Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers, 1977
ISBN 10: 0397317387 ISBN 13: 9780397317387
Anbieter: ThriftBooks-Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.75.
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Revised & newly illistrated. Damp stains on outer covers.
Verlag: J. B. Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1950
Anbieter: Wagon Tongue Books, Linden, AB, Kanada
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good +. No Jacket. Hildegard Woodward (illustrator). 8'th Printing. A 46 page true story originally told in 1939 to an adopted son and later turned into this book . Because of it's `time stamp' - it has a telephone-bell and and a Swift Taxi Co. . Mr. and Mrs. Brown jump into the swift taxi to get to the adoption agency in a hurry. Later a sister arrives for Peter as well. Book, especially the two-colour illustrations, has a nostalgic charm that is hard to find these days. Cond : Boards are grey-green with dark green lettering and graphic - baby `reading' a book. D.J. is missing. Board is lightly sunned at top edge but book is bright and tight, square and clean. No names, creases, nor stains. Almost collectible ! ! QUote (p. 14 ) : "._._. asked more questions, and went all over their home. She seemed specially intrested in knowing where the Chosen Baby would sleep and ._._._. ." Size: 12mo.
Verlag: Lippincott, U.S., 1950
Anbieter: The Bark of the Beech Tree, Depoe Bay, OR, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Hildegard Woodward (illustrator). Reprint. Based on the actual experience of the author, a Russian-American pediatrician, this story about adoption was first published in 1939. (Another of Dr Wasson's achievements was being instrumental in introducing psychedelic mushrooms to America, but that's a different story.) This copy is a ninth printing of the new revised and illustrated edition of 1950. Foreword by Sophie Van S. Theis. Full page illustrations are in black & white and three-color on alternate pages. The very edge of the boards are slightly bleached of the lovely green color, but a very good copy indeed in a very good, unclipped ($2.85) dust jacket, slightly browned and edgeworn with some nicks and chips to bottom edge.
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 48+pp creme cloth covered boards, there is a series of small child doodles along front top board above the title, outer boards are foxing, there is a slight bow to body, hinges feel somewhat loose but remain strongly attached, pages clean.beautifully illustrated with wonderful old retro color drawings.so clear, so dreamy.good plus/o unpaginated.approx 45pp.
Verlag: J B Lippincott, New York, 1950
Anbieter: Turn The Page Books, Sydney, NSW, Australien
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Hildegarde Woodward (illustrator). Some pencil markings to three pages that look like editing comments - easily erased if needed. 47 pages. Illustrator: Hildegarde Woodward. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Children; 1950s; Family & Relationships. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 52412.
Verlag: J. B. Lippincott Company January 1950, 1950
ISBN 10: 0397301650 ISBN 13: 9780397301652
Anbieter: The Book Garden, Bountiful, UT, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Good - Cash. No Jacket. Hildegarde Woodward (illustrator). Light general use wear, surface and edges rubbed. Corners bumped and show wear. Pages show reader wear. The title page has a small top edge tear. Between few pages there is some gapping exposing the binding. Old store sticker on the back of the lfep. Some slight discoloration to the cover, with some white markings. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.
Verlag: J. B. Lippincott, Philadelphia & New York, 1950
Anbieter: Mainly Books, Silverdale, PA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. Hardcover with dustjacket, a beautiful copy of this "Completely revised, newly Illustrated edition of the universally popular children's story about adoption," this is a later printing of the second edition, book looks new, no remarkable flaws, jacket is in great shape with two minor flaws only: a tiny edge-tear at the bottom of the front panel and mild tanning adjacent to the spine on the rear panel, the original price (3.50) is present and a professional (removable) mylar cover is included, illustrated in color and black and white by Hildegarde Woodward; 47 pages.
Verlag: Carrick and Evans, New York, 1939
Anbieter: Stone Soup Books, Camden, ME, USA
Erstausgabe
hardcover. Zustand: Good+. 1st Ed. oblong 8vo, 1939 Carrick and Evans Inc, First Edition, illustrated cover, cover is rubbed, a few smudges on interior pages, an illustrated children's book.
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Poor. 3rd Edition. Copy still very bright, corners slightly bumped,DJ has damage around edges, w/tears. Nice copy.
Verlag: Pantheon Books, New York, 1957
Anbieter: Xochi's Bookstore & Gallery, Truth or consequences, NM, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. Fabre, Jean-Henri et al (illustrator). Limited, Numbered 1st. pgs.215-433incl.index+fold-out; HB green w/red&gilt-gilt trim; slight rub w/sml.bump; clean,tight pgs. 510 copies are numbered. "This copy is number 462" . "This book is addressed to those who love mushrooms, who love the whole rich world of wild mushrooms in the same way that many love the flowers of the field and the birds of the air." "Our essays began as a mere footnote on the gentle art of mushroom-knowing as practiced by the northern Slavs. - a footnote in a larger work that was to have dealt with the Russians and their food. The footnote grew, and rose in status to a place in the body of the text, and then mushroomed into a whole chapter, and finally one chapter by fission made five. The manuscript has burst all its seams through successive revisions." illus. Mushroom Stones Of Middle America fold-out, bk.pkt. Vol. II Only.
Verlag: NY: Pantheon Books, 1957
Anbieter: Zubal-Books, Since 1961, Cleveland, OH, USA
Zustand: Fine. limited to 510 numbered sets; xxi, 432 pp., plates, folding plate in sleeve at the back of the second volume; original green cloth, t.e.g., fine in tattered glassine jackets and a good slipcase; the slipcase is worn at two corners. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request.
Verlag: Pantheon Books, New York, 1957
Anbieter: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, USA
Erstausgabe Signiert
First Edition. First edition. Signed by both Robert Gordon Wasson and Valentina Pavlovna Wasson on the half title, inscribed to former owners in the year of publication, May 18, 1957. Copy 315 of 510 numbered copies. xxi, [1], 212, [4]; xii, [213]- 433, [3] pp. With eighty-two full pages plates and three vignettes. Twenty-six of the plates are watercolors of mushrooms by Jean Henri Fabri. The remaining collotypes were printed by Fratelli Alinari. Fold-out chart in rear pocket. All plates with captioned tissue guards. Two folio volumes bound in publisher's green cloth with crimson spine labels, lettered in gilt with gilt topstain. Near Fine with light foxing to cloth and edges, in a Very Good+, slightly soiled slipcase. Volumes in original protective glassine jackets that are missing large chips and wrinkled. An excellent set of this attractive, profusely-illustrated examination of mycology and mushrooms in world history. It includes the famous first appearance (later reprinted in a diluted form in Life magazine) of the Wasson's first encounter with Maria Sabina and their first experience with psilocybine. Their account inspired Timothy Leary and many others to try psychedelic mushrooms. A seminal book in the search for alternate realities.