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The Cable Car and the Dragon
by Caen, Herb
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/very good
- Seller
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Newark, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. Byfield, Barbara Ninde. Oblong 8vo. Unpaged. Bound in full yellow, illustrated, cloth, illustrated endpapers, in matching dust jacket. Full-color illustrations by Barbara Ninde Byfield. Very Good+, minor age-toning to front free endpaper, rubbing and wear to extremities of binding in Very Good-, sunning to spine, chipping and tears to head of spine, light rubbing and soiling.
Synopsis
This is the tale of the adventures of Charlie, the youngest cable car in San Francisco. He finds himself terribly bored with his routine, and hears the amazing noise of Chinese New Year happening away from his normal route. He meets Chu Chin Chow, a dragon, is also bored with his job, and decides to give him a ride.
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- Bookseller
- Garnet Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001831
- Title
- The Cable Car and the Dragon
- Author
- Caen, Herb
- Illustrator
- Byfield, Barbara Ninde
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1972
- Bookseller catalogs
- CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Garnet Books
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About Garnet Books
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- First Edition
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