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Owls in the Family
by Mowat, Farley
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Boston / Toronto: Little, Brown and Company. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. 108 p. 21 cm. Sound and square binding in cloth-covered boards. Faint moisture staining and foxing to the boards. A little wear and fading to the edges and corners. Text block edges are foxed. Inside pages are clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has edge wear, including a 1" chip to the upper front edge, rubbing, creases, and tiny tears to the edges. The spine and folds are darkened. Rear panel is lightly soiled overall. Rear side of jacket is tanned and has foxing. Price clipped. The story of Wol and Weeps, two owls who come to live with a family and the adventures they have. Pen and ink drawings. .
Synopsis
'Owls in the Family' is a children's novel written by Farley Mowat, first published in 1962.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6732
- Title
- Owls in the Family
- Author
- Mowat, Farley
- Illustrator
- Robert Frankenberg
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston / Toronto
- Date Published
- 1961
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's - Animal Stories;
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.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- 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....
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
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