Swine Lake
by James Marshall; Maurice Sendak
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/fine
- ISBN 10
- 0062051717
- ISBN 13
- 9780062051714
- Seller
-
Gridley, California, United States
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About This Item
[New York]: Harper Collins, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Maurice Sendak. A fine first edition in a fine dustjacket. .Blue cloth boards. Gilt title stamping on spine. Pages are clean and bright. Unpaginated. 8 x 9 inches tall, octavo. When a lean & mangy wolf stumbles into the Boarshoi Ballet, he finds tasty pigs a-plenty, twirling & whirling in a performance of Swine Lake. Faced with all those luscious porkers, what's a hungry wolf to do? Well, something totally surprising, as it turns out. Pure fun from Marshall & Sendak-an incomparable duo!" ---Google Books
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Details
- Bookseller
- Uncommon Works (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 883
- Title
- Swine Lake
- Author
- James Marshall; Maurice Sendak
- Illustrator
- Maurice Sendak
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0062051717
- ISBN 13
- 9780062051714
- Publisher
- Harper Collins
- Place of Publication
- [New York]
- Date Published
- 1999
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books;
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About the Seller
Uncommon Works
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Gridley, California
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Glossary
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- 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....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...