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The Little Cow and The Turtle
by DeJong, Meindert. Illustrated By Maurice Sendak
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- Seller
-
East Granby, Connecticut, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1955. Book club edition of this hard to find title. Good to very good in fair to good dustjacket. Black and white illustrations by Sendak. Teal pictorial cloth with dustjacket. The book has edge rubbing, good hinges, sound text block, slightly age-toned but clean pages, no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket has soil and speckling, some edge chips, faded spine, fairly little paper loss.. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Seller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 042282
- Title
- The Little Cow and The Turtle
- Author
- DeJong, Meindert. Illustrated By Maurice Sendak
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1955
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- CHILDRENS JUVENILE ILLUSTRATED
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books;
Terms of Sale
Resource Books, LLC
We pack well and ship promptly. Returns: Books may be returned for refund of purchase price within seven days provided prior notification is given and the books are returned in the same condition as when shipped.
About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2004
East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
Resource Books, LLC deals in antiquarian and out-of-print books in a wide variety of subject matter, mainly non-fiction.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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