SHOWBOAT HOLIDAY.
by Wyndham, Lee
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good in very good dust jacket (some light edgewear to dj, and fading on the spine of the dj - the dj flaps had been taped /very good
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia:: John C. Winston Co.,, 1954.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in very good dust jacket (some light edgewear to dj, and fading on the spine of the dj - the dj flaps had been taped to the inside covers, and the discoloration from the tape remains.). First printing. Story for older children, illustrated by Jean MacDonald Porter. When a family cannot afford to rent a seaside cottage needed for the recuperation and health of the mother, they instead wind up renting a battered paddlewheeled steamboat that had been wrecked.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21582
- Title
- SHOWBOAT HOLIDAY.
- Author
- Wyndham, Lee
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in very good dust jacket (some light edgewear to dj, and fading on the spine of the dj - the dj flaps had been taped
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John C. Winston Co.,
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia:
- Date Published
- 1954.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's and Illustrated;
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