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Mrs Peregrine and the Yak
by Burns, Esther
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good+/No Jacket
- Seller
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Green Valley, Arizona, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Henry Holt & Co., 1938. First Edition. Pictorial Hard Cover. Good+/No Jacket. Wilkin, Eloise. SIGNED BY ESTHER BURNS on front free endpaper, and inscribed "for Nancy" (this book is from the estate of Nancy Carroll Draper, a well-known philanthropist). Unpaginated. Color and b/w illustrations. Black and red text. Pictorial endpapers with a poem by Hillaire Belloc on front and rear free endpapers. Seven pages have some small tan spots in bottom margins (not foxing). Endpapers have some browning from publisher's glue seepage (appears similar to age toning). Binding is tight. Pictorial covers with blue cloth spine. Cover edges are age-toned and lightly rubbed. Cover corners are rubbed to boards. Top front cover edge has a small bumped spot, and two tiny chafe marks near spine. Top spine edge has tiny chips; bottom spine edge is missing a small diagonal piece. Cloth is torn along rear spine edge, but spine is still intact, and is age-toned. Spine also has a small tear about 1-1/4 inches from bottom.. Selling online since 1999. Quick shipping; Secure packing!
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- Bookseller
- LJ's Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Biblio10
- Title
- Mrs Peregrine and the Yak
- Author
- Burns, Esther
- Illustrator
- Wilkin, Eloise
- Format/Binding
- Pictorial Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Henry Holt & Co.
- Date Published
- 1938
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's/Picture Books; Signed Books;
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About the Seller
LJ's Books
Biblio member since 2003
Green Valley, Arizona
About LJ's Books
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- Inscribed
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- First Edition
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- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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