Ferrer Melchor G (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Lithographed by Bauer Lithograph Company. Large square picture book, unpaginated (about 28pp). Fully illustrated with yellow & brown line drawings. Bound in original hardcover pictorial boards backed in orange cloth. Endpapers decorated with yellow hats. In very good condition. Firm binding and crisp, clean, pages. No signs of prior ownership. Slight wear to board edges, otherwise a great copy, now protected in a custom-made clear Acetate dustwrapper. Very scarce.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Garden City: 1940. Square octavo. Hardcover with a dust jacket. Appears to be the first edition, with no additional printings indicated. Brick colored boards with two previous owners signatures, minor rubbing along the bottom of the front board and with more significant wear to the bottom left corner of the back board. Very good. Jacket has rubbing and chipping with multiple tears and is in good condition.…

hardcover. Condition: very good/very good. Octavo.9 1/4" 9". Brown and yellow lithographs by Jean Charlot.A very nice copy in dust jacket. Price of 50/50 on front dust jacket flap. Mailing address label of previous owenr partially removed from title page. Very light edge rubbing to dust jacket. A sharp copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Square 4to. (24 x 24 cm.) unpaged [28p.]. Brown and yellow paper over boards with a vignette in yellow on both the front and back covers of a little boy holding out two hats, one in each hand. Dust jacket repeats these images. Some wear to extremities with the corners just rubbed through, touches of rubing to the edges, a couple of darkened spots where chips are missing from the dust jacket, slight odor of tobacco smoke, previous owner's signature on front pastedown (May Ann Havns) else near fine to fine with no internal markings. Dust jacket has several small chips missing and one thumb-sized chip missing from the rear panel, the whole lightly soiled, else very good. Born in Long Branch, NJ in 1917, Mel Ferrer was an American actor, film director and film producer. After dropping out of Princeton Univesity, Ferrer worked as the editor of a small town newspaper and wrote this children's book TITO'S HATS. He was married at one time to actress Audrey Hepburn, with whom he starred in "War and Peace" (1955). He starred in many other well-known Hollywood movies. He died in 2008 at the age of 90. "Tito's barber shop adventure, which finally means that the hat his heart is set upon is no longer just the smallest bit too small. So, with Tito and his father when they return from the market, is this brand new hat which now fits perfectly, and presents for the rest of the family". [from the dust jacket] This little story is set in Mexico. Jean Charlot [1898-1979] (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Illustrated by two-time Caldecott winner, Charlot; and written by Mel Ferrer, classic actor, director and, of course, husband of Audrey Hepburn. This is Ferrer's only children's book in a Near Fine copy with a Very Good+ price-clipped dustjacket with minor wear at top and bottom of jacket spine.…