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Wilder, Laura Ingalls. The Long Winter. Harper & Brothers, 1940.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A January, 1950 printing, (Harper code A-Z) It is superb, probably read once and put away. It has no previous owner markings. Gorgeous jacket gleams in its new mylar, with color wonderfully bright and strong. Jacket is not price-clipped and is near perfect. One of the nicest early format Wilder books I've come across in 34 years in the business. Illustrations by Helen Sewell and Mildred Boyle. A beauty.
Seller: Dan's Books, St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. The Long Winter. Harper, New York, 1940.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Text good. Brown cover somewhat soiled and chipped. Signature of prior owner.
Seller: A. Richard Books and More, Washington DC, DC, U.S.A.
Price: US$700.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1stedn; Very Scarce First Edition of one of the LITTLE HOUSE Books/NO dust jacket. No date on title page but stated First Edition with a "I-P" code. 8vo brown cloth with black titles and illustration on front board, Slight Edgewear to covers. spine slight rubbed top and bottom. Corners bumped. Ow VG/NO dj: 325 pages, three color frontispiece matching front dust jacket cover [not present], black and white illustrations, decorative endpapers; very light wear at extremities; the sixth book in the "Little House" series, the Ingalls family faces the hard winter of 1880-81 in their little house in the Dakota Territory. A Newbery Honor book of 1941. The harsh winter snow which began in October, 1880 and continues almost without stopping until April, 1881 brings the people of De Smet to the verge of starvation. Almanzo Wilder knows what has to be done to save the town even if it means risking his own life.
Seller: Ethnographics, Georgetown, TX, U.S.A.
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. The Long Winter. Harper & Brothers Publishers, E-195, 1940.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. 8vo. Harper & Brothers, New York. 1940. 299 pgs. Frontispiece. Illustrated. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in grey decorated cloth with brown titles present to the spine and titles and illustration present to the front board. Boards have wear present to the extremities of the boards (boards scuffed and worn). Decorated endpapers. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as Pa, Ma, Laura, Mary, Carrie, and little Grace bravely face the hard winter of 1880-81 in their little house in the Dakota Territory. Blizzards cover the little town with snow, cutting off all supplies from the outside. Soon there is almost no food left, so young Almanzo Wilder and a friend make a dangerous trip across the prairie to find some wheat. Finally a joyous Christmas is celebrated in a very unusual way in this most exciting of all the Little House books. EB; 7.9 X 5.3 X 1.3 inches; 325 pages
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Laura Ingalls Wilder. THE LONG WINTER. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$1050.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Stated "First Edition I-P". The original edition in brown illustrated boards with a thick spine and blue and white endpapers. Covered in a bright jacket that is mainly intact but for chipping at spine ends, (not affecting lettering), with a lightly faded spine and original $2.00 price on the flap. With owner's stamped bookplate, else like new. A lovely crisp and clean vintage copy of this title in the Little House on the Prairie frontier saga.
Seller: MARIE BOTTINI, BOOKSELLER, Cotati, CA, U.S.A.