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Crossing to Safety
by Stegner, Wallace
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0394562003
- ISBN 13
- 9780394562001
- Seller
-
Portland, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Random House, 1987. First Edition, Fourth Printing. Hardcover in cloth-backed orange paper with author's initials stamped on cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A near fine, mint copy of a first edition, the larger format than later printings. Dust jacket is also near fine. Former owner's surname in red marker pen on the FFEP.
This book will ship in a new Brodart cover.
This book will ship in a new Brodart cover.
Synopsis
Anna Sewell was born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, on March 30, 1820. Brought up in a strict Quaker family, Anna developed a strong interest in horses as a young girl. But a crippling bone disease and a fall in 1834 left her an invalid for most of her life. By her mid-thirties she was severely lame and could only get around in a pony cart, and characteristically she would never use a whip on the animal. In 1871, she was told she had eighteen months to live, and by the end of that year, she had begun her book, Black Beauty , hoping it might make people a little kinder to their faithful horses. Although she was seriously ill, she lived long enough to finish her book and see it published in 1877. On April 25, 1878, she died at her home in Old Catton near Norwich, England. Black Beauty , an enormous success from its first appearance, was soon adopted by the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and used to improve the conditions of horses everywhere. Meg Rosoff was born in Boston, USA. She has worked in publishing, public relations and most recently advertising, but thinks the best job in the world would be head gardener for Regents Park. Meg lives in Highbury, North London. She is the author of Just in Case, What I Was and How I Live Now .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Librariana Fine Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 815
- Title
- Crossing to Safety
- Author
- Stegner, Wallace
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover in cloth-backed orange paper with author's initials stamped on cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, Fourth Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394562003
- ISBN 13
- 9780394562001
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1987
- Bookseller catalogs
- FINE BOOKS;
Terms of Sale
Librariana Fine Books
- Any item may be returned within 10 days for any reason. Items should be return shipped insured and with prior notice at the owner's expense. It must arrive in the same condition as originally shipped.
- All items have Mylar protection on the dust jacket or are presented in sleeves whenever possible.
About the Seller
Librariana Fine Books
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Portland, Oregon
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Beginning with fine books, and extending to other "librariana" - art, antiques and collectibles that make a space a library. We also repair books, and consult with home owners, organizations and bookstore owners looking to make their bookspaces into purposeful sanctuaries.
Whether your bookspace is a corner shelf in a bedroom, or a grand corporate space for meetings and work, Librariana can help "improve your library".
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- Fine
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- Jacket
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- Brodart
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- 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...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
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