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C. S. Forester. POO-POO AND THE DRAGONS. Michael Joseph, US, 1942.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Pages have scattered soiling and foxing, but no notations from the previous owner. Green cloth covers are soiled, rubbed, bumped and scuffed. Text block is soiled. Spine is rubbed and soiled with a closed tear. Previous owner's name on front endpage Light wear to cloth at spine ends and corners. Binding is square and tight. Boards are clean. Pictures available upon request.
Seller: Atlanta Vintage Books, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Forester, C. S.. Poo-Poo and the Dragons. Michael Joseph, London, 1942.
Price: US$64.16 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Exciting children's story about a Boy called Poo-Poo (Harold really) who has a fantastic adventure with Dragons. B&W Illustrations by Robert Lawson. Deep Yellow cloth cover with Red Lettering, Dragon Tail and Landscape on front. Red Lettering and Dragon Heads to spine. Endpapers illustrated with Poo-Poo and his parents in a car being followed by 2 Dragons. Title Page illustrated with Poo-Poo and a Dragon. 188 Pages, 260g, 8 3/4" Tall. Slight soiling to cover. Gift inscription on back of ffep, dated 1947. No other inscriptions except old price on endpaper. Pages clean. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall
Seller: Bay Books, Penzance, United Kingdom
C S Forester. Poo-Poo and the Dragons. Michael Joseph, London, 1942.
Price: US$66.92 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Moderate age wear, tear and discolouration to outer boards. Difficult to find title. 190 pages. No internal inscriptions, torn or missing pages. Illustrator: Robert lawson. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Children; Fiction. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 51504.
Seller: Turn The Page Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
C. S. Forester w/ Robert Lawson. Poo-Poo and the Dragons. Michael Joseph, 1942.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Stated 1942 printing. Illustrations by Robert Lawson. Yellow cloth boards with red titles and decor. Book in G+ condition, no dj; light lean to book yet binding tight, book edges mildly worn, corners lightly bumped, scuffing to rear, light discoloration to spine, front remains clean, pictorial endpapers, clean interior and pages.
Seller: Turning of the Tide Books, SEATTLE, WA, U.S.A.
Forester, C. S.. Poo-Poo and the Dragons. MIchael Joseph Ltd. 1942, London, 1942.
Price: US$96.24 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 188 pp. Publisher's original pictorial orange cloth. Stain to front board. Internally clean. No ownership names. Pictorial endpapers and illustrations throughout by Robert Lawson. This is C. S. Forester's first children's book. 8vo. Illustrated
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
C S Forester. Poo Poo and the Dragons. Michael Joseph, London, 1942.
Price: US$96.24 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: POO POO AND THE DRAGONS. C. S. Forester. Illustrated by Robert Lawson. Michael Joseph, London 1942 First Edition 190pp Illustrated Hardback. This copy is has a small signature to the front endpaper but is otherwise bright, tight and unmarked throughout. The yellow linen covered boards have terra cotta designs and titling the front and the spine. There is some edge wear and the boards are a trifle grubby. A dust wrapper is not present.This book was conceived and published in 1942, before the war impacted on book production. Forester came up with the premise for the book while he was at home in the Berkeley hills, minding his two boys while his wife Kathleen was away. The younger of the two, 8 year old George, went on a hunger strike; he refused to eat. Forester made up the stories to tell during dinnertime, but would only tell them if George would eat. If George stopped eating, Forester stopped talking mid-sentence. By the time Kathleen returned home and everything returned to normal, there were a number of Poo-Poo stories, and 3 dragons. Forester collected the stories in manuscript form and Michael Joseph published it. It remains one of forester's rarest titles Ref AA5
Seller: Amazing Book Company, Liphook, United Kingdom
Forester, C. S.. Poo-poo and the Dragons. Michael Joseph, London, 1942.
Price: US$115.49 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: This would have been very good if the dragons on the front endpapers had not been very carefully crayonned in. Pencilled po name and address on ffep. Likewise three other internal dragons. The front cover is a little grubby with faint mould signs at the top - see picture. Else internally clean and tight. War time quality paper. Forester's only children's book. Scarce. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Amolib Books, Oxford, OXON, United Kingdom
C.S. FORESTER. POO-POO AND THE DRAGONS. MICHAEL JOSEPH LTD, 1942.
Price: US$256.65 + shipping
Description: Very rare /collectible vintage children's title - excellent clean crisp interior, no marks or inscriptions, contains pictorial e/papers and numerous nice illustrations, just a faint tone to closed-edge of pages, excellent clean firm boards; d/j has standard wear and tear with loss to top and lower spine as shown and general edgewear, light tone overall but all intact and acceptable appearance for the age, covered with a new removable sleeve-protector, not price-clipped./
Seller: Ron Weld Books, Great Yarmouth, United Kingdom
Price: US$288.73 + shipping
Description: [Children's illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.188. With in-text illustrations and endpapers by Lawson. Publisher's yellow cloth, designs and titles blocked in red to upper and spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket priced at 7/6. Mild toning throughout. Typographic bookplate of Trevor Hickman to front flyleaf verso. Toning to textblock edges, some splashing to fore. Spotting to top of cloth. Jacket spine and rear panel toned/spotted, some wear and tearing to extremities. Very good. A delightful children's book which 'all started when the son of the author of Captain Hornblower, R.N., refused to eat after his mother had gone on a vist' (blurb) and Forester had to improvise a captivating story that stopped when the eating of dinner stopped.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
FORESTER, C.S.; LAWSON, Robert. POO-POO AND THE DRAGONS. Michael Joseph, 1942.
Price: US$635.22 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo. Publisher's orange and red decorated cloth, in the original pictorial dustwrapper. A superb copy. A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper, the spine a little toned. Delightful line drawings by Robert Lawson throughout. Uncommon. A children's story about the escapades of Horatio the dragon, from an author more famous for his Horatio Hornblower novels and The African Queen. Like so many popular children's tales this story was told by the author to his son, George, who suffered from food allergies and didn't want to eat. Forester made up the stories to tell during meal times, but would only tell them if George kept eating his meal.
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom