Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Scholastic Book Services, New York, New York, 1974
Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good+. Price, Garrett (illustratore). First Softcover Edition. Very First book in what would become a trilogy featuring the 3 Persever children & their housekeeper, Mrs. Coverlet, who embark on a series of adventures together. With illustrations by Garrett Price internally & to front cover. First published in hardcover in 1958, this is the third printing of the Scholastic trade paperback edition from 1974. Condition is VG+: brightly colored yellow wrappers are quite clean with slight soil/fading. Corners crisp, binding strong & straight. Pages significantly tanned, heaviest around edges, but completely supple. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, Weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Little, Brown and Company, Boston, Massachusetts, 1962
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Price, Garrett (illustratore). Book Club Edition. Second of three books in the popular mid-20th-century children's series featuring the intrepid Mrs. Coverlet, housekeeper to the Persever family who goes on adventures with their 3 children. First published in 1961, this is the 1962 Weekly Reader Book Club Edition, in 189 pages with illustrations throughout + DJ cover art by Garrett Price. Condition is Good: light tan cloth-covered boards feature a black illustration to front/black lettering to spine. book is Very Clean, but with noticeable foxed spots. Binding strong & straight, pages creamy white & unmarked. Exterior corners mildly bumped. The unclipped DJ (with orig. $3.25 price intact to front flap) is also Good: colorful with mild edgewear, including small chips & unclosed tears, light soil, rubbing to extremities; looks nice protected in a new clear mylar cover, Free! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, Weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Little, Brown and Company, Boston, Massachusetts, 1958
Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Price, Garrett (illustratore). First Edition Later Printing. Very First book in the trilogy featuring the 3 Persever children & their housekeeper, Mrs. Coverlet, who on a series of adventures together. With illustrations by Garrett Price internally & to DJ. A 1958 FIRST EDITION, Ninth Printing, this octavo (5.75" x 8.75") has bright yellow cloth-covered boards stamped with a black image of a cat to front cover/black lettering to spine. An Ex-Lib copy with the usual stamps & markings & glue from old card pocket to endpapers only, condition is Fair: generally quite clean, with no writing, but small random soil spots. Heavy rubbing to lower extremities with some cloth fraying. Binding is secure & straight, with a tape repair to gutter at title page. The unclipped DJ is Very Good, having been protected under old library mylar, which has been replaced with brand new! Very clean & bright, with minor chipping & wrinkling, but downgraded due to hole in center of back cover. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, Weekends & holidays ship very next business day.