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Price: US$11.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good in good glassine wrapper (minor chipping at edges). Illustrated with b&w drawings. This is a privately printed Chrismas gift. This copy is #148 of an unspecified number. Hard Cover. 33pp. 16 x 20cm. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson. The Little Hunchback Zia. NY: Abbott Kimball, 1955, NY, 1955.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Limited. 6 1/2 x 8. 36 pages, w/drawing illust. No. 170 of an unknown number, finely printed by Abbott Kimball at The Aldus Printers as a Christmas gift for friends.
Seller: G.J. Askins Bookseller, New Lebanon, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$17.50 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Square 12mo in light red cloth lettered in gilt. 33 pp. With six full page drawings by Maria Horvath produced specially for this edition. Fine in original glassine dust wrapper with two nicks to the spine. The colophon page states that this is a limited edition printed on Strathmore Impress paper for friends of Aldus Printers, Christmas 1955. First published in 1916, Burnett's Christmas parable of a wretched hunchbacked little boy who is driven from his home and convinced to think of himself as an evil misfit. He wanders toward Bethlehem and feels peace and contentment when passed on the road by a young woman and man riding on a donkey; he sees a bright star, follows it and next morning finds the couple and their newborn son in a manger, surrounded by peaceful blue light.
Seller: Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABAA, ILAB), Bordentown, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$24.00 + shipping
Description: HB Illustrated Cover NO DJ , Christmas 1955, X-Library light Residue on Endpaper O/W Very Nice, 1st Limited Edition #51 in back of book of unspecified number, NF-/VG+, AS-IS, NOJACKET, Paper is Strathmores Impress, 6 1/4 X 8 in. Approx ,Red cloth Lettered in Gold Gilt Cover light wear, Spine lightly Sunned,
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$38.48 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: No. 139, Hard cover pink cloth bds, gilt lettering to upper bd, some fading age-browning to cloth to bds and spine otherwise Good, a little scuffing to extrem.s, no dust jacket, contents clean and tight with lovely two-tone illustrations by Maria Horvath, pp33, small poss. ink mark to leading pge edge block, does not seep at all onto pges. A lovely nativity story about the little leper Zia who is healed by the baby Jesus.
Seller: Little Owl Books, Norwich, NORFO, United Kingdom
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo.; from the advertising and sales promoting department of the Aldus Printers of NY, Keepsakes on Strathmore Papers; contains The Legend of the Christmas Rose and The Little Hunchback Zia both in red boards, hardcover; in a paper slipcase; black and white illustrations; the Legend of the Christmas Rose has slightly rubbed boards else both are very good in a slightly soiled and edgeworn slip case.
Seller: WellRead Books A.B.A.A., Northport, NY, U.S.A.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson. THE LITTLE HUNCH-BACK ZIA. Aldus Printers, 1955.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 33 pages. "This limited edition was printed for the friends of Aldus Printers, Christmas 1955. Typography by Mr. Aldus. FINE HARDCOVER, FINE- DUST JACKET. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: PASCALE'S BOOKS, NORTH READING, MA, U.S.A.