Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, oblong Quarto, large cover paste-on front cover, brown cloth over boards. Children's Christmas book meant to be personalized, illustrated bookplate, letter on flyleaf and personalizations made out to Ned, wonderful color full page illustrations throughout the book. Good condition, somewhat loose, front corner of front cover chewed at bottom, lacking ffep, some foxing on end papers.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Very near fine in brick red cloth covered boards with color printed paper label on the front board. An oblong octavo of 9 by 12 inches with rubbing and light wear to the cloth at the heel of the spine and at the lower fore corner of the front board and several minor scratches to the paper label on the front board. Without a dust jacket. Unpaginated, but containing 23 printed and or illustrated pages. A book for children intended to be personalized with the name of the child to receive it. In this case the book has received no names or, for that matter, there is no prior ownership markings of any kind.
Seller: Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Subtitle: A Christmas story for very small boys in which every reader is the hero of a big adventure. There are blank spaces throughout the book, so that a child's name could be written in, but all of those spaces are still blank in this copy. Beautiful full-page illustrations rendered in vivid colors in a rather modern-looking style. Pages are clean. The binding, with large paste-on to front cover, shows some wear and light soiling. Size: Oblong 8vo
Seller: Wild Hills Books, Largo, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. 4to. Oblong. Published by Harper & Brothers, Publishers, , New York. 1916. Unpaginated, but containing 23 printed and or illustrated pages. First Edition/First Printing (K-Q code present). Bound in red cloth boards with color pastedown and titles present to the front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Light foxing present. Text is free of marks. Binding tight and solid. A book for children intended to be personalized with the name of the child to become the protagonist of the story. In this case the book has received no names or, for that matter, there is no prior ownership markings of any kind. EB
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Blank Endpapers Red Ink Mark, HARDBACK NODustjacket ,Published October 1916 on title pg, 1st edition, dates Matcxh on title & copyright pg, GOOD CONDITION, NOJACKET, Oblong book Approx 12.5 by 9.5 inches,Unnumbered pages. Bound in reddish Brown cloth with front cover color pictorial paste-on chipped at edges OF BOY IN TALL BLACK HAT & PURPLE TOP & BLUE SHORTS HOLDING CANE has small Ink Mark & RUB & WEAR, REDBrown cloth-boards show wear and some fraying to edges, corners and spine; rear cover is Light Stains. Bright paste-on is scuffed, scratched and rough at the edges . Binding is intact, but Slightly shaken. Title page shows 2 Mended 2? tears near the hinge; several of the subsequent pages have a longitudinal faint mended crease from the bottom up and a tear at the bottom margin that ranges from ½? to 1 ½? A few also have a small chip near the bottom hinge. 22 pages in total, with a color plate facing each page of text. Nevertheless in overall in very nice condition. the story has blank spaces to be filled in with the child's name when the story is read to him (In this case filled in in ink in a neat adult hand FOR TOMMY) ,the story has blank spaces to be filled in with the child's name when the story is read to him (In this case filled in in ink in a neat adult hand FOR TOMMY). Charming tale for the youngster at Christmastime. A couple of reasons come to mind to help explain the scarcity of this book: One it is for boys--young girls were possibly more interested in being read to; two, it requires an adult to read the book and fill in the blanks-
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.