Dance in the Desert
by L'ENGLE, Madeleine
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0374316848
- ISBN 13
- 9780374316846
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1982. Hardcover. 0374316848 . Stated third printing, 1982. Madeleine L'Engle's book is a children's fantasy, in which a family with a small toddler crossing the desert encounter a dancing lion and other creatures. With Symeon Shimin's eye-catching color illustrations throughout and endpapers. This work first published in 1969. --- In full orange cloth-covered boards with spine titling in black. Volume wrapped in dust jacket with Shimin illustrations to cover. --- An about-Near Fine copy: clean, tightly-bound and bright but with prior owner's rubberstamping to front free endpaper. Price-clipped jacket with retailer's back-panel sticker, else newish and bright.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; c.40 pp pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87670
- Title
- Dance in the Desert
- Author
- L'ENGLE, Madeleine
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0374316848
- ISBN 13
- 9780374316846
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1982
- Keywords
- 0374316848
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Bluebird Books
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Littleton, Colorado
About Bluebird Books
Bluebird Books is the bookselling business of Eric Mayer, operating from my base in Littleton, Colorado. I specialize in classic fiction and literature, books on birds and natural history, railroadiana, biography, history and many other genres. Bluebird Books features publications by the Modern Library and Everyman's Library. I offer free shipping on books shipped within the US via USPS Media Mail. INTERNATIONAL ORDERS: I recommend that you use Biblio.com for your international orders because they have formed a partnership with Asendia to allow for much more affordable shipping on parcels weighing under 5 lb. (about 2.26 kg).
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- Fine
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