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Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Pictorial cloth, with picture of crow in evergreen tree. Worn at edges, book is well opened, with former owner's name, light soiling at page edges, loose in binding, with a couple of pages detached but laid inside. 16 full color full page illustrations. A good candidate for rebinding. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 63 pages
Seller: Liberty Book Shop, Avis, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: HARDBACK NODustJacket, 1906,1ST Edition THUS, , VeryGOOD+/GOOD+ CONDITION, NOJACKET, SOLD AS-IS, SPINESTRIP MISSING , Beige, BlueGreen REd & Yellow Illustrated ClothCover picture Light Scuff Cvr, Colors Bright on Front , Jim Crow on Front on blue Branch of Tree, Cvr light Scuff Soil but Black Titles Clear, ,Back cover light Soil & very light Stains Light Stains bottom Cvr Front , Interior , Light FoXing, light WEAR, O/W Very Nice, Small 4 3/4 X 6 3/4 in Approx, Light chipping along Spine edge, All color plates are present and in good shape , . Not perfect but this is a hard book to find in any shape. 63 pgs, Slightly Fragile. Original color cover is in very good condition, with bright colors and just a little rubbing. Page 1-2 (containing the listing of other titles, before the actual title page) small FoX, . All story text pages are included and are in Pretty good shape, A charming and very hard to find little book in any condition! Illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright, Frank Lloyd Wright's sister, . Contains full-page illustrations (including title page in Color of 2 Birds ) by Maginel Wright Enright. Title Page in Color Black Bird & Blue Bird standing on Branch, Blank Endpapers slight FoX. All color plates are present and in good shape , Back of Book The Twinkle Tales at top & Talks about 6 Vols slight Stain Marks, Soil,
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.
Laura Bancroft. BANDIT JIM CROW. The Reilly & Lee Co, Chicago, 1906.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Illustrations by Maginel Wright Enright. First Edition Thus (?), later printing with tan endpages. Covers are soiled, rubbed and scuffed. Spine has been rebound. Binding is tight and square. Some tape to back endpaper and previous owner's name and address penciled in. Beautiful, bright, colorful illustrations. Scattered soiling and smudging to pages. Tan endpages are toned and soiled; first free end paper corners have been clipped. Pictures available upon request. Scarce Edition of The Twinkle Tales, written by Laura Bancroft (aka L. Frank Baum, author of The Wizard of Oz Books).
Seller: Atlanta Vintage Books, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$405.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 63 Pp. First Issue, In Light Tan Cloth, Hand-Lettered Illustrated Title Page, Plain Heavy Red Endpapers. Lightly Used, No Wear To Lettering Or Design, Light Wear At Corners. Professionally And Invisibly Re-Cased Into Original Covers And Endpapers, A Few Small Edge Tears, One Long Horizontal Tear To Last Page Professionally Repaired. Pencil Ownership Signatures Dated March And May 1908 [Same Owner], Small Corner Chip To Front Free Endpaper, Rubbing To Top Of Front Cover With Some Loss Of Color On Crow And Pine Tree, Tiny Stain At Top Of Last Page.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$3850.00 + shipping
Description: FIRST PRINTING. Set: 12mo, 6.8 in. x 5 in. Illustrated with colored plates. Light tan cloth boards. Hand-lettered stylized text to top line of title pages reads: "The Twinkle Tales". Heavy, blank, red endpapers. Verso of half title pages have list of all six volumes of The Twinkle Tales. Color title with "hand-lettering" style print to top of title page. List of chapters and "Copyright ,1906, by the Reilly & Britton Co." on verso of title page. (Bienvenue 288). Tan boards with illustrations and lettering stamped in color to fronts and spines. Light rubbing and soiling to all boards. The front boards and interior pages of all six titles are sharp and bright. BANDIT JIM CROW: Bottom corners nudged. Previous owner's inscription, dated 1913, to half title. Hinge showing, but holding, at page 8. Scattered dark stains to rear board. Condition: Good Plus. MR. WOODCHUCK: Corners nudged. Previous owner's name, dated 1906, to front free endpaper. Condition: Very Good. PRAIRIE-DOG TOWN: A few scuffs to front picture. Front upper corner nudged. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper and half title.Condition: Very Good. PRINCE MUDTURTLE: Previous owner's name to front pastedown. Front corners nudged, and corners just showing. A couple small chips to top/bottom of spine. Condition: Good Plus. SUGAR-LOAF MOUNTAIN: Front bottom corner nudged. Hinges repaired, but text block uneven. Condition: Good Plus. TWINKLE'S ENCHANTMENT: Previous owner's name, dated 1911, to front free endpaper. Three corners nudged. Hinge showing, but holding, at page 32. Condition: Good Plus. Complete set of first editions, first printings, published in 1906. Subsequent titles to the set were published in later years.
Seller: Aardvark Rare Books, ABAA, EUGENE, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First editions, foolscap 8vo (6 7/8" x 5"), pp. 62+ (1)printer device + (1) blank; 62+(1)+(1) blank, (1)-26, 31-58; 61+ (3) blank; 64; 64; 71 full page color illustrations. First printings each with red card endpapers, half titles with the list of the six volumes of The Twinkle Tales on the reverse, & color titles from hand lettering with List of Chapters and "Copyright 1906." on the reverse. Original color pictorial beige cloth. (Copies of these original six titles with out the point above or in paper covered boards or with Reilly & Lee imprints are later editions in all cases). Unusually clean bright near fine color pictorial cloth with slight rubbing here & there but with no chipping, very good corners & bright colors. Prairie-Dog Town which is incomplete lacking two sheets (pp. 27-31) & ends at p. 58, thus lacking the final pages is included here because it came with the rest, but it is not a factor in the pricing of the group. The other five titles are complete & have occasional spots or stains & some minor defects. There is a torn off lower corner of 1/2" only & a crease at p. 27 of Mr. Woodchuck; a mostly marginal tear of 1" at p. 17 & a mostly marginal tear with loss slightly affecting the text of p. 20 of Sugar-Loaf Mountain; a lower margin 3/8" tear at the half-title & associated lower margin edge nicks to the following few sheets & a dog eared lower margin corner at p.15 of Twinkle's Enchantment. H9228
Seller: J & J House Booksellers, ABAA, Kennett Square, PA, U.S.A.