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The Mysteries of Harris Burdick
by Van Allsburg, Chris
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good +/very good +
- ISBN 10
- 0395353939
- ISBN 13
- 9780395353936
- Seller
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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good +. SIGNED. Slim quarto [28 cm] Orange cloth over boards with gilt lettering on the spine and front cover. With only light bumping to the head and foot of the book's spine. In a dust jacket, with a short closed tear to the top edge of the rear panel. Signed by Chris Van Allsburg on the title page. Van Allsburg has been the recipient of numerous awards, including two Caldecott Medals for The Polar Express and Jumanji.
Synopsis
Fourteen black-and-white drawings, each accompanied by a title and a caption, entice readers to make up his or her own story.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 59860
- Title
- The Mysteries of Harris Burdick
- Author
- Van Allsburg, Chris
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good +
- Jacket Condition
- very good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0395353939
- ISBN 13
- 9780395353936
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1984
- Keywords
- signed; Chris Van Allsburg; children's books; Caldecott;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Salt Lake City, Utah
About Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Ken Sanders Rare Books is a full service antiquarian bookshop in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. We carry an ever-changing inventory of art, ephemera, maps, photography, and postcards in addition to a vast selection of used and rare books along with a few new books. We actively purchase and appraise books in all fields.
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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