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Tapiola's Brave Regiment: Available Copies

Gray cloth, blue lettering, lightly rubbed and spotted. Dogs; 27233.

Includes illustrations. Book condition: very good. Dj condition: no dj. Tight binding. Clean interior pages. bookplate on FEP. tan cover lightly soiled. spine ends bumped.

A sound copy, stains all around cover edges, text is fine. Jacket worn and soiled. A dog story set in WW2, featuring the adventures of 'Tapiola', a Yorkshire terrier, and his friends Richard the canary and Jeremiah the rat. Reading copy only.

DJ has some wear around the edges, and spine has is lightly darkening. Spine is beginning to crack at the front endpaper.

Stated first edition. Clean and unmarked in full cloth binding. Illustrated endpapers. 137pp. Unclipped jacket is rubbed, with toned spine. Size: 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall

Pages crisp, clean, and bright. Stated First Edition. Assumed First Knopf. Printing. Price-clipped DJ tight and fairly bright. Binding secure and tight.

2nd printing; dj w/lite soiling, unclipped price, in mylar; illustratedc end papers; 137 clean, unmarked pages Size: 8 Vo

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941. First Edition. Fine hardcover in mildly worn dustwrapper. Map/pictorial endpapers. Fantasy novel of a Yorkshire terrier, a canary, a pigeon, and rats, who set off into Central Park upon a terrifying journey. They hope to assist in the great war effort. In tone, sort of an earlier Richard Adams. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese (1887-1974), a winner twice each for the Caldecott Honor Book Award, and the Newbery Award.

First printing of this edition in hardcover with dust jacket. Very minor spine lean, minor bubbling to cloth on boards, clean and unmarked. Jacket has long tear on front panel, some shorter tears, chipping, and soiling. Very Good/Good only.

An excellent copy with owner's bookplate, under a fine jacket with one small triangular chip. Continuing the saga of the adventures of the Tapiola, the Yorkshire terrier.

Very good with good to very good dust jacket. Two names on illustrated front free endpaper. Some dents at top edge of first eight pages. Dust jacket is worn at spine tips and corners with a one inch tear at top front edge.

Book is ex-library. Faded, scuffed and soiled tan boards. Green print and decoration on front cover. Corners are bumped and rubbed. Edges are rubbed. Gutters at front and back endpapers have been repaired with tape. Interior is age-toned and soiled, though the text and images remain clean and clear. Suitable as a reading copy.

A literature.

1st Ed, 137 pages. Beige cloth on boards, red & green lettering, tinted top edge, drawing of Yorkshire Terrier on front. Yellow endpapers, decorated with maps & drawings. Ex-library, with usual pocket remains, stamps, etc. Bookplate on front pastedown indicated the book was a gift from the I.O.D.E. to the Canadian Naval Library Service. Interior otherwise clean & tight. Illustrated with small text drawings by Kurt Weise. Story of Tapiola, a small Yorkshire Terrier, & his adventures with his friends. A companion book to 'Journey of Tapiola" by the same author. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

1941 Nathan, Robert TAPIOLA'S BRAVE REGIMENT NY: Alfred Knopf, 1941 First Edition 137pp illus Kurt Wiese 8vo boards foxed, else fine bright hardcover in near fine d/w (spine panel darkened).

1st Ed, 137 pages. Beige cloth on boards, red & green lettering, tinted top edge, drawing of Yorkshire Terrier on front. Yellow endpapers, decorated with maps & drawings. Light wear to cover. Tiny mark at top of front free endpaper, small bookstore label at bottom of front pastedown. Interior otherwise clean & tight. Illustrated with small text drawings by Kurt Weise. Story of Tapiola, a small Yorkshire Terrier, & his adventures with his friends. A companion book to 'Journey of Tapiola" by the same author. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941. Stated First edition. Very Good/Very Good . Kurt Weise, Illustrator. "First Edition" stated on copyright page, in original unclipped jacket. Clean beige cloth boards with slight browning in out spine gutters. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean illustrated endpapers; no names, writing or marks (some browning to gutters). Illustrated by Kurt Weise. 137 pages. Jacket is unclipped (1.75 on front inside flap), slight dust soiling, a few minor edge nicks. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.

137 Pp. Beige Cloth. Stated First Edition. Fine In Near Fine Dj, Not Price Clipped.

Stated first edition in the original binding. Out of print and scarce

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941. Stated FIrst Edition. Very Good+/Very Good+. Stated First Edition in original unclipped dust jacket. Very clean beige cloth boards with green and brown decoration and lettering on cover and spine. Tiny pinpoint spot of wear to top spine edge. No bumping, corners are sharp, binding is tight and square. Hinges are sound - no cracking. Clean bright decorated endpapers - no names or bookplates. All text pages and edges are clean. Illustrated by the great Kurt Wiese. 138 pages. Dust jacket is unchipped, not price clipped, very light soiling, one tiny closed edge tear, very slight wear at spine ends. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Charming story of a Yorkshire Terrier and his animal friends on a great adventure in Central Park during World War II. By the author of "Portrait of Jennie" and "Journey of Tapiola".

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Very good condition/No Dustjacket. 1941. First Edition. 8vo., 138 pp. . Very good condition/No Dustjacket

Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Toning. Marking to FEP. Stated First Edition. ; ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Advance Reading Copy. Light stain to the front wrap, else near fine in lightly soiled wrappers.

TAPIOLA'S BRAVE REGIMENT, Knopf, 1941 first edition, spine a bit faded, else very good+ to near fine in wraps. Advance reading copy. Scarce thus.

Stated first edition. Gray cloth with green lettering and rust and green design on cover and spine. Near fine condition with light toning to endpapers. Dust jacket not clipped, near fine condition with light toning and a few marks on front cover. No chipping or wear on edges. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall

Tiny chip at bottom of dust jacket front. In Mylar cover. Scarce in dust jacket. Out of print. Binding is cloth boards.

Inscribed and SIGNED by Robert Nathan on the verso of the bibliography page. Laid in is a card bearing the printed words, "With the compliments of Blanche W. Knopf" followed by the Knopf Logo. The volume is is bumped at the spine ends and corners, is lightly sunned on the spine and top edges, and tghe pages are gently toned. The unclipped dust jacket is sunned on the spine, lightly perimeter toned, and has shallow chips at the spine ends and corners reinforced with thin pieces of tape on the outside . The jacket is protected in mylar.

Stated first edition hardcover inscribed to the half title page by Nathan. A tight and square copy with a few sprinkles of dampstains to top block edge and minor softening to spine. The DJ in mylar is chipped, toned, lightly soiled/insected, and the price is torn off of the flap. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author

Inscribed first edition of this story of a Yorkshire terrier who rallies his animal friends to fight an unseen enemy on the edge of WWII, with illustrations by Freddy the Pig's Kurt Wiese. Published as the US teetered on the edge of entering WWII, TAPIOLA'S BRAVE REGIMENT takes a surprisingly satyrical view of the conflict that raged in Europe. This is in contrast to Robert Nathan's works after the US had joined the war, which were far more patriotic. 8.25'' x 5.25''. Original light brown boards. Original unclipped ($1.75) color pictorial dust jacket. Pictorial endleaves of animals marching across a map of Central Park. Illustrated in black and white. 138 pages. Inscribed by Nathan to second blank. Gift inscription to jacket front flap, dated 1941. Jacket with mild edgewear, some toning to spine and edges; a couple tiny scuffs. Binding with slight foxing to edges, light toning to endpapers. Tight. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket.