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Soft cover. Condición: Fine. 8th printing paperback without creases, names, or soil. This is one of those 'Time Capsule' copies that sat on a shelf, untouched for years. Gift quality offering. "Welcome back, fat white chief!" Everyone on the island of Kurrekurredutt is delighted to see their king, Captain Longstocking. But look who's with him! Pippi herself - funnier than ever! This time Pippi's in the South Seas, where she scolds the sharks and plays marbles with pearls. When bandits try to steal the pearls - well, you'll see how Pippi handles those rascals. …

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 3rd Edition. Very Good+ dust jacket, a mylar dust jacket has been added, upper front corner clipped, Us price of $7.45 is present in the lower corner. The Very Good+ binding is red cloth over boards, black image of a typewriter and owl in lower right corner, Gilt stamping on the spine. The binding is tight and pages are clean. Harold Gripe black-and-white illustrations can be found throughout the book. About the book: (from the dust jacket) A nurse, working the night shift, advertises for a baby-sitter to keep her young, daughter company. A young writer, who cart sleep in his own tiny apartment because it is too full of books, eagerly signs up for the job. At first the daughter is furious about this arrangement, but when the kind though eccentric young man arrives with his books papers, records and a pet owl named Smuggler, she is gradually won, over. Soon she has christened him her Night Daddy" and the two of them are sharing midnight snacks, training the owl, and tending an exotic tropical plant known as the Queen of the Night. In this curious and deeply touching story Maria Gripe offers insight into how a child and an adult come to know one another how they understand and misunderstand each other, and how friendship and respect must go hand in hand. 008-0012 About the author: (from the dust jacket) MARIA GRIPE is one of Scandinavia's most distinguished children's writers whose Hugo and Josephine trilogy won the Nils Holgersson Plaque, the highest award for children's literature in Sweden. Gripe, Harold (ilustrador).…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 62pp. Blue cloth w silver-gilt title to spine. 1st GB edition. Charming black and white illustrations. Small biro mark and stain to front panel and ink school stamp and handwritten inscription to ffep o/w contents clean, tight and bright, a lovely copy. Ilon Wikland (ilustrador).…

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. "Second Printing August 1962" stated. Near fine hardback in near fine jacket ($2.75). Book has a 3/8 inch by 1/4 inch bump/dent to bottom edge of rear cover and barely noticeable bump to lower edge of front cover. Dust jacket has a 1/8 inch chip to head of spine; a light crease running length of spine; and a 1/8 inch chip along upper 3 inches of front fore-edge fold and 1/8 inch chip along upper 1.25 inch of rear fore-edge fold. Only trivial addition signs of age/wear/previous use to book and dust jacket. …

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Later Edition. ISBN 0416268404. Hardback. Later Printing. Very Good condition book, with minor rubs and bumps to cover edges, slight browning to edges of interior pages, in a Very Good Condition dustjacket with minor chips, rubs and creases to edges, 1/2-inch tear to upper right corner of back jacket, slight browning to jacket edges. Tight, sound, unmarked copy except for previous owner's inscription written on front endpaper. 4.50 (English pounds) original price is present and unclipped on front flap of dustjacket.…

Condición: Near Fine. Hard back binding in publisher's original green paper covers, black lettering to spine. 8vo 7½" x 5¼" 207 pp. Near Fine in near Fine dust wrapper with two short closed tears to lower panel, tiny rubs to spine tips, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archival acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. BRAZIL (Brasil).…