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Space Cat Meets Mars
by [Larry McMurtry Collection] Ruthven Todd
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Extremities gently rubbed, barely bumped, slight fading to head and foot of spine, but strikingly bright covers and tight bindin
- Seller
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Addison, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Extremities gently rubbed, barely bumped, slight fading to head and foot of spine, but strikingly bright covers and tight binding; dust jacket sunned to spine, worn at folds, chipped with areas of loss to head of spine, torn and creased to lower corner of front flap. A near fine copy in a good jacket. LMM-177.
Ruthven Todd. Paul Galdone, illustrator. Space Cat Meets Mars. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1957. Scribner's library edition.
Inscribed by Ruthven Todd to FFEP.
Octavo. 72pp. Illustrated. Publisher's pictorial cloth-covered boards, original dust jacket. Scribner's Library Binding, as explained on the jacket flap: It is Smyth sewn with concealed muslin reinforcement. The sturdy pyroxylin-impregnated cloth over hard-rolled binder's board is washable, damp proof, and soil resistant.
From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate.
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- Bookseller
- InkQ Rare Books LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 177
- Title
- Space Cat Meets Mars
- Author
- [Larry McMurtry Collection] Ruthven Todd
- Book Condition
- Used - Extremities gently rubbed, barely bumped, slight fading to head and foot of spine, but strikingly bright covers and tight bindin
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Keywords
- Children's, Outer Space
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About the Seller
InkQ Rare Books LLC
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Addison, Texas
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- Octavo
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Library Binding
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- Sunned
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- FFEP
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- Fine
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