Trailer Trio by Jacobs, Emma Atkins - 1942

Frederick Muller Ltd., 1947. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1947. First Edition. 246 pages. No dust jacket. Decorated brown cloth. Prize plate stuck to half-title page. Contains black and white in-text illustrations. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout, heavier to endpapers. Light thumb-marking present. Binding is slightly shaky. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Mild sunning to spine and edges. Book is bowed and forward leaning. Light stained marking overall.

New York: Junior Literary Guild, c1942. Hardcover. Very good condition, library style number on verso of t.p.. Pelagie Doane. 280 p., illus. Illus. by Pelagie Doane

Winston, 1942. Inscribed by the author. Illustrated by Pelagie Doane. Very Good condition. First Edition.

Published by Frederick Muller Ltd., 1947. 1st edition.. Hardback. Very Good/Good. Illustrated by Doane, Pelagie. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper. Brown cloth with green title and caravan vignette. B/w illustrations. The three children trek across America in an old car and caravan. Light bumping to spine and corners. A couple of very small bumps to lower edge of rear cover. Spine and edges of covers are unevenly faded. A little light browning to endpapers. Small mark to text block edge. Price-cut dustwrapper is edge torn with some loss especially to top of spine and top edge of front panel. Spine slightly faded. Tape repair on verso.

The John C. Winston Company, 1942. First. Blue cloth. Good +/Good +. Doane, Pelagie. First printing hardcover signed by the author at top portion of dedication page, good + hardcover shows soil and tiny spot stains at page edges, previous owner marks at bottom portion of dedication page and front endpaper illustration colored in by previous owner, in good + dust jacket that shows rubbing, soil, mild toning along spine, edgewear that includes closed tears, shallow open chipping, long closed tear across rear panel and with tape mending at jacket reverse. 280 pages illustrated. solid copy of this popular work for children that shows "...the way in which three youngsters learned to fend for themselves....