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Ardizzone, Edward. LITTLE TIM AND THE BRAVE SEA CAPTAIN. e m hale and company, 1936.
Price: US$49.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1936 Special edition published by arrangement of oxford univ press ex-library hardcover GOOD aged pages, has pocket residue in back of book binding is solid, no dustjacket
Seller: ODDS & ENDS BOOKS, Sherwood Forest, CA, U.S.A.
Ardizzone Edward. Little Tim and The Brave Sea Captain. Oxford Univ Pr, 1936.
Price: US$49.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: folio size. The corners of the book are slightly creased. large hardcover book. this looks like a reprint dues to the face of the text and illustrations are on both side of the pages. The paper inside is yellow from the age.- We ship from Canada and the USA. Specializing in academic, collectible and historically significant, providing the utmost quality and customer service satisfaction. For any questions feel free to email us.
Seller: bmyguest books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Ardizzone, Edward. Little Tim And The Brave Sea Captain. Oxford University Press, 1936.
Price: US$128.31 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition/2nd printing published by Oxford University Press, November 1936. Clean condition internally Gift inscription to ffep. Occasional foxing/spotting. Few grubby marks to endpages. Illustrated covers have general edge wear and loss to bottom of backstrip.
Seller: Idlegeniusbooks, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$137.76 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. second printing, (32) pp., bound in pictorial boards. Edges boards worn, board loosening from spine, age toning, fingering, on some of the blank pages drawings in pencil. In all good, solid and early copy of one the classics ofchildren's literature. 33 x 23 cm.
Seller: Antiquariaat Digitalis, Amsterdam, Netherlands
ARDIZZONE , Edward. Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain. Oxford University Press, London, 1936.
Price: US$224.57 + shipping
Description: Internally very good with a little browning/foxing to the endpapers , binding firm, cover has fair degree of wear. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
Seller: LONGLAND BOOKS, Totteridge, LDN, United Kingdom
Price: US$260.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: States "Copyright, 1936, by Oxford University Press, New York, Inc. / Lithographed in the U.S.A." no later dates. However, original price sticker to bottom of jacket front flap states "8/6 net." Why this U.S. edition would have been initially sold in England, when there was reportedly a separate U.K. edition, we do not know. Boards of the book, having been constantly protected by the original jacket, remain bright and handsome. Spine has some "give," but internal hinges are lovely, so we have not attempted any strengthening. The first book both written and illustrated by Ardizzone (though at this point he had been illustrating adult titles for seven years, starting with Sheridan LeFanu's "In a Glass Darkly," 1929.) How the "brave captain" comes to allow his vessel to strike a rock in sight of land when a storm brews up, instead of taking her out where there's some sea room, is not made clear, though children's books tend to have their own logic. No internal markings or problems; we simply don't judge the binding of this volume tight enough to merit a grade of "very good." Unpaginated but 30 pp. Reduced from $955.
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
Ardizzone, Edward. Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain. Oxford University Press, 1936.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Gift inscription on front end paper. Binding solid. No dust jacket. Light wear on edges. Book is in Very Good- condition.
Seller: tim hildebrand books, Janesville, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Folio illustrated boards. Wear to the spine ends and corners with the boards showing. Some wear as well to the upper and lower edges. Splitting along the upper and lower spine edges. A former owner inscription to the front free endpaper dated 1937. The dust jacket has much wear about the edges, especially along the upper edges. Also a 1" chip to the lower spine end. Chips to the corners and spine ends. There is a 4" tear to the lower, front edge, near the spine. Many shorter tears. Price clipped. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall
Seller: Scott Emerson Books, ABAA, El Cajon, CA, U.S.A.
Ardizzone, Edward. Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain. Oxford, London, New York, Toronto, 1936.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: The first book written and illustrated by Ardizzone. [66]pp. 1 vols. 4to. "Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain arose from stories told to his own family. It draws on memories of the harbour at Ipswich and upon his liking for ships and the sea, and in its bold integration of word and pictures it stands out as one of the most significant picture books of the age. (It was, too, an early example of colour offset lithography. Its spacious folios were printed in the United States, where the text was hand-lettered by Grace Allen Hogarth, an editor at the Oxford University Press New York office.) The complete colour draft of this first book is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Original pictorial boards, titles to front cover in red, chip to head of spine The first book written and illustrated by Ardizzone.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Description: textblock good plus, occasional minor fault; pictorial binding with cloth spine good, intact, worn at edges and frayed at head and foot of spine, rear hinge starting; unpaginated, but 32 pages including title; illustrated by author; quite a nice example of a scarce juvenile imprint;
Seller: Book Den East, oak bluffs, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Description: Folio. [66 pp (unpaginated).], Colour-illustrated title, colour-illustrated lithograph printed throughout. Colour-illustrated boards (minor edgewear, minor bumping head & foot of spine, very minor bumping to corners, old minor tape residue from gift label on pastedowns), still VG- copy. First American edition of this remarkable first book both written and illustrated by Ardizzone. This thoughtful tale of the sea surrounds the adventures of young Tim who longs to be a sailor, who then stows away on a tramp steamer and discovers the brutally hard work onboard ship, and survives the sinking of the ship.
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
Ardizzone, Edward. Little Tim And The Brave Sea Captain. Oxford University Press, 1936.
Price: US$426.33 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition/2nd printing published by Oxford University Press, November 1936. Clean condition internally Gift inscription to ffep. Occasional foxing/spotting. Few grubby marks to endpages. Illustrated covers have general edge wear and loss to bottom of backstrip.
Seller: Idlegeniusbooks, London, United Kingdom
Ardizzone, Edward. LITTLE TIM AND THE BRAVE SEA CAPTAIN. Oxford University Press, 1936.
Price: US$660.88 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st 1936. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Very large format. Colour pictorial boards. Colour lithographs throughout. Bumping and wear to spine, corners and cover edges. Scuff marks and browning to rear cover. Red mark to front cover. Front joint is partially cracked. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Green crayon to verso of one page (plain page). Margin marks to some pages. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Price: US$1283.27 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. The first book written and illustrated by Ardizzone. "Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain arose from stories told to his own family. It draws on memories of the harbour at Ipswich and upon his liking for ships and the sea, and in its bold integration of word and pictures it stands out as one of the most significant picture books of the age. (It was, too, an early example of colour offset lithography. Its spacious folios were printed in the United States, where the text was hand-lettered by Grace Allen Hogarth, an editor at the Oxford University Press New York office.) The complete colour draft of this first book is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London" (ODNB). Quarto. Original pictorial boards, titles to front cover in red. With dust jacket. Colour illustrations throughout by Ardizzone. Corners rubbed, light browning to end papers, dust jacket lightly faded to spine, lightly rubbed and nicked to edges.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1604.08 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The First UK printing published by Oxford University Press, London in 1936 with the correct sequence 'London, New York, Toronto' to the title page. The BOOK is in Very Good condition. Some pushing and rubbing at the spine ends, corners, edges and folds. The binding remains tight and the pictorial cover design to the front panel remains bright. Internally light offsetting and spotting to the prelims. The page edges are toned and there is the occasional light mark and spotting to the edges in places. A small stain to the upper front corner which is present on all of the page upper corners but remains unobtrusive. Free from inscriptions and erasures. The fragile WRAPPER is complete and is in Very Good- condition with chips, closed tears, rubbing and creasing in places - see images. It is the correct first issue with blank flaps and no reviews. Some toning to the edges of the flap folds and spine. The wrapper comes together and presents well in the removable Brodart archival cover. Loosely inserted is a H/W letter from the person identifying themselves as the model for the character 'Tim' ; 'I can confirm that I am the small boy in the red polo jersey in Edward Ardizzone's 'Tim and the brave sea captain'. My father was a well known artist in the 1930's and a friend of Edward Ardizzone. When I sat as a model I was wearing the red jersey which was the school uniform for Arnold House School, London Road, Maida Vale, London.'. There is also a first UK issue wrappered edition of this title dating from 1944. This book is in very Good++ condition with no inscriptions. Some rubbing and creasing to the edges, spine and corners. This was Edward Ardizzone's first major work for children and the first title in the acclaimed 'Little Tim' series. Striking colour lithographs by Ardizzone throughout. The book was produced in large format and printed on one side of the paper only. This may have been due to the particularly humid summer in New York, where the book was printed, causing problems for the drying time for the printing inks - or possibly that the large book felt too thin if the pages were to be printed on both sides. A very scarce title with the wrapper. Collectible. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.
Seller: Ashton Rare Books ABA : PBFA : ILAB, Market Harborough, United Kingdom