Search Results: the story of ferdinand by leaf

Viking. Collectible - Very Good. 2007. First Printing. Soft Cover. (B493) .

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1966. New Edition 1st Printing. Hardback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Lawson, Robert. New edition first printing Large octavo hardback 72 pages illustrated Front leading edge colour slightly faded not affecting titles otherwise Very Good condition No inscriptions.

Paperback. Very Good. Very good 1938 first edition first printing without reader, remainder, or library marks. Toned and moderately chipped at edges

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Robert Lawson.

New York: Viking. 2007. Special Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Near Fine in wraps. .

NY: David McKay Co, 1962. 1st printing; dj w/lite wear, clipped price, in mylar; unpaginated; owner's insc.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Author Illus. 8 vo.

David McKay Company, Inc, 1962. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Robert Lawson. 1st edition, 1962. Very Good. 8vo., unpaginated, text in latin, with black & white illustrations by Robert Lawson. Bound in publishers blue cloth with blue, black & white illustrated dust jacket. Dust jacket has chipping at top & base of spine, is sun faded and shows shelf wear. Cloth covers have occasional spotting and wear, interior is clean and unmarked. SIGNED by Elizabeth Hadas on end paper. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve. Wilbur Monroe Leaf was an American author of children's literature who wrote and illustrated nearly 40 books during his 40-year career. He is best known for The Story of Ferdinand, a children's classic which he wrote on a yellow legal-length pad in less than an hour. - Wiki.

NY:: David McKay,. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1962. Hardcover. B0000CLJ72 . Translated into Latin by Elizabeth Chamberlayne Hadas. First edition thus. Near fine in a very good (light edge wear with a few short closed edge tears, lower corner of front flap is clipped) dust jacket. .

Hamish Hamilton, London., 1937. First U.K. edition. Octavo. Unpaginated. Illustrations in black-and-white by Robert Lawson. A classic story for children that was banned in Spain and Nazi Germany for being pacifist "democratic propaganda".Ownership signature on front pastedown. Spine darkened and a little rubbed at head and tail. Covers a little marked and slightly rubbed at edges. Prelims a little spotted. Very good. No dustwrapper.

London: Hamish Hamilton. 7th imp. (April 1948). 69pp. VG/VG copy, binding square and tight, internally excellent, jacket has a small chipped loss to head of spine and a couple of tiny nicks, now preserved in archival jacket protector . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1948.

0 First edition/4th imp. Published by Viking Press, New York December 1936. No marks or inscriptions apart from 2 small digits to top of illustrated endpaper. Tight in it's binding. Occasional foxing. Stiff card covers have sunning to edges. and shelfwear to edges with slight loss to paper.

E-249: Viking Books for Young Readers. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1936. First Edition; Third Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Square. The Viking Press, New York. 1936. 32 pgs. Third Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (large closed tear present to the front panel of the DJ). Bound in 1/2 cloth and matching illustrated paper covered boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Ferdinand is the world's most peaceful--and--beloved little bull. While all of the other bulls snort, leap, and butt their heads, Ferdinand is content to just sit and smell the flowers under his favorite cork tree. Leaf's simple storytelling paired with Lawson's pen-and-ink drawings make The Story of Ferdinand a true classic. EB; 9.2 X 7.6 X 0.5 inches; 32 pages .

THE STORY OF FERDINAND, Hamish Hamilton, 1937, first English edition, 3 corner tips ever so gently bumped, else vg+/near fine in vg+ dust-wrapper with some slight wear to the head of the dust-wrapper spine. Profusely illustrated by Robert Lawson.

Viking, New York, 1936. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. First printing, but in good condition only, lacking the dust jacket and with splitting on the spine and wear to the outer corners of boards. Nonetheless, a great and rare book, scarce in the first edition. Bound in publishers decorated pink paper-covered boards with a tan cloth spine. This book was banned by Franco because of its timely, and enduring, pacifist (and environmentalist) message. Please inquire for photos.

New York: The Viking Press, 1936. First Edition. Good. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's decorated pink paper-covered boards backed with a tan cloth spine, lacking the dust jacket. Good. Covers soiled and worn. Previous owner name to verso of front free end paper. Glue repair seems evident to hinge at title page. Pages soiled, foxed, thumbed and occasionally stained.

New York: The Viking Press, 1936. First Edition. Good. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's decorated pink paper-covered boards backed with a tan cloth spine, lacking the dust jacket. Good. Covers faded at edges, lightly soiled and edge-worn. Foxing to endsheets and textblock edge, pages toned and with several small stains throughout.

New York: The Viking Press, 1936. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's decorated pink paper-covered boards backed with a tan cloth spine, lacking the dust jacket. About Very Good. Covers soiled, faded and edge-worn. Previous owner name heavily scratched out on front free endpaper. Pages thumbed and with occasional light creases or wear. Scarce first printing of the classic children's book about a pacifist bull who would rather smell flowers than fight.

The Viking Press, 1936. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Near Fine Copy In a Custom Box Matching Front Cover. First Edition 1936/1936 Child colored two pages of The Bull.Very Rare As a First New Movie of The Same Excellent Scarce Copy.

New York: Viking, 1936. First edition. Very good in good jacket.. First printing, in later printing dust jacket, with 3 Christmas cards from the Leaf family laid in. The first collaboration of Lawson and Leaf, FERDINAND was a hit with children but caused controversy among adults: the story of the bull who would rather smell the flowers than fight with the other bulls was read politically in the context of the Spanish Civil War. Although he hadn't meant for the book to carry an ideological message, Leaf received angry letters claiming he was "deliberately corrupting children of an impressionable age" (quoted in Davis). Each of the Christmas cards laid in has an illustration by Leaf created especially for the card. One has an extra pen note and ink doodle by Leaf with a long note on the verso from Leaf's wife. Another is inscribed by Leaf. A wonderful work, in which the beauty of nonconformity still reads as subversive. 8'' x 7''. Original quarter tan cloth, red pictorial boards. Original unclipped… Read More

New York: Viking Press, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Illustrated by Robert Lawson. Very Good in a Good jacket, unclipped ($1.00), faded on the spine and about two inches onto the panels. Grey buckram with pink patterned paper on the boards, generally toned, some spots of soiling, faded at the edges. Square and firmly bound, toned at the endpapers, clean otherwise. A true first printing of Munro Leaf's classic children's story about a pacifistic bull, loved by many and despised by fascist leaders like Francisco Franco and Adolf Hitler.