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Minarik, Else Holmelund. Little Bear's Visit (I Can Read). Harper & Row Publishers, 1961.
Price: US$2.59 + shipping
Condition: Good
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Seller: HPB-Emerald, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Minarik, Else Holmelund. Little Bear's Visit: An I Can Read Book. Harper & Row, 1961.
Price: US$4.50 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Ex-library with typical marks and wear; the pages have some discoloring; a couple stains; a solid reading copy. The dust jacket is chipped, creased and torn; clipped flaps; glued inside the covers. Illustrator: Sendak, Maurice. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Children's; Inventory No: 180735.
Seller: Easy Chair Books, Lexington, MO, U.S.A.
Minarik, Else Holmelund. Little Bear's Visit. Harper & Row Publishers, 1961.
Price: US$4.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, New York, 1961 is the copyright year. Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good, An I Can Read Book. Pictorial boards have light edge/rub wear and light corner bumping. Clean, white endpages and 64 pages are unmarked and firm in a sewn binding. Illustrated throughout. No marks, a nice clean, reading copy. 6 1/4" x 8 3/4" tall. (see photos) (480-C)
Seller: Thomas F. Pesce', Anaheim, CA, U.S.A.
Minarik, Else Holmelund. Little Bear's Visit. Harper & Row, Publishers, 1961.
Price: US$5.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Boards have edgewear. Pages tanning with no markings in text. Size: 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
Seller: Top Notch Books, Tolar, TX, U.S.A.
Minarik, Else Holmelund. LITTLE BEAR'S VISIT. Harper & Row, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1961.
Price: US$5.40 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: An I Can Read Book. Color illustration on cover. Int. good. Color illustrations. 64 pages. Owners name on cover and fep.
Seller: Betty Mittendorf /Tiffany Power BKSLINEN, Ralston, NE, U.S.A.
Minarik, Else Holmelund. LITTLE BEAR'S VISIT. Harper & Row, Publishers, NY, 1961.
Price: US$6.30 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: An early copy of a favorite, illust. hardback cv. cell starting to tear on cv. ow good, 64 pp., int. vg, clean. Delightful three color illust. cover top half of each page with large text below for beginning readers.
Seller: Betty Mittendorf /Tiffany Power BKSLINEN, Ralston, NE, U.S.A.
Price: US$7.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Ex-Library. illustrated by Maurice Sendak
Seller: Pepper's Old Books, Hanson, KY, U.S.A.
Minarik, Else Holmelund. LITTLE BEAR'S VISIT. Harper & Row, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1961.
Price: US$7.20 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: An I Can Read Book. Color illustration on cover and dj. Dj laminated. Int. good. Color illustrations. 64 pages.
Seller: Betty Mittendorf /Tiffany Power BKSLINEN, Ralston, NE, U.S.A.
Price: US$8.00 + shipping
Description: G+/No Dj. later Hb 64pp. Corners & ends of spine rubbed & chipped; top of spine has crack & 1/2 inch split. An I Can Read Book.
Seller: Priceless Books, Urbana, IL, U.S.A.
Minarik, Else Holmeland.. Little Bear's Visit.. Harper & Row, 1961., 1961.
Price: US$8.00 + shipping
Description: Illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Pictorial boards, no dust jacket. G-VG.
Seller: Browse Awhile Books, Tipp City, OH, U.S.A.
Minarik, Else Holmelund. Little Bear's Visit. Harper, New York, 1961.
Price: US$9.00 + shipping
Description: 64 p. illus. 23 cm. An I can read book. Includes Illustrations. Audience: Children/juvenile. Book Condition: good/Very good. Writing on inside cover and front end page. Clean inside pages. Tight binding.
Seller: Ken's Book Haven, Coopersburg, PA, U.S.A.
Else Holmelund Minarik. Little Bear's Visit. Harper & Row, New York, NY, 1961.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The book is spotless and undamaged inside and out. The dust jacket has a price-tag on the inside front flap. It is completely clean with slight discoloration to a few edges from exposure to light. It has a single 2" tear from the top edge of the front panel and wear to edges including a few tiny chips and tears. Book and dust jacket will be bubble-wrapped and carefully packed in a sturdy box to ensure safe transit.
Seller: Argyl Houser, Bookseller, Turlock, CA, U.S.A.
Minarik, Else Holmelund. Little Bear's Visit. Harper & Row, 1961.
Price: US$12.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Little Bears Visit by Else Holmelund Minarik copyright 1961, pictures by Maurice Sendak, published by Harper & Row. Hardback easy reader has some light tape stains where dust jacket was once taped to book-otherwise quite clean and in very good condition with good to very good dust jacket. NOT AN EX-LIB!
Seller: Beverly Loveless, Woodbridge, VA, U.S.A.
Minarik, Else Holmelund. Little Bear's Visit. Harper & Row, Publishers, 1961.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: An I Can Read Book. Dj has edgewear with a few small tears & bottom corner of inside front flap has been clipped. Original price of $2.50 in top corner of inside front flap of dj. Light wear. Lightly bumped corners. Book lightly cocked.
Seller: Book Nook, Cadillac, MI, U.S.A.
MINARIK, Else Holmelund.. Little Bear's Visit.. Harper & Row,, NY:, 1961.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: An I Can Read book. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak. A later printing. Near fine in a near fine (both corners of front flap are clipped) dust jacket.
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
MINARIK, Else Holmelund.. Little Bear's Visit.. Harper & Row,, NY:, 1961.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: An I Can Read book. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak. A later printing. Near fine in a very good (short closed edge tear on front panel, lower corner of front flap is clipped) dust jacket.
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Glossy pictorial boards. First edition, 1961. Illustrations by Maurice Sendak.
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
ELSE HOLMELUND MINARIK. LITTLE BEAR'S VISIT I CAN READ BOOK. harper and row, us, 1961.
Price: US$16.00 + shipping
Description: believed book club
Seller: Happy Heroes, Monroe, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$18.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Cello-bound reinforced hardcover in glossy boards. 64 pages, illustrations. Little Bear spends a day with Grandmother and Grandfather Bear and has so much fun he falls fast asleep. NOT a library book. Very little wear. No writing in book. Few tan spots on first several pages, including title page. Early printing, judging from lack of zip code in publisher's address. Little Bear's Visit is one of the truly great contributions to children's literature.
Seller: Schindler-Graf Booksellers, Westlake, OH, U.S.A.
Minarik, Else Holmelund. Little Bear's Visit. Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, 1961.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: dust jacket have minor wear and soil with short edge tears, book has minor wear and heavy soil, binding tight, book plate inside front cover, ink writing on front free end paper, 64 pages, Little Bear and his parents visit Grandmother and Grandfather Bear, color illustrations Size: 6.5 x 8.75
Seller: Book Booth, Berea, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 63 pp; Very minor shelf wear on corners and spine tips, previous owner's name on front endpage. DJ has some very light edge wear. An attractive copy, clean and tight. Dust jacket protected in clear Brodart cover.
Seller: GLOVER'S BOOKERY, ABAA, Lexington, KY, U.S.A.
Minarik, Else Holmelund. Little Bear's Visit. Harper & Row, New York, NY, 1961.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: marker on inside front cover
Seller: M & M Books, ATHENS, GA, U.S.A.
Minarik, Else Holmelund. Little Bear's Visit. Harper & Row, New York, 1961.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Early printing, one dollar ninety five and 40-80 on dj flap, but Harper & Row imprint throughout. Illustrated. Fine in near fine jacket and mylar jacket. Bottom front flap of jacket is clipped, price is intact at top. An I Can Read Book.
Seller: Illustrated Bookshelf, Flagstaff, AZ, U.S.A.
Minarik, Else Homel. Little Bears Visit. HARPER & ROW, 1961.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A book that is used but still very attractive.Gift iscription on front inside page ; 8.50 X 6 X 0.40 inches
Seller: Hammonds Antiques & Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Minarik, Else Holmelund. Little Bear's Friend (I Can Read). Harper & Row, 1961.
Price: US$20.48 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.74
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Minarik, Else Holmelund. Little Bear's Friend (I Can Read). Harper & Row, 1961.
Price: US$20.48 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.74
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Minarik, Else. LITTLE BEAR'S VISIT (EARLY PRT). Harper & Row, 1961.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1ST ED, EARLY PRT- circa 1968 with KISS FOR LITTLE BEAR listed on DJ. Book is near fine, glossy boards. DJ is very good, two small closed tears, price-clipped. 1962 CALDECOTT MEDAL- no isbn. Very attractive copy of this award-winning title. Foreign language editions of this title are available. ART BY MAURICE SENDAK.
Seller: Elaine Woodford, Bookseller, durham, NC, U.S.A.
Else Holmelund Minarik. Little Bears Visit. Harper & Row, 1961.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The books illustrations are by Maurice Sendek. There is no edition statement on this I Can Read book. The cover has rubs to the top and foot of the spine and light wear to the boards extremities. Interior FFp has a small store mark pasted and a name written in pencil. Pages otherwise unmarked.
Seller: Parrots Roost Vintage Books, Tulsa, OK, U.S.A.
MINARIK, Else Holmelund and Maurice Sendak. Little Bear. Harper & Row, New York, 1961.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Reprint. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Fine in very good or better dustwrapper with publisher's sticker peeling and light edgewear including a tear, nicks and some light creasing.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Holmelund Minarik Else. Little bear's visit (an I can Read book). Harper & Row publishers, 1961.
Price: US$34.07 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: RO30376648: 1961. In-8. Cartonné. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Papier jauni. 64 pages. Jaquette correcte. Texte en anglais. Nombreuses illustrations en couleurs, in texte. Rares rousseurs. Avec Jaquette. . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
Seller: Le-Livre, SABLONS, France
Else Holmelund Minarik. Little Bear's visit. Harper & Row, New York, 1961.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Not ex-library. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Pages clean, binding tight. End papers unmarked. Rear cover blank orange. ¿An I CAN READ Book¿ on front cover and title page.
Seller: Greenwood Road Books, Bridgman, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Later printing, after the merger of Harper Bros. with Row, Peterson & Co. in 1962. 8vo; 64pp; color pictorial boards; plain orange rear board without listing of publisher's books; color pictorial half-title and title page; color illustrations in green and brown; light scuffing to boards and edges, binding tight; very good plus. One of the Little Bear books by Else Minarik, part of the I Can Read Books. A charming story of the Bear family with Grandmother and Grandfather, plus the Goblin Story.
Seller: Sandra L. Hoekstra Bookseller, Thomaston, ME, U.S.A.
Minarik, Else Holmelund. LITTLE BEAR'S VISIT. Harper & Row, 1961.
Price: US$36.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: ; Glossy pictorial cover is worn through at corners and spine caps but clean, bright, and in very good condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. 2 small crayon lines on front paste down and a very small (half inch) pen scribble on one page. Otherwise, pages are clean and near pristine. ; An I Can Read Book; 8.6 X 6.0 X 0.6 inches; 64 pages
Seller: Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA, Livonia, MI, U.S.A.
Else Holmelund Minarik. Little Bear's Visit. Harper & Row, Publishers,, New York:, 1961.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: Fine in printed, glossy, pictorial paper covered boards. An octavo measuring 8 1/2 by 6 inches with a prior owner's book plate on the front paste down behind the jacket flap. In a near fine dust jacket matching the paper covered boards. The front flap shows a price of $1.95 at the upper corner of the front flap and the lower corner of the front flap has been clipped. The lower left corner of the jacket flap has a code of "40-80". The verso side of the jacket is printed with other Harper "I Can Read" titles. The upper fore corner of the rear panel at the fold to the rear flap shows a minor 1/8" chip. An "I Can Read Book". 64 pages with illustrations by Maurice Sendak with five other titles by the author listed on the verso side of the half title page. A Caldecott runner-up. A very fine copy with a prior owner's book plate on the front paste down behind the jacket flap. (Hanrahan A47)
Seller: Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Minarik, Else Holmelund. LITTLE BEAR'S VISIT. Harper & Row, New York & Evanston, 1961.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1961. First Printing. Caldecott Medal Meet Little Bear's Grandmother and Grandfather Bear! "Like all children, Little Bear loved to visit his grandparents. There was always so much to do, so much to see, and so much to eat". 64 pp. Straight and clean; no past owner's names, there are four unwanted marks: a pen marks on the covers, blue crayon last endpaper 1
Seller: ALEXANDER POPE, Kent, CT, U.S.A.
Minarik, Else Holmelund. Little Bear's Visit. Harper & Row, 1961.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: With single date on c.p., $1.95 on flap, and no bar code. An unusually well preserved copy in a Brodart jacket cover.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Minarik, Else Holmelund. Little Bear's Visit (An I Can Read Book). Harper and Row, 1961.
Price: US$42.00 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: STORED NEW PRISTINE CONDITION SANITIZED THEN WRAPPED
Seller: BooksByLisa, Highland Park, IL, U.S.A.
Minarik, Else Holmelund; Sendak, Maurice (illus). Little Bear's Visit. Harper & Row, New York, 1961.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: Early Reprint. Hardcover. $1.95 on flap. Part of Minarik's LITTLE BEAR series and also part of the I CAN READ series. A 1962 Caldecott Honor Book. First edition after the merger with Row, Peterson & Company. Tight, bright, and unmarred. DJ bright and clean. Glossy printed boards (matching DJ). 64pp. Illus. (color plates).
Seller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
Minarik, Else Homelund. Little Bear's Visit. Harper and Brothers, New York, 1961.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing, Caldecott Honor. Glossy pict. boards. No previous owner name, generally clean and very nice, but with two spreads that do not open completely flat. The two affected spreads are complementary parts of the same signature, and the book must have come from the publisher this way--no evidence of any tampering. Will include photo to better explain this. Still Very Good in a Very Good, price-clipped jacket. All points Hanrahan (price doesn't really matter, since it went to Harper & Row the following year and price did not change, while this jacket is still Harper & Brothers) and back panel of both book and jacket list 30 titles.
Seller: Barbara Mader - Children's Books, University Place, WA, U.S.A.
Minarik, Else Homelund; Maurice Sendak. LITTLE BEAR'S VISIT. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1961.
Price: US$127.80 + shipping
Description: Very Good in boards. Peeling to laminate. No additional printings mentioned. First Edition not stated. ; Early I Can Read Book; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Minarik, Else Holmelund. Little Bear's Visit. Harper and Brothers, New York, 1961.
Price: US$135.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First printing, Caldecott Honor. Glossy pict. boards. Book is nice and clean, tight, very nice; no previous owner name or marks. Jacket is clean with very light wear to tips and a very short tear to top spine. All points Hanrahan (jacket is price-clipped, but price doesn't really matter, since it went to Harper & Row the following year and price did not change, while this jacket is still Harper & Brothers). Back panel of both book and jacket list 30 titles. Nice copy--please see photos.
Seller: Barbara Mader - Children's Books, University Place, WA, U.S.A.
Else Holmelund Minarik. Little Bear. harper and Row, 1961.
Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: This 1961 volume is in excellent condition with clean interior pages and a bright glossy cover showing no wear. The dust jacket is also excellent with virtually no wear. The front flap price is $1.95. An excellent copy Picture available upon request.
Seller: Round About Children's Books, Aurora, CO, U.S.A.
Minarik, Else Holmelund. Little Bear's Visit. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1961.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo. Glossy, pictorial boards. 64pp. Color illustrations. 1st printing with all points called for, including $1.95 price on dust jacket. Previous owner's name in ink on front end-paper & very minor corner bump, else fine. Dust jacket has a single 1" tear at top of rear panel. No chips. Not price-clipped. An exceptional copy.
Seller: Kevin T. Ransom- Bookseller, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.