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Big Red: The Story of a Champion Irish Setter and a Trapper's Son Who Grew Up Together, Roaming the Wilderness
by Jim Kjelgaard
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good
- Seller
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GAHANNA, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Holiday House, New York, 1956, 28th printing. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Kuhn, Bob (illustrator). New Edition. Hardcover binding clean square and tight. Former library sticker ffep, else clean and tight interior. DJ clean and crisp. Protected now with clean Brodart jacket. 254 pages with b/w drawings throughout. Text is clean and unmarked. Possible ex-library edition. Danny is only a trapper's son; as much as he wants the beautiful Irish Setter Big Red, the dog is a champion and out of his reach. Then Danny is given the job of showing the show dog the way of the woods, and the two develop a wonderful relationship. Made into a Walt Disney movie.
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- Bookseller
- Select Tomes
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 100120
- Title
- Big Red
- Author
- Jim Kjelgaard
- Illustrator
- Bob Kuhn
- Format/Binding
- Green cloth over boards, red lettering embossed on front cover with title and author's name. Hinges tight., w/ d.j.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Holiday House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1956
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Children's literature, Dog Story
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's literature;
- Size
- 5 3/4 X 8
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GAHANNA, Ohio
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I am making available selections from my collection of eclectic, historical and sometimes rare books. My collection includes historical novels, cookbooks, textbooks and children's books along with other ephemera.
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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