Missouri Canary
by Stong, Phil. Illustrated By Kurt Wiese
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1943. First edition, 1943. Engaging World War II era story of how two young Iowa boys, with their mule named Missouri Canary, assisted the US Army in some stateside war practice along the Des Moines River. Illustrated throughout with Weise's drawings in both color and in black and white. Brightly colored illustrated hardcover with black cloth spine, red cover lettering, color frontis, seventy-eight pages, matching illustrated dustjacket. Illustrated in both color and black and white. The book is in very good condition with light conspicuous edgewear, including surface rubbing at its extreme cover edges, rubbed bottom right corners at front and rear, sound text block, good hinges, clean pages with no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped and is also in very good condition with heavily rubbed joints and chipped spine ends, minor additional edgewear. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018949
- Title
- Missouri Canary
- Author
- Stong, Phil. Illustrated By Kurt Wiese
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1943
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- COWBOY STORIES BOYS CHILDREN AMERICAN MIDWEST RURAL WAR PRACTICE GAMES IOWA DES MOINES RIVER MULE RAMBUNCIOUSNESS MILITARY THEMES COUNTRY FARM LIFE YOUNG BOYS GROUPS MISTAKEN IDENTITY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books;
Terms of Sale
Resource Books, LLC
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About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2004
East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
Resource Books, LLC deals in antiquarian and out-of-print books in a wide variety of subject matter, mainly non-fiction.
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- 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....
- Rubbing
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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...
- Cloth
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- First Edition
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