Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Lynd Ward. The Biggest Bear. Houghton Mifflin, 1952.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good condition book, unmarked, no dustjacket, with author/illustrators's (tiny) signature on flyleaf. [i-2]
Seller: Old Friends Used Books, Manchester, CT, U.S.A.
Ward, Lynd. The Biggest Bear. Houghton Mifflin, 1952.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Signed. First Edition. First US ed, as evidenced by date on title page. SIGNED by author on first page after ffep. Ex-library with the usual labeling. Some dust wear, rubbing. General shelf/reading wear. Pages clean, binding sturdy.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Ward, Lynd. The Biggest Bear. Houghton Mifflin Co, Boston, 1952.
Price: US$330.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 4to. [2], 1-84, [2] pp. Tan cloth with red lettering and a red decoration on the front board, red lettering on the spine. Price of $2.75 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A Caldecott Medal sticker affixed to the jacket's front panel by a collector. The book won the 1953 Caldecott Award. With several full-page black and white illustrations. Baumgarten 221. Signed by Lynd Ward without personalization on a tipped-in leaf. With 1952 on the title and copyright pages, no additional printings indicated on the copyright page. A code of 4-8 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A serviceable copy of Ward's touching story. Light rubbing and a few bumps to the boards' edges; jacket with some loss to its front and spine panels, a few archival tape repairs to its reverse.
Seller: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Lynd Ward. The Biggest Bear. Houghton Mifflin Co, Boston, 1952.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Early Printing. 8 x 10.5in. 84pp. Publisher's cloth boards. Signed and inscribed by the author: 'with my good wish, Lynd Ward.' NEAR FINE in Very Good dust jacket protected in a removable archival cover. The book itself shows two corners lightly shelf rubbed, else Fine. The dust jacket shows marginal shelf rubbing along the edges, Caldecott Medal lightly picked, otherwise is not price-clipped remaining bright, colorful, and distinct. As pictured.
Seller: North Books: Used & Rare, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Ward, Lynd. The Biggest Bear. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1952.
Price: US$975.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, signed by Lynd Ward on blank preliminary page, price of $2.75 present on front flap, date on title page, 4to, 85 pages, alternating pages of text and illustrations throughout; spine ends a touch pushed, dust jacket edge worn with a couple of tiny tears at top edge and one half inch chip out at head of spine, gold award sticker on front cover. This was Lynd Ward's first book as both author and illustrator, and it earned him the 1953 Caldecott Medal. With scant text, the pictures tell most of the story, and tell it well. Ward created the illustrations with casein paint, an ancient milk based medium, and the resulting images are soft and inky, and richly detailed. The book represents long-standing relationships between people and animals on many levels, while painting a picture of a beautiful friendship.
Seller: Crooked House Books & Paper, CBA, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.