Farmer Boy
by Ingalls Wilder, Laura
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Row. Good in Good dust jacket. ©1961. Reprint. Hardcover. 372 p. 21 cm. Possibly a book club edition. Sound and square binding in illustrated boards. Light wear to the corners and spine ends. A couple of tiny dings to board edges. A little soil to text block edges. Front free endpaper has been removed. Otherwise, inside pages are clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has wear to the spine ends and corners. Some crinkling and creases along the edges. Both front flap corners are clipped. One of the series of books that tells the story of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her husband Almanzo. They one focuses on Almanzo's life as a boy and youth. .
Synopsis
Farmer Boy is a children's historical novel by Laura Ingalls Wilder. First published in 1933, it is the second book in the nine part Little House series, also known as "The Laura Years". Although it was the second book written, Farmer Boy is usually read third in the series, following Little House on the Prairie. Farmer Boy is based on the childhood of Laura's husband, Almanzo Wilder, who grew up in the 1860's near the town of Burke in upstate New York.
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Details
- Seller
- Homeward Bound Books (CA)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 5557
- Title
- Farmer Boy
- Author
- Ingalls Wilder, Laura
- Illustrator
- Garth Williams
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- ©1961
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's - Series;
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Homeward Bound Books
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Campbellcroft, Ontario
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...