The Great Ker-plunk: A Story For Children By A Celebrated Storyteller
by King, Alexander
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Farmington Hills, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
New York: Simon and Schuster. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1962. First Edition. First Printing; Hardcover. Oblong shaped hardcover is pink with black lettering on spine. Turquoise endpapers with b/w drawing of a seal. Pages are clean and tight. Pages not numbered. Stated first printing on copyright page. Extensively illustrated with turquoise, pink, black and white drawings throughout the book. Charming juvenile story of a seal who is a virtuoso at music; playing all kinds of music and many different instruments. ; Color Illustrations; 10 1/4 x 7 1/4; Unpaginated pages; Cover has light bumping, shelf wear. DJ has shelf wear, bumping, front flap price clipped, sunning, multiple closed tears and nicks front and back, but is intact; in a mylar cover. .
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- Bookseller
- Pegasusbooks.biz
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5498
- Title
- The Great Ker-plunk: A Story For Children By A Celebrated Storyteller
- Author
- King, Alexander
- Illustrator
- Robin King
- Format/Binding
- First Printing; Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1962
- Keywords
- Juvenile;, Juvenile Fantasy;, Juvenile Animal Stories;, Animal Stories;, Children's Literature ;, Animal Stories;, Fiction;, Juvenile Fiction:, Art;
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
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