The 13 Clocks
by Thurber, James; illustrated by Marc Simont
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
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Wilmington, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1950. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. Previous owner name inked inside. Book otherwise clean and intact throughout. Dust jacket price clipped and with edge wear/tears, a chip to lower rear, and a large open tear and chip to top of spine. 4th printing 124 pages.
Synopsis
James Thurber (1894—1961), one of the outstanding American humorists and cartoonists of the twentieth century, was born in Columbus, Ohio, and launched his professional writing career as a reporter for the Columbus Dispatch in 1920. He began writing for The New Yorker in 1927 after his friend E. B. White got him a job at the magazine. Though hampered by failing eyesight, Thurber wrote nearly forty books, including collections of essays, short stories, fables, and children’s stories. He won a Tony Award for his popular Broadway play, A Thurber Carnival. Marc Simont (1915-2013) illustrated nearly a hundred books. He won a Caldecott Honor in 1950 for illustrating Ruth Krauss’s The Happy Day , and in 1957 he was awarded the Caldecott Medal for his pictures in A Tree Is Nice by Janice May Udry. He is the illustrator for The New York Review Children’s Collection books The Backward Day and The Wonderful O . Neil Gaiman is an award-winning author of novels, short stories, children's books, and graphic novels. Among his works are the children's books Coraline, The Wolves in the Walls, and The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish; the Sandman graphic novels series; and the fantasy novels Stardust and Smoke and Mirrors. Originally from England, Gaiman now lives in the United States.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Zephyrus Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AL0200036
- Title
- The 13 Clocks
- Author
- Thurber, James; illustrated by Marc Simont
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1950
- Bookseller catalogs
- Humor;
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About the Seller
Zephyrus Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2004
Wilmington, New York
About Zephyrus Books, IOBA
Zephyrus Books is an online only bookstore. A specialty is regional books and maps of the Adirondacks and Northern New York. We stock a wide variety of books, maps and prints.
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