Make Way For Ducklings
by McCloskey, Robert
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0670451495
- ISBN 13
- 9780670451494
- Seller
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Haw River, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
The Viking Press, Inc., 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. McCloskey, Robert. No dustjacket. Minor wear to front and back cover. Light rubbing/bumping to corners. Otherwise, book is crisp and clean, binding is tight.
Synopsis
Make Way for Ducklings is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Robert McCloskey. First published in 1941, the book tells the story of a pair of mallard ducks who decide to raise their family on an island in the lagoon in Boston Public Garden, a park in the center of Boston, Massachusetts. Make Way for Ducklings won the 1942 Caldecott Medal for McCloskey's illustrations, executed in charcoal then lithographed on zinc plates. As of 2003, the book had sold over two million copies.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Red Owl Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001399
- Title
- Make Way For Ducklings
- Author
- McCloskey, Robert
- Illustrator
- McCloskey, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0670451495
- ISBN 13
- 9780670451494
- Publisher
- The Viking Press, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1969
- Keywords
- Duck stories -- Fiction.
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About the Seller
Red Owl Books
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Haw River, North Carolina
About Red Owl Books
I specialize in hand-picked, children's used books. Children's books have always been my passion. Stories about Family Values; Inner Strength & Peace; our Earth Mother & her Creatures; Legends & Folklore of all kinds are a sample of the types of books I want to share. Many adults (including me), need these stories as much as our children do. Touched by the illustrators' beautiful work, the author's heartfelt words- I gather the books that move me and offer them to you.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...