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The Whistling Stallion (Famous Horse Stories)
by Stephen Holt (Harlan Thompson)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good +/Fair
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
£8.00£5.60
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York, NY: Grosset and Dunlap, 1951 Grosset and Dunlap, New York. c1951. Hardcover. Edition/Printing not stated. Grosset and Dunlap Famous Horse Stories #2295. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Good +; shelfwear to head, tail, tips, and board bottom edges. DJ: Fair; NOT Price Clipped ($1.95); missing small pieces at head and tail; wear at tips; edge bumping along top edge of DJ. Blue twill paper over boards with blue lettering and designs on spine; horseshoe on front board in blue. Blue tinted textblock top. 211 pp 8vo. Roy Bell grew up on the family ranch in Alberta and when his father passed, Roy tries to save the ranch. He feedlots some of the neighbor's cattle but runs into difficulties especially when a blizzard hits and the cattle are lost. Throughout the story runs the happy thread of the boy's relation to a wild golden horse, the Whistler. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016559
- Title
- The Whistling Stallion (Famous Horse Stories)
- Author
- Stephen Holt (Harlan Thompson)
- Illustrator
- Pers Crowell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Grosset and Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1951
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- The Whistling Stallion, adolescent fiction, horse stories, horse fiction, Canadian cattle ranch, cattle ranches, The Whistler, Ranch life, cattle raising, orphan,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Adolescent/Childrens Books; Canadian Items;
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.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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