Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$2.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Harper & Brothers, (1939). A clipping from the front flap of the By the Shores of Silver Lake. Would make a great bookmark, especially if it were laminated. NO BOOK INCLUDED. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .
Seller: LaCelle Rare Books, Chadwick, MO, U.S.A.
Laura Ingalls Wilder. By the Shores of Silver Lake. First Harper Trophy Book, 1939.
Price: US$32.00 + shipping
Description: Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE BOXES NEW BOXES good trade paperback book with no dust jacket, foxing due to age, sm8vo, 291 pages good trade paperback with no dus
Seller: Robinson Street Books, IOBA, Binghamton, NY, U.S.A.
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. By the Shores of Silver Lake. Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York, 1939.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Light soiling. Shaken. Edgewear with two points just through.
Seller: funyettabooks, Bloomington, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Fifth book (& a Newberry Honor Winner, though not noted on this early edition) in the author's beloved "Little House" series, with the lovely original First Edition illustrations throughout by Helen Sewell & Mildred Boyle (later editions would use different illustrators), including a colorful frontispiece & pen-and-ink drawings in text, some full page plates. Orig. published in 1939, this is the 8th edition (c. Jan. 1946 per letter code). In 260 pages, this hardcover small 8vo (5.75" x 8.5") has light gray cloth-covered boards stamped with blue lettering to front & spine. Condition is VG-/G+: completely clean inside, pages creamy white & unmarked save for former owner's name stamp to recto of frontispiece. Light spotting to exterior boards & mild rubbing/bumping to extremities. The unclipped DJ (with orig. $2.00 price intact to front flap) is Good: colorful & complete with minor edgewear, but downgraded due to 2 holes to front cover-front flap interface; nicely protected against further damage in new clear mylar cover free! Our photos depict the exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
Seller: Gargoyle Books, IOBA, La Mesa, CA, U.S.A.
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. By the Shores of Silver Lake. Harper & Brothers, New York NY, 1939.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Vintage reprint of this 1940 Newbery Honor book. One of the much-loved and honored Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Gray cloth with red ink illus and lettering to cover and spine. Softening to caps, light fraying to bottom front corner, and a few small dings to board edges. Interior very nice. Decorated endpapers (strawberries etc) in blue, pages seem clean with no handling marks, no dog-ears or other creases, feels very nice. The dust jacket has a little rubbing and wear but quite nice--see photos. Original $2.00 price intact on front flap. Jacket may be from an earlier copy as it resembles exactly that of a first printing, inlcuding price, all wording on flaps, etc.
Seller: Barbara Mader - Children's Books, University Place, WA, U.S.A.
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. By the Shores of Silver Lake. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1939.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition stated, first printing. Bound in publisher's tan cloth stamped in brown. Good, with some wear and foxing to cloth, endsheets offset and light sporadic foxing to pages. In a Good unclipped dust jacket with edge wear, toning, repairs made to the blindside at the top of the spine and lower right corner of the upper panel, browning to blindside. Illustrated by Helen Sewell and Mildred Boyle.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. By the Shores of Silver Lake. Harper, New York, 1939.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good first edition in a very good dust jacket. First Edition stated on the copyright page. Original price of $2.00 still present on front flap of dust jacket. 1939 on title page.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.