The Hole Book

RARE OCTOBER, 1908 HARPER & BROS. UNEXPURGATED FIRST EDITION. FIRST PRINTING THUS. INCLUDES THE WATERMELON PAGE. COLOUR PRINTS. ILLUSTRATED BY PETER NEWELL. Good + condition / No DJ included. USED. Front paper past-down is in good shape. Some finger marks noticed on a few pages. Unpaginated. 7 1/4 X 9

RARE OCTOBER, 1908 HARPER & BROTHERS. UNEXPURGATED FIRST EDITION. INCLUDES THE WATERMELON PAGE. COLOUR PRINTS. ILLUSTRATED BY PETER NEWELL. HOLE-DRILLED. ANTIQUARIAN. Good USED condition/ No DJ Included. USED. Front paper paste-down is scuffed. Binding is tight and all plates look in good shape. Finger marks noted. 7 3/8 X 8 7/8. This is so much fun! Like watching animation go… Read more about this item

NEWELL, Peter. The Hole Book. NY: Harper & Brothers [1908]. 12mo, [48]pp. Blue cloth with color pictorial label affixed to the front. Full-page color illustrations on every other page. Light rubbing to lower spine end and corners, light scratching to paper label, paper covering hinges starting, but as this is a side-sewn book, it has no effect on the tightness… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1908 Good minus condition. Front board loose from the book but still fully attached to the spine, has been reinforced with cloth in the spine but the cloth has come loose and needs to be reattached to the front board, reinforced with with cloth on the back board in the spine which is firmly attached.… Read more about this item

Nice condition copy of "THE HOLE BOOK" by Peter Newell. 1908 1st edition; Harper & Brothers; New York. With color illustrations on every other page by Newell. The book is a rhyming poem about a boy who accidentally fires a gun - the bullet goes through the wall of his house and travels through various settings throughout the neighborhood, causing… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1908 Clear tape over small tears in the book. A die cut hole that travels that details the path the bullet travels after a child accidentally shoots the gun. 54 pages, 24 full page illustrations. A child has made some of the holes a little bigger than they started out and some small tears… Read more about this item

Newell, Peter: The Hole Book, Copyright 1936 K-I Harper & Brothers reprint edition. Hardcover. Tan boards, black titling. Hole drilled. Unexpurgated. Includes the watermelon page. Used. VG/ No DJ included. A nice find.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1908. 1st. Hardcover. Fair/None. 25 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Significant wear to cover edges and some separation to upper spine. Pencil illustrations and inscription (1925) on front end papers, and pencil doodles on front and back inside cover. Color illustrations with hole throughout. Sold as is. Record # 2230501

NY: Harper & Brothers. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1908. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. First Edition, First Printing (published October 1908). Listed as Blanck's "Peter Parley to Penrod" 1908 selection, amazingly popular in its day. Publisher's full blue cloth, pictorial paste-on on cover. Each page has a hole in the center caused… Read more about this item

4to. New York: Harper and Brothers, [1908]. 4to, 24 leaves, the recto of each printed with an illustration in color and the text on the verso. Brown paper boards with a color print pasted on upper board, in the uncommonly seen dust-jacket (worn and chipped and now preserved in mylar). Damp stains to first and final leaves; good. §… Read more about this item

NY: Harper and Brothers. Very Good in Fair dust jacket; Jacket heavily tattered and creased.. 1936. Later Printing. Hardcover. A die-cut bullet hole through the center of the entire book and its illustrations tells an entertaining and graphically vivid story for children. Blue cloth binding. Later printing of this title first published in 1908. ; 8vo … Read more about this item

New York: Harper and Brothers, [1912]. Later printing, with date code "L-M" (i.e. November 1912) to copyright page. Quarto (22.5cm). Blue cloth with pictorial paper onlay to front board; not paginated; two-color illustrations throughout. Die-cut hole through the majority of textblock. Sound but much rubbed, front onlay with minor stains and chips, fingersoil throughout Good. Includes a racist stanza… Read more about this item

Peter Newell: The Hole Book, 1936 K-E Harper & Brothers reprint edition. Hardcover. Light blue boards. Drilled. Unexpurgated. Includes the watermelon page. Used. Good/ No DJ included. Please see our photos.

Harper & Brothers, 1908. Good Hardcover, pictorial cover fully illustrated with hole through the middle. First printing October 1908 worn with soiling discoloration on several pages, previous owner's inscription . First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Cover.

Blue boards with minor wear. Great copy with some signs of age (foxing), but no rips or marks, aside from brief gift inscription in pencil. A die cut hole goes through this illustrated book as a bullet goes through a town. Price includes shipping within the U.S.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1927. Thin 8vo, pp. [51]; originally published in 1908, a cautionary tale of young Tom Pott's 'fooling with a gun' and die cut holes on each page illustrating the path of the bullet; lightly toned, some edgewear, else very good in original green cloth and illustrated paste-down on upper cover.

NY: Harper & Brothers. Very Good+. 1908. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. On the edge of near-fine. Light rubbing to the paste-down on the cover. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1908. First Edition. A fine copy in the rare dust jacket; good to very good, with numerous chips and tears, archival tape mends.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1908. Three of Peter Newell's Greatest Books NEWELL, Peter. The Hole Book. [&] The Slant Book. [&] The Rocket Book. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1908-10-12. First editions. Three octavo volumes: The Hole Book (8 5/8 x 7 inches; 219 x 178 mm.). 52 pp; The Slant Book (8 3/4 x… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1908. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 1st Edition. Sm 4to, pp48 with 24 full page illustrations by Newell which Traces the die cut path of a bullet fired from Tom Potts' gun through every page of text. Hardcover no dust jacket. Publishers pictorial binding in protective sleeve in very good condition with a… Read more about this item