Five Little Peppers and How They Grew

Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1909. Stated Three Hundred and Ninty-Fith Thousand on copyright page. With color frontis and 7 additional color illustrations by Herman Heyer. In illustrated green cloth boards with gilt titles. Very Good Plus, prior owner gift inscription front endpage, shadowing front endpages from former bookplate. Binding tight and square. In a Very Good dust jacket,… Read more about this item

Binding coming loose inside front and back. Signed in 1887 as a gift by someone not the author. some wear on outside,

Boston: Lothrop Company, 1889. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Five Little Peppers and How they Grew- Lovely example. Very light wear to boards. Vivid colors throughout. Superb. Lothrop Company Boston 1880.

Boston: D. Lothrop Company, 1880. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition, second state (p. 14, line 8 corrected to "twasn't"). Spine slightly leans to the right, rear board lightly soiled, hinges starting, ink name on front free endpaper. 1880 Hard Cover. 410 pp. Four pages of publisher ads follow text. The Five Little Peppers… Read more about this item

Boston: D. Lothrop Company, 1880. 1st edition. Cloth. Near Fine. 1st edition, 2nd state (p. 14, line 8 corrected to "twasn't"), 1880. Near Fine. 8vo., 410 pp + 4 pages of ads at rear, with black & white illustrations. Bound in publishers olive green cloth, with decorative gilt stamped on cover and spine. Very little sign of wear… Read more about this item

Boston: D. Lothrop & Co, 1880. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition, second issue. Green cloth gilt. Early owner name, very slight wear at the spine ends, a nice, near fine copy. The first book in a long running series for children which became a film series during the Depression.

Book has been used/read. Hard cover has wear on corners. The bottom of spine has significant wear. The inside of book pages are in good condition, but due to condition of binding and cover book is only in fair condition. Do not believe there was ever a dust jacket issued for this book. Inside of cover has… Read more about this item

Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, Inc, 1954. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated by Barbara Cooney. Book Club Edition.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1936. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Reprint. No jacket. Board corners bumped, ink gift note on frontispiece verso. 1936 Hard Cover. 384 pp. The first in a series of books about the Pepper family, these imaginative children's stories have delighted readers since their original publication in 1881. This first novel introduces… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: John C. Winston. Very Good-. 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. 122 p. 21 cm. Sound and square binding in illustrated boards. Bumped at the spine ends, with a bit of tearing. Rubbed along edges. Number written on front cover. A couple of tiny dings to the text block edges. Moisture stain… Read more about this item

New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1909. Hardcover. Reprint. Acceptable hardcover. No dustwrapper. Reprint. The book spine ends and cover corners have minor fraying, cover edges have minor rub, bottom spine end near back cover has a 1/2 inch piece missing, covers and spine have minor fading and soiling, hinges are cracked, small inscription on half title page. Nice reading… Read more about this item

New York: Illustrated Junior Library / Grosset & Dunlap, 1948. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Reprint. Octavo. 310pp. Illustrated by William Sharp. Pictorial boards. Near fine with owner's name neatly penned on front fly in a very good printed acetate dustwrapper (cut shorter than the book).

N,Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, 1936. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Hard cover, no dust jacket, very good condition. Five Little Peppers and How They Grew was originally serialized in an 1880 edition of Wide Awake, a children's magazine. The publisher of the magazine, Daniel Lothrop, loved the Pepper stories so much that… Read more about this item

Boston: D. Lothrop Co., 1880. Book. Fair. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Later state, with "Twasn't" corrected on pg. 14 and "said Phronsie" on pg.231. Moderate wear to the extremities. Soiled, with spots of foxing throughout the text. Previous owner's name is written on the front free endpaper. The front hinge… Read more about this item

Hardcover Cloth 384 pages. Condition Very Good NO Dust Jacket. Reprint edition 1936. Nice orange boards and blue titles shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Blue-green topstain. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear. Bumped corners. Edges have the usual yellowing. Pages are lightly toned with minor signs… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Company. Good. 1936. Hardcover. Ex-Library; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 248 pages; EXLibrary, No Dust Jacket, Book Shows Some Wear; BX210 .

New York: Children's Classics, 1954. Copyright . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Barbara Cooney. Colour frontispiece + b/w illustrations by BARBARA COONEY. Hardback: no dj, red buckram boards with silver and black lettering on spine, spine is a bit faded, corners lightly bumped and rubbed, foredges uncut, vg. tall 8vo, 320pp.

Boston: Lothrop, 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Pages show light toning througho. Mente. Three volumes of the Five Little Peppers series by Margaret Sidney, illustrated by Mente. Includes "and How They Grew Up" published in 1880 by D Lothrop; "Midway" published by Lothrop in 1893; "Grown Up" by D Lothrop in 1892. All with green cloth art… Read more about this item

Akron, OH: The Saalfield Publishing Co. (1938). 8vo.; green cloth covered boards with black lettering, hardcover; 253 pages; black and white illustrations; boards are sunned edgeworn and bumped and the pages are age toned else very good in an edgeworn and soiled dust jacket.

New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1936. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. The 1936 1st thus (the true 1st edition was 1881) in a solid example of the pictorial dustjacket. Clean and Near Fine in a bright, price-intact, VG dustjacket, with light creasing --and small closed tears-- along the panel edges and light chipping at the spine crown. Octavo, the… Read more about this item