Search Results: JUVENILE FICTION - Animals - Elephants Books

Very good softcover with neat gift inscription inside cover

Des Moines, Iowa: Meredith Corporation, 2006. First Edition. Pictorial Cover-Hardback. Very Good +. Fine. No DJ Issued Pictorial hardcover, stated first edition. Lots of pictures of the great African Elephant.

1960. Hardcover. Good. 1960 Hardcover Good cover wear corners bumped inside good No Dj Pamb63 ISBN: 0-06022-5165.

Madrid, Spain: Altea, 1989. (1st Spanish edition). Paperback. NEAR FINE. As new except for slight scratches on covers. Appears unread. "Pizza, una nina, es muy amiga de Oscar, un pequeno elefane que vive en al parque zoologico…" "desde los anos 8" Text in Spanish. 67 page. Illustrated chapter book. ISBN: 8437230446.

Good Condition.

New York: Random House, 1987. Facsimile Edition . Hardcover. Fine/VG to Near Fine.

New York: Random House, 1935. Early printing. Hardcover. Good. Square octavo, yellow boards, pictorial green endpapes, yellow covers with no title on spine, mylar cover taped at corners, tips scuffed. In this third book of the series (1933), Babar founds Celesteville. Copyright pages lists four titles (circa 1934).

Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.: Random House. Color-Illustrated Boards. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Translated from French by Merle S. Haas. Very large book, color-illustrated glossy boards, red background with dozens of gray elephants inside covers and adjacent end papers, 48 heavy stiff pages, color-illustrations throughout, stereotypical caricatures of African warriors. Slight wear to bottom tips and spine corners, four creases to back left--publisher's defect. Near Very Good.

New York: Random House, Inc., 1987. 44 pp. Original pictorial boards w/ yellow cloth spine. Binding very bright and clean. DJ spine a bit sunned. This is a facsimile of the First Edition. Illust. w/ color drawings. Contents very nice.. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Candlewick Press, 2009. first edition. Hardback. Very Good. Yoko Tanaka. dust jacket is in good shape small amoun ruffling edges/shelve wear, spine is good corners good bottom right front corner slightly worn/slightly worn at top and bottom of spine, book has been read lightly. In a highly awaited new novel, Kate DiCamillo conjures a haunting fable about trusting the unexpected — and making the extraordinary come true. What if? Why not? Could it be? When a fortuneteller's tent appears in the market square of the city of Baltese, orphan Peter Augustus Duchene knows the questions that he needs to ask: Does his sister still live? And if so, how can he find her? The fortuneteller's mysterious answer (an elephant! An elephant will lead him there!) sets off a chain of events so remarkable, so impossible, that you will hardly dare to believe it’s true. With atmospheric illustrations by fine artist Yoko Tanaka, here is a dreamlike and captivating tale that could only be narrated by… Read More

ex lib with markings, no dust jacket

Chicago, NY, B, Toronto: P. F. Volland Company, ( 1923). First edition. Hardcover. Poor. Erick Berry. Square 8vo, checkerboard patterned pictorial paper boards. & gray cloth spine. This is a reading copy only, with all pages but offfered with all faults (loosened pages, tears, and NO TOY included). First separate appearance of EMPTY ELEPHANT, and the first book in the Volland Hug-Me Toy book series. A Book and a Toy for the Price of a Book. Illustrated by Erick Berry.

Wonder Books, New York, 1935. Hardback. Good. Good. 1935 copyright. Wonder books. Cover clean and unrubbed. Endpages and title page contain pencil lines, scribbles. No stains or paper tears. Tight binding.

London: University of London Press, 1958. First edition. hardcover. very gd/no dustjacket. Illustrator: Walker, Monica. pictorial boards, edges rubbed, bookplate on title page,small bookstore sticker on fr paste-down o/w clean, 48 pp

Matt pictorial boards in like dj, clean & bright copy, perfect bedtime reading with charming drawings, unpaginated

New York: Random House, ( 1940 ). Early printing. Hardcover. Good. 4to, brown boards, slightly shaken, blank spine ( as prescribed); presentation inscription to Bobby Dressel, Dec., 1954 Lacks the first edition statement on copyright page.

UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj - as issued,1st edn.[Jean de Brunhoff,author-illustrator,best known as the creator of Babar the Elephant.Following his death in 1937,the series was continued by his son,Laurent.This edn translated from the French by Olive Jones.] VG+.No owner inscrptn and no dw/dj - as issued.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial artwork by Laurent de Brunhoff,illustrated front bd,with black+red lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present - but inevitable scoring and impressions to both boards.Generally sharp-cornered - only the two bottom corners minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+ fore-edges lightly aged but bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,original boards with bright,crisp,ink printed letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate… Read More

New York New York: Random House Books for Young Readers, 1968. 1968 edition. Hardcover. Good. this is a hardcover light green colored children's book there is somewhere to its edges the corners are deemed or rolled although they have not quite worn through there's just a little whites back of the undercover the bottom spine has been dropped and has a dent in it there too small Dinges of the green color at the spine the spine is intact and in good shape, overall for children's books do not in bad shape originally 1995 the interiors clean there are no crayon markings or names written the red endpapers are clean.....Meet Horton the elephant, one of the most commendable heroes in children's books. "I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. . . . An elephant's faithful, one hundred per cent!" Horton is kind and trustworthy, but unfortunately, the lazy bird Mayzie takes advantage of his good nature when she leaves Horton to watch her unhatched egg. Told with Dr. Seuss's signature rhymes and trademark… Read More

Minneapolis: Gordon Volland / BUZZA, ( 1927). First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Holling C. HOLLING. 12mo, multi-hued pictorial cloth spine, pictorial boards, edgeworn, bumped. "Rum Tum Tummy was a bold, bad elephant. he had no parents, which would have been bad to anybody but a bold, bad elephant in a very wild jungle. He didn't even have an aunt to say ... 'Brush your tusks!' He had nothing but a terrible appetite, and, as you shall see, he had a wild time !" Illustrated wonderfully by Holling C. Holling.