Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Wade, Blanche Elizabeth. Ant Ventures. Rand McNally, 1924.
Price: US$13.50 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Soiling and wear to the original decorated covers. Cracked front hinge; the pages have some staining and discoloring; a reading copy of an old book. Illustrated but includes only 3 of the color illustrations. Illustrator: Cady, Harrison. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Inventory No: 211213.
Seller: Easy Chair Books, Lexington, MO, U.S.A.
Wade, Blanche Elizabeth. Ant Ventures. Rand, Mcnally & Company, Chicago, 1924.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Pictorial green cloth binding rubbed at extremities; spine ends & corners frayed; boards & backstrip scuffed & smudged; hinges & several points in textblock cracked; cracked front hinge neatly repaired with clear tape; one color plate missing; several leaves nearly detached; corners of a few leaves chipped/bent; leaf edges foxed, else a much-loved, clean copy, with bright & clear ils. No dj. ; Many charming b&w ils., by Harrison Cady, color cover art & only three color plates present. ; 8vo; 246 pages
Seller: Hyde Brothers, Booksellers, Fort Wayne, IN, U.S.A.
Wade, Blanche Elizabeth. Ant Ventures. Rand McNally & Company, Chicago, 1924.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Slight separation at hinges, holding well. Frontis. half pulled free but also holding. Full green cloth binding, rubbed, with paper color illustration on front. Illustrated endpapers. 246pp. Illustrations in b&w, with several bright full color plates. Size: 12mo - over 6" - 8" Tall
Seller: Turn-The-Page Books, Skyway, WA, U.S.A.
Blanche Elizabeth Wade. Ant Ventures. Rand McNally and Co., New York, 1924.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Full pictorial paste down, black stamped green cloth hardcover. 246pp., 7-1/2" x 5-1/2", dynamic endpapers, four full color pages and 27 black and white illustrations by Harrison Cady. Small scribble on front boards, with subtlest wear throughout, rather fresh with light toning.
Seller: Little Sages Books, ABAA/ILAB, Longmont, CO, U.S.A.
WADE, Blanche Elizabeth. CADY, Harrison (illus.). Ant Ventures.. Rand McNally, Chicago, 1924.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: 246 pp. Illustrated in color by Harrison Cady. 8vo, publisher's cloth with applied color illustration. First edition. Old ink gift inscription on half-title page; slight use to cloth; tight and sound.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Wade, Blanche Elizabeth; Illustrated by Harrison Cady. Ant Ventures. Rand McNally, 1924.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 16mo hardcover, paste-on Ilustration: ant leaving home; book plate, tight binding clean pages, light shelfwear, book enclosed in heavy clear mylar wrap, else VG to VG+. Solid copy illustrated throughout at least a dozen ant stories. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: Mossback Books, hartland, MI, U.S.A.
Blanche Elizabeth Wade. Ant Ventures. Rand McNally, Chicago, 1924.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A sound copy with no loose pages. Wear at edges and corners, boards somewhat soiled; gift inscription on half-title page, other than a few little finger smudges the pages are quite clean, a few have a corner torn off (not affecting text) Paste down on front cover in VG shape. Photos on request.
Seller: Trench Books, Hudson, ME, U.S.A.
Blanche Elizabeth Wade. Ant Ventures. Rand McNally, 1924.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG+ condition book, no DJ. Name of original owner and bookstore sticker on endpaper. [0104]
Seller: Old Friends Used Books, Manchester, CT, U.S.A.
Wade, Blanche Elizabeth. Ant Ventures. Rand McNally and Co., Chicago and New York, 1924.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Green cloth, lettered in dark green, color pastedown illus. on front cover by Cady. 246 pp., two-color illus. endpapers, b&w illus., 4 color plates including frontis. Modest shelf wear, corners rubbed with minor exposure, light rubbing to spine extremities, text block edges toned. Upper back cover shows 1/4" abrasion with minor exposure. Front cover pastedown shows slight rubbing to edges and tiny 1/16" chip along the front walkway. Firm binding, clean interior. Apparent first edition w/ "20MA-24" and Rand McNally colophon on copyright page. Better than average with modest wear, no major faults. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
Blanche Elizabeth Wade. Ant Ventures. Rand McNally & Company, Chicago/New York, 1924.
Price: US$102.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good boards, solid binding, inside pages clean and unmarked. Mylar covered book boards. Sillouett and black and white illustrations.
Seller: Jans Collectibles: Vintage Books, Bethany, MO, U.S.A.
Blanche Elizabeth Wade. Ant Ventures. Rand McNally & Company, Chicago/New York, 1924.
Price: US$106.25 + shipping
Description: Book in very good to fine condition. Very light edge wear and nice color to the covers. Four full page color illustrations by Harrison Cady and Seven full page black and white illustrations and lots of in text black and white drawings.
Seller: Jans Collectibles: Vintage Books, Bethany, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Green boards , with colorful Harrison Cady, titled and double-bordered in black. First edition (no additional printings listed) with the Rand, McNally Company colophon to copyright page.A colorful Harrison Cady paste-on to front board depicts an aproned-and-bonneted mama ant, broom in one of her six "hands" waving so long to her son, Anthony Ant, as he, complete with beribboned hat, valise, road-food basket, happily sets forth on a journey of discovery. ( (The first chapter is entitled: "Around The World For A Change".) Lovely Orange, black and white, silhouetted endpapers (front and rear) showing a parading community of ants, a woolly caterpillar, snake, snail, lizard, spide, bee, frog, and turtle, emerging from a hollow tree named "Hollow Tree Inn". Five lushly colored Harrison Cady illustrations, including the wonderful frontis picture showing Anthony Ant discovering a Beetle sitting on a leaf. Seven full-page drawings, and 21 smaller (partial-page) illustrations. Text is printed on thick, glossy stock which is very supply and largely bright, with just a hint of age-toning to margins. Printed in nice large font-size, with ample margins. Light rubbing to extremities, and a bit of fading to title on front board, where a child's sticker was removed. Slight spine lean. Solidly bound, unusual children's tale of an adventure to seek wisdom and experience. "Once upon a time there was an Ant sitting on a leaf to think. He was tired of working, and his mnother had sent him out to hunt for a little green Worm to stow away in the larder, but he did not want to do even that. . 'I never saw such a stupid world!' he said aloud. 'All there is to do is to carry out the earth all day long, or else go hunting for the family's food, and I'm tired of it all!' " The ant then runs into a Beetle with large horn-rimmed spectacles, a Doctor-Beetle in fact, who wrote the Ant a prescription which he bade the ant take home to his mother, so that she could help make the little ant happy."
Seller: Aardvark Rare Books, ABAA, EUGENE, OR, U.S.A.
Wade, Blanche Elizabeth. Ant Ventures. Rand McNally and Company, 1924.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Green cloth hardcover with pictorial cover and endpapers, illustrations by Harrison Cady, wear to edges and front pastedown
Seller: The Book House, Inc. - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Wade, Blanche Elizabeth; illustrated by Harrison Cady. Ant Ventures. Rand McNally, Chicago, 1924.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover in illustrated boards. No dust jacket. First edition, from 1924. In crisp and clean condition. Binding is tight, corners have just a touch of wear. Color pastedown on front board is bright and intact. Text and illustration pages are pristine, One page has been carefully taped in and the tape is yellowed. 12mo. 127 pp. A handsome, collectible copy.
Seller: Warwick Books, member IOBA, South Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Wade, Blanche Elizabeth. Ant Ventures. Rand McNally & Company, Chicago, 1924.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, hardcover in green cloth with illustrated front board, has a very light lean to binding which has a few small pulls but remains solid throughout, very slight bumps to spine ends and board corners, some very faint rubbing to boards, and a small sticker shadow to upper corner of half title page, otherwise a solid, clean VG copy.
Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Wade, Blanche Elizabeth. Ant Ventures. Rand McNally, Chicago, 1924.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Small 8vo, full green cloth stamped in darker green with color cover plate and 4 additional interior color plates plus numerous black and white drawings and two-color endpapers by Harrison Cady. Ink gift inscription on half title else fine.
Seller: Bud Plant & Hutchison Books, Cedar Ridge, CA, U.S.A.
Blanche Elizabeth Wade. Ant Ventures. Rand McNally & Company, Chicago/ New York, 1924.
Price: US$255.01 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Green cloth boards in beautiful condition, Orange and black end papers decorated with sillouettes of insects ( snakes, frog, spider, snail , turtle and more). Mylar covered dust jacket. Inside the first end paper has a name and address at the top edge in pencil. I counted four full page collar illustrations, and 6 full page black and white and lots of in text illustrations. Solid binding. Dust jacket is complete with inch chips at the top of the spine of the dust jacket, and a large bend, and small tears to the front of the dust jacket, the back of the dust jacket has a 2 1/2" tear to the top left hand side. The inside flaps front and back have the corners clipped. Nice to have with th dust jacket. The dust jacket is very presentable.
Seller: Jans Collectibles: Vintage Books, Bethany, MO, U.S.A.