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Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Bahti, Tom (illustrateur). Light shelf and edgewear. Black titles to spine and front of illustrated cover. Cover indicates this is a Caldecott Honor Book. Designs derived from prehistoric Indian pottery from the American Southwest. Clean, bright, solid. Unpaginated, (26 pp). "In putting together some of the pieces of prehistoric Indian pottery that can be found in the desert hillsides of the West, the author and artist . . . have created a picture of the past that sings eloquently and poetically of the Indian way of life in an earlier time," (rear cover).

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. N. C. Wyeth (illustrateur). Reprint Edition. Charles Scribner's Sons, a Scribner Illustrated Classic/Atheneum Books for Young Readers, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1986. Twelfth (12th) Printing (number line down to 12) of the 1986 Reprint Edition (1986 shown at bottom of the copyright page), with all fourteen (14) the famous illustrations by N. C. Wyeth. Note: Some earlier editions only carried nine (9) illustrations. Originally published in 1919. Fine in a Very Good Dust Jacket. The Text Block is clean, soft white, tight, straight and square with all fourteen (14) full color Wyeth illustrations and no markings of any kind. The Binding is full blue cloth, color uniform throughout, with bright gilt title in a gilt design to the front board, bright gilt title, etc., to the spine, unmarked illustrated endpapers, and all corners still square and sharp, despite slight bumps to the top corners. The illustrated Dust Jacket (a Wyeth illustration) is bright, colors uniform throughout, and intact after closure (from behind with archival, pH neutral materials) of a small tear to the bottom of the rear panel. The original prices ((U.S. $28.00 Canada $41.50) are intact on the front flap. See the photos. x, 372, [i] pages. 7 1/4" x 9 1/4". Set in the early years of the Seven Years' War aka French and Indian War, this historical romance novel centers on the siege of Fort William Henry, located on the southern edge of Lake George in New York, and its aftermath, when the British were supposed to be allowed to withdraw peacefully but were brutally attacked. Wyeth provided dramatic paintings used as illustrations for this classic rendition of the novel. NOTE: This is a heavy book, weighing 976 grams / 34.4 ounces, and will require extra postage for international shipment. ISBN 10: 0684187116 / ISBN 13: 9780684187112.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Wyeth, N. C. (illustrateur). Reprint. Book is clean and tight. Dust Jacket covered with mylar. Thirteenth printing of this edition. Slight nicks/tears along dust jacket edges. 372 pages. 9 1/2 inches high by 7 1/4 inches wide.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. John Glaser [ Drawings ] (illustrateur). 1st Edition. A very good copy of the stated first Atheneum softcover edition. The text is wholly unmarked, pristine, and the binding is bright and fresh in appearance, with no creasing to the spine, but minor creasing to the corners of the rear cover panel . A sharp copy.

Reprint (of a Scribner Illustrated Classic first published in this format in 1909). Hardcover. Small quarto. Fine in fine dustjacket. With beautiful colour plates by Parrish.This heavy book will cost more to send overseas, than any default postage rate noted.

Cloth. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. None (illustrateur). First edition. A collection of nine smart volumes from English critic and writer Cyril Connolly, with a memoir of his life. Nine volumes. A collection of works from Cyril Vernon Connolly, an English literary critic and writer. This set contains: The Rock Pool, 1936. First US edition. Connolly's only novel, set at the end of season in a small resort in the south of France we follow Naylor, who begins a study of the decadent inhabitants of the resort. The Condemned Playground, 1946. First US edition. A collection of thirty-seven essays found to be mildly political and amusingly witty. Enemies of Promise, 1948. Revised edition. A collection of essays in three parts: Predicament, The Charlock's Shade, and A Georgian Boyhood. Ideas and Places, 1953. Second impression. A collection of essays and articles originally released as his "Comments" from Horizon, arranged into a singular narrative. The Golden Horizon, 1953. First edition. Setting out to compress over six hundred issues of the magazine Horizon into one complete volume. Previous Convictions, 1963. First edition. A selection of writings from a decade of work, being important essays from Connolly written since the release of his work Ideas and Places. The Modern Movement, 1966. First US edition. A selection of descriptions of the one hundred books that best define the Modern Movement, beginning as a revolt against the Bourgeois in France and the Victorians in England. The Evening Colonnade, 1975. Uncorrected proof. A collection of essays and reviews consisting primarily of articles written when Connolly was chief book reviewer for The Sunday Times. Cyril Connolly, 1984. First US edition. A biographical study of the life of Cyril Connolly, written by David Eugene Henry Pryce-Jones, a British conservative author, historian and political commentator. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Minor fading to the extremities. The Evening Colonnade is bound in paper wraps and is externally sound with light loss and closed tears to the head and tail of the spine. With the odd small mark to the boards. All volumes other than The Rock Pool and The Evening Colonnade are bound with the original dust wrappers. The wrappers remain unclipped other than The Condemned Playground, Enemies of Promise, and Cyril Connolly which have been price-clipped. Dust wrappers are sound with light wear and chipping to the extremities. The odd small closed tear to the panel edges with sunning to the spine. Light loss to the extremities of Enemies of Promise. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd small handling mark. Contemporary ink inscriptions to the front endpapers of the odd volume. Very Good. book.