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A Hole Is To Dig A First Book of First Definitions by Ruth Krauss - 1952

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A Hole Is To Dig  A First Book of First Definitions by Ruth Krauss - 1952

A Hole Is To Dig A First Book of First Definitions

by Ruth Krauss

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USA: Harper & Row, 1952. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Maurice Sendak. 1952 Copyright, later printing with SBN No. 060234059. Book with light green background and black cloth binding. Clean with no writing or remainder mark. Green illustrated endpapers and pastedowns. No pagination. 6 3/4" x 5 5/16". 24 leaves with 2 free endpapers. No. 30-70 on bottom corner of dust jacket. Heavy stock paper pages in nice condition. Two tiny indents on bottom edges and wear area of approx. 1" on top edge. Dust jacket with paper wear on spine and rubbing to extremities. Clipped price corners.

  • Bookseller Independent bookstores US (US)
  • Illustrator Maurice Sendak
  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Used - Very Good
  • Jacket Condition Very Good
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  • ISBN 10 0060234059
  • ISBN 13 9780060234058
  • Publisher Harper & Row
  • Place of Publication USA
  • Date Published 1952
  • Size 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
  • Keywords Children, fiction
  • Size 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall

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A Hole Is to Dig

A Hole Is to Dig

by Ruth Krauss

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HarperCollins Publishers, 1952. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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A Hole Is to Dig

by Ruth Krauss; Illustrator-Maurice Sendak

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HarperCollins, 1952-09-03. Hardcover. Used: Good. Excellent customer service. Prompt Customer Service.
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A Hole is to Dig

by Krauss, Ruth

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New York: Harper & Roe, Publishers, 1952. Clean , crisp and tight.. Has black binding with pictorial boards. Grrrr appears on page 23. Price is 2.95 on jacket flap Code is 30-70. Jacket has chips and tears with some colored pencil marks to the back. Still looks good in new mylar.. Hardcover. Collectible-Very Good/Fair. Illus. by Sendak, Maurice. Children's Picture.
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A HOLE IS TO DIG  (DJ Protected by a Brand New, Clear, Acid-Free Mylar  Cover)

A HOLE IS TO DIG (DJ Protected by a Brand New, Clear, Acid-Free Mylar Cover)

by Krauss, Ruth; Maurice Sendak

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Harpercollins. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1952. First Edition; Early Printing. Hardcover. 0060234059 . ; Pictorial cover has light wear to corners and spine caps and very faint abrasions where 4 small pieces of tape were removed. This is NOT an ex-library book. Pages clean and pristine except for former owner's name stamped on front end sheet. Book has never been cracked open. From the private collection of Dr. Vera E. Milz, a children's book reviewer for several publishers. Interior text is brown with black illustrations with "Grr-r-r". Dust jacket has modest soiling and a couple of short tears that were repaired on the underside of jacket at some point. Harper Crest gold foil label on spine otherwise jacket is in overall very good condition. DJ flap is clipped in upper corner with publisher's price of net $2.57 on lower DJ flap along with 30-70 code. DJ protected by a brand new, clear, acid-free mylar cover. We add mylar covers to all books with DJs to… Read More
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A Hole is to Dig; A First Book of First Definitions

A Hole is to Dig; A First Book of First Definitions

by Krauss, Ruth (Illustrated and Annotated by Maurice Sendack.)

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New York: Harper & Row [0-06-023405-9] [copyright date 1952], later printing (c. 1970). (Hardcover) Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. Previous owner's name. Illustrated and Annotated by Maurice Sendack. (Juvenile).
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A HOLE IS TO DIG

A HOLE IS TO DIG

by Ruth Krauss Maurice Sendak

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New York: Harpercollins. 1952. Later Printing. Hardcover. 0060234059 . Near Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Chip at spine crown. Pictures by Maurice Sendak. ; 6.5 X 5.3 X 0.5 inches; 48 pages .
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A Hole Is to Dig

by Krauss, Ruth; Sendak, Maurice [Illustrator]

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by Krauss, Ruth; Maurice Sendak

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Harpercollins. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1952. First Edition; Early Printing. Hardcover. 0060234059 . ; Half black cloth with green pictorial covered boards has light wear to corners, spine caps, and bottom edge but clean, bright, and in very good+ condition. Pages clean and pristine Interior text is brown with black illustrations with "Grr-r-r". Dust jacket is frayed at corners with very short tears along spine panel with very modest soiling but bright and in overall very good condition. DJ flap is clipped in lower corner with publisher's price of $1.95 on upper corner. DJ protected by a brand new, clear, acid-free mylar cover. We add mylar covers to all books with DJs to preserve the DJs and add luster to magnify their beauty. (If pictured, shown without the mylar cover for an accurate representation of dust jacket. ); 6.5 X 5.3 X 0.5 inches; 48 pages .
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A Hole Is to Dig

by Ruth Krauss

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New York: Harper Collins, 1980. Reissued Edition (1980.) Hardcover with dust jacket. 12mo with 48 pages. Signed by Maurice Sendak on a Storyopolis book plate on front free end paper. The book and dust jacket are in very good condition with very slight shelf wear. Interior is clean and tight. Profusely illustrated. Pictures available upon request. Green spine/black text. #033971. Signed. Reissued Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Maurice Sendak. 12mo. Children's Book.
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