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Bawden, Edward. Hold fast by your teeth.. Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1963.
Price: US$132.64 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illustrated in colour. 27 cm. 64 pages VG. Light soiling, shelf wear and edge wear to covers, bookseller label inside front cover, a little foxing to outer pages and page edges, overall very good condition.
Seller: Lost and Found Books, Healesville, VIC, Australia
Bawden, Edward. Hold Fast by Your Teeth. Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, London, 1963.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Color illustrations throughout by the author. Minor dust jacket edge wear, small chunk missing on bottom rear flap, front hinge cracked but all pages intact, light foxing on front fly leaf. Otherwise, internally very clean and tight with crisp, bright pages. Record # 854488
Seller: Monroe Street Books, Middlebury, VT, U.S.A.
BAWDEN EDWARD. Hold Fast Your Teeth. Routledge, London, 1963.
Price: US$314.25 + shipping
Description: (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1963). First UK Edition. A near fine copy (slight foxing to the first and last few pages of the book) in like D/W. A nice copy.
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom
Bawden, Edward. Hold Fast By Your Teeth. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1963.
Price: US$320.67 + shipping
Description: 1st edition quarto and but for some early fairly light foxing, a VG copy in VG dw. No marks and not price clipped. 0.0
Seller: Poor Richards Books, Felixstowe, United Kingdom
BAWDEN, EDWARD.. Hold Fast By Your Teeth. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1963.
Price: US$384.80 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The First UK Printing published by , London in 1963. 4to. Not paginated. [64pp] Bound in original pictorial paper covered boards with a dust jacket. Profusely illustrated in colour by Bawden throughout. Top of spine bumped, dust wrapper has two tiny brown spots. Inside very clean with the odd thumb mark/ fold from mishandling. A very good almost fine copy. A collection of Bawden's stories originally written for his own family, but were not previously published. Only the 'Take the Broom' story was privately printed previously for personal distribution by the author. Size 270mm x 220mm (11" x 9").
Seller: Roe and Moore, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$481.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Quarto. Unpaginated. Original pictorial boards. Bawden's first book for children, containing nine stories which he wrote for his family. Copiously illustrated in colour, the illustrations are among Bawden's best. Faint spotting to endpapers. Near fine in very good indeed, slightly marked dustwrapper with some light rubbing to head and tail of spine.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
BAWDEN Edward. Hold Fast By Your Teeth. , 1963.
Price: US$538.72 + shipping
Description: First edition. 4to., original illustrated paper boards. London, Routledge & Keegan Paul. A collection of short stories by Bawden, written originally for his own family but here published alongside illustrations in his own colourful and lively style, described as 'amusing and heartless' by the dust jacket flap text. Some very slight offsetting and a small stain to the first four leaves but otherwise a very good copy with very good dustwrapper, only slightly rubbed at the corners.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
BAWDEN, Edward (illustrator).. Hold Fast By Your Teeth.. , 1963.
Price: US$767.04 + shipping
Description: London; Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. 1963. 4to. Original pictorial boards, in pictorial dustwrapper; pp. [64]; with pictorial title-pages and a profusion of other coloured illustrations throughout, including many full-page, all printed by autolithography; externally and internally near fine with tiny bruising and mild rubbing to spine ends and forecorner tips, without ownership marks or inscriptions, in a generally fresh, unclipped dustwrapper (18s) with rubbing to forecorners, a tiny closed tear (1cm) to bottom edge of lower panel, and an area of light brown staining to top edge of lower panel and spine (100 x 50mm) really only visible on the inside and resulting in mild rippling of the paper. First edition of Edward Bawden's first book for children. This is a collection of nine individual stories which were originally written and drawn for the artist's children. He eventually redrew the images for this publication. The tales are "amusing and heartless, such as any good father would like to be able to tell and to sketch if he had the ability" (dustwrapper blurb).
Seller: Henry Sotheran Ltd, London, United Kingdom
BAWDEN, Edward.. Hold Fast By Your Teeth.. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, 1963, 1963.
Price: US$1122.34 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Arthur and Paeony Sadler, with compliments of the season. From Edward Bawden, Christmas 1963." Quarto. Original pictorial boards, titles to spine and front cover black. With dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by the author. Endpapers lightly foxed; an excellent, bright copy in the price-clipped jacket, with a little rubbing to extremities.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1128.75 + shipping
Description: Roy. 4to., First Edition, with illustrated title-spread and numerous coloured illustrations (a number full-page) throughout; pictorial boards, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. COPIES INSCRIBED BY THIS AUTHOR ARE EXCEPTIONALLY SCARCE.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom