Humpy
by YERSHOV, P. (translated by William C. White)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966. Copyright . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Jacqueline Ayer. dj (top price clipped), edges slightly worn and chipped, piece missing from back flap, some rubbing on folds and spine is faded, book is bound in green cloth (Library binding - but is not ex-library), endpapers lightly foxed, small mark on the lower edge of page 5, else vg. sm 4to, 72pp. An old Russian tale about Ivan, the simple fool who outwits his older, cleverer brothers with the help of Humpy, the magic little humpbacked horse.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mad Hatter Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19D22
- Title
- Humpy
- Author
- YERSHOV, P. (translated by William C. White)
- Illustrator
- Jacqueline Ayer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Copyright
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace & World
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1966
- Keywords
- Children's & Young Adult, Folklore
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's - Fairy Tales and Folklore;
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About the Seller
Mad Hatter Books
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Auckland
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...