10.483 Ergebnisse
1944Best.-Nr. 011536Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1944 Green cloth hard cover pictorially stamped in brown mild sunning to edges; illustrated dust jacket with extremity wear price-clipped. The story of Muggins a curious kitten. Lovely 2-color artwork throughout. . First Edition. Pictorial Cloth Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Diana Thorne. 8vo. Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
1946Best.-Nr. 010531New York: Highfield Publishing 1946 Color printed pictorial wraps with light wear. A version of Three Little Kittens about a mother cat and her naughty little kittens. Adorable color artwork on every page by Barbara Dempster. I could only locate one institutional copy and virtually no information about the artist. Not in Necker. Pictorial Wraps. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. Illus. by Barbara Dempster. Small 4to. Highfield Publishing unknown
1946Best.-Nr. 010531New York: Highfield Publishing 1946 Color printed pictorial wraps with light wear. A version of Three Little Kittens about a mother cat and her naughty little kittens. Adorable color artwork on every page by Barbara Dempster. I could only locate one institutional copy and virtually no information about the artist. Not in Necker. Pictorial Wraps. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. Illus. by Barbara Dempster. Small 4to. Highfield Publishing unknown books
1925Best.-Nr. DEMO010638IJoliet: P. F. Volland Company 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Katherine STURGIS. 12mo unpaginated pictorial green boards a few marginal tears tips rubbed. The Sunny Book series. P. F. Volland Company hardcover
1889Best.-Nr. BOOKS075043IWashington DC: Government Printing Office 1889. HC. good original wraps bound in black cloth hardcover. B&W ill plates. Original edition wraps bound in black cloth - light edgewear to cloth owner's names front free endpaper. Of the 86 plates indexed to follow the text -- CANCELLED as stated in the list of plates WERE: 80 81 82 84 and 85. Plate 83 is in color followed by index. 525pp. Government Printing Office unknown
1979Best.-Nr. 0047491979. Hardcover. Good. Publisher: Reston Publishing Company 1979 Good HB ISBN: 0-8359-1903-X hardcover
1951Best.-Nr. 013484London: Collins 1951. Turquoise hardcover cloth binding square and tight sun-faded along edges. 254 pages some foxing pages yellowing else clean interior. DJ has some shelfwear rubbed along edges and a couple of small chips. Map of story on endpapers. Set in Romney Marsh this includes characters from The Summer of the Great Secret The Midnight Horse and The White Riders. Tamzin and Rissa learn a ship is carrying a cargo of horses to be taken abroad and slaughtered. They are determined to rescue them. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall 1st Printing. Illus. by Whittam Geoffrey. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Collins Hardcover
1998Best.-Nr. 134950Vigot 1998 In-12 broché 19 cm sur 13. 313 pages. Bon état d’occasion.
Best.-Nr. 001454Crown Book. As New. Soft cover. F. As New/As New. First Edition. Galley/Proof. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ISBN:0-517-59598-2. Crown Paperback
Best.-Nr. 001454Crown Book. As New. Soft cover. F. As New/As New. First Edition. Galley/Proof. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ISBN:0-517-59598-2. Crown Paperback books
Best.-Nr. 3T0026Hodder & Stroughton 1111. A fine green hardcover with pictorial cover featuring ducks flying with dust jacket in very good to fine condition. Dust jacket would be fine except for some moisture stains on spine. Dust jacket has paste-on color picture. No date. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good to Fine. Hodder & Stroughton Hardcover
1954Best.-Nr. 010895New York: Harcourt Brace & Company 1954 Illustrated boards; matching dust jacket with minor wear to extremities original price intact but crossed out with two pen marks $4.50. Lisette's animals throw a part for her 76th birthday. A wonderful picture book the text is accentuated by Fischer's artwork executed with exuberant lines and just enough color. A 1955 AIGA 50 Best Books. Early Printing. Illustrated Boards. Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Hans Fischer. Oblong 4to. Harcourt, Brace & Company hardcover
1954Best.-Nr. 010895New York: Harcourt Brace & Company 1954 Illustrated boards; matching dust jacket with minor wear to extremities original price intact but crossed out with two pen marks $4.50. Lisette's animals throw a part for her 76th birthday. A wonderful picture book the text is accentuated by Fischer's artwork executed with exuberant lines and just enough color. A 1955 AIGA 50 Best Books. Early Printing. Illustrated Boards. Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Hans Fischer. Oblong 4to. Harcourt, Brace & Company hardcover books
1962Best.-Nr. 013967Dodd Mead & Company 1962. Dark orange hardcover binding clean square and tight. Interior clean and bright with no writing tears or marDJ not price-clilpped - $3.25 on front flap clean and crisp with small wrinkle top of front cover and minor shelfwear to spine 243 pages. Vance Wheeler is a lonely orphan befriended by Jim Raines - the gruff kindly perceptive trainer of horses and boys. Jim turns over his heritage of a run-down Kentucky stock farm and potential racehorses to Vance - if Vance will pitch in and help to train the horses along with a group of boys from the orphanage. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall 1st Printing Language: ENG. Illus. by McCann Gerald. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Dodd, Mead & Company Hardcover
1915Best.-Nr. DEMO010537IBoston: Lothrop Lee & Shepard 1915. First edition. Hardcover. Good. set photos of animals. 8vo 252 pages pictorial blue cloth recased 1920 birthday inscription on flyleaf. A juvenile book of animals posed in human clothing and photographed in human situations with text both by Harry Whittier Frees. Frees was accused of achieving these live photos thru cruelty to animals. Here he insisted "The difficulties encountered in posing kittens and puppies for pictures of this kind have been overcome only the the exercise of great patience and invariable kindness - Introductory Note." Lothrop, Lee & Shepard hardcover
2000Best.-Nr. BOOKS075034IAspen CO: LJM Press 2000. PB. very good wraps softcover small spot top edge book-block. ISBN 0971789509 Faint spot top edge of book-block. 218pp. LJM Press unknown
2005Best.-Nr. 2529New York: Scribner 2005. Third printing. Hardcover. Good/good. Hardcover 3rd printing in dustjacket. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page "To Joanna - Temple Grandin." A good copy with minor bumping to spine tips and cocked slightly forward. Solid binding and hinges and pages are unmarked other than the author's signature. Unclipped jacket is also good with some ruffling at the upper panel edges and a crinkle to the top of the front panel. 357 pp. index and bibliography - an incredible book on animal behavior and human psychology that has led to change and improvement in the lives of animals. Scribner hardcover
1965Best.-Nr. 013158New York: Coward-McCann 1965. Hardcover decorated library binding square and tight usual library markings. Interior tight - some smudges stamps markings. Front pocket intact. DJ flap glued to inside front cover. A good reading copy. 159 pages. When Miss Van has to leave the club stables for two months ill has trouble getting along with the replacement trainer who seems to want to ruin her success in s howing the seal-brown jumper Jumping Jack. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Illus. by Savitt Sam - cover only. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Coward-McCann Hardcover
1963Best.-Nr. 013154New York: Coward-McCann 1963. Hardcover decorated library binding square and tight usual library markings. Interior tight - some smudges stamps markings. Back pocket intact. A good reading copy. 157 pages. Sheila limps and wears a metal brace on her leg. The last thing she wants to do is humiliate herself by trying to ride a horse - until she meets the very unsociable Rogue who was a picador's horse and has the physical and mental scars to go with it. The two form a bond and learn to trust each other. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Illus. by Savitt Sam. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Coward-McCann Hardcover
Best.-Nr. 21369Boston: D. Lothrop 1882. unpaginated 63pp a.e.g. frontis. salmon cloth 8vo w/gilt titles & decorations: about Good/no dj hinges are cracked but holding; spine strip is age darkened with wear @ ends; endpp. show some foxing; else a clean & complete copy A charming woodland jaunt written for juvenile readers by the New Hampshire writer Amanda Bartlett Harris 1824-1917 with 14 illustrations including 12 full page sketches. Boston: D. Lothrop hardcover
Best.-Nr. 176Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1898 1897. 270pp. illus. decorated cloth 8vo: about Good gilt cover titles are bright; spine strip is darkened; light shelf wear; hinges are cracked but firm; small oval personal library stamp on several pp.; couple of edge tears on pages; spot of foxing here and there; else a complete & tight copy According to Bruce Bickley writing in the New Georgia Encyclopedia Joel Chandler Harris was born in 1845 not 1848 as noted in most biographic sources. His mentor literary plantation owner Joseph Addison Turner who published the newspaper The Countryman from his Turnwold Plantation near Eatonton Georgia managed to get Harris a deferment from service in the Confederate army something of an historical question mark/sore point in Harris life. He is most famous for his Uncle Remus stories which made him second only to his friend Mark Twain in popularity as an American writer at the turn of the 20th century. Harris died in 1908 a couple of years before Twain. This book of children s stories features 24 marvelous llustrations by the Anglo-American artist Oliver Herford 1863-1935. Boston: Houghton Mifflin hardcover
2008Best.-Nr. 038844North Adams MA: Storey Publishing LLC 2008. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket/As Issued. 4to. Very good copy with minor shelfwear and mild foxing along upper page edges. Glossy pictorial cover with minor shelfwear. Storey Publishing, LLC hardcover
1939Best.-Nr. 013950New York: William Morrow & Co. 1939. Red hardcover binding with illustrated endpapers is clean and tight spine a bit cocked. DJ not price-clipped - $2.00 on flap. Lots of wear wrinkles large chip bottom of spine. Wraparound illustrated dustjacket has title in red red mountains in background wild horse on front cover back as red mountains with wild herd watching the stallion.Protected from further damage in clean Brodart. Binding is secure and tight. 234 pages. Black Storm was his name but the cowboys called him Black Dynamite because of his terrific speed and because he threw every cowboy in John McDonald's corral until young Joe Bain talked to him quietly and mounted him without cruel spurs. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall 7th printing Language: ENG. Illus. by illustrated. Hardcover. Near Very Good/Fair. William Morrow & Co. Hardcover
1946Best.-Nr. 013024New York: William Morrow & Company 1946. Beige hardcover cloth book with red silhouette of cowboy and dog on front cover. Binding clean square and tight. Faint remains of erasures on ffep else clean bright and tight interior. DJ front flap corner clipped but not price-clipped - original $2.00 price on flap. Clean and crisp with a few small chips and wrinkles on edges but displays nicely in clean Brodart jacket. 224 pages. 1946 on title page and copyright page with no printings listed. Classic Hinkle dog story about a dog born on Jim Preston's ranch. Blackjack was the son of Bob Tail he was the dog to take on the pack of wild dogs preying on the ranchers' cattle. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall 1st Printing. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Very Good. William Morrow & Company Hardcover
1927Best.-Nr. DEMO008137IMinneapolis: Gordon Volland / BUZZA 1927. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Holling C. HOLLING. 12mo multi-hued pictorial cloth spine pictorial boards edgeworn bumped. "Rum Tum Tummy was a bold bad elephant. he had no parents which would have been bad to anybody but a bold bad elephant in a very wild jungle. He didn't even have an aunt to say . 'Brush your tusks!' He had nothing but a terrible appetite and as you shall see he had a wild time !" Illustrated wonderfully by Holling C. Holling. Gordon Volland / BUZZA hardcover
