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The Adventures of Poor Mrs. Quack
by Thornton W. Burgess
- Used
- poor
- Hardcover
- Condition
- poor
- Seller
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Salem, Oregon, United States
Item Price
€23.64€17.73
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown, 1927. Hardcover. poor. Harrison Cady. Vintage book, early printing. Poor condition, missing dust jacket. Cloth covered boards with black and red illustration on front, black print on spine. Boards lightly soiled, print fading, wear and fraying with bumps. Prior owner's name on front free end paper. Full page black and white illustrations on glossy paper, tipped-in; all illustrations present. Pages show dirty fingerprints. Pages and boards show damp stain on edges. Little, Brown hard cover, missing dust jacket; first edition 1917, but later 1927 printing. 119 pages. Illustrations by Harrison Cady. 12mo (4.5"" X 6.75"") 12th in the Bedtime Story-Books series. Poor Mrs. Quack the Duck has suffered terrible misfortunes at the hands of hunters with guns. Peter Rabbit, Jerry Muskrat, and the other animals of the Green Forest band together to help her find a safe place to live and to locate the missing Mr. Quack.
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- Bookseller
- Bujoldfan
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 05132110storybook12ar
- Title
- The Adventures of Poor Mrs. Quack
- Author
- Thornton W. Burgess
- Illustrator
- Harrison Cady
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Little, Brown
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1927
- Pages
- 119
- Size
- 12mo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Bedtime Story Books
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classic Childrens books;
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- Bumps
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- 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...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 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....
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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