What Wee Bear (4 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Considerable shelf wear to edges and corners of dust jacket, with tears to tops and bottoms of hinge at spine. Previous owner penned name on inside of front end-page. Binding remains intact and pages are otherwise mostly clean and unbent. Good used reading condition. Used Book.

Illustrated throughout in color. Oblong 12mo, six double-sided panels on thick board, concertina (accordion) bound. One cloth joint reinforced with a narrow strip of clear tape; light rubbing at corners.

Color Pictorial Boards. Condition: Very Good +. Jordan, Nina (illustrator). First Edition. Burgess, Thornton. WHAT THE WEE BEAR DID. No Place: Whitman Publishing Co., (1930). First edition. Oblong 32mo - 6" x 4-11/16". Full color pictorial boards with minor dusting and light rubbing to the edges and corners for what is a very nice copy of this notoriously fragile book. [12]pp. The book consists of six panels of heavy board stock, with full color illustrations by Nina Jordan mounted on each side, folded accordian style. The six panels are joined together with cloth which is still completely intact but on the fragile side. Fully extended the book measures 36-1/2" long. The book tells the story of a mischief making little bear and the troubles he finds himself in. The pages of the book are bright and clean and the illustrations are just charming. The condition of the book is VERY GOOD +. Rare.

Accordion-style. Condition: Very good +. First Edition. 12mo Accordion style boards, 4"x 6", illustrating 12 scenes. "No. 678" stated on front panel, near the imprint. Very good to near fine. Cloth strips are fine and unblemished, scenes bright. A nice exampleof this charming, fragile, and surprisingly rare children's book; untraced at auction, and with no separately listed holdings in OCLC.