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Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo; G+; lightly sunned green spine with dark green text; stated first edition; no jacket; exterior to cloth shows some soiling wear, probably due to usage and handling; mild lean to spine; minor edge wear; text block exterior edges have modestly age toned; pictorial endpapers in ivory and green; interior lightly toned; illustrated; pp 142. 1363455. FP New Rockville Stock.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
C. S. Forester. Poo-Poo and the Dragons. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA, 1942.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: The cover has green cloth with dark green lettering and a vignette. The endpapers have a green and white illustration. Seventeen chapters, each with a b/w illustration at the head and most chapters have other illustrations. The cover's whole bottom edge is frayed, as are the spine strip's top edge and the boards' corners, About a sixth of the back board has stains. The bottom end of the text block has a 1/8 in. stain that runs onto the bottom edges of a few pages. One page margin is torn half way down along the book's spine. A previous repair has left a dark tape stain. The tear is now tipped back together with glue. A few other pages have small, light stains. An ink stamp of an owner's name is on the front endpaper. Scans e-mailed upon request.
Seller: Books from the Past, Memphis, TN, U.S.A.
Forester, C. S.. Poo-Poo and the Dragons. Little, Brown & Co, Boston, MA, 1942.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Size: 8mo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" tall. 143 pp. Text contains many words (mostly, but not exclusively, character names) that have been circled. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Previous owner's inscription on endpapers. Moderate shelfwear to the cover. Bumped and rubbed. Illustrator: Lawson, Robert. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1 - 2 pounds. Category: Children; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 001694.
Seller: Lotzabooks, Oak Point, TX, U.S.A.
Forester, C. S.. Poo-Poo and the Dragons. Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 1942.
Price: US$130.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stated first printing. Very Good, green cloth with navy blue lettering, illustrated green and white endpapers, spine is faded else near fine.
Seller: Illustrated Bookshelf, Flagstaff, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$134.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boston, 1942; Little Brown and Company edition; 1st edition; illustrated green cloth covered boards; mild corner and spine edge wear; illustrated jacket in acceptable condition with edges and corners chipped, housed in a Bro-Dart cover; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; end papers toned; pages 6 and 7 toned; interior is clean and unmarked; 143 pages.
Seller: A Squared Books (Don Dewhirst), South Lyon, MI, U.S.A.
Forester, C.S.. POO-POO AND THE DRAGONS. Little, Brown, BOSTON, 1942.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: With only ONE small library marking in middle of book. In edgeworn green boards with illustration on front and green lettering; spine has added green strengthening tape. With illustrated green and white endpapers not marred by pockets or stamps. Pages have modest soiling, otherwise book is sturdy and covered in a facsimile of a later printing jacket.
Seller: MARIE BOTTINI, BOOKSELLER, Cotati, CA, U.S.A.
Forester, C.S.. Poo-Poo and the Dragons. Little, Brown, Boston, 1942.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Lime gren cloth, dark green lettering and dragon design, clean and crisp, minor spine wear, green/white lawson eps, owner name in ink in upper corner of inside front, b/w full pg and text illus, 143 pp.
Seller: Ragabooks, Palo Alto, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: vii, 143 pp. Illustrated by Robert LAwson. 8vo, publisher's pictorial green cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Ink Christmas gift inscription on half-title; a few slight finger marks to the unworn cloth; tight and sound in a lightly tanned jacket with minor edgewear.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
FORESTER, C. S.. Poo-Poo and the Dragons.. Little, Brown,, Boston:, 1942.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stated first edition. Fading along the spine, tape shadows to endpapers, else very good in a very good (edge worn and age toned, moderate sized chips at the spine ends) dust jacket with the original $1.75 price on the front flap.; 143 pages
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
Forester, C.S.. Poo-Poo and the Dragons.. Little Brown & Company., Boston., 1942.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: weight: 1.2 lb. Near fine, bookplate to second endpaper, in very good price-clipped dust jacket with some chipping to edges. Illustrated by Robert Lawson. 21.5x16.5 cm. 143 pp. Green cloth, black titles and decorations, green dragons and touring car illustrated endpapers.
Seller: Zephyr Books, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1942. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING with 1942 date on title page, correct copyright statement, etc. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON HALF-TITLE PAGE. Good+. Tight binding; clean pages; moderate wear and light sunning; no jacket. Scarce signed. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .
Seller: LaCelle Rare Books, Chadwick, MO, U.S.A.
FORESTER, C.S.. Poo-Poo and the Dragons.. Little, Brown, [Boston, 1942.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: 41 long galleys. 25 x 6 inches, paper-clipped at the top edge. A few marginal chips, mostly very shallow and none affecting printing; loosely folded horizontally; slight tanning where exposed to air. Not brittle.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
FORESTER, C. S. LAWSON, Robert (illus.). Poo-Poo and the Dragons.. Little, Brown, Boston, 1942.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: viii, 143 pp. Illustrated by Robert Lawson. 8vo, publisher's green pictorial cloth in illustrated dust jacket. First edition. Some slight soiling to the cloth; slight use at extremities; tight and sound in a lightly tanned dust jacket with some moderate use along edges and shallow chipping at the extremities of the spine.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Forester, C.S.. Poo-Poo and the Dragons. Little, Brown, Boston, 1942.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Lawson, Robert. First edition. Illustrated by Robert Lawson. 1 vols. 8vo. The author's only children's book. Green cloth. Upper right corner of cover (and text block) bumped. Very good in very good dust jacket with slight soiling and a few minor stains. Bookplate on verso of front free endpaper Illustrated by Robert Lawson. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: (Aug 1942). Pictorial green cloth in color pictorial dust jacket which is age-toned and lightly chipped at spine ends, price intact (1.75). A story told by Forester to his young son at dinner time as a way to get the child to eat because he was heart-sick for his absent mother. The story is about a little boy who finds a dragon and brings him home. Robert Lawson created great b&w pictures for the tale, appearing as full page as well has textual and chapter heads. This was Forester's first book for children and it is very difficult to find in the first edition; desirable both for the text as well as Lawson's artwork. Size: 8vo
Seller: E. M. Maurice Books, ABAA, Torrington, CT, U.S.A.
C.S. Forester / Robert Lawson (ill). Poo-Poo and the Dragons. LIttle Brown, 1942.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: "Poo-Poo and the Dragons" by C.S. Forester. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1942. First edition. Illustrated by Robert Lawson. 8vo. 142 pp. Green cloth-covered boards, stamped in black, spine lightly worn at head and tail; illustrated endpapers, previous owner's inscription on front free endpaper; first edition stated on copyright page; in illustrated dust-jacket, several small indentations on spine, a few small chips to extremities, original price of $1.75 on front flap. Fine. Forester's first and only children's book, previously published in the UK that same year.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Forester, C. S.; Lawson, Robert. POO-POO AND THE DRAGONS. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1942.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: First US edition of this unusual children's story from the author of HORATIO HORNBLOWER, with charming illustrations by Newbery-winning artist Robert Lawson. The dust jacket of POO-POO AND THE DRAGONS recounts how this story came about thanks to one of Forester's two young sons becoming "homesick for his mother," which Forester soothed with a fantastic tale of a boy and his ever-expanding number of dragon friends. This is a particularly attractive copy. 8.25'' x 6.25''. Original green pictorial cloth binding. Original unclipped ($1.75) color pictorial dust jacket. Green pictorial endpapers of dragons galloping after a car, from which Poo-Poo waves at them. Illustrated in black and white. 144 pages. Jacket with some toning, a bit more pronounced on spine; light edgewear. Binding with a touch of bumping to spine ends, a bit of shelfwear. Sharp. Fine in very good plus dust jacket.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Forester, C. S.. Poo-Poo and the Dragons. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1942.
Price: US$862.50 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo. (144)pp. Green cloth printed in dark green on the spine and upper board. Illustrated endpapers. A fine, bright copy with only the barest trace of rubbing along the bottom edge. The dustwrapper is unclipped and is in near fine, bright condition with only a short closed marginal tear and creasing along the top. .
Seller: Thorn Books, ABAA, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: viii, 143 pp. Original green cloth stamped in navy blue. First edition. Fine in a beautiful unclipped dust jacket with a bit of age-toning and very slight shelf wear, else Fine with no fading whatsoever. A lovely copy of an uncommon children's book.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Forester, C. S.. POO-POO AND THE DRAGONS. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1942.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: (Lawson, Robert) illustrator. POO-POO AND THE DRAGONS by C. S. Forester; illustrated by Robert Lawson. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1942, (1942). STATED FIRST EDITION; first printing (August 1942). 8vo - 6-5/8" x 8-7/16". Green cloth covered boards with dark green lettering and decoration to upper cover and dark green lettering to spine for an as new copy of the book. Color pictorial priced ($1.75) dust wrapper with minor toning to the back panel for what is a really lovely example of the wrapper. Color pictorial endpapers by Lawson. 142, [1] pp. The story of a boy whose life becomes exciting when he adopts a dragon; he then adopts two more. Illustrated throughout with black and white drawings by Lawson, both full page and within text. The condition of the book is FINE. The condition of the dust wrapper is NEAR FINE. A brilliant copy.
Seller: Wallace & Clark, Booksellers, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Forester, C. S.. Poo-Poo and the Dragons. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1942.
Price: US$1725.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo. (144)pp. Green cloth printed in dark green on the spine and upper board. Illustrated endpapers. A fine, bright copy with only the barest trace of rubbing along the bottom edge. The dustwrapper is unclipped and is in fine, bright condition with only a trace of aging along the top of the rear flap. You will not find a nicer copy of this title. .
Seller: Thorn Books, ABAA, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$1859.88 + shipping
Description: First US edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed in the month of publication by the author on the first blank "Ann Catherine Winter, best wishes from C. S. Forester, 22 August 1942". Poo-Poo and the Dragons was Forester's first children's book, first published in Britain the same year. Octavo. Original green cloth, titles and illustration to spine and front, illustrated endpapers. With dust jacket. Full page and vignette illustrations throughout by Lawson. Spine faded, some marks to cloth, trivial rubbing to corners, internally sound and clean, a very good copy in the jacket that is rubbed at the extremities, with one closed tear to top corner of front panel, and the rear panel spotted.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom