Search Results: the cunning little vixen by tesnohlidek rudolf illustrated

Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1985. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, hardcover. Vg condition in vg dj. Single library stamp on front endpaper, no other library markings. First ptg. Covers and contents clean, no marking or writing. Binding square and tight. 187 pp., illus.

Farrar. 1985. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0374133476 . Hard Cover. Large 8vo- over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" tall. 185 pages. Translated by Tatiana Firkusny, Maritza Morgan & Robert T. Jones, afterword by Robert T. Jones. Book Condition: Very Fine/Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine/Like New. Some storage rubbing to rear, otherwise Very Fine. No inscriptions. Not price clipped. Not a remainder. Not Ex-library. The book appears unread. Protected in a new Brodart cover. VF/F. .

London: The Bodley Head, 1986. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good Plus. First UK edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 24 × 19.5cm, 186pp. The first English translation of the Czech novel which recounts the story of the forester Bartos and the vixen Sharp-Ears. It tells how the vixen is captured but escapes, marries, and raises a litter. She is shot by a poacher, but her spirit survives in her cubs. Beautifully illustrated in colour by Maurice Sendak. Condition: The book itself is in very good condition with clean pages and secure binding. The dustwrapper has some light wear and surface marking but is also in good, solid condition.

NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (1985). Stated First edition; small 4to.; cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine and illustrated endpapers, hardcover; 187 page; color illustrations; very good in a very good unclipped dust jacket.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1985. First edition of Rudolf Tesnohlidek's classic Czech tale, translated into English and illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Presentation copy, inscribed by the illustrator on the half-title page, "For Nicholas Robertson Maurice Sendak." Translated by Tatiana Firkusny, Maritza Morgan, and Robert T. Jones. Afterword by Robert T. Jones. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Deftly poised between poetry and farce, The Cunning Little Vixen focuses on two characters, the forester Bartos, a man coming to grips with nature, and Vixen Sharp-Ears, an innocent who abandons innocence in order to survive and emerges as one of the most memorable heroines in Middle European fiction.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1985. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Book condition is Very Good+, bound in full coth with gilt title at spine and color illustration at front panel; housed in a Very Good+ pictorial slicpase. Text is clean and unmarked. Bright, illustrated end papers, illustrated in color throughout. First Edition is stated. This First Edition was limited to 250 copies signed by Sendak. ; Signed by the illustrator, Maurice Sendak, on the Limitation Page. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; Signed by Illustrator.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1985. Hardcover. Fine. First edition thus, with pictures by Maurice Sendak. Publisher's presentation issue. Full gray morocco gilt. One of a handful of copies, perhaps as few as five, prepared by the publisher for presentation to the author, and for very limited distribution from the publisher. Bound from the unbound sheets of the signed and limited edition, this copy Signed by Sendak, but unnumbered. Possibly the only copy ever to reach the marketplace, this copy was retained by the binder. We've never seen another. Classic Czechoslovakian novel illustrated by Sendak.