Three Princes Serendip by Hodges Elizabeth Jamison (16 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.65.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Foxing to front pages and page ends. DJ with some edge wear, foxing marks and creasing.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.05.

Condition: VERY GOOD. First printing. The author's first book, written for older children. The word 'serendipity' was invented by Horace Walpole after reading an old fairy tale, "The Three Princes of Serendip," This story, which goes back at least to the 16th century, is retold by Hodges in a version based on an English translation of 1722. "The tale is brilliantly embroidered, full of color and imagination. It tells how the three princes of Serendip (another name for Ceylon) journey to Persia and India to prove their fitness as future rulers and to find the secret formula which will clear the dragoninfested sea around their island kingdom. Along the way they meet mighty kings, young girls as beautiful as jasmine, fearsome monsters. . . this ends happily as a fairy tale should with the gentle corollary that vision and knowledge come to 'those who dream with lifted eyes'. (New York Times review). Illustrated with drawings by Joan Berg. Notes, and a brief list of suggestions for further reading. 158 pp. Very good+ in rust-colored cloth in a fair only dust jacket with some rubbing and edgewear, loss of about one inch at top of dj spine, price-clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. March 1966 second printing in very good price intact ($3.95) jacket, tight and unmarked. Small stain spot to margin pages 8-12 D63 Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Stated first edition, very good+ in a very good+ dust jacket. Just minor edgewear to the brick-colored cloth boards. The jacket has slight edgewear, and light rubbing at the top of the spine. There is an ink "1.49" price written below the printed $3.95 price on the front jacket flap. No names or other making in the book. A children's book, with drawings by Joan Berg.

Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, 158 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Good dust jacket. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Spine pictorial blue and beige with beige lettering. Exterior has moderate wear including few scratches, slight age toning and minor chips to the head/tail edges. Boards have very mild sunning to the spine and minor edge wear. Text block shows slight age toning to the edges. Frontispiece. Mild offsetting to pages fifty four to fifty five. Illustrated. First Edition. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column M, ND-M. 1383489. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Atheneum, 1966. Book has a slightly loose first signature, previous owner's name on bottom textblock, mild wear to edges and corners, mild toning/faint foxing to textblocks, light sticker residue/tear to front endpaper. otherwise in very good condition, strong binding, clean and unmarked pages; some cosmetic/aging wear but an overall sturdy copy with sharp text. Dust jacket is affixed to covers; in very good condition, showing mild rubbing and aging to front/back. now in archival cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A very clean bright tight copy. DJ not price clipped. No inscriptions.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Peggy Fortnum (illustrator). First (thus) UK edition hardback, 1965, with price-clipped jacket. In overall very good used condition with only minor signs of age, handling and storage - dust jacket rubbed (now protected); boards clean and crisp. Binding tight and appears little read. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions; text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book.

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Not price-clipped. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 127 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes; An adaptation of Peregrinaggio di tre giovani as told by Horace Walpole. Includes bibliographical references. Audience; juvenile. Subjects; Tales. Tales India Sri Lanka. 1 Kg.

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Not price-clipped. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 127 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes; An adaptation of Peregrinaggio di tre giovani as told by Horace Walpole. Includes bibliographical references. Audience; juvenile. Subjects; Tales. Tales India Sri Lanka. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Joan Berg (illustrator). First Edition/First Printing. Signed "Elizabeth Jamison Hodges" on the title page. Probably a review copy or similar advance issue, as there is a taped in slip signed by Jean Karl, Editor of Children's Books, on the dedication page. A very nice copy with steady foxing to top edge, and just light use showing to jacket. Owner name on copyright page. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Joan Berg (illustrator). 1st Edition. 8vo. Reddish cloth. "First edition" on copyright page. 158pp. B&w illustrations. The slightest of spine cocks, else near fine. The paper of one signature is a bit whiter than the others. Dust jacket shows $3.95. No chips or tears. This is an exception copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Joan Berg (illustrator). First edition. Very good in a very good (age toning along spine and edges), price clipped dust jacket. ; 158 pages B0006BLUZW.