GAY-NECK The Story of a Pigeon
by Mukerji, Dhan Gopal (1890-1936)
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Denver, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
E. P. Dutton. HARDCOVER. Good. No dust jacket. Former owner name on half title page. A bit of foxing throughout. Binding shaken but still intact, pages lightly toned. No other markings found. Glit on boards rubbed but still visible. Red cloth covered boards rubbed with fray, sunned-especially at spine. Extremities lightly bumped and rubbed with small tears.
Synopsis
Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon is a 1928 children's novel by Dhan Gopal Mukerji that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1928. It deals with the life of Gay Neck, a prized Indian pigeon. Mukerji wrote that "the message implicit in the book is that man and winged animals are brothers. " He stated that much of the book is based on his boyhood experiences with a flock of forty pigeons and their leader, as the boy in the book is Mukerji himself.
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- Bookseller
- Artless Missals (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU1012555
- Title
- GAY-NECK The Story of a Pigeon
- Author
- Mukerji, Dhan Gopal (1890-1936)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- E. P. Dutton
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