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The 13 Clocks
by James Thurber; Illustrated By Marc Simont
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good/No DJ Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0671229443
- ISBN 13
- 9780671229443
- Seller
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Williamsford, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Simon & Schuster 197 Good Cover and first 3-4 pages have been chipped at three places; reading crease on spine, some fading of colour on cover, inside unmarked, clean and tight copy.. Good. Softcover.
Synopsis
James Thurber (1894—1961), one of the outstanding American humorists and cartoonists of the twentieth century, was born in Columbus, Ohio, and launched his professional writing career as a reporter for the Columbus Dispatch in 1920. He began writing for The New Yorker in 1927 after his friend E. B. White got him a job at the magazine. Though hampered by failing eyesight, Thurber wrote nearly forty books, including collections of essays, short stories, fables, and children’s stories. He won a Tony Award for his popular Broadway play, A Thurber Carnival. Marc Simont (1915-2013) illustrated nearly a hundred books. He won a Caldecott Honor in 1950 for illustrating Ruth Krauss’s The Happy Day , and in 1957 he was awarded the Caldecott Medal for his pictures in A Tree Is Nice by Janice May Udry. He is the illustrator for The New York Review Children’s Collection books The Backward Day and The Wonderful O . Neil Gaiman is an award-winning author of novels, short stories, children's books, and graphic novels. Among his works are the children's books Coraline, The Wolves in the Walls, and The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish; the Sandman graphic novels series; and the fantasy novels Stardust and Smoke and Mirrors. Originally from England, Gaiman now lives in the United States.
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- Bookseller
- Montland Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 01588
- Title
- The 13 Clocks
- Author
- James Thurber; Illustrated By Marc Simont
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No DJ Issued
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0671229443
- ISBN 13
- 9780671229443
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster 197
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- October 15, 1977
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