Search Results: the griffin and the minor canon by stockton frank r

Trophy, 1987-10-14. Paperback. Good.

The Bodley Head, 1975. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1975. First Edition Thus. 55 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over pictorial paper covered boards. Colour illustrations throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and illustrations are lightly tanned throughout. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing and tears to spine ends. Paper worn away to rear board. Clipped jacket has heavy edgewear with areas of loss, heavy tears, chips, and creasing. Light tanning and water marks to spine and edges. Wear marks overall.

Bodley Head Children's Books, 1975. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1975. This Edition. 56 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over Illustrated paper covered boards. Colour illustrations throughout. Very light foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has light tanning with soft crushing to ends. Unclipped dust jacket with minor rubbing, chipping and tearing to edges. Moderate foxing, tanning and scuffing overall.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2005-12-08. Paperback. Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-09-10. Paperback. Good.

London: Collins. Good. hardcover. 1968. 1st Edition. 56 pages, dj price clipped faded with small chip. .

Holt, Rinehart and Winston. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Sendak, Maurice. Green boards, grey spine. Sticker residue on front board. Name on front endpaper, otherwise clean throughout. Lacking DJ. First Printing.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2005-12-08. Paperback. Used:Good.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963. 56 pages. The story of a griffin and what happened when he came down upon a town to admire a statue of his likeness. Illustrated by Sendak known for his book "Where The Wild Things Are". A clean tight book with some foxing to the pages. Dust jacket has been clipped on the lower corner of the front flap, has some edgewear , a small 1" closed tear along the spine on the front cover and some soiling on the rear cover.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Collectible- Very Good/Good. Illus. by Maurice Sendak. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover.

New York, New York: Harper & Row, 1963. First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good+/Near Fine. Sendak, Maurice. A long-forgotten children's story from the late 19th century is brought to new life by illustrator Maurice Sendak, who also writes a nice introduction about the author & how he came across this enchanting tale. Though Sendak's original drawings are copyright 1963, this is a later Holt Library Edition with an ISBN (c. mid-1970s). It is also an Ex-Lib copy, but with only 1 crossed-out stamp to top outside page edges, & first page (ffep) is neatly torn out (probably where card pocket was). Hinges reinforced with clean white library tape, reinforced binding. Condition is VG+: very clean & bright, binding tight & square, pages white & unmarked. The price-clipped DJ is Near Fine, as it has been protected under clear library mylar. Call letter to lower spine & excised bar code from back cover (sliced through the mylar only; DJ is perfectly intact). Our photos depict… Read More

NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1963. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0030358256 . Stated First Edition. Light foxing on endpapers and edges of pages. Price-clipped DJ discolored at edges. ; 56 pages .

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Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

London: The Bodley Head, 1960. Peach coloured cloth on boards with black titles and black acorn on the front cover. Tiny smudge spot to front boards fore edge. Spine: paperthin bumping to head; thin old sunning to foot. Edges: foxing. Just a few faint tiny foxing spots to the margins, otherwise clean contents. Binding is As New. 80p Dj: moderate foxing and soilings. Spine: head & foot with thin wear, small open sections, splits & chips. Front flap spine:9 cm split to bottom half; chip to head. Head & foot of rear flap spine with small wear and chips.. First Edition. Hb. VG/VG. Illus. by David Gentleman.

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Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Collectible - Acceptable. First edition copy. Collectible - Acceptable. No Dust Jacket Former Library book. Illustration: Maurice Sendak. (Maurice Sandak, Fear, Clergy, Juvenile Fiction)

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-09-10. Hardcover. Good.

New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1963. 55pgs.Green, marbled boards, light brown spine with white lettering,. Neat previous owner inscription on the front endpaper. otherwise clean, unmarked copy with wonderful color illustrations by Maurice Sendak throughout. Price-clipped jacket has spot on front panel, a couple more on the rear panel. in mylar sleeve. A stone griffin guarded the church door of this small town and the real Griffin came to see it. He stayed for weeks but the Minor Canon finally had to try to make it leave.. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good-. Illus. by Maurice Sendak. Octavo.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Pp. [ii]+56, illustrated in colour and occasionally in black & white (2 double page); small square 4to; pictorial glazed paper wrappers, slightly foxed, edges a trifle rubbed, the backstrip faded; text block faintly browned; Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1972. Holt Owlet [paperback] edition. [See Hanrahan A53]. *First published with these illustrations in 1963. Sendak also contributed the introduction, 'About the author'. Frank R. Stockton (1834-1902) was a popular American writer and magazine editor in the mid to late nineteenth century. The Griffin and the Minor Canon won a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1963. (The Lewis Carroll Shelf Award was conferred on several books annually by the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1958 to 1979. Award-winning books were deemed to 'belong on the same shelf' as Lewis Carroll's Alice books)..