The White Falcon
by Ogburn, Charlton Jr
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/No jacket
- Seller
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Meadows of Dan, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1955. First edition thus. Hardcover. Good/No jacket. Bryson, Bernarda. 53 pgs., illustrated throughout text with black and white drawings. An ordinary boy with extraordinary dreams finds a white gyrfalcon. Gray binding with silver bird decoration on front cover and red titles on spine, illustrated end papers,some interior pages on gray paper. Some spotting and darkening of of cover, edges of pages tanning slightly, former owner's bookplate inside front cover, clippings on author and book, probably from the inside folds of the dust jacket, pasted by top edge inside book, author's inscription and signature on front free end paper, binding tight.
Measures 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches
Measures 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches
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Details
- Bookseller
- Scraps of American History (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 00455
- Title
- The White Falcon
- Author
- Ogburn, Charlton Jr
- Illustrator
- Bryson, Bernarda
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition thus
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1955
- Keywords
- fiction, birds, raptors, magic
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Scraps of American History
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Meadows of Dan, Virginia
About Scraps of American History
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Bookplate
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Edges
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- Jacket
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