Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Tasha Tudor. Alexander the Gander. Oxford, New York, 1939.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Ex-lib with library stamp on interior front page and sticker residue on bottom of spine, also previous owner's name on inside front board that ispart of Tudor's illustrations. Oxford University Press; 1939. Hard Cover. Small (4 3/4" high by 4" wide) book with color illustrations on every page. Green cloth with small white spots, with red title outlined in red on the front board. Exterior is rubbed at corners and on spine, text block slightly unhinged. RARE.
Seller: Puffin & Bean, Concord, MA, U.S.A.
Tasha Tudor. Alexander The Gander. Oxford University Press, 1939.
Price: US$149.97 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Second Printing 1943
Seller: Mark Henderson, Olathe, KS, U.S.A.
Tudor, Tasha. Alexander the Gander. Oxford University Press, New York, NY, 1939.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 32mo. Missing dust-jacket. No stated edition. Green cloth boards with white dots, white title box with red lettering and border on front cover. Color illustrations by Tasha Tudor throughout. Shelfwear: moderate scuffing and rubbing along edges and covers, light spine fade, some light smudges on covers, previous owner's name in pencil on inside front cover and two words written in pen on inside rear cover, light tanning along page edges, delicate binding. Volume is in Good-plus condition.
Seller: Russian Hill Bookstore, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Tudor, Tasha. Alexander the Gander.. Oxford University Press, New York, 1939.
Price: US$329.68 + shipping
Description: In 16 relié sous jaquette illustrée, illustrations de Tasha Tudor. Première édition, bel exemplaire.
Seller: La Basse Fontaine, VENCE, France
Tudor, Tasha. Alexander the Gander. Oxford University Press, New York, 1939.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Small 3"x3 1/2" book. A "calico book" in green paper-covered boards. Unpaginated. Color illustrations. Minor edge-wear to covers, else near fine. Dust jacket has light soiling & edge-wear, but no real chips. Not price-clipped. An exceptional copy.
Seller: Kevin T. Ransom- Bookseller, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
Tudor, Tasha. Alexander the Gander. Oxford University Press, New York, 1939.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1st ptg. 16mo, full green polka dot calico cloth, the second in the "Calico" series of 4 titles. Full color illustrations throughout by the author, full color pictorial endpapers, reproduced from Tudor's original handlettered manuscript. A hint of wear to extremeties, slight toning to endpapers, label from Portland Oregon bookstore affixed to rear pastedown, else fine in toned, unclipped dj, no previous owner's marks.
Seller: Bud Plant & Hutchison Books, Cedar Ridge, CA, U.S.A.
TUDOR, Tasha. Alexander the Gander.. Oxford University Press, New York, 1939.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: Illustrated throughout in color. 4-3/4 x 4 inches, publisher's printed boards in dust jacket. First edition. Very slightest of rubbing to the extremities of the boards; still near fine in a slightly soiled dust jacket.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Tasha Tudor. Alexander the Gander. Oxford University Press, New York, 1939.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 4 1/8" x 4 3/4". FIRST PRINTING OF FIRST EDITION; RARE. One of the late, great Tasha Tudor's early masterpieces of illustration. In Near Fine (NF) condition: clean, tight and bright throughout, with only some minor rubbing to the extremities; otherwise Fine (F) with clean, bright, unmarked pages within. Dustjacket in Very Good Minus (VG-) condition with some darkening, oiling, some chipping at the edges and a few closed tears; would look nice in a Brodart/mylar cover. With "$_.75" at bottom of both dustjacket flaps, denoting the 1939 first printing.
Seller: Seacoast Books, Portsmouth, NH, U.S.A.
Tudor, Tasha. Alexander the Gander. Oxford University Press, New York, 1939.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG+ to near fine in decorated boards, minor natural offsetting to endsheets, tight and clean, NO previous owner markings or bookplates. In a vg dust jacket with typical age-darkening, with a few small abrasions along spine, slight shallow chipping at top of spine and minor paper loss at tips of corners and some short edgetears and related adjacent creasing. Jacket price 75 cents and rear dj flap lists only one other Tudor title (Pumpkin Moonshine.) No printing listed on copyright page.
Seller: Aladdin Books, Fullerton, CA, U.S.A.
Tudor, Tasha. Alexander the Gander. Oxford University Press, New York, 1939.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first printing. Signed by Tasha Tudor on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's green polka-dot cloth. Near Fine with light rubbing to cloth at edges, pages mildly toned. In a Near Fine dust jacket with toning and light edge wear.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Tudor, Tasha. ALEXANDER THE GANDER. Oxford University Press, New York, 1939.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: First printing of Tudor's second book, a Calico Book with calligraphy by Hilda Scott, rare in this condition. 4.5'' x 3.75''. Original green polka dot-patterned cloth. In original unclipped ($.75) color pictorial dust jacket. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated by Tudor with full-page color illustrations facing each page of text plus pictorial title page and pictorial initials. 47, [1] pages. Only lightest edgewear to cloth. Jacket with trace evidence of ringmark, one tiny tape repair to verso.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.