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Barbapapa
by Annette Tison, Talus Taylor
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Middletown, CT: Xerox Educational Publications, 1970 Xerox Educational Publications, Middletown, CT. 1970. Hardcover. Edition/Printing not stated; Weekly Reader Children's Book Club Edition. Exclusively arranged and produced by Frank Fehmers Productions N.V., Curacao. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for an ink pen trace of a letter on the front board. Book Condition: Good +; shelfwear to head, tail, and tips; light soiling to boards; light toning to endpapers. No DJ. Pictorial paper over cardstock boards and spine. Clean internals. Interior hinges are sound and not split. Unpaginated (32 pp by count) 8vo oblong. Barbapapa is a huge, pink, shape-shifting blob who can transform himself into any form he wishes. He was born in a garden, where he became friends with a boy called Francois. Unfortunately, he is too big to stay in the garden, so is sent to live in the zoo, where he is very unhappy. However, when he discovers that he can change his shape, he becomes a hero when he rescues some citizens from a fire and then goes on to capture a leopard that has escaped from the zoo. Soon Barbapapa is the town hero. A clean very presentable copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014731
- Title
- Barbapapa
- Author
- Annette Tison, Talus Taylor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Xerox Educational Publications
- Place of Publication
- Middletown, CT
- Date Published
- 1970
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- children's books, Barbapapa, shape shifters, Weekly Reader Children's Book Club,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Adolescent/Childrens Books;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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....
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.