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The Mouse Story: Told By An Old Schoolmaster
by K.H. (Karl Hendrik) With; Gerda Behrens and Dorothea Prall, Translators
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
A$34.63A$24.24
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About This Item
New York, NY: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1922 Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York. 1922. Hardcover. First Edition (NAP). Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for gift inscription on the half title page dated 1922 and a child's doodling on pages 136-137 in pencil. Book Condition: Good; bumping and light wear to head, tail, and tips; rubbing and light soiling to boards; toning to textblock edges. No DJ. Red cloth boards and spine with bright black lettering on the spine and front board; mice decorations on the front board. Mice photos and decorations on endpapers. Paste on illustration on front board. Color frontispiece picture of mice. Clean internals. Interior hinges are sound and not split. 147 pp 8vo. This is a book about the life of mice with human characteristics, as they go about their communal life of having offspring, finding food, group protection from danger, cats, and how they meet their fates in the human world. A presentable copy of a scarce book.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014778
- Title
- The Mouse Story: Told By An Old Schoolmaster
- Author
- K.H. (Karl Hendrik) With; Gerda Behrens and Dorothea Prall, Translators
- Illustrator
- V.T. (Vilhelm Theodor) Fisher
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Frederick A. Stokes Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1922
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Mice, Mouse, easy reading, Danish literature, Scandinavian Literature, cats, mousetraps, poison bait, world dangers to animals, mouse litters,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Animal Stories; Adolescent/Childrens Books;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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