Humpy by Yershov (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First thus edition. Hardbound. Good. Jacqueline Ayer, illus. 8vo. No DJ. General wear to covers. Occasional smuding on pages from child use. 72 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Jacqueline Ayer (illustrator). 1st. 1st American edition; dj w/small closed tear, rubbing and lite chipping, unclipped price, in mylar; bue/green c w/black titles; owner's name; 102 clean, unmarked pages; neat repair at spine.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. (juvenile fiction, russian folklore, fairy tales) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Stated First Edition. NOT an ex library book. Dark gray/blue cloth covered book has heavy wear on spine ends and corners, rubbing on spine edges, rubbing on front. Illustrated endpapers. Prior owner name and address in pencil on first blank endpaper. 110 generally clean interior pages. Illustrations in black and white.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacqueline Ayer (illustrator). Copyright. dj (top price clipped), edges slightly worn and chipped, piece missing from back flap, some rubbing on folds and spine is faded, book is bound in green cloth (Library binding - but is not ex-library), endpapers lightly foxed, small mark on the lower edge of page 5, else vg. sm 4to, 72pp. An old Russian tale about Ivan, the simple fool who outwits his older, cleverer brothers with the help of Humpy, the magic little humpbacked horse.

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Ayer, Jacqueline (illustrator). Stated First Edition of this reissue, newly illustrated by Jacqueline Ayer, thus a First Thus. Near Fine decorative blue cloth -- unmarked and tight throughout. Jacket has $3.25 flap price, small chips and tears.

Hard Cover. First Edition, First printing. Stated First Edition. NEAR-FINE. MINOR WEAR TO CLEAN CLOTH BOARDS, BINDING TIGHT, INTERIOR FINE. 1932 OWNER INSCRIPTION AND BOOKPLATE. Translated from the Russian by Wiliam C. White; illustrated by Michael C. Perts.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Illustrated by Michael C. Perts (illustrator). First Edition. Hardcover in brown cloth boards. No dust jacket. Title imprinted in black on front, along with a tiny illustration. Book is crisp and clean, as are boards. Pages are fresh and bright. Translated from the Russian by William C. White; the original Yershov work was a poem called "The Little Humpbacked Horse, " which, on its appearance in the mid-1880s, made a sensation because of its satiric view of the tsar. Intricate black-and-what illustrations throughout. Decorative endpapers. Small 4to. 110 pp.

First Edition. HUMPY, Harper and Brothers, 1931, first edition, several pages with closed tears, slight wear to the fore edge corner tips and spine extremities, else a tight very good to very good plus copy with wonderful illustrations on nearly every page by Michael C. Perts. Translated by William White.