Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: Brand New. Peat, Fern Bisel (illustrator). 80 pages. 11.00x8.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.
Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 16 pages. 11.10x7.95x0.28 inches. In Stock.
Published by The Saalfield Publishing Co.
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
£ 15.18
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.2.
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. Peat, Fern Bisel (illustrator). 96 pages. 10.25x8.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.
Published by Saalfield, 1937
Seller: Old Scrolls Book Shop, Stanley, NY, U.S.A.
£ 7.60
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. Fern Bisel Peat, Illustrator (illustrator). Clean book with wear to edges, fraying to cloth at top spine edge. Color-illustrated cover. Binding is tight, pages are clean. No names, writing or marks. Illustrated by Fern Bisel Peat.Manuscript scores by Wenzel Kubelka. Size approx. 9" x 11".
Published by The Saalfield Publishing Co, 1930
Seller: Stone Soup Books, Camden, ME, U.S.A.
£ 13.68
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1930 Saalfield Company, Every Child's Library, blue cloth hardcover with paste-on illustration in dust jacket, bottom edge of cover rubbed, DJ is edge worn, owner's gift dedication, book is tight and clean, 252 pages.
Published by Saalfield Publishing Company, (); red cloth spine, blue boards with large illustration panel on front showing Jiji Lou outside "Any Old Thing"; plain endpapers, coloured frontis and many illustrations in text; 7.25x9.25"; 142 pp., 1928
Seller: Truman Price & Suzanne Price / oldchildrensbooks, Monmouth, OR, U.S.A.
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. /Fern Bisel Peat, illustrator. (illustrator). CONDITION: Good Minus; nice, light gift inscription on back of frontis (no pressure marks), two straightened dogears ow pages flat and clean including frontis, tight with good hinges; boards are very rubbed in margins and on edges, corners are rubbed through to card, and spine ends are worn for about 1/8"; spine cloth was detached much of the way up, thus grade, and is now tacked to spine cloth lining for protection, spine remains supple. Juvenile hardback. "Now Jiji Lou was a cast-off doll,/And her troubles you must admit,/Were many and great,/But she'd never state/That she was aware of it." A greatly loved doll story. ABE Heritage Seller since 1996; conservative AB condition grading. We ship all our books in cardboard protection. International shipping. /Fern Bisel Peat, illustrator.
Published by Saalfield Publishing Company, Akron, Ohio, 1928
Language: English
First Edition
£ 27.35
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Nyce, Helene; Cragin, Jan; Peat, Fern Bisel (illustrator). First Edition. Collection of poetry about nature, animals, & everyday life for children by Gertrude Heath, whose "gay verse is so full of music that it fairly sings itself,'' lavishly illustrated throughout with pen-and-ink drawings by Helene Nyce + a frontispiece + 5 full-color, full-page plates by Jan Cragin--all flawless! The charming DJ design by beloved children's book illustrator Fern Bisel Peat. Unpaginated (approx. 100 pages). Orig. published in 1928, this is an unknown printing of that FIRST EDITION. Hardcover octavo (7" x 9.25") has colorful paper (with the Peat illustration front & back) over blue cloth-covered boards, lettered in black to spine/blue to front. Condition is VG+: extremely clean , binding strong & straight, hinges secure. Pages lightly tanned, completely unmarked save for gift inscription dated 1942 to copyright page. Exterior shows modest rubbing to extremities, slight bumping to corners & both ends of spine. The unclipped DJ is Good+: colorful & bright, with mild-moderate rubbing to extremities & a few chips, including at both ends of spine; nicely protected in new clear mylar cover Free (removed for photos). Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received by 2pm weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends, & holidays ship very next business day.
£ 30.39
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good+. Peat, Fern Bisel (illustrator). First Edition First Printing. No. 296 in a lovely mid-20th-century collection of large picture books for children by the Saalfield Company of Akron, Ohio, each covering one topic & illustrated by famous artists of the day--here, Fern Bisel Peat (1893-1971). Six birds are depicted & described here. Large folio *10" x 12.75") has colorful pastel Peat paintings atop peach-colored wrappers, lettered in blue to front cover. Unpaginated, in 14 pages. Condition is VG+: exceptionally clean & bright, pages creamy white & unmarked, colors rich. Very mild curling to outer corners. Stapled binding secure with no rust. A beauty! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received by 2pm weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends, & holidays ship very next business day. SORRY: no expedited domestic or international shipping due to postage costs.
Published by The Saalfield Publishing Company, Akron, OH, 1932
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Fern Bisel Peat (illustrator). Light wear to the paper-covered boards, a bit more wear to the spine paper. Pages are tight and clean with no marks. No scribble, no crayon. No name of previous owner. No odor. No water damage. No soiling. No sun fading.
Published by Saalfield Publishing CO, 1937
Seller: Fallen Leaf Books, Nashville, IN, U.S.A.
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Add to basketTrade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Linene, Oversized Nursery Book staple bound. 6 full page color illustrations, illustrated covers. General wear/soiling to the covers. Tear to the illustration on the back cover. For its age and use, Very Good.
£ 14.44
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Add to basketPaperback. Condition: Fine condition. Fern Bisel Peat (illustrator). 12p., col. illus.
Published by Saalfield Publisher, (, as hardback) #148-C; linenette, SOFTCOVER, titles in peach, blue cover with Wee Willie Winkie going downstairs on front, turquoise cover with Humpty Dumpty on back; 8.5x7.25 np., Akron, Ohio, 1929
Seller: Truman Price & Suzanne Price / oldchildrensbooks, Monmouth, OR, U.S.A.
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Add to basket/Fern Bisel Peat, illustrator. (illustrator). CONDITION: Near Fine; no names or other marks, bright and unwrinkled, very tiny rubs at spine ends. Toploader large softcover Many short rhymes with line drawings in text. Peat's coloured pictures, in addition to covers, for Albert and Arthur, a Cherry, Little Nannie Etticoat, and If All the World Was Apple Pie, a nice, unsentimental collection of her Mother Goose work in deco design. ABE Heritage Seller since 1996; conservative AB condition grading. We ship all our books in cardboard protection. International shipping. /Fern Bisel Peat, illustrator.
Published by American Crayon Co., Sandusky, Ohio, 1943
Language: English
£ 49.38
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Peat, Fern Bisel (illustrator). First Thus. The classic fairy tale from the Brothers Grimm retold by Emilie C. Bradbury & Marjorie Hardy "for little children to read,'' with enchanting cover art + 6 lovely full-color, full-page plates by pioneering female illustrator Fern Bisel Peat (1893-1971). Unpaginated in 14 pages, including endpapers, which contain text. Orig published in 1931, this is the First 1943 edition from the American Crayon Company of Sandusky, OH, part of their "Old Faithful" collection. Quarto (9.75" x 13") has colorfully decorated purple paper over boards with illustration to front & back boards duplicated on the accompanying DJ. Condition is Fair: stitched binding is very loose, but all pages secure. Pages show medium tanning, but are completely unmarked. Both boards are loose & the entire back strip has been detached, but still present (though chipped & torn. The DH is present, but Poor, missing many large chips with heavy rubbing & loss to extremities; what's there is nicely protected in a new clear mylar cover. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have. Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day. Sorry: book is too large for expedited domestic or any international shipping without preapproval of extra postage (at least double per USPS rates).
Published by The Saalfield Publishing Company, Akron OH, 1933
Seller: Book Booth, Berea, OH, U.S.A.
£ 22.79
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Poor. Peat, Fern Bisel (illustrator) (illustrator). covers have heavy wear, rubbing and soil, corners rounded, cloth spine cover has heavy rubbing, fraying and scattered soil, binding tight, scattered foxing on end papers, heavy pencil scribbling on front free end paper, rest of pages have light, scattered foxing and some mildew smell, stories are "The Three Little Pigs," "The Ugly Duckling," The Cock, the Mouse, and the Little Red Hen," and "Little Black Sambo" with bw and color illustrations of characters resembling rag dolls Size: 9.75 x 12.
Published by Saalfield Publishing Company, Akron, Ohio, 1930
Language: English
First Edition
£ 75.97
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Peat, Fern Bisel (illustrator). First Edition. A lovely collection of some of Field's most beloved poems for children, brought to new life with the charming illustrations of Fern Bisel Peat, whose pen-and-ink drawings & full-color drawings accentuate each of the book's decorated pages, along with the colorfully illustrated DJ! Unpaginated. A FIRST EDITION, unknown printing, from 1930, this large quarto ((9.5" x 12") has colorfully decorated red paper over quarter black cloth-covered boards. Condition is VG+: exceptionally clean & bright save for just a couple of foxed spots to front endpapers/slight offsetting to rear. Interior pages have just mild tanning to edges, but completely unmarked. The sewn binding is strong & straight, hinges secure. Exterior shows slight rubbing to extremities, heavy at corners, with some paper loss there. The hard-to-find-in-any-condition unclipped DJ is Good+: colorful & bright, with mild-moderate rubbing to extremities & a few chips & creases, paper loss at corners; beautifully protected in new clear mylar cover Free (removed for photos). Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received by 2pm weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends, & holidays ship very next business day. SORRY: book is too large for expedited domestic or any international shipping without preapproval of extra postage.
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good +/NO DUSTJACKET. Color Illustrations (illustrator). Akron, OH: Saalfield Publishing Company. Good +/NO DUSTJACKET. 1933. . Hardcover. 4to., Unpaginated (text block measures approx. 0.25in. thick), cover shelf wear to edges and corners, light soiling, corners bumped, spine tips bumped and rubbed, light fraying to spine tips, otherwise good; title page colored in and has Former owner's inscription (see photo), pages clean and unmarked. .
Published by Saalfield Publishing Co.,, Akron:, 1929
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
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Add to basketPaperback. Condition: Good. Color illustrations throughout. First edition (paperback). Shelf worn, four inch tear at the crown of the spine, else good in oversize illustrated wraps. ; 12 pages B00087TKYW.
Published by Saalfield Publishing, 1933
Seller: GLOVER'S BOOKERY, ABAA, Lexington, KY, U.S.A.
First Edition
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition with no additional printings. Book has no names, pages unmarked and clean, pictorial covers excellent, bound in illustrated paper over black fabric. Dust jacket is clipped, slightly soiled on rear panel (appears to have been shelved next to a red book) , a couple small closed tears on the top edge, color excellent. Eight wonderful full page illustrations. Comes in a clear mylar dust jacket cover.
Published by The Saalfield Publishing Co. 1933, 1933
Seller: Wonderland Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
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Add to basketed. hardback good to very good condition with some wear and rubbing. no dust jacket.
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Add to basket4to.; pictorial stiff wraps, softcover; color illustrations; 12 pages; No. 650; wraps are edgeworn, sunned and creased else very good.
Published by Saalfield Publishing Co. (January 1, 1937), 1937
Seller: Tacoma Book Center, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.
First Edition
£ 18.99
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Add to basketPaperback. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. First Edition. ISBN . B00ANY2Q64 Staplebound Trade Paperback. Triangular cut out of the bottom right corner of the front cover measuring 4 inches at the bottom, 6 inches tall, and 7 inches across, and the entire spine has been nicely reinforced with clear magic tape, Otherwise book is a Tight sound unmarked copy in Very Good condition with the charming full color plates throughout the book in very nice condition. A nice reading copy. No Signature.
Published by Saalfield Publishing Company, (); red cloth spine, blue boards with large illustration panel on front showing Jiji Lou outside "Any Old Thing"; plain endpapers, coloured frontis and many illustrations in text; 7.25x9.25"; 142 pp., 1928
Seller: Truman Price & Suzanne Price / oldchildrensbooks, Monmouth, OR, U.S.A.
£ 64.58
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. /Fern Bisel Peat, illustrator. (illustrator). CONDITION: Very Good; neat 1935 gift inscription on flyleaf, tight, straight, clean, spine bright, extrems and edges bumped and worn through especially on bottom. Juvenile hardback. "Now Jiji Lou was a cast-off doll,/And her troubles you must admit,/Were many and great,/But she'd never state/That she was aware of it." A greatly loved doll story. ABE Heritage Seller since 1996; conservative AB condition grading. We ship all our books in cardboard protection. International shipping. /Fern Bisel Peat, illustrator.
Published by The Saalfield Publishing Co., 1939
Seller: The Book House, Inc. - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
First Edition
£ 56.98
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Peat, Fern Bisel [illustrator] (illustrator). First Edition. Very good hardcover, with dust jacket color illustrations by Fern Bisel Peat.
Published by The Saalfield Publishing Co, Akron, OH, 1936
Seller: Eclectibles, ABAA, Tolland, CT, U.S.A.
£ 49.38
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Add to basket12pp. Softcover, front and back covers have a brightly colored illustration of Snow-White against a light blue background. Profusely illustrated, with 6 in-text illustrations, either 4" x 4 1/2" or 8" x 4 1/2" in size. This short story collection includes the story "Snow White and Red-Rose,", "Magpie's Nest," "Lambkin" they attribute to "East India", "Sleeping Beauty" attributed to The Brothers Grimmm, "Why the Bear Has a Stumpy Tail, "Three Little Kittens They Lost Their Mittens," and "The Hare and the Hedgehog," described as an "English Tale." Measures 10 1/2" x 12 1/2" Very good condition, slight wear to the spine, faint signs of bending about 1" from spine; faint discolored lines on the cover from contact with foreign object, visible on the dress.
Published by The Saalfield Publishing Co., 1935
Seller: The Book House, Inc. - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
First Edition
£ 72.18
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Cover. Peat, Fern Bisel [illustrator] (illustrator). First Edition. Oversize Hardcover picture book, color illustrations by Fern Bisel Peat wear to edges Size: Oversize.
Published by The Saafield Publishing Company, Akron, OH, 1937
Seller: Eclectibles, ABAA, Tolland, CT, U.S.A.
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Add to basket16pp. Softcover, front and back cover have a brightly colored illustrations of three children in a ship fashioned out of large clog and a patchwork blanket hung as its sail, floating against a dark starry sky - an image from the titular story "Wynken Blynken and Nod". "No. 319" printed in the bottom right cover. Profusely illustrated, with 5 full page, color illustrations and 7, half-page black and white illustrations. All illustrations by Fern Bisel Peat. Stories included are "Wynken Blynken and Nod", "The Naughty Doll", "The Straw Parlor", "Fairy and Child", "The Duel", "The Dinky Bird" and "Fiddle Dee-Dee". Measures 10 1/2" x 12 1/2" Good condition; light wear on the spine, 2" water stain on the top left corner of the cover, visible on opposite side.
Published by The Saalfield Publishing Co., 1935
Seller: The Literary Lion, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
£ 113.96
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition. Thin folio half orange cloth and color pictorial paper-covered boards. Illustrated with 8 impressive full-page color plates by Peat. A fine, bright copy in a near fine dust jacket which has some wear at the base of the spine. Scarce in this nice condition and with the dust jacket.
Published by Saalfield Publ. Co, Akron. O., 1939
Seller: Eclectibles, ABAA, Tolland, CT, U.S.A.
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Add to basketIllustrated soft cover. Unpaginated. Begins with two page topographical map of Laughing Island and neighboring land masses. This is followed by the title page. Full page illustrations throughout plus numerous in-text black and white illustrations . Dear imagery of humanized dolls on their adventure. Measures 10 1/4" x 9 1/4" Penciling and ink inscription inside covers and blank free end paper Previous owner attempting to learn his street address.
Published by The Harter Publishing Company, Cleveland, Ohio, 1931
Seller: Eclectibles, ABAA, Tolland, CT, U.S.A.
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Add to basketSoftcover, illustrated in bright color: front and back cover have the same drawing of the titular character Little Black Sambo, wearing his distinct bright orange shirt, blue pants, purple shoes, and carrying a green, polka-dot umbrella, illustrated by Fern Bisel, Peat. Bottom left corner has "No. H-105" printed in small black type. Profusely illustrated, with 7 full page, color illustrations, and 6 pages with large, in-text illustrations in black-and-white. This book includes the stories 'Little Black Sambo', 'Black Mumbo', 'Black Jumbo' and 'the four Tigers' [sic]. Last page has a short biography of the author, and gives details about the story's origin and this book's creation. States that this book is to be used in an educational setting, and the typeface has been chosen based on studies about how to develop "the correct eye movements." Children are also encouraged to color in the black and white illustrations. 14pp. 9 1/4" x 13" Edge toning on cover. Glue residue from price sticker inside cover and first page- upper edge corner; minimal detraction.