At the Back of the North Wind
by MACDONALD, GEORGE
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG/Good+
- Seller
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: J. M. Dent & Co, 1967. Patterned boards with price clipped dust jakcet. Spine faded. Jacket has creases to edges and a couple of small closed tears but complete. Eight colour plates and line drawings with. All pages clean and bright. 325pp. . Hardback in Dustwrapper. VG/Good+. Illus. by E. H. Shepard. 7 x 5 Inches.
Synopsis
At the Back of the North Wind is a children's book by George MacDonald. It was serialized in the children's magazine Good Words for the Young beginning in 1868 and was published in book form in 1871. It is a fantasy centered around a boy named Diamond and his adventures with the North Wind. Diamond travels together with the mysterious Lady North Wind through the nights.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ripping Yarns (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 51315
- Title
- At the Back of the North Wind
- Author
- MACDONALD, GEORGE
- Illustrator
- E. H. Shepard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Publisher
- J. M. Dent & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1967
- Keywords
- Children's
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- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- 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...
- 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....
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...