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The Big Book of Favorite Dog Stories
by Florence Peterson
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0822826402
- ISBN 13
- 9780822826408
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Platt and Munk, 1964 Platt and Munk, New York. c1964. Hardcover. Edition not stated. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; bumping to head and tail; light soiling to text block edges. DJ: Good +; NOT Price Clipped ($5.95) on a foil sticker; chipping to head and tail; light rubbing to panels. Red buckram boards and spine with bright black lettering on the spine with collie picture on the front board. 334 pp 8vo. This book of 30 dog stories by famous authors is a variety of selections from the purely romantic, to the purely zany- "name it, and if it is canine, you will probably find it in these pages." Here are heroic and thrilling adventures, fascinating accounts of uncanny instinct, tender stories of love and devotion. Steinbeck, London, Thurber, Kipling, and others. A clean very presentable copy in a brodart mylar jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013159
- Title
- The Big Book of Favorite Dog Stories
- Author
- Florence Peterson
- Illustrator
- Hamilton Greene
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0822826402
- ISBN 13
- 9780822826408
- Publisher
- Platt and Munk
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1964
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- dog stories, canine stories, animal stories, anthology of dog stories, John Steinbeck, Lassie, Garm, Jack London, Eric Knight, James Thurber, Ernest Thompson Seton, Marguerite Henry
- Bookseller catalogs
- Animal Stories;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- 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...
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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