Horse on a Houseboat
by Bannon, Laura
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Chicago: Albert Whitman & Company. Very Good. 1951. Hardcover. 95 p. 22 cm. This is not the book club edition. Sound and square binding in yellow cloth-covered boards. Bottom corners bumped. Some glue? remains in the front gutter. Inside pages are clean, bright and unmarked overall with one page having a light smudge mark. Dust jacket has some edge and corner wears with a bit of paper loss. A few short tears (three repaired with acid-free document mending tape). Paper clip impression on the front flap. Not price clipped ($2.50). Colour illustrated endpapers and black and white illustrations within. The story of a horse named Scalawag, previously owned by a circus clown, and now frustrating the people of Willow Grove with his tricks. Scal proves his merit in the end and wins respect. .
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Details
- Seller
- Homeward Bound Books (CA)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 692
- Title
- Horse on a Houseboat
- Author
- Bannon, Laura
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Publisher
- Albert Whitman & Company
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1951
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's - Horses;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Homeward Bound Books
Biblio member since 2011
Campbellcroft, Ontario
About Homeward Bound Books
Homeward Bound Books is an online bookshop operated from our home in the Municipality of Port Hope, Ontario. We specialize in children's and illustrated books – collectible and reading copies; and local histories, particularly for Ontario. We also stock a selection of collectable mystery fiction, ephemera, and any other titles we find interesting or unusual. We have thousands of books yet to be catalogued. So, please contact us to be added to our client list, and we will let you know when we have books of interest to you. It is our pleasure to send books homeward bound -- from our shelves to yours.
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- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...