A Back-Fence Story: The Adventures of a Family of City Cats
by Augusta Walker
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/fine
- Seller
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Bordentown, New Jersey, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Knopf, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Firts edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover in ochre colored paper covered boards decorated in gilt over green cloth spine lettered in gilt. 145 pp. Illustrated with full page drawings by David Stone Martin. An engaging chronicle that concerns three generations of cats and their provider, Ann, a single woman with a ground-floor apartment and a back yard.
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- Bookseller
- The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ) (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- E21963
- Title
- A Back-Fence Story: The Adventures of a Family of City Cats
- Author
- Augusta Walker
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1967
- Keywords
- cats, pets, animals, feline,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Animals;
Terms of Sale
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
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About the Seller
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
Biblio member since 2005
Bordentown, New Jersey
About The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown is a general used/rare bookshop open to the public Tues.-Sunday 11AM to 5PM (8 PM on Fridays). 10,000 books on premises with another 25,000 in stock. Areas of speciality include baseball, New Jersey, American literature, mysteries. Member, ABAA, ILAB,Antiquarian Booksellers of New Jersey. Located in historic Bordentown City, New Jeresy (est. 1682).
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