Pagoo, First Edition (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Holling, Holling Clancy; Holling, Lucille Webster (illustrator). 1st Edition. Hardcover first edition, first printing in very good minus condition with the same date on the title page and the copyright page and with green printed end papers with an illustration of hermit crabs and a body of water swirling around rocks Tall quarto of light green cloth printed in yellow. There is a light whitish discoloration on the bottom of the yellow hermit crab printed on the front cover and some darkening towards the spine crease on the end papers.The dust jacket is fair to poor with tears and chips and a large piece missing on the bottom front panel and spine panel. Not price clipped with a 3.75 price. Previous owner gift inscription in red on the front glued down end paper and small inconspicuous owner stamp at upper right of ffep. Clean, square and tightly bound with cloth slightly darkened at spine bottom. Little Pagoo started as an egg the size of a pencil dot. He hatched and grew and grew and started searchin fo a home in Tide Pool Town. Twenty beautiful full color plates and multiple marginal drawings. 87 p.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Ex-library from Alexandria City Public Schools. Stamp to ffep and library card sleeve inside back cover say as much. DJ and pages are clean and free from markings. Beautiful illustrations. Binding is tight. KRM/Kids.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Year on title and copyright page, In green pictorial cloth with yellow to type and illustration. Wear/rubbing to spine ends and corners with a few tiny spots of fraying at heel and bottom corners. Small spot to top of front board at spine. Some tanning/foxing to gutters at endpapers. Clean interior and solid binding. Jacket is unclipped ($3.75) but has significant chipping and tears to spine and front corners and top of rear panel. Shorter tears and wear to edges. 1st Printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. light green cloth with yellow decoration and lettering fine in near fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Illustrated by Holling C. Holling. (illustrator). First Edition; Sixteenth Printing. Very Near Fine in a Fine DJ: The Book shows just a tiny indentation at the bottom edge of the front board; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of any creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome, very nearly-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing the mildest wear and minor, unobtrusive imperfections. Bright and clean. Corners sharp. Very close to "As New". NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. The DJ is flawless; unclipped; mylar protected. The unclipped DJ shows no price. Not, however, an Ex-Library copy. 4to (11.35 x 9 x 0.65 inches) . Profusely illustrated in both color and black & white by Holling C. Holling and Lucille Webster Holling. Green paper over boards with black titles and designs at the front panel and black titles at the backstrip. Language: English. Weight: 19.5 ounces. Hardback with DJ. Holling Clancy Holling (born Holling Allison Clancy; 1900 1973) was an American writer and illustrator, best known for the book Paddle-to-the-Sea, which was a Caldecott Honor Book in 1942. Paddle to the Sea won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1962. In 1966, Bill Mason directed the Oscar-nominated short film Paddle to the Sea, based on Holling's book, for the National Film Board of Canada. He was a runner-up for the Caldecott Medal in 1942 for Paddle-to-the-Sea. He received the Commonwealth Club of California Literature Award in 1948 for Seabird, which was also a runner-up for the Newbery Medal in 1949. He was a runner-up for the Newbery Medal again in 1952 for Minn of the Mississippi. With his wife, Lucille, he received the Southern California Council on Literature Award in 1961 for 'Pagoo'. 'Pagoo' is engrossing and intriguing experience! The story is about Pagoo or Pagurus the hermit crab. The writing and exquisite illustrations illustrate his life story beautifully. From his starting out as small as a pencil dot to his full grown size of a couple of inches in length the delicate drawings take us through his world in Tide Pool town! Full colour pictures also depict baby shrimp, baby squid, baby crabs, and plankton creatures swimming around Pagoo in the great sea! As Pagoo molted he is shown in different stages of development, looking like a young crawfish in the early stage and later more like a hermit crab in search of a home(sea shell). Pagoo's travels took him through a mussel land and after meeting up with barnacles and a starfish he found room and board on the back of a lady hermit crab whose barnacles provided a home for Pagoo! After being swallowed by a fish and chased by a seagull Pagoo found a shell and had a narrow escape from a huge octopus! Finally Pagoo mated with a female hermit crab and afterwards she had many eggs to start the lifecycle again! 'Pagoo' is a lovely, fasinating book! ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 87 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Thin 4to. 17 full-page color plates, numerous b/w illustrations, color endpapers and dust jacket design by Lucille Webster Holling. Dust jacket (clipped; few chips and nicks). Very good. 86 pages. No signatures or bookplates.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Holling Clancy Holling (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition. Large 4to light green pictorial cloth stamped in yellow. With full-page color plates and b/w in-text drawings on every page, by Holling and Lucile Webster Holling. Laid into this copy is an ALS from Holling to an admirer. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket which has just a small spot on the front inner flap. Signed by Author(s).

Illustrated by the author and Lucille Webster Holling. Pp. 88(last blank), illustrated throughout in colour and black & white; demy 4to; green cloth, lettered and decorated in yellow, edges a trifle discoloured and rubbed, corners lightly worn; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges and backstrip worn, with large piece torn from top of back panel, and several smaller chips and tears; upper hinge tender, bookseller's sticker at foot of lower pastedown, a little light foxing and offsetting; Houghton, Mifflin, Boston, 1957. First edition. *Pagoois a hermit crab. Holling Clancy Holling (1900-1973) was an American author and illustrator, best known for his book Paddle-to-the-Sea, which was a Caldecott Honor Book in 1942.