The Missing Piece – Shel Silverstein

missing.1 (523 x 600)

Harper and Row, 1976

Stated First Edition, First Printing Extremely scarce Stated First Edition. Near fine book with crisp, clean pages with a near fine dust jacket. The book is in extraordinary condition considering that many children’s book are usually found “well loved and read”.

The book is clean beautiful condition with crisp grey/tan cloth boards, with strong unfaded titles to the spine. The book has sharp corners with no edgewear. The binding is tight and square. The end papers have no owner names, no book plates, and no inscriptions. The internal pages are crisp clean, bright and flat with sharp edges and with no handling marks, no stains, no writing, no bent pages, and no foxing. Beautiful clean, highly collectible example of this title, appearing internally as unread. Please see images.

The scarce original price clipped dust jacket is in near fine condition with no rips, no chips, no edgewear, no fading, and no rubbing, but one tiny nick. A beautiful example of this first edition, first state dust jacket. Please see detailed images.

A very handsome example of this title. Presents beautifully on the shelf. Very scarce.

Price: $549.95

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