The Little House
by Burton, Virginia Lee
The Little House is the title of a 1942 book written and illustrated by Virginia Lee Burton.
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On Sep 24, 2010, respessbooks said
I have loved this book since my own childhood. Its story develops themes of urban sprawl and its impact, on beneficial aspects of rural life, and on family commitment to choosing and working for what amounts to preserving traditions that protect open space, farms, homes, and health. But the story never loses its small-view perspective, readily available to a child's eye and sensibility, presented in simple, charming illustrations. It was a worthy Caldecott winner (1943).
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The Little House
by Burton, Virginia Lee
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- First US Edition/23rd Printing
- Published
- 1969
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780395181560
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Albany, California, USA
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$40.00
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1969. First US Edition/23rd Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. The beloved children's classic that won the 1943 Caldecott Award. In charming blue pictorial cloth with white illustration and type. Bumped spine ends and bottom front corner. Previous owner's name to ffep, otherwise clean with nice binding. This copy likely from the late 1960's/early1970's. Jacket is price-clipped to… Read more about this item Item Price
$40.00
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The Little House
by Burton, Virginia Lee
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- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1942
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
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$1,125.00
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1942. First Edition. Square Octavo. 40 pages. The very scarce first edition with the $1.75 on the dust jacket. Listed as an "R" in the Library of Congress Rare Children's Book section. The Little House is the story of a house that is swallowed up by a growing city but is rescued in the end by… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,125.00
The little house: story and pictures by Virginia Lee Burton
by Burton, Virginia Lee (1909-1968)
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- Used
- Edition
- 1s Edition
- Published
- 1946
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Galway, IRL
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$78.00
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London: Faber and Faber , 1946. 1s Edition. Hardcover. Poor copy in original pictorial cloth. Stain boards and spine damaged, hinges starting. Text remains clear without damage. Physical description: 40 pages: illustrations; 24 x 25 cm. Summary: A country house is unhappy when the city, with all its buildings and traffic, grows up around her. Subjects: Dwellings; Fiction. Cities… Read more about this item Item Price
$78.00
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The Little House
by Burton, Virginia Lee
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1943
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Mission Viejo, California, USA
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$175.00
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1943. Book. Illus. by Burton, Virginia Lee. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Winner of the Caldecott Medal. Second Printing, May 1943 stated on copyright page. Illustrated by Virginia Lee Burton. No dustjacket. Book is tight and square with no marks of any kind. A beautiful copy. Book is protected in a custom cut clear… Read more about this item Item Price
$175.00
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The Little House
by Virginia Lee Burton
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1942
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Lynchburg, Virginia, USA
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$70.00
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1st Edition, 19th Printing. Caltecott Medal sticker on dust jacket, peeling slightly at edges.
Book is in Very Good condition, with gift inscription to prior owner written at top of title page. Text pages are clean and secure.
Dust jacket is in Fair condition, with open and closed tears and chipping. Price clipped. Brodart dust jacket protector now in place. Item Price
$70.00
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The Little House
by Burton, Virginia Lee
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1942
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, USA
- Item Price
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$2,000.00
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, first printing with 1942 listed on the title page. Very Good, lacking the dust jacket. Cloth frayed and rubbed through at corners and spine ends, foxed heavily at spine and lighter so to covers, faded at spine, and with a small stain to rear cover. Previous… Read more about this item Item Price
$2,000.00
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The Little House.
by Burton, Virginia Lee
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- Used
- Published
- 1942
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Palm Beach, Florida, USA
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$12,500.00
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1942. "Once upon a time there was a Little House way out in the country. She was a pretty Little House and she was strong and well built." So begins Virginia Lee Burton's The Little House, winner of the prestigious Caldecott Medal in 1943. "Taking her cue from her small sons, Aristides and Michael, Burton chose… Read more about this item Item Price
$12,500.00
The Little House
by Virginia Lee Burton
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Published
- 1969
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780395181560
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Chama, New Mexico, USA
- Item Price
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$45.00
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1969. Book Club Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Weekly Reader Children's Book Club Edition. Twenty-second printing. Condition Very Good, Slight yellowing on the edges of page. Corners are a little rubbed but overall very good. Inside pages clean with no writing.
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$45.00
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Little House
by Burton, Virginia Lee
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1942
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, USA
- Item Price
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$2,000.00
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. First edition, first printing with 1942 listed on the title page. Good, lacking the dust jacket. Cloth frayed and rubbed through at corners and spine ends, faded at the spine and with two small stains. Pages lightly thumbed. Binding is strained and a little fragile, with several hinges exposed… Read more about this item Item Price
$2,000.00
Little House
by Burton, Virginia Lee
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First British Edition
- Published
- 1946
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780571051359
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, USA
- Item Price
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$350.00
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London: Faber and Faber, 1946. First British Edition. Hardcover. Good. First British Edition, First Printing, which was preceded four years earlier by the American edition. In Good condition. Cloth is faded, mottled, spotted, toned and edge worn with some rubbing and fraying at extremities. A few stray marks to cloth. Pages have a light storage odor, and show… Read more about this item Item Price
$350.00
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The Little House
by Burton, Virginia Lee (Virginia Lee Demetrios)
- Condition
- Used - Good+
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1942
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Madison, Wisconsin, USA
- Item Price
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$3,300.00
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1942. First edition. Hardcover. Good+. Small 4to. [4], 1-40 pp. Blue cloth with white and blue decorations and lettering on the front board. Colorful illustrated endpapers and pastedowns. Lacks the dust jacket. Each page with a bright and bold color illustration done by the author. Baumgarten 36. Signed without personalization on the title page… Read more about this item Item Price
$3,300.00
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The Little House
by Burton, Virginia Lee
- Condition
- Used - Good +
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Published
- 1942
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780395181560
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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The Villages, Florida, USA
- Item Price
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$35.00
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Boston, MA USA: Houghton Mifflin , 1942. Book Club Edition . Hardcover. Good +. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Burton, Virgina Lee. Copyright 1942, renewed 1969. Weekly Reader Edition, 22nd printing. No date listed. NOT the Sandpiper edition. No writing or remainder mark. Rubbing near spine ends edge area and corners. One corner… Read more about this item Item Price
$35.00
The Little House
by Burton, Virginia Lee
- Condition
- Used - Good
- ISBN
- 9780547790442
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Mishawaka, Indiana, USA
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$7.21
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Item Price
$7.21
THE LITTLE HOUSE
by BURTON, Virginia Lee
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1942
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780395181560
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Item Price
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$195.00
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Square quarto, 40 pages, pictorial green cloth with white titling, cover decoration barely flaked, hinges repaired with old cellophane tape, p. 27/28 has a long tear repaired on p. 28 with old tape; soft, vertical crease to book block; leaf 13/14 detached, p. 2 scraped; rubber stamped on blank sides… Read more about this item Item Price
$195.00
The Little House
by Burton, Virginia Lee
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Published
- 1942
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780395181560
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Skyway, Washington, USA
- Item Price
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$75.00
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1942. Full blue cloth hard cover with dust jacket, NF/VG. 20th printing. Crisp, tight, clean and unmarked copy. Very nice dust jacket is clipped at lower corner front flap, retains origianl 3.95 price, and has a Caldecott Medal on front. Now in a new mylar cover. 40pp., illustrated endpapers, color illustrations… Read more about this item Item Price
$75.00
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The Little House
by Virginia Lee Burton
- Condition
- Used - Collectible - VeryGood
- Published
- 1942
- Binding
- Hardback
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Argillite, Kentucky, USA
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$35.00
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NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1942. Hardback. Collectible - VeryGood. 9.75"x9"x.25". Weekly Reader Book Club Edition. 40 illustrated by author pages plus bio. Some soiling to cover. Rubs & bumps to corners. Not ex-library. No markings. Spine straight, binding tight. Caldecott Medal Winner. Item Price
$35.00
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The Little House
by Virginia Lee Burton
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- Used
- Edition
- First?
- Published
- 1946?
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Reading, Berkshire, GBR
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$25.32
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A rightly famous and coveted book in the US, where it won the Caldecott Medal - awarded to the preceding year's "most distinguished American picture book for children" - in 1943.
The story centres on a house built far out in the country in 1900 America. The house watches the seasons pass, and wonders about the lights of the city, which… Read more about this item Item Price
$25.32
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The Little House
by BURTON, Virginia Lee
- Condition
- Used - VG
- Edition
- 1st UK Edition
- Published
- 1946
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, GBR
- Item Price
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$316.70
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Faber & Faber, 1946. 1st UK Edition. Hardcover. VG. 1st UK Edition, 24.2 x 23 cm olive green cloth with brown stamped titles and vignette to the front cover and titles to the spine. Pictorial endpapers, 40pp with colour illustrations on every page Lacking the dust jacket but in lovely condition considering its age. There… Read more about this item Item Price
$316.70
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The Little House
by Burton, Virginia Lee
- Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Published
- 1942
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Northridge, California, USA
- Item Price
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$599.99
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1942. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Original blue cloth stamped in white, pictorial endpages. 1942 date to title page and copyright page. Boards lightly soiled/sunned, spine ends/points frayed. Longer closed tear to p. 17. Child's pencilled drawing to last blank. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 40… Read more about this item Item Price
$599.99
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Little House
by Burton, Virginia Lee
- Condition
- Used - About Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1942
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, USA
- Item Price
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$7,500.00
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1942. First Edition. About Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing with 1942 listed on the title page. About Fine with faint stain to rear cover, small bookseller ticket to front free endpaper, else a very sharp and bright copy, in a correct first printing dust jacket, Near Fine, unclipped, with edge wear, a medium-sized… Read more about this item Item Price
$7,500.00