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London: Collins, 1966. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First UK edition. Very good hardcover lacking ffep. Jacket very good, price clipped, with some wear to spine ends and corners, and a small tear near head of spine.
London: Collins, 1966. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First UK edition. Very good hardcover lacking ffep. Jacket very good, price clipped, with some wear to spine ends and corners, and a small tear near head of spine.
London: Collins, 1966. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First UK edition. Near fine book in like jacket with some mild edge wear.
New York: 1946. 1st Edition. No Binding. A Christmas tradition in the Madeleine and Hugh Franklin family from 1946-1963, was to create Christmas cards with original art drawn by L'Engle, that were then hand-colored and sent to friends and family. This is the first in the series from 1946. The.....
Wheaton, Illinois: Shaw Books, 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First printing, inscribed by L'engle on title page. Scarce signed. Near fine in like jacket.
Wheaton, Illinois: Shaw Books, 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First printing. FIne in fine jacket.
New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1963. Hardcover. Second printing. Near fine, unread copy in publisher's blue cloth boards in very good jacket with just a bit of wear at spine ends and some rubbing to back panel.
U.S.A. Shaw Books, 2005. 1st Edition. Hardcover.
U.S.A. Chronicle Books, 2001. Christine Davenier. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First printing of this picture book from L'Engle. Very good in like jacket.
London: Eyre Methuen, 1972. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First UK edition. Near fine with slightly bowed boards in near fine jacket with wear along top edge of rear panel.
Wheaton, Illinois: Shaw, 1996. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st print, remainder mark else fine. Wheaton Literary Series.
Stuttgart: Boje-Verlag, 1956. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First German edition of And Both Were Young, originally published in the US in 1949. Though containing no ownership markings, this copy comes from the author's personal library. Very good hardcover with tanning to spine and front board. Clean and sound internally. No jacket.....
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1968. Hardcover. Second printing. Originally published in 1945 as The Small Rain, this is an adapted version for the young adult audience. Very good book with some soiling and wear to top edge in like jacket with faded spine, otherwise nicely preserved.
Tokyo: Dainippon Junior Books. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Japanese edition of this novel for young adults, which was adapted by L'Engle from her early adult novel, The Small Rain. Beautiful edition with decorated endpapers, a frontispiece, and several black and white illustrations throughout. Very good hardcover with bumped spine ends.....
Paris: Éditions du Centurion, 1970. 1st Edition. No Binding. Interesting typescript of poems from the library of Madeleine L'Engle, author of the children's classic A Wrinkle in Time. Also included are the French and U.S. editions of the book. The first edition was published in a small hardcover as part.....
Wheaton, Illinois: Shaw Books, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near fine hardcover in like jacket with pushing to spine ends. First printing, signed and inscribed by L'engle on title page.
Wheaton, Illinois: Shaw Books, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First printing. Near fine hardcover with light bumping and smudging to page block in like jacket with a small split at the lower corner. Though not marked in any way, this copy comes from the personal library of the author...
Chattanooga, TN: The Baylor School, 1986. 1st Edition. Soft cover. First edition, stapled wrappers, 24 pp. Lecture delivered on January 16, 1986 by L'Engle, along with a talk given during chapel service at the school the next day. Near fine with some light soiling to front and rear, else fine.....
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1982. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stated first printing, inscribed by L'engle on title page. Very good with some shelf wear to boards in very good jacket.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Advance Reading Copy (ARC, proof). Good in wraps with scuffing and chipping to spine edges and creasing to spine.
U.S.A. Seabury Press, 1982. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 1000 copies with signed bookplate attached to front pastedown. Owner's name also present on bookplate. Near fine without jacket as issued, in publisher's cloth boards vs. the paper covered boards of the trade edition.
New York: The Seabury Press, 1982. Vivian Berger. No Binding. Wonderful and scarce 9"x18" advertising broadside for this title from L'engle and the Seabury Press. Signed "with love," and dated by L'engle in the year of publication at bottom. Woodcut illustration by Vivian Berger. Near fine sheet showing light wear.....
Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stated first printing, 1974. Fine in fine jacket.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974. First Edition. 8vo, 245pp., green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine in illustrated dust jacket. Near fine book with lightly bumped corners in very good jacket with some wear at spine ends and corners. Wonderful presentation copy of this story from L'Engle.....
Seabury Press, 1979. Soft cover.
London: Souvenir Press Ltd, 1980. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First UK edition of this third book in L'engle's Time Quintet. Near fine with bumped upper corners and a couple bumps to foredge of page block in like jacket with minimal wear. Though not marked as such, this copy comes from the.....