Sold for:
$1,250
$1,250
New York: Random House, (1957). 8vo, publisher's decorative boards, dust jacket. First edition, early printing, with the text in three gatherings (not the single gathering of the first printing), and only four recommendations under the blackboard on the rear cover; the top cover has a red circle around "For Beginning Readers"' the covers are flat or matte, not glossy; with "200/200" on front flap of dust jacket and no mention of the Beginner's Books series on back cover. Chipping to jacket with loss at corners; 1/2-inch tear to upper rear cover; soiling to pp. 2-3 and 62; otherwise good.
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2012-11-07