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A Hole Is To Dig
by Krauss, Ruth; Sendak, Maurice (illustrator)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/very good
- Seller
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AURORA, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952. First edition, Second state. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952. First edition, Second state. Very Good/very good. Sendak, Maurice. Early printing, contains the Grr-r-r on page 23, former owner's name and date of 1956 on first endpaper, otherwise unmarked with clear pages. Pictorial board with a blue-green cloth spine. corners have slight wear and are sharp. Jacket is not price-clipped ($1.50) with the number 30-70 at the bottom of the front flap. Jacket shows wear on spine with three spots where the coating of the paper has flaked away. Sendak's marvelous illustrations throughout.
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- Bookseller
- Books of Aurora
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8152
- Title
- A Hole Is To Dig
- Author
- Krauss, Ruth; Sendak, Maurice (illustrator)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, Second state
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1952
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Books of Aurora
Biblio member since 2004
AURORA, Ohio
About Books of Aurora
Selling books since 1978. Member of ABA, GLBA, NOBS and ABC.
Glossary
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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...
- Second State
- used in book collecting to refer to a first edition, but after some change has been made in the printing, such as a correction,...
- 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...
- 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....