The Bad Beginning
by Snicket, Lemony [Handler, Daniel]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0060283122
- ISBN 13
- 9780060283124
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Harper Collins. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1999. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. 0060283122 . [8], 162, [6] p. 19 cm. Sound and square binding in blue paper-covered boards. Head and tail of spine have light crinkling. Minor corner and edge wear. Dustjacket has light shelf wear from bookshop, but has been in mylar since I purchased it when it was published. Price on rear panel U. S. $14.89, indicating a scarce library edition, but it has never been in a library. Line on front panel in photograph is reflection of mylar cover. The first book in the Series of Unfortunate Events series. A Series of Unfortunate Events; Book 1. .
Synopsis
The Bad Beginning is the first of thirteen novels in American author Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. It tells the story of three children, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire, who are orphaned by an arsonous fire and sent to live with their distant and conniving cousin Count Olaf. The book was published on September 30, 1999 by HarperCollins and illustrated by Brett Helquist.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 543
- Title
- The Bad Beginning
- Author
- Snicket, Lemony [Handler, Daniel]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0060283122
- ISBN 13
- 9780060283124
- Publisher
- Harper Collins
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- 0060283122
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's - Series;
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About the Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario
About Homeward Bound Books
Homeward Bound Books is an online bookshop operated from our home in the Municipality of Port Hope, Ontario. We specialize in children's and illustrated books – collectible and reading copies; and local histories, particularly for Ontario. We also stock a selection of collectable mystery fiction, ephemera, and any other titles we find interesting or unusual. We have thousands of books yet to be catalogued. So, please contact us to be added to our client list, and we will let you know when we have books of interest to you. It is our pleasure to send books homeward bound -- from our shelves to yours.
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- 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...
- Shelf Wear
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- Spine
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- Fine
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- Jacket
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.