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The Bears on Hemlock Mountain
by Dalgliesh, Alice
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. First edition. 8vo, unpaginated. Blue and black illustrations throughout by Helen Sewell. Publisher's red brown cloth stamped on front cover and spine in wraparound illustrated jacket. Bookshop ticket, rear pastedown, former owner's name blacked out on ffep, boards lightly worn and very good. Slightly cracked at bottom edge of second signature, else sound. Jacket with a clean, diagonal tear down the length of the rear panel which would benefit from some light restoration. Otherwise, very good with some chipping at spine ends and along folds. Colors remain bright, and original price of $2.00 intact.
Uncommon first printing in jacket of this Newbery Honor-winning title from 1952, winning the award the following year. Beautifully illustrated throughout by Helen Sewell.
Uncommon first printing in jacket of this Newbery Honor-winning title from 1952, winning the award the following year. Beautifully illustrated throughout by Helen Sewell.
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- Peruse the Stacks
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5283
- Title
- The Bears on Hemlock Mountain
- Author
- Dalgliesh, Alice
- Format/Binding
- 8vo, unpaginated. Blue and black illustrations throughout by Helen Sewell. Publisher's red brown cloth stamped on front cover an
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1952
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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....
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
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