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Ox-Cart Man
by Hall, Donald
- Used
- near fine
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0670533289
- ISBN 13
- 9780670533282
- Seller
-
Andover, Massachusetts, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Viking, 1979. First printing (full number line beginning with 1). A fine, unmarked copy but for a very lightly bumped and worn spine tail. The dust jacket has three short tears and a slightly darkened spine. The price, $8.95, is present on the front flap. In Brodart archival dust jacket protector.. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Barbara Cooney. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
Ox-Cart Man is the title of a 1979 book written by Donald Hall and illustrated by Barbara Cooney. It won the 1980 Caldecott Medal. The book deals with an 18th century farming family that uses an ox-cart to take their goods to market, where they make the money to buy the things they need. Ox-Cart Man was originally published in an October 3, 1977 edition of The New Yorker as a Donald Hall poem.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Banjo Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015454
- Title
- Ox-Cart Man
- Author
- Hall, Donald
- Illustrator
- Barbara Cooney
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardback
- ISBN 10
- 0670533289
- ISBN 13
- 9780670533282
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1979
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Caldecott medal Winner Collectible
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Banjo Booksellers
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About the Seller
Banjo Booksellers
Biblio member since 2004
Andover, Massachusetts
About Banjo Booksellers
On-line and mail-order only. We have a wide variety of books, both fiction and non-fiction, with an emphasis on modern first editions and collectible childrens books.
Glossary
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Number Line
- A series of numbers appearing on the copyright page of a book, where the lowest number generally indicates the printing of that...
- 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...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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