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The Adventures of Prickly Porky
by Thornton W. Burgess
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Salem, Oregon, United States
Item Price
A$37.96A$28.47
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown, 1919. Hardcover. Fair. Harrison Cady. Vintage book, early printing. Fair condition, missing dust jacket. Cloth covered boards with black and red illustration on front, black print on spine. Boards lightly soiled, wear and fraying with bumps. Old bookstore stamp on front paste down; prior ownerÕs name on front free end paper, partially erased. Full page black and white illustrations on glossy paper, tipped-in; all illustrations present. Pages show dirty fingerprints. Pages and boards show damp stain on edges. Little, Brown hard cover, missing dust jacket; first edition Sept. 1916, but later 1919 printing. 116 pages. Illustrations by Harrison Cady. 12mo (4.5"" X 6.75"") 13th in the Bedtime Story-Books series. A stranger from the North Woods has just arrived in the Green Forest causing a great stir among the woodland creatures who live there. They quickly discover that this odd fellow with the barbed spikes in his fur is the loyal and brave Prickly Porky the Porcupine. Not long after Prickly Porky arrives, a bit of early morning fun leads to a forest mystery that draws friends and foes alike into the investigation of an unknown headless, tailless, whirling creature seen only at sunrise on the hill by Prickly Porky's home.
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- Bookseller
- Bujoldfan
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 05132112storybook13ar
- Title
- The Adventures of Prickly Porky
- Author
- Thornton W. Burgess
- Illustrator
- Harrison Cady
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Little, Brown
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1919
- Pages
- 116
- Size
- 12mo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Bedtime Story Books
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classic Childrens books;
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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...
- 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....
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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