The Mysteries of Harris Burdick Portfolio Edition
by Van Allsburg, Chris
- Used
- very good
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good. 1996. Card Covers. 16 p. 40 cm. Enclosed in a cardstock portfolio that has some creases and rubbing to the edges and corners. Shelf rubbed, with light scratches and an impression mark on the front. Inside the sixteen individual pages are in near fine to fine condition, except for the text page, which has some creasing to the bottom right corner. A folio edition of this work, produced to separate and increase the size of the illustrations in order to allow for group use in a classroom or elsewhere. The book has always been intended to encourage readers to write stories about the captioned drawings it includes. This edition has a fifteenth drawing not included in the 1984 edition. May require additional postage due to size. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6873
- Title
- The Mysteries of Harris Burdick Portfolio Edition
- Author
- Van Allsburg, Chris
- Format/Binding
- Card Covers
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1996
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Homeward Bound Books
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Campbellcroft, Ontario
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- 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
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- Folio
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- Fine
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