Published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1942
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo; G+; lightly sunned green spine with dark green text; stated first edition; no jacket; exterior to cloth shows some soiling wear, probably due to usage and handling; mild lean to spine; minor edge wear; text block exterior edges have modestly age toned; pictorial endpapers in ivory and green; interior lightly toned; illustrated; pp 142. 1363455. FP New Rockville Stock.
Published by Michael Joseph, US, 1942
Seller: Atlanta Vintage Books, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Pages have scattered soiling and foxing, but no notations from the previous owner. Green cloth covers are soiled, rubbed, bumped and scuffed. Text block is soiled. Spine is rubbed and soiled with a closed tear. Previous owner's name on front endpage Light wear to cloth at spine ends and corners. Binding is square and tight. Boards are clean. Pictures available upon request.
Published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA, 1942
Seller: Books from the Past, Memphis, TN, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Robert Lawson (illustrator). 1st Edition. The cover has green cloth with dark green lettering and a vignette. The endpapers have a green and white illustration. Seventeen chapters, each with a b/w illustration at the head and most chapters have other illustrations. The cover's whole bottom edge is frayed, as are the spine strip's top edge and the boards' corners, About a sixth of the back board has stains. The bottom end of the text block has a 1/8 in. stain that runs onto the bottom edges of a few pages. One page margin is torn half way down along the book's spine. A previous repair has left a dark tape stain. The tear is now tipped back together with glue. A few other pages have small, light stains. An ink stamp of an owner's name is on the front endpaper. Scans e-mailed upon request.
Published by Gütersloh: Bertelsmann Reinhard Mohn OHG; Stuttgart, Europäischer Buch-und Phonoklub; Wien : Buchgemeinschaft Donauland [1969]., 1969
Seller: BOUQUINIST, München, BY, Germany
Illustrierter Pappband. Condition: Sehr gut. 174 (2) Seiten mit Zeichnungen von Wiltrud Roser. Sehr guter Zustand. Buchrücken am Kopf minimal eingerissen. - Cecil Scott Forester (* 27. August 1899 in Kairo, Ägypten als Cecil Lewis Troughton Smith; 2. April 1966 in Fullerton, Kalifornien) war ein englischer Schriftsteller und Journalist. Leben: Sein Vater, ein unterer Beamter im ägyptischen Bildungsministerium, ließ ihn in England erziehen. Das anschließende Medizinstudium brach er ab und begann seine schriftstellerische Laufbahn 1921 unter dem Pseudonym Cecil Scott Forester. Forester arbeitete längere Zeit als Korrespondent der Times in London, während des Spanischen Bürgerkriegs in Spanien, und in Prag. Seit 1932 war der Schriftsteller auch wiederholt als Drehbuchautor für Hollywood tätig. Zu den Filmen nach seinen Werken gehören u. a. African Queen und Des Königs Admiral. Des Königs Admiral ist die Verfilmung dreier Bücher aus Foresters mehrbändigem Zyklus um den Seehelden Horatio Hornblower und dessen Karriere zur Zeit der Napoleonischen Kriege. Durch die lebendigen und fesselnden Schilderungen des Lebens an Bord britischer Kriegsschiffe von 1794 bis 1823 begründete Forester das besonders in England populäre Genre Marinehistorischer Roman". Zu seinen Nachfolgern gehören u. a. Alexander Kent, James Dillon White und Richard Woodman. Durch die spannenden Abenteuer seines Protagonisten wurde Forester zu einem der meistgelesenen Autoren der 50er und 60er Jahre des 20. Jahrhunderts und damit zu einem Autor mit Millionenauflagen. Forester starb am 2. April 1966, ohne seinen letzten Hornblower-Roman beendet zu haben. In Großbritannien kümmert sich seit einiger Zeit die CS Forester Society" um das Andenken an Forester. . Aus: wikipedia-Cecil_Scott_Forester. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 265 Lizenzausgabe des Bertelsmann Jugendbuchverlags.
Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable/Price Clipped. Third Impression. Type: Book N.B. Book in good condition. Yellow and red decorative boards. Dust jacket is complete however in poor condition. D/J is price clipped with creasing and rubbing. The front and rear part are detached and have been amateurly but neatly repaired with tape. Chipping to head and tail of D/J spine with slight loss to head of spine. (CHILDRENS).
Published by Michael Joseph,, London:, 1951
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Illustrated by Robert Lawson (illustrator). Third impression. Foxing on fore edge, else very good in a fair (two inch piece missing at the top of the spine, long closed tear on rear panel, moderate edge wear and age toning), price clipped dust jacket.; 188 pages.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. FIRST. A VERY GOOD FIRST EDITION STATED IN GREEN DECORATED CLOTH NO DJ.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Robert Lawson (illustrator). 1st Edition. This Stated First Edition from 1942 is in very good condition with clean interior pages and a green cloth cover showing very slight corner wear. There is no dust jacket.Robert Lawson's illustrations in black and white are charming. Picture available upon request.
Published by Little, Brown & Co, Boston, MA, 1942
Seller: Lotzabooks, Oak Point, TX, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Lawson, Robert (illustrator). First Edition. Size: 8mo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" tall. 143 pp. Text contains many words (mostly, but not exclusively, character names) that have been circled. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Previous owner's inscription on endpapers. Moderate shelfwear to the cover. Bumped and rubbed. Illustrator: Lawson, Robert. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1 - 2 pounds. Category: Children; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 001694.
Published by Michael Joseph, London, 1942
Seller: Bay Books, Penzance, United Kingdom
Decorative Cloth. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. Lawson, Robert (illustrator). Exciting children's story about a Boy called Poo-Poo (Harold really) who has a fantastic adventure with Dragons. B&W Illustrations by Robert Lawson. Deep Yellow cloth cover with Red Lettering, Dragon Tail and Landscape on front. Red Lettering and Dragon Heads to spine. Endpapers illustrated with Poo-Poo and his parents in a car being followed by 2 Dragons. Title Page illustrated with Poo-Poo and a Dragon. 188 Pages, 260g, 8 3/4" Tall. Slight soiling to cover. Gift inscription on back of ffep, dated 1947. No other inscriptions except old price on endpaper. Pages clean. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.
Published by Michael Joseph, 1942
Seller: Turning of the Tide Books, SEATTLE, WA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Stated 1942 printing. Illustrations by Robert Lawson. Yellow cloth boards with red titles and decor. Book in G+ condition, no dj; light lean to book yet binding tight, book edges mildly worn, corners lightly bumped, scuffing to rear, light discoloration to spine, front remains clean, pictorial endpapers, clean interior and pages.
Published by Michael Joseph, London, 1942
Seller: Turn The Page Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Robert lawson (illustrator). First Edition. Moderate age wear, tear and discolouration to outer boards. Difficult to find title. 190 pages. No internal inscriptions, torn or missing pages. Illustrator: Robert lawson. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Children; Fiction. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 51504.
Published by Michael Joseph, London, 1942
Seller: Amazing Book Company, Liphook, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Robert Lawson (illustrator). First Edition. POO POO AND THE DRAGONS. C. S. Forester. Illustrated by Robert Lawson. Michael Joseph, London 1942 First Edition 190pp Illustrated Hardback. This copy is has a small signature to the front endpaper but is otherwise bright, tight and unmarked throughout. The yellow linen covered boards have terra cotta designs and titling the front and the spine. There is some edge wear and the boards are a trifle grubby. A dust wrapper is not present.This book was conceived and published in 1942, before the war impacted on book production. Forester came up with the premise for the book while he was at home in the Berkeley hills, minding his two boys while his wife Kathleen was away. The younger of the two, 8 year old George, went on a hunger strike; he refused to eat. Forester made up the stories to tell during dinnertime, but would only tell them if George would eat. If George stopped eating, Forester stopped talking mid-sentence. By the time Kathleen returned home and everything returned to normal, there were a number of Poo-Poo stories, and 3 dragons. Forester collected the stories in manuscript form and Michael Joseph published it. It remains one of forester's rarest titles Ref AA5.
Hardcover. Condition: Very good +. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. third printing. 7 x 9 in. Green cloth boards. Pictoral endpapers, B&W illus. Stated third printing, 1945 on copyright pg. Condition is VERY GOOD+ ; covers extremely clean with a hint of sunning to upper and lower edges. Spine ends bumped with minor wear, corners excellent. Binding tight. Endpapers and text spotless. DJ is VERY GOOD ; clipped, but $2.50 still visible. very clean and fresh, spine bright. Edges have light wear with some chips and two small closed tears upper front. In a new Mylar wrapper. Chil. RGR.
Published by Michael Joseph, London, 1942
Seller: Amolib Books, Oxford, OXON, United Kingdom
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Lawson, Robert (illustrator). First Edition. This would have been very good if the dragons on the front endpapers had not been very carefully crayonned in. Pencilled po name and address on ffep. Likewise three other internal dragons. The front cover is a little grubby with faint mould signs at the top - see picture. Else internally clean and tight. War time quality paper. Forester's only children's book. Scarce. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 1942
Seller: Illustrated Bookshelf, Flagstaff, AZ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Robert Lawson (illustrator). First Edition. Stated first printing. Very Good, green cloth with navy blue lettering, illustrated green and white endpapers, spine is faded else near fine.
Published by Little Brown and Company, 1942
Seller: A Squared Books (Don Dewhirst), South Lyon, MI, U.S.A.
First Edition
hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. First Edition. Boston, 1942; Little Brown and Company edition; 1st edition; illustrated green cloth covered boards; mild corner and spine edge wear; illustrated jacket in acceptable condition with edges and corners chipped, housed in a Bro-Dart cover; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; end papers toned; pages 6 and 7 toned; interior is clean and unmarked; 143 pages.
Published by Joseph., London., 1942
Seller: EmJay Books, Bradford., United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Robert Lawson (illustrator). Second Impression. 189pp, drawings. The only childrens book by Forester. Medium wear with minor tears to cloth at head and foor of spine, correction fluid to top of fep (doen't affect illustrated eps., text block good.
Published by Little, Brown, BOSTON, 1942
Seller: MARIE BOTTINI, BOOKSELLER, Cotati, CA, U.S.A.
Pictorial Hardcover. Condition: Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Robert Lawson (illustrator). First Edition Stated. With only ONE small library marking in middle of book. In edgeworn green boards with illustration on front and green lettering; spine has added green strengthening tape. With illustrated green and white endpapers not marred by pockets or stamps. Pages have modest soiling, otherwise book is sturdy and covered in a facsimile of a later printing jacket.
Published by Little, Brown, BOSTON, 1968
Seller: MARIE BOTTINI, BOOKSELLER, Cotati, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Robert Lawson (illustrator). Second Printing. A flawless copy of this RARE title, the author's only foray into children's fiction. Lacks the illustrated endpapers of the first edition, but has rest of Lawson's charming illustrations, and is covered in a barely worn, scarce jacket.
Published by Little, Brown, Boston, 1942
Seller: Ragabooks, Palo Alto, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dj. Robert Lawson (illustrator). First Edition Stated. Lime gren cloth, dark green lettering and dragon design, clean and crisp, minor spine wear, green/white lawson eps, owner name in ink in upper corner of inside front, b/w full pg and text illus, 143 pp.
Published by LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY, Boston, 1942
Seller: Lost Horizon Bookstore, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Illustrated by Robert Lawson. (illustrator). First edition. 8 1/2'' x 6 3/4''. 143pp. Original green cloth has a small nick to bottom. Endpapers have some off setting from dustjacket, toning. Dustjacket has a few chips and is stained and toned.
Published by London, Michael Joseph 1942., 1942
First Edition
188pp. 8vo. Original decorated cloth, marked, small stain mostly on bottom edge of lower board, minor wear to extremities. Frontispiece, illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Some browning to edges. A very good copy. First edition.
Published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1942
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
vii, 143 pp. Illustrated by Robert LAwson. 8vo, publisher's pictorial green cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Ink Christmas gift inscription on half-title; a few slight finger marks to the unworn cloth; tight and sound in a lightly tanned jacket with minor edgewear.
Published by Little, Brown,, Boston:, 1942
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Robert Lawson (illustrator). Stated first edition. Fading along the spine, tape shadows to endpapers, else very good in a very good (edge worn and age toned, moderate sized chips at the spine ends) dust jacket with the original $1.75 price on the front flap.; 143 pages.
London, Michael Joseph Ltd. 1963. 8vo. Original buttermilk pictorial cloth printed in blue, delightful double-page pictorial dragon endpapers, in pictorial dustwrapper, illustrated to both panels; pp. [iv], 5-188 + [i]; double-page illustrated title and frontispiece and 17 other striking dragon drawings printed in brown by Robert Lawson; both externally and internally a bright, freh copy with a pale orange streak (2.5cm) to one text leaf, in a remarkably good and attractive, unclipped dustwrapper (12s 6d) with small nicking at head of spine and some light general dusting. First edition, fourth impression, published 21 years after the first. A popular twentieth-century children's classic illustrated by the creator of Wee Gillis and The Story of Ferdinand.
1st edition. weight: 1.2 lb. Near fine, bookplate to second endpaper, in very good price-clipped dust jacket with some chipping to edges. Illustrated by Robert Lawson. 21.5x16.5 cm. 143 pp. Green cloth, black titles and decorations, green dragons and touring car illustrated endpapers.
Published by MICHAEL JOSEPH LTD, 1942
Seller: Ron Weld Books, Great Yarmouth, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Vg-plus to Near Fine. ROBERT LAWSON (illustrator). Very rare /collectible vintage children's title - excellent clean crisp interior, no marks or inscriptions, contains pictorial e/papers and numerous nice illustrations, just a faint tone to closed-edge of pages, excellent clean firm boards; d/j has standard wear and tear with loss to top and lower spine as shown and general edgewear, light tone overall but all intact and acceptable appearance for the age, covered with a new removable sleeve-protector, not price-clipped./.
Published by London: Michael Joseph, 1942, 1942
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
First Edition
[Children's illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.188. With in-text illustrations and endpapers by Lawson. Publisher's yellow cloth, designs and titles blocked in red to upper and spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket priced at 7/6. Mild toning throughout. Typographic bookplate of Trevor Hickman to front flyleaf verso. Toning to textblock edges, some splashing to fore. Spotting to top of cloth. Jacket spine and rear panel toned/spotted, some wear and tearing to extremities. Very good. A delightful children's book which 'all started when the son of the author of Captain Hornblower, R.N., refused to eat after his mother had gone on a vist' (blurb) and Forester had to improvise a captivating story that stopped when the eating of dinner stopped.
Published by Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1942
Seller: LaCelle Rare Books, Chadwick, MO, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. Lawson, Robert (Illustrated by) (illustrator). Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1942. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING with 1942 date on title page, correct copyright statement, etc. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON HALF-TITLE PAGE. Good+. Tight binding; clean pages; moderate wear and light sunning; no jacket. Scarce signed. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .