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The 13 Clocks
by Thurber, James
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Templeton, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1950. Book. Illus. by Marc Simont. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition, fourth printing. Book condition: Clean internally, Slight must but boards straight, spine tight and stiff with pointed tips. Very colorful castle on hill endpapers and profuse illustrations all of which are present. Dust jacket has a small folds on spine and edges and chipping at spine ends especially bottom and tips. Original price present on dust jacket front flap. Now looks shiny and new in a archival mylar cover. Comes shipped in wrappable box..
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
- Winding Road Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001729
- Title
- The 13 Clocks
- Author
- Thurber, James
- Illustrator
- Marc Simont
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1950
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Fiction
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Winding Road Books
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Templeton, California
About Winding Road Books
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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