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Make Way for Ducklings
by McCloskey, Robert
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0670451495
- ISBN 13
- 9780670451494
- Seller
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Manlius, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Hardcover Book in Dust Jacket. Binding square and tight and contents clean and bright. Covers show light bumping and rubbing. Jacket is price clipped and shows edge wear and chipping and a small tear at rear fold bottom. Jacket now enclosed in a removable mylar protective sleeve. Later printing with 47 49 50 48 46 number sequence on copyright page. Blue green boards with brown quarter cloth and title stamped in gold on spine. Front board has title and procession of ducklings in brown.
Synopsis
Make Way for Ducklings is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Robert McCloskey. First published in 1941, the book tells the story of a pair of mallard ducks who decide to raise their family on an island in the lagoon in Boston Public Garden, a park in the center of Boston, Massachusetts. Make Way for Ducklings won the 1942 Caldecott Medal for McCloskey's illustrations, executed in charcoal then lithographed on zinc plates. As of 2003, the book had sold over two million copies.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Limestone Village Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1539
- Title
- Make Way for Ducklings
- Author
- McCloskey, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover Book in Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0670451495
- ISBN 13
- 9780670451494
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1941
- Pages
- 64
- Size
- 31 cm
- Keywords
- Animals; Award Winners; Boston (Mass.); Classics; Ducks; Ducks, Geese, etc.; Fiction; General; Juvenile Fiction; Massachusetts; New England
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Literature;
Terms of Sale
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Returns accepted for 15 days after receipt of book if book does not meet condition as stated in the description.
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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....
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- 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...
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