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THE MIDDLE MOFFAT
by Estes, Eleanor
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good / Good Plus
- Seller
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Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Good Plus. Louis Slobodkin. Octavo, 8.2 in. x 5.7 in., pp. 317. Generously illustrated with ink drawings by Louis Slobodkin. Copyright page has "I" indicating first printing. "$2.00" to front dustjacket flap. Blue cloth boards with paste-down drawing of family on beige paper to front, and paste-down title and Moffat character on beige paper to spine. Light shelfwear to edges; front, bottom corner lightly nudged. Unmarked interior. Rubbing to dustjacket edges, with chips to top/bottom of spine and corners and small closed tears and creasing to rear panel edges. Protected in mylar. A Newberry Honor Award-winining book in 1943.
Synopsis
Who is Jane Moffat, anyway? She isn't the youngest in the family, and she isn't the oldest-she is always just Jane. How boring. So Jane decides to become a figure of mystery ... the mysterious "Middle Moffat." But being in the middle is a lot harder than it looks. In between not rescuing stray dogs, and losing and finding best friends, Jane must secretly look after the oldest inhabitant of Cranbury...so he can live to be one hundred. Between brushing her hair from her eyes and holding up her stockings, she has to help the girls' basketball team win the championship. And it falls to Jane-the only person in town with enough courage-to stand up to the frightful mechanical wizard, Wallie Bangs. Jane is so busy keeping Cranbury in order that she barely has time to be plain old Jane. Sometimes the middle is the most exciting place of all.... Eleanor Estes's beloved Moffats stories are being published in new editions as Odyssey/Harcourt Young Classics. The original interior illustrations have been retained, but handsome new cover art by Tricia Tusa gives the books a fresh, timeless appeal for today's readers.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aardvark Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87015
- Title
- THE MIDDLE MOFFAT
- Author
- Estes, Eleanor
- Illustrator
- Louis Slobodkin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good / Good Plus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1942
- Keywords
- Newberry Honor Award
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Glossary
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- 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....
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
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