[publisher: Sampson Low, Martson, Low, & Searle. 1875] Hardcover Half title, front., illus. Name cut from leading f.e.p. Orig. olive green cloth, borders ruled in black, pictorially blocked & lettered in gilt; spine sl. dulled. This charming novel, first published in 1866, introduced the American reading public to the legendary Dutch story of the hole in the dyke, in which a little boy saves his countrymen by plugging a life-threatening leak with his finger. It appears here as a brief narrative within the story. The novel also has numerous references to speed skating, and helped popularise the sport.
[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1875]
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ISBN10: 1330889916, ISBN13: 9781330889916, [publisher: Forgotten Books] Softcover New
[Redhill, SURRE, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2018]

[publisher: Sampson Low, Martson, Low, & Searle. 1875] Hardcover Half title, front., illus. Name cut from leading f.e.p. Orig. olive green cloth, borders ruled in black, pictorially blocked & lettered in gilt; spine sl. dulled. This charming novel, first published in 1866, introduced the American reading public to the legendary Dutch story of the hole in the dyke, in which a little boy saves his countrymen by plugging a life-threatening leak with his finger. It appears here as a brief narrative within the story. The novel also has numerous references to speed skating, and helped popularise the sport.
[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1875]
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The Goldsmith Publishing Co First Edition Hardcover Fine in Very Good + jacket Size: 8vo-over 7.75"-9.75" tall; 1st edition hardcover with shelf wear on lower fore edge of frt board only, others sharp, spine ends bumped. No names or tears and only one finger smudge on fore edge of illust fep. No date of publication, believed to be the first Goldsmith publication. Stunning original dust wrapper in new mylar has small chips at tips and spine ends but is essentially complete, unclipped and has a beautiful full color illust that wraps around to backstrip. 245 pp. Illust yellow background paper covered boards with green cloth spine.

[publisher: Eds Thomas Nelson and Sons, Londres - New-York] Hardcover In-12, 320pp., illustr., gravures et hors-texte sur le patinage sur glace, reliure pleine toile percaline decoree de l'editeur, Nb-0140,
[Saint Maurice, France] [Publication Year: 1892]

[publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York] Hardcover 8vo. [6], 11-377, [1], [1]-6 (pages of publisher's advertisements for other children's titles), [2] pp. Blue cloth with decorations stamped in red, black, and silver. Illustrated by a frontispiece and twenty additional black and white plates, with several in-text illustrations. Baumgarten 64. A Very Good book slightly askew with minor toning and spotting to the spine. Name written on the free front endpaper.
[Madison, WI, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1895]
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J.H. Sears & Co 1926 Hardcover Good We have 75, 000 books to choose from--Ship within 24 hours--Satisfaction Guaranteed!

Date: 1866. Illustrated by F.O.C. Darley and Thomas Nast. New York: James O'Kane, 1866. 2 pp undated ads. Original green cloth, beveled. First Edition of this children's classic. Hans and his sister Gretel want to win the annual ice-skating race on the canals of Holland, but cannot afford proper skates -- and must also find the money for an operation for their father, who is an invalid... Also, as a tale-within-a-tale, this book includes the story of the little boy who puts his finger in a hole in a leaking dike and keeps it there all through the cold night, until adults arrive in the morning to make the necessary repairs. Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge became a widow at the age of 27 when her husband died in 1858, and turned to the field of literature to support herself and their two young sons. Mrs. Dodge was recognized for many years as the foremost American writer of juvenile stories of her time. Her greatest success was with her story of Dutch children, HANS BRINKER, published in 1865 [but dated 1866], the same year as ALICE IN WONDERLAND. Though she had never visited Holland, she put so much research into this book that it was accepted as authentic by the Dutch themselves. Like all her books, it is distinguished by keen humor, originality, and a quality which is not so much sympathy with the child mind as identification with it... HANS BRINKER has become a standard children's classic, almost to the same degree as has Louisa May Alcott's LITTLE WOMEN (which it preceded ...