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Lazy Bear Lane: Available Copies

240p. Stated first edition. Text is heavily foxed with deckle edges and some b/w illustrations, but remains unmarked. Front hinge is completely disconnected from binding with a loose and cracked rear hinge. Binding is otherwise intact. Green cloth boards with yellow lettering have a toned spine, minor scuffing on surfaces, lightly frayed ends, and bumped corners. Name and old price on front illustrated endpapers. Lacks a jacket. A solid reading copy.

240pp.Color frontispiece. green boards, yellow lettering. Eleven illustrations throughout. Stated First Edition on the copyright page. illustrated endpapers. The front panel shows discoloration blotches, wear to the spine edges, The front inner hinge has loss of paper, Pgs. 147-155 have stains, not affecting the text. A serviceable copy of this rare Thorne Smith first edition. "The story is of an elderly couple living in a house they dislike with hardly any food. One day a lazy bear knocks on their door and changes their life." Size: Octavo

First edition. Boards a bit rubbed, hinges weakening, some loss from marginal corner of several dozen pages (does not affect text or illustrations), owner bookplate on front endpaper, ink name and date on front flyleaf. 1931 Hard Cover. x, 240 pp. Illustrations by George Shanks. Bear stories by the author of the popular Topper series.

Octavo, pp. [i-viii] ix-x [xi-xii] 1-240 [241-242: blank], illustrations by George Shanks, publisher's pictorial green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in yellow, top edge stained yellow, pictorial endpapers. First edition. A scarce juvenile fantasy by the creator of Topper. Bleiler (1948), p. 253. Reginald 13387. Cloth a bit spotted, spine a bit darkened, a very good copy. (#173212)

Green hardcover cloth binding with yellow title lightly soiled, rubbed along edges and bumped corners. Front hinge is cracked, ilustrated endpapers. Back hinge is good. Name in ink front blank endpapers. Binding secure. Foxing. 240 pages. Color frontispiece plus 10 full page black and white color illustrations plus numerous partial page illustrations. Dedicated to Thorne Smith's two daughters, Lazy Bear Lane is filled with gentle magic, poetry, and delightful repartee. Tender and understanding, charming and humorous, the story succeeds in transporting children and adults alike to a make believe land where anything can happen. Peter and Mary were old and forgotten. A large, nearsighted brown bear appears one evening and after sharing Peter's Catalogue Stew and listening to one of Peter's dreadful poems, Lazy Bear announces that he is a magic bear. Tender and understanding, charming and humorous, the story succeeds in transporting children and adults alike to a make believe land where anything can happen. Good reading copy of scarce title.

Green boards with yellow design and lettering. Pictorial endpapers. 8vo. [x] 240pp with color frontispiece and 10 black and white illustrations by George Shanks. Period bookplate to front paste down, name stamp to front free endpaper. Light wear to covers.

Green cloth stamped in yellow. Stated first edition. Points bumped, edges rubbed, spine sunned, light soil to cloth. Front hinge faintly loose. A minor scrape to the ffep; a stain here and there. A couple of creased corners. Still a sound copy. Color frontis. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall

First edition. Illustrated by George Shanks. Good to very good with inner hinges just beginning, spine toned, covers lightly soiled, spine ends beginning to wear, etc. Lacking dust jacket. Relatively scarce.

(First Edition stated on copyright page)' green c w/yellow titles; slight wear at extremities; illustrated end papers; (private handmade pocket on rear flyleaf)

Green cloth cover with yellow detail has light wear at corners and spine caps and lower front corner very lightly bumped, but clean, bright, and in very good+ condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Pictorial end papers. Pages are clean and near pristine.

240 pp. Illustrated by George Shanks (frontispiece in color). 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First edition. A near fine copy; spine very slightly with light use at extremities; tight and sound in a jacket with a very tanned (nearly illegible) backstrip and some chips (the two largest 1" square and 1 x 3") and closed tears. Junior Books.

This is a hardcover stated FIRST EDITION with the JR logo. Previous owner's name on the front pastedown otherwise a copy that is fine internally. Pictorial endpapers. The green cloth binding has a couple of spots, otherwise VG. Alas, no DJ. Photo on request.

B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. This is a Doubleday file copy with an ink stamped " Return to: Junior Books Doubleday, Doran & Co." on the front endpaper. The book covers have some light bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners, along with some beginning spots of fraying. The text pages are generally clean and bright, weith some light generalized toning throughout. The illustrated endpapers are clean and bright. "James Thorne Smith, Jr. (March 27, 1892 June 20, 1934) was an American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction under the byline Thorne Smith. He is best known today for the two Topper novels, comic fantasy fiction involving sex, much drinking and ghosts. With racy illustrations, these sold millions of copies in the 1930s and were equally popular in paperbacks of the 1950s. " (from Wikipedia)

Color frontis plus 10 black & white illustrations by George Shanks. x + 240pp., 8vo, green cloth, pictorial endpapers; lightly worn, ownership signatures on front free endpaper, and gift inscription in pencil, very minor and scattered foxing. Garden City: Doubleday, (1931). First edition. A very good copy.

Near fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges, front cover slightly sunned. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 240 pages; Description: x, 240 p. Illus. , plates. Col. Front, 21 cm. 1 Kg.

Near fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges, front cover slightly sunned. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 240 pages; Description: x, 240 p. Illus. , plates. Col. Front, 21 cm. 1 Kg.

Hardback. First Printing of The First Edition. Copyright page states First Edition. No dustjacket. The Only one real flaw to note on this copy is that the front free endpaper on the bottom right corner has a light brown stain occupying a 2 by 3 inch area which looks to be where a bookplate was once glued down and has since fallen off naturally very cleanly leaving no residue. This has bled through a bit to the other side of the same page, but not to any of the other pages. Otherwise this is an exceptionally clean, bright, unmarked copy in Very Good to Near Fine condition.