TALE OF A SHIPWRECK
by Hall, James Norman
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934. 164 pp. Blue cloth covers w/ rear cover lightly scuffed. Spine sunned. Title label on spine lightly chipped to bottom edge. Light foxing to endpapers. Illust. w/ b/w plates. Contents nice. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by W. Alister MacDonald. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Shoemaker Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13134CH
- Title
- TALE OF A SHIPWRECK
- Author
- Hall, James Norman
- Illustrator
- W. Alister MacDonald
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston and New York
- Date Published
- 1934
- Keywords
- Children's Books, Juvenile Books, Children's Stories, Fiction, Ships, Shipwrecks, Illustrated, W. Alister MacDonald
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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About the Seller
Shoemaker Booksellers
Biblio member since 2007
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
About Shoemaker Booksellers
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