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The Scowly-Growly Tiger
by Betty Matheis
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
£36.38£25.46
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About This Item
Fort Lauderdale, FL: Allied Publications, 1963 Allied Publications, Fort Lauderdale, FL. 1963. Hardcover. First Edition (NAP). Book is tight, square, and unmarked except for a child's name on the presentation page. Book Condition: Very Good; light wear to head, tail, and tips. DJ: Good; NOT Price Clipped ($1.00); missing small piece at the head; closed tears and wear at tips, head, and tail; chipping and tape repairs to panels; archival tape repairs to reverse. Pictorial laminate boards with a tiger that match the DJ; black lettering on the spine and front board. Pictorial endpapers. Non-paginated 4to. This story features a Tiger who is tired of being a Tiger and wants to be like other creatures that lead an easier life but he later finds out that he would rather be a Tiger. Full of wonderful sounds and rhymes and teaching the art of being happy and content (with one's self). A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket. Due to size, no international shipping.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010128
- Title
- The Scowly-Growly Tiger
- Author
- Betty Matheis
- Illustrator
- Mary Richards Gibson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Allied Publications
- Place of Publication
- Fort Lauderdale, FL
- Date Published
- 1963
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12"
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- children's books, adolescent books, rhyme books, animal stories, concepts books, Tiger stories, memorization teaching,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Animal Stories; Adolescent/Childrens Books;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- 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...
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