sweeny william k (3 Ergebnisse)

Pictorial Hard Cover. Zustand: Fair. Francis P. Wightman and William K. Sweeny (illustrator). 1st Edition. The cover is green; a color illustration and white lettering are on the front board. Content: 18 stories; 15 plates of color illustrations; full-page and in-text, b/w illustrations. The spine strip, including the title, and the back board are faded. A 4 in. split on the spine strip is rejoined with cloth on the reverse side. Nearly half of the paper is chipped from the boards' edges and along the edges. An inch is missing from one board corner. A linear 2 in. piece of board is missing from a corner. A corner has a crack that is rejoined with glue. Three page margins each have a small chip. Ten percent of the page margins each have one or more closed tears. Two pages each have a closed tear that runs through the margin and through a little of the text. They are tipped back together with glue. The pages have a moderate, musty odor. Pictures e-mailed upon request.

Zustand: Very good. First Edition. First edition of the final Roosevelt Bears book - the series that popularized the teddy bear - in which they are solve nursery rhyme mysteries. Eaton's favorite in the series, this attractive work has the bear pair solving mysteries like the whereabouts of Little Bo Peep's sheep, who killed Cock Robin, and what happened to Cinderella's fairy godmother. 11'' x 8.25''. Original cloth-backed grey boards with color pictorial onlay. Color frontispiece with 14 color plates and numerous black-and-white line drawings. 178 pages. Light spotting to boards, with a few smallish patches of rubbing to rear board, spine a touch soiled. Interior bright, hinges strong.

Zustand: Fine in good dust jacket. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. First edition. First printing of this story of the Roosevelt Bears' adventures as private eyes, on a mission to solve a variety of nursery rhyme mysteries - the rarest of the series to find with dust jacket intact. TEDDY-B AND TEDDY-G: THE BEAR DETECTIVES is the final entry in Seymour Eaton's Roosevelt Bears series (and his personal favorite), which popularized the teddy bear. In this attractive work we find the bear pair solving mysteries including the whereabouts of Little Bo Peep's sheep, who killed Cock Robin, and what happened to Cinderella's fairy godmother. This is a particularly nice copy, retaining its very rare original dust jacket. 11'' x 8.25''. Original cloth-backed grey boards with color pictorial onlay. Original unclipped (no price) pictorial dust jacket. Color frontispiece with 14 color plates and numerous black-and-white line drawings. 178 pages. Jacket with several chips to edges, spine somewhat tender; a number of tape repairs to verso. Binding with a hint of shelfwear. Sharp and clean.