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The Adventures of Buster Bear
by Thornton W. Burgess
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/Fair
- Seller
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Salem, Oregon, United States
Item Price
€28.42€21.31
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown, 1917. Hardcover. Fair /Fair. Harrison Cady. Vintage book, with dust jacket. Dust jacket has some stains and chips, and is missing the bottom 2 inches of the spine panel. Cloth covered boards with black print on spine and front, black and red illustration on front. 6 illustrations on glossy paper, tipped-in; all present. Little, Brown hard cover, with dust jacket; 1916 edition but 1917 printing; 120 pages, illustrated by Harrison Cady. 12mo (4.5"" x 7"") Part of the Bedtime Story Books series, iincluding The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel, The Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse, and others. Buster Bear is new to the Green Woods and due to his size and gruff voice, many fear him. However, he soon proves himself to be a kindhearted friendly bear that wants to be friends with his new neighbors. His neighbors are shocked however to find out that the token human in the series, Farmer Brown's Boy, is afraid of Buster; surprising everybody since it was widely thought that Farmer Brown's Boy feared nothing.
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- Bookseller
- Bujoldfan
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 02152207bedtime11cgr
- Title
- The Adventures of Buster Bear
- Author
- Thornton W. Burgess
- Illustrator
- Harrison Cady
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Little, Brown
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1917
- Pages
- 120
- Size
- 16mo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Bedtime Story Books
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classic Childrens books;
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Glossary
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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