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Comet Books 21, 1949 First Comet printing July 1949 in Very Good Minus condition.. Digest Sized Paperback. Very Good Minus. Illus. by Arthur Shilstone.

Collins, 1944. Hardcover. Good. 1944. No Edition Remarks. 254 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth boards with lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Rockefeller Center, NY: Comet Books, 1949. First Paperbound Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Arthur Shilstone. G/none, used, color illustrated stiff paper wraps, illustrated end papers, 244pp. Interior clean no marks except former owners name on the ffep. Binding tight. Shelf rubbing to wraps, paper worn at the head and tail of the spine. Small tear to top edge of the upper at spine, small tear to bottom edge of the upper at spine. Comet Books No. 21

Comet Books by arrangement w/ Morrow., 1949. First edition. 1st Comet.. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.. Shilstone, Arthur (Illustrations by).. 1 244p. 20 cm. Audience: Children/juvenile. Pictorial color cover: 2 youths shooting rapids in canoe; Originally published 1943. Cover promo: "Two boys battle cougars and crooks in the Northwest wilderness". Boy is trapper and hero when rescuing friend who cut his foot using an ax.

Collins, 1944. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1944. No Edition Remarks. 254 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over green cloth & lettering to spine within a white headband. Noticeable cracking to gutter next to title page. Pages remain bright with minimal tanning. Text is clear. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with bumping to corners. Slight crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is bright and clear to spine. Unclipped jacket, panels have light edge wear with tears and creasing. Visible tanning to spine.

Rockefeller Center, NY: Comet Books, 1949. Reprint Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Arthur Shilstone. VG/none, used, color illustrated stiff paper wraps, illustrated end papers, 244pp. Interior clean no marks except former owners name on the ffep. Binding tight. Slight rubbing to wraps, no chips or tears, corners square. Comet Books No. 21

Comet Books. NY: Pocket Books, Inc, first edition . 21 , , very good -fine, cover scratch, reading crease, 1949, Cover art by Shilstone, paperback,

London: Collins, 1968. Hardcover. Good. Reprint. Cloth, clean unmarked text, good ex-school library copy with stamps on page-edges, front flyleaf removed, some wear to the covers, no dust jacket.

Hardback, ex-library copy, substitute dust jacket in dented plastic wrap, book cover spine ends and corners frayed, spine yellowed, smudges on cover, pages yellowing, text clean

London: Collins. VG: in very good condition with rubbed and chipped dust jacket. 1945. 2nd impression. Green hardback cloth cover. 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 254pp. .

London: Collins, 1960. Red cloth, black lettering to spine. 254pp. B/w illustrations. Corner tips bruised. Pencil gift inscription to Ffep. Several small marks throughout, firm binding. . Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Charles DeFoe. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Collins (London), 1947. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Collins (London), 1947. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

London England: Collins. Very Good/Good. 1957. 2nd Print. Cloth. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Hardback Hardback. Previous ownes name to inside cover under D/J. flap. Wear and a cople of small tears to edge of D/J. Don Morgan was sixteen and ready to earn his living. His family expected him to take a job at the local fish cannery but Don thought if he spent the winter up in Starbuck Valley trapping for marten he would make enough money with the furs to buy his own diesel boat for the salmon fishing in the spring. Don was a good sho and he knew the rules of living in the open, but he was inexperienced at trapping marten and a whole winter of this life promised every sort of difficulty. The most important thing was to prove to himself and his family that he could go ahead with a plan they thought risky. With delicate perception the author shows how Don's courage was tested, how his strength and judgement developed. This book is a rare achievement for it combines a… Read More

William Morrow, 1943. Hardback. Collectible: Good. Victory Edition (Morrow - 1943) Ex-Library with usual marks. No dust jacket. CLEAN in text. Binding is tight and square. . . . . . . . . Another west coast classic is back in print with Harbour Publishing! In this prequel to the bestselling "Saltwater Summer," renowned outdoor author Roderick Haig-Brown writes about two boys on the verge of manhood and their attempts to make their own living. Don Morgan is sixteen and ready to earn his keep. His family expects him to take a job at the local fish cannery but Don thinks that if he spends the winter up in Starbuck Valley trapping marten, he could make enough money with the furs to buy his own salmon troller. With his friend Tubby Miller, Don goes up into the wild, unexplored valley of the Shifting River to set out his trapline. The boys' cabin is gloomy, the trapping is poor and Tubby's pleasant disposition begins to sour. Things don't improve when Don begins to cultivate the friendship of their nearest… Read More

Toronto: Collins. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1946. Hardcover. 310 p. 21 cm. Copyright date only. Sound and square binding in rust coloured, cloth-covered boards. Bottom corners lightly bumped. Some wear to head of spine. Top edge dusty. Gift inscription dated 1946 on front free endpaper. Inside pages are clean, bright and unmarked. Dustjacket has edge and corner wear, with a split to the front flap fold. Spine is quite faded. Chips along the edges. Price-clipped. A Canadian edition of Roderick Haig-Brown's first adventure story for boys (and girls!). Tells the tale of a boy who goes to live alone in the British Columbia woods and how he survives. Black and white illustrations at chapter heads and several full pages. .

New York: Willliam Morrow & Company, 1943. First Edition (NAP). Hardcover. Very Good / Good Only. Charles De Feo. Octavo, 8.1 in. x 5.5 in., pp. 310. "Victory" wartime edition. Illustrated with five full-page ink drawings. Orange-brown cloth covers with forest green howling wolf to front; forest green title tio spine. Light rubbing to extremities. Top back corner lightly nudged. Clean, unmarked interior. Creases and small closed tears to dustjacket edges. Chips to top/bottom of spine and to corners of dustjacket. Small moisture stain to top of dustjacket spine.

Collins, 70 Bond Street, Toronto. Used - Acceptable. 1st Canadian Edition (1946). In Fair, mylar-wrapped dust jacket.

William Morrow & Company. Used - Acceptable.