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Minn of the Mississippi
by Holling, Holling Clancy
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1951. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Holling, Holling Clancy. Another lovely children's book about the natural world & its creatures, winner of the Newbery Award in 1952. This one is about a snapping turtle named Minn who lives in the Mississippi River, based on extensive research & observation & interviews with locals. In 87 pages with pen-and-ink drawings & many full-color, full-page plates throughout. A FIRST EDITION, first printing, from 1951, this hardcover 4to has yellow cloth-covered boards with stamped green lettering & images to front cover & spine. Condition is Good: external soil & rather heavy rubbing to extremities, cloth fraying, tiny chips & small sections of missing cloth along spine. Aside from previous child owners' names inside front cover, the interior is clean & unmarked, with the occasional spot or smudge. Pages modestly tanned, heavier around edges. NO DJ. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Gargoyle Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022447
- Title
- Minn of the Mississippi
- Author
- Holling, Holling Clancy
- Illustrator
- Holling, Holling Clancy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Date Published
- 1951
- Keywords
- MISSISSIPPI RIVER TURTLES AMPHIBIANS WATER SCIENCE EDUCATION STEM ANIMALS CHILDREN ILLUSTRATED NEWBERY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children-Young Adult (YA) / Illustrated & Picture Books; Animals-Birds-Horses-Pets;
Terms of Sale
Gargoyle Books
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About the Seller
Gargoyle Books
Biblio member since 2006
La Mesa, California
About Gargoyle Books
On-line booksellers since 1996
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...
- 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...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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