Search Results: Classics from Great Northern Books

New York: Random House, 1964. Book Club Edition. Slipcased hardcover. Very Good +. Color and black and white illustrations by Lawrence Beall Smith. Slipcase with pictorial cover. Book is clean and unmarked. Slipcase has edgewear, no dustjacket, as issued.

Haverhill [Mass.]: Printed by Galen H. Fay for Angier March, Newburyport, 1802. Leather-bound. Good. Original contemporary leather binding with title in gilt and red on spine. Contemporary owner's name dated 1826 on front endpaper. Leather cover rubbed with bumping along edges. [Shaw & Shoemaker: Early American Imprints: Second Series no.3503]

Akron: Saalfield Publishing Comany, 1927. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Dustjacket color illustration and black and white text illustrations by Frances Brundage. Dustjacket spine has an Art Nouveau like design. Former owner's name on front free endpaper with edgewear to dustjacket.

New York: Cupples & Leon Company, 1930. First edition. Slipcased. Near Fine. A bright copy of a beautiful book. Twelve color illustrations including the frontis and title page. Navy cloth cover pictorially stamped with an image of Mother Goose, in red, riding on a white swan in profile against a golden moon. Title and author in gild. Black and white illustrated endpapers as well as numerous black and illustrations throughout the text. Also includes index. IN A SLIPCASE that reproduces color illutrations and rhymes from the book. The slipcase is taped on one top edge, missing a quarter inch from the bottom, and the seems are splitting. Illustrations and verse aren't affected. SCARCE IN SLIPCASE, maybe the only one listed on the Internet.

Springfield, MA: Milton Bradley Co., 1920. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Adapted for juvenile readers by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey ; illustrated by Harold Brett. Includes 6 bright colored plates, including the frontis. Also includes color pictorial cover panel, illustrated endpapers and a glossary. Small chips out of rear cover panel else a bright, tight, clean, unmarked copy.