THE BORROWERS AFIELD
by NORTON, Mary
- Used
- first
- Condition
- About fine
- Seller
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New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1955. First American edition. About fine. Octavo. Bright green cloth, lettered and decorated in black. 215,[3] pp. Illustrated throughout text by Beth and Joe Krush. Tiny ink speck on lower edge, else about fine, in a very good or better dust jacket with a light pencil mark on the lower panel. The further adventures of Pod, Homily, and the adorable Arrietty who we first met in the wonderful The Borrowers (1952).
Synopsis
Driven from their home in the big house, Pod, Homily, and Arrietty take up life in a boot.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Second Wind Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 501
- Title
- THE BORROWERS AFIELD
- Author
- NORTON, Mary
- Book Condition
- Used - About fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1955
- Keywords
- Fantasy
Terms of Sale
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About Second Wind Books LLC
Second Wind Books is committed to offering important British and American first editions in the Modernist vein, with an emphasis on books about books, books by and about women and adjacent admirers. Literature, poetry, small and fine press, letters and manuscripts, original artwork, photographs, are what interests us most. Our founder began bookselling under the tutelage of a truly great bookman in 2006, and is now offering that learned expertise in her own shop. Interested in offers of literature from 1900 to 1950, either for sale or to evaluate.
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- POD
- A book which is printed by special order. Often a paperback printing, reproduced by scanning or photocopying the text from a...