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13 Clocks
by Thurber, James
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0440802849
- ISBN 13
- 9780440802846
- Seller
-
Monroe, Michigan, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
unused book from closed bookstore inventory; clean, tight and square, text is clean and unmarked, no spine crease, no tears or other creases, corner tips and edges are very slightly bumped and rubbed, inside cover edges and page edges are very slightly yellowed
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Book Nook Monroe
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 502747
- Title
- 13 Clocks
- Author
- Thurber, James
- Illustrator
- Simont, Marc
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first printing
- ISBN 10
- 0440802849
- ISBN 13
- 9780440802846
- Publisher
- Dell Yearling
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY, USA
- Date Published
- 1992
- Pages
- 124
- Size
- 12mo - over 6 3/4 - 7 3/4" tall
- Keywords
- juvenile fiction, villain, fairy tale, magic, royalty, greed, spies, classic
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books; Children's Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Book Nook Monroe
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About the Seller
Book Nook Monroe
Biblio member since 2022
Monroe, Michigan
About Book Nook Monroe
We were a small independent new & used bookstore established in 1969 in historic downtown Monroe, Michigan. As of September 2021 we have closed the store to the the public and have transitioned to on-line selling only. We are diligently (most days) trying to add hundreds & hundreds of (so far ignored) books in two storage units along with the new books left in our inventory. This is gonna take awhile - stay tuned.
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- Edges
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