Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary - 1983

Reilly & BRITTON Chicago, 1908. HBDJ, 1908, Later IsSue WIth titles thRough AUNT JANE'S NIECES oN VACATION ), NF+/VG-, AS-IS, DJ with some light wear and tears edges, and staining, DJ light Rub, FADE, Wear Light Soil, Tiny Chips Extremities DJ, BeautIful Beige Cloth with Purple Lilacs & Picture on dj duplicated, LettEReD in Orange on DJ Spine light Soiling, Interior Nice tight Clean light Rub, Wear FoX, 306 pgs + ADS in BaCk for Flying Girls Series, CaPtain Becky ETC, Pasted Beautiful ColOR PiCture Inlay on CovEr, DJ Seems a SmidGen too short for Cover , Back DJ shows ads for 6 books School girl Day, School fellow Days ETC. BY ( Van Dyne, Edith ) AKA Baum, L. Fran. Hard Cover.

London: T.McLean ., 1855. Second edition. Hardcover. Good. Not dated but circa 1855. Second edition, second issue. Rebound in half leather with marble boards circa 1900, retaining the original lithographic front cover/title page with ‘New Edition’ in top right corner, publisher T.McLean in lower right corner.. Lithographed throughout with pictorial title 'Old Derry Down Derry' and 71 of 72 plates only (lacking 'Cape Horn'), printed on rectos only on thicker paper. The two 'Old Man of the West' plates with correct images, plates 20, 25, 34, 64 & 65 with parts of the verse redrawn ,four being the same plates as in the first edition, foxed in parts. Plate number 65 is badly cropped at the bottom, with loss of the last line of text. Plate 14 'Old Man of Jamaica' poorly printed at head and with scratch to verse, one or two images very slightly cropped at head, The binding is worn, rubbed, with the front hinge being quite weak and spine faded.… Read More

London [1894, 1895]: Macmillan and Co, 1894. First Editions 1st Printing. Blue Cloth, Gilt. Very Good/No Jacket. Viii, 212; (Ii), 238 + 2 Page Catalog At End. Blue Cloth, Lettered And Decorated In Gilt; All Edges Gilt; Slate Grey Endpapers. Both Volumes With Late 19Th Century Engraved Bookplates Of George Lindsay Bury [Of Moreton Central Sugar Mill, Starfield Observatory, Etc.]. The Jungle Book, 1894, First Printing, In Good To Very Good Condition, Gilt Complete But With Some Wear To Illustrations On Spine And Cover, Small Frays At Top And Bottom Of Spine And At Tips, Spine Cloth A Little Darkened; Hinges Beginning To Crack; Contents Immaculate, No Names Or Marks, Tissue Guard Intact. The Second Jungle Book, 1895, First Printing, Very Slight Wear,All Gilt Complete And Brilliant, Very Good + To Near Fine Condition, 1" Crack At Center Of Rear Hinge, Slight Rubbing At Corners.

London: D.Martin., 1840. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 12mo. 52pp. Complete. Illustrated with twenty-six hand coloured wood engravings illustrations by Robert Cruikshank, with text by McDonald. Text and illustrations printed within ruled borders with corner ornaments. Bound in original yellow card boards. These have darkened. Some light foxing and finger marks, otherwise a very nice copy. Vary Scarce . Circa 1840. COPAC only list one copy in the Victoria and Albert Museum with yellow paper wrappers, description matches this copy.  

St. Petersburg,: Eksped. Zagotov. gos. bumag , 1901. Paperback. Very Good. BILIBIN, Ivan Ya[kovlevich] . 10pp., Illustrated with chromolithographs throughout, some of these full-page. Bound in original chromolithographed wrappers. On verso of the front cover is There is an inscription in ink ‘With best wishes for One Shree at 4, the Grove from Auntie Ada’ . The book has recently been professionally repaired, the spine and corner creases strengthened. There is some light off setting, but generally in very good condition, as quite often with these chromolithographic printed books, the oils in the ink stick together causing surface damage. There are a couple of small incidences of this, but not much. What is very interesting about this book –which I haven’t seen before, inserted is an English Translation. It is printed on a folded sheet on different paper-This has some light foxing. It must have been sold in England as the insert is published by Russian Peasant Industries and… Read More

Reilly & BRITTON Chicago, 1908. HBDJ, 1908, Later IsSue WIth titles thRough AUNT JANE'S NIECES oN VACATION ), NF+/VG-, AS-IS, DJ with some light wear and tears edges, and staining, DJ light Rub, FADE, Wear Light Soil, Tiny Chips Extremities DJ, BeautIful Beige Cloth with Purple Lilacs & Picture on dj duplicated, LettEReD in Orange on DJ Spine light Soiling, Interior Nice tight Clean light Rub, Wear FoX, 306 pgs + ADS in BaCk for Flying Girls Series, CaPtain Becky ETC, Pasted Beautiful ColOR PiCture Inlay on CovEr, DJ Seems a SmidGen too short for Cover , Back DJ shows ads for 6 books School girl Day, School fellow Days ETC. BY ( Van Dyne, Edith ) AKA Baum, L. Fran. Hard Cover.

London: T.McLean ., 1855. Second edition. Hardcover. Good. Not dated but circa 1855. Second edition, second issue. Rebound in half leather with marble boards circa 1900, retaining the original lithographic front cover/title page with ‘New Edition’ in top right corner, publisher T.McLean in lower right corner.. Lithographed throughout with pictorial title 'Old Derry Down Derry' and 71 of 72 plates only (lacking 'Cape Horn'), printed on rectos only on thicker paper. The two 'Old Man of the West' plates with correct images, plates 20, 25, 34, 64 & 65 with parts of the verse redrawn ,four being the same plates as in the first edition, foxed in parts. Plate number 65 is badly cropped at the bottom, with loss of the last line of text. Plate 14 'Old Man of Jamaica' poorly printed at head and with scratch to verse, one or two images very slightly cropped at head, The binding is worn, rubbed, with the front hinge being quite weak and spine faded.… Read More

London [1894, 1895]: Macmillan and Co, 1894. First Editions 1st Printing. Blue Cloth, Gilt. Very Good/No Jacket. Viii, 212; (Ii), 238 + 2 Page Catalog At End. Blue Cloth, Lettered And Decorated In Gilt; All Edges Gilt; Slate Grey Endpapers. Both Volumes With Late 19Th Century Engraved Bookplates Of George Lindsay Bury [Of Moreton Central Sugar Mill, Starfield Observatory, Etc.]. The Jungle Book, 1894, First Printing, In Good To Very Good Condition, Gilt Complete But With Some Wear To Illustrations On Spine And Cover, Small Frays At Top And Bottom Of Spine And At Tips, Spine Cloth A Little Darkened; Hinges Beginning To Crack; Contents Immaculate, No Names Or Marks, Tissue Guard Intact. The Second Jungle Book, 1895, First Printing, Very Slight Wear,All Gilt Complete And Brilliant, Very Good + To Near Fine Condition, 1" Crack At Center Of Rear Hinge, Slight Rubbing At Corners.

London: D.Martin., 1840. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 12mo. 52pp. Complete. Illustrated with twenty-six hand coloured wood engravings illustrations by Robert Cruikshank, with text by McDonald. Text and illustrations printed within ruled borders with corner ornaments. Bound in original yellow card boards. These have darkened. Some light foxing and finger marks, otherwise a very nice copy. Vary Scarce . Circa 1840. COPAC only list one copy in the Victoria and Albert Museum with yellow paper wrappers, description matches this copy.  

St. Petersburg,: Eksped. Zagotov. gos. bumag , 1901. Paperback. Very Good. BILIBIN, Ivan Ya[kovlevich] . 10pp., Illustrated with chromolithographs throughout, some of these full-page. Bound in original chromolithographed wrappers. On verso of the front cover is There is an inscription in ink ‘With best wishes for One Shree at 4, the Grove from Auntie Ada’ . The book has recently been professionally repaired, the spine and corner creases strengthened. There is some light off setting, but generally in very good condition, as quite often with these chromolithographic printed books, the oils in the ink stick together causing surface damage. There are a couple of small incidences of this, but not much. What is very interesting about this book –which I haven’t seen before, inserted is an English Translation. It is printed on a folded sheet on different paper-This has some light foxing. It must have been sold in England as the insert is published by Russian Peasant Industries and… Read More