Ski Pup
by Don Freeman
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good +/No Jacket
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
$20.00$14.00
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About This Item
New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1963 The Viking Press, New York. 1963. Hardcover. Weekly Reader Children's Book Club Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; light shelfwear to head, tail, and tips; scuff area on lower rear tip. No DJ. Full-color pictorial boards and spine with white lettering on the spine and front board. Pictorial full-color endpapers. Hugo, a trained St. Bernard rescue dog, grew restless in his lonely dog house on the mountain where he watched for skiers in trouble. His droopy eyes droop lower, until one day he sees a small boy lose his comrades. Hugo rushes to his aid, and, shortly the mortified dog finds himself in goggles and ski-cap, going down hill on one ski. Hugo recovers and helps lead other skiers back up a hill to rescue the young boy. Hot chocolate abounds and Hugo is proven to be a good rescue dog. A clean very presentable copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016581
- Title
- Ski Pup
- Author
- Don Freeman
- Illustrator
- Don Freeman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1963
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12"
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- skiing, rescue animals, rescue dogs, St. Bernard rescue dogs, Tino Pedotti, Hugo, adolescent fiction, animal fiction, snow story, rescue story, children's fiction,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Animal Stories; 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.
Glossary
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- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.