Condition: Good. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1951. 1st edition with matching dates on title and copyrt pgs. Hardcover 4to 87 pgs. B/w illustrations, full pg color illustrations. Good in a good dust jacket. Yellow cloth with green lettering and turtle on front cover. Stain on front cover. Spine ends worn and torn. Contents clean and binding sound. Jacket is edgeworn, chipped and has lacking a 1 inch by 1 1/4 inch piece at top of front panel. 3.00 orig price on flap. (Snapping Turtles, Juvenile Fiction) Inquire if you need further information.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1951
ISBN 10: 039517578XISBN 13: 9780395175781
Seller: R. Rivers Books, Running Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1951. First edition, third printing. Hardcover. 8 ½ x 11 . Very good. Pictorial hardcover without a dust jacket. The interior appears unmarked. The binding is solid.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Co, Boston, 1951
Seller: Autumn Leaves Books, Crown Point, IN, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Holling, Holling Clancy (illustrator). 1st Edition. Author won the 1942 Caldecott medal for "Paddle to the Sea ". This book, won the Newbery Honor award. Like most of Holling's works, Minn is lushly illustrated, containing many full-page color paintings. Pages with text are also generously illustrated, with black-and-white pen-and-ink drawings, many with explanatory captions (to accompany the action of the story), in the margins. Yellow cloth cover are clean and bright. Imprinted illustration of turtle and title on front board is clean and unmarred. Light foxing and wear along edges. Binding firm; Interior pages are clean, with NO tears, writing or creases. Tan color pages lightly foxed. DJ is NOT price clipped; DJ has chips and wear along spine and edges . Rubbing and creases throughout This is NOT an Ex-lib; DJ in a mylar jacket. DJ has borne the brunt of the wear given book has been in existence for over 70+ years. Assumed first; 1951 on title page and copy right page; price is $3.00 on front flap.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1951
Seller: Samuel Lasenby Bookseller, Corona del Mar, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Light brown boards.[7]+8-85p+[1],illus,color,pep. Unclipped Dj 1/2' tear Dj top rear. 1/2 tear head. Interior fine.
Published by Houghton Miffin Co., Boston, 1951
Seller: The Book House, Inc. - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Cover. First Edition. Good Hardcover 1951, no dustjacket, fading.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A nice copy for the age in yellow cloth with green type and illustration. Dings to top of spine at front board and bottom frot corner. Boards slightly bowed. Interior clean and binding tight. Jacket is unclipped ($3.00) with some edgewear, micro chips and nicks/short tears. Rubbing at front edges of spine and front flap crease which has tiny puncture. 1st Printing.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Massachusetts, 1951
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Holling, Holling Clancy (illustrator). First Edition First Printing. Another lovely children's book about the natural world & its creatures, winner of the Newbery Award in 1952. This one is about a snapping turtle named Minn who lives in the Mississippi River, based on extensive research & observation & interviews with locals. In 87 pages with pen-and-ink drawings & many full-color, full-page plates throughout. A FIRST EDITION, first printing, from 1951, this hardcover 4to has yellow cloth-covered boards with stamped green lettering & images to front cover & spine. Condition is Good: external soil & rather heavy rubbing to extremities, cloth fraying, tiny chips & small sections of missing cloth along spine. Aside from previous child owners' names inside front cover, the interior is clean & unmarked, with the occasional spot or smudge. Pages modestly tanned, heavier around edges. NO DJ. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
Hardcover. Condition: Good condition. 1st edition. 86p., illus. Newbery Honor.
Published by Houghton Mifflin & Company, Boston, 1951
Seller: Bailey Bonzo Books, Shelbyville, IN, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Cloth. Condition: VG Minus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Yellow cloth with green tiles and turtle drawing to the front and green tiles to the spine. This copy is VG in a VG- , unclipped ($3.00) brodart protected DJ. Exterior has PO name at top of front board, moderate wear at the bottom tips, modest other edge wear, and modest toning around the edges. Inside has neat gift inscription to FEP dated Christmas 1951. Decorative EPs. Inside is otherwise unmarked, clear, and firmly bound. DJ has wear at top of spine, and top front tip. Otherwise edges are VG, and cover is rich.
Published by Houghton Mifflin, 1951
Seller: The Lost Bookstore, Spartanburg, SC, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A good first edition in a good dust jacket.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Co., 1951
Seller: The Story Shop, Elwood, IN, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover; First Printing. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dust. First Edition. The dustjacket is now protected in a new, removable archival sleeve. Bright dustjacket colors. ; Original $3.00 price on the dustjacket flap. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 87 pages.
Published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1951
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. A Fine hardcover copy in dull puce colored rough cloth stamped in dark green, in a Very Good or better illustrated dustwrapper, price-clipped, with minor edgewear to points, folds. 86pp. Written and Illustrated by Holling. Classic juvenile title. Q03363.
Published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1951
Seller: E. M. Maurice Books, ABAA, Torrington, CT, U.S.A.
First Edition
Pictorial Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Holling Clancy Holling (illustrator). First Edition. Yellow pictorial cloth, mild spotting to cloth, front board very slightly bowed, clean and bright internally, in full color dust jacket with minor wear, small chips at spine ends (less than 1/4") and at corners, price intact. The story of a snapping turtle's journey down the Mississippi River. Illustrated in color throughout. Size: 4to.
Published by Government Printing Office, 1878
Seller: Cameron Park Books, Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.
First Edition
Unknown Binding. Condition: Good. First Edition. 1878 printing. Record of the engineering of bridges on the upper half of the Mississippi River. Replete with charts and bound-in maps. Good hardcover, no dust jacket. Ex-lib DUke University Law Library with expected markings but otherwise unmarked and clean with reliablet binding. Worn at spine ends and corners. Most all maps still bound in , only a few laid in. Maps are set in their ways after being folded just so for 130 years or more and must be handled tenderly. Enjoy reading with a real book in your hands. Shipping from North Carolina. Dedicated to delighting our customers. Delivery confirmation provided on all domestic orders. Happy to ship to international locations. Consider expedited shipping - just a little more moves your purchase a lot faster. Digital photos available on request for any book.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press, Boston, 1951
First Edition
Condition: Fine in very good plus jacket. First edition. First printing of the Newbery Honor book about a turtle's travels from the headwater of the Mississippi River to the Gulf, part of Holling's acclaimed series of geo-historical books. 11'' x 8.5''. Original yellow cloth, green pictorial front board, green-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($3.00) color pictorial dust jacket. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated by Holling throughout. 87, [1] pages. Only a few closed tears to jacket.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company
Seller: The Literary Lion,Ltd., Thousand Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1951. First edition. Thin small folio yellow pictorial cloth stamped in green. Illustrated throughout with full-page color and b/w text drawings by Holling. Former owners name on front free endpaper, else fine in a near fine dust jacket which has very light rubbing at the spine tips and a few short closed tears on the edges. A very nice copy of this 1952 Newbery Honor Book.
Published by Art Photogravure Co., Oshkosh, Wis., 1899
Seller: Cambridge Books, Cambridge, MN, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. All 12 issues 36 cm. and usually with 8 full page photographic plates plus a narrative explanation of the sites in the photographs. These twelve issues are in very good condition, excpt that the spines show considerable wear. The plates and the tissue guards are in nearly fine condition. It is extremely rare to find a complete collection of all twelve issues.
Published by Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Art Photogravure Co., 1899
Seller: BookSearch, St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Originally published in this multi-part set, the work features exquisitely crisp, 19th century, artistic, black and white photographs that showcase picturesque views along the Mississippi river and its tributaries from the upper St Croix River along the Minnesota and Wisconsin border to La Crosse, Wisconsin. Many of these sites have changed physically since they were taken so these photos document an earlier environment. 12 parts, complete. Large paper covered folios. Each plate page tissue guarded. Approximate 7 plate pages per part. Fine, clean condition.