Engine by Hurd Edith Thacher (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Illustrated by Clement Hurd (illustrator). First Edition. Small half dime size light stain bottom front of hardboards, rear of hardboards have several smudges and a very small quarter size section of red paper covering hardboards torn away, mild edge wear to tips of hardboards, dustcover has rubbing and smudging and several tears/chips ; No markings, clean, solid, illustrated endpapers - very hard to find copy with dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Scarce hardcover with rubbing and wear to boards in a chipped, worn dust jacket; original price on flap is $1.25.

Peach Pictorial Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Clement Hurd (illustrator). First Edition / First Printing. Minor edge and corner wear, gently scuffed, lightly shelf worn, ex-library with the usual library markings, first three pages have a 1" tear near the base of the spine, first illustrated page of chapter 1 has a 1.5" tear that has been repaired with acid-free tape, 2nd illustrated page of chapter one is missing a portion of the lower corner, overall a clean used first edition! Very very rare and hard-to-find! Unpaginated, wonderfully illustrated in blue and red! Extremely scarce and out-of-print! "Inside the black smoky roundhouse there were many engines. Three were great, strong freight engines. There were fast passenger engines. There were long, thin, streamlined engines. There were funny, fat little engines. And the engines in the roundhouse were puffing out white steam and black smoke, and their bells were ringing." ---- from Chapter 1: The Engine Learns to Puff Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Printing. Pictorial boards with cloth spine is lightly rubbed on edges + rear cover lightly soiled. Two tiny nicks on front end paper edges, else a nice, unmarked copy. Illustrated by Clement Hurd.