Baby Sister for Frances
by Hoban, Russell
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Torrington, Connecticut, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Harper & Row, 1964 Pictorial boards with cloth spine, light soil and foxing to boards and endpapers, bookplate removed from front endpaper and offsetting to FFEP; matching dust jacket with minor wear and two small edge tears, price clipped. The follow-up to Bedtime for Frances. Frances feels left out because of the new addition to the family, so he decides to run away. A perennial favorite. The jacket price is necessary to determine the first edition as jackets with $2.50 & $2.95 prices are identical in every other way.. Probable First Edition. Pictorial Boards. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Lillian Hoban. 4to.
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Details
- Bookseller
- E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009092
- Title
- Baby Sister for Frances
- Author
- Hoban, Russell
- Illustrator
- Lillian Hoban
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Probable First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1964
- Size
- 4to
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- badgers, Bedtime for Frances
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anthropormorphism;
Terms of Sale
E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA
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About the Seller
E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA
Biblio member since 2004
Torrington, Connecticut
About E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA
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- 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...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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....