Through Grandpa's Eyes
by Patricia MacLachlan
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0060240431
- ISBN 13
- 9780060240431
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
$10.00$7.00
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York, NY: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1979 Harper and Row, Publishers, New York. 1979. Hardcover/Library Binding. First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; light shelfwear to board bottoms. DJ: Good; NOT Price Clipped ($10.95); cosed tears on front wrap top and bottom; toning to panels; chipping to rear panel at top. Ivory buckram boards and spine with brown lettering on the spine and front board; color picture of child and grandpa on front board. Non-Paginated 8vo. John loves Grandpa's house the best because he sees it through Grandpa's eyes. He is blind but has his own way of seeing. Using his sense of tough, smell, and hearing he introduces John to a totally new way of "seeing" the world. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012215
- Title
- Through Grandpa's Eyes
- Author
- Patricia MacLachlan
- Illustrator
- Deborah Ray
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0060240431
- ISBN 13
- 9780060240431
- Publisher
- Harper and Row, Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1979
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- blindness, senses, natural senses, sense of smell, sense of tough, sense of smell, Grandpa, sight, seeing by feel, elderly, children's book
- Bookseller catalogs
- Adolescent/Childrens Books;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- 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...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Price Clipped
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- 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....
- 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...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...