The Big Fish
by Johnson, Barbara Greenough
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Little Brown. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. 1959. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 44 p. 26 cm. Parent's Magazine Book Club seal on jacket and lower board. Sound and square binding in green, cloth-covered boards. Faded along all edges. Bottom fore-corners lightly bumped. Endpapers slightly toned. Inside pages are clean and unmarked. Dustjacket has edgewear, including chips, tears, creases. Spine faded and stained. Light overall soil. A boy tells his sisters stories of his deep woods adventures in northern Quebec with his father. Two colour pencil illustrations. .
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Details
- Seller
- Homeward Bound Books (CA)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 4657
- Title
- The Big Fish
- Author
- Johnson, Barbara Greenough
- Illustrator
- Mary Greenough Means
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Publisher
- Little Brown
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1959
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's - Picture Books;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Homeward Bound Books
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Campbellcroft, Ontario
About Homeward Bound Books
Homeward Bound Books is an online bookshop operated from our home in the Municipality of Port Hope, Ontario. We specialize in children's and illustrated books – collectible and reading copies; and local histories, particularly for Ontario. We also stock a selection of collectable mystery fiction, ephemera, and any other titles we find interesting or unusual. We have thousands of books yet to be catalogued. So, please contact us to be added to our client list, and we will let you know when we have books of interest to you. It is our pleasure to send books homeward bound -- from our shelves to yours.
Glossary
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- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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....