The Story about Ping
by Flack, Marjorie
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Fair dust jacket; Boards and jacket foxed, jacket torn and missing sections at lower front corners.
- ISBN 10
- 0670672238
- ISBN 13
- 9780670672233
- Seller
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Viking Press. Very Good in Fair dust jacket; Boards and jacket foxed, jacket torn and . missing sections at lower front corners.. 1933. Eighteenth Printing. Hardcover. 0670672238 . Yellow illustrated cloth binding. Color illustrations by Wiese accompany this story of the tardy little duckling who lives on a houseboat in China on the Yangtze River. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 32 pages .
Synopsis
"Kurt Wiese and Majorie Flack have created in Ping a duckling of great individuality against a background (the Yangtze River) that has both accuracy and charm." -- The New York Times
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 52450
- Title
- The Story about Ping
- Author
- Flack, Marjorie
- Illustrator
- Kurt Wiese
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Fair dust jacket; Boards and jacket foxed, jacket torn and missing sections at lower front corners.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Eighteenth Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0670672238
- ISBN 13
- 9780670672233
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1933
- Keywords
- 0670672238, DUCKS Juvenile Fiction, 1930s Children's Books
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books;
Terms of Sale
Old Saratoga Books
We are happy to provide a refund within thirty days of the customer's receipt of any book(s) upon return of the book(s) to our shop.
About the Seller
Old Saratoga Books
Biblio member since 2005
Selkirk, New York
About Old Saratoga Books
Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...