Growing Up
by de Schweinitz, Karl
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Good
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Macmillan, 1932. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Later printing.. New York: Macmillan, 1932. Later printing. Fine/Good. Very clean book in original unclipped dust jacket. Clean blue cloth boards with stamped black lettering on cover and spine. No fading, bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean blank endpapers. No names, writing or marks. Frontispiece is black and white reproduction of a painting by Ralph Peacock ("Out of the Everywhere"). Wonderfully illustrated with drawings and photographs. 111 pages. Illustrated dust jacket has chips at spine ends, tinier shallow chips elsewhere, wear at fold edges. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A confident, unruffled explanation of sex, birth and growing up - in both the plant and animal kingdom -- clearly and realistically explained in a serene manner and with excellent illustrations..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 026196
- Title
- Growing Up
- Author
- de Schweinitz, Karl
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- Later printing.
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1932
- Keywords
- CHILDREN'S SEX EDUCATION, BIRTH, GROWING UP, KARL DE SCHWEINITZ
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's;
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About the Seller
Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Stanley, New York
About Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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