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Lassie Come-Home
by Eric Knight
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Gleneden Beach, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Chicago: John C. Winston, 1942. Eighth Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Marguerite Kirmse. May 1942 Eight Printing stated, one of the most famous of all dog books, an all time classic, 248 pages, Book is at least Very Good plus, previous owner bookplate on second free page and name on first free page, ultra clean bright yellow cloth with black title to spine, nice peach colored top stain, great illustration of Lassie on front board, excellent black and white illustrations throughout, map end papers of England and Scotland with the journey marked in red, book tight and square with sharp corners. Jacket is at least Good plus, fantastic illustration on front cover, light chipping to corners and edges, with 1.5 inch loss to head, slight loss to heel of spine, shows nicely in a new mylar sleeve. Ultra clean and most presentable edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
Reviews
On Jun 22 2011, Samandtweet said:
This is a very touching and wonderful book. I read it many many times as a child and it was my inspiration for getting a collie of my own
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pacific Coast Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002818
- Title
- Lassie Come-Home
- Author
- Eric Knight
- Illustrator
- Marguerite Kirmse
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Eighth Printing
- Publisher
- John C. Winston
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1942
- Keywords
- Lassie, Children's books, Children's Classics
Terms of Sale
Pacific Coast Books
10 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 10 days after delivery if an item arrives mis-described or damaged.
About the Seller
Pacific Coast Books
Biblio member since 2015
Gleneden Beach, Oregon
About Pacific Coast Books
Pacific Coast Books specializes in quality of books of interest from our store on the Central Oregon Coast. We are proud members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and have been buying and selling books for almost 20 years. Visit our website at www.Pacifc CoastBooks.net. Please feel free to call or email with any titles you would like to add to your collection. Only a small fraction of our inventory is online. We buy book collections.
Glossary
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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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
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