The Borrower's Afloat
by Norton, Mary
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0152103457
- ISBN 13
- 9780152103453
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. ©1987. Later Printing. Hardcover. 0152103457 . 191 p. 21 cm. Book club edition. It has no price on the jacket. Sound and square binding in paper-covered boards. Some crinkling at the spine ends. One tiny soil spot to upper board. A bit of foxing to the top text block edge. Inside pages are clean, bright and unmarked. Dust jacket has light wear to the spine ends and corner tips, . Some minor rubbing to the edges and folds. An attractive copy of the third title in this charming series about the tiny family who lives secretly within an English house. In this one, the little people journey down a drain, live briefly in a teakettle, and are swept away in a flood. Book Club Edition .
Synopsis
Uprooted once again, the little people journey down a drain, live briefly in a teakettle, and are swept away in a flood. “As irresistible as its predecessors.”-- Booklist
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Details
- Seller
- Homeward Bound Books (CA)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 5565
- Title
- The Borrower's Afloat
- Author
- Norton, Mary
- Illustrator
- Beth and Joe Krush
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- Later Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0152103457
- ISBN 13
- 9780152103453
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- ©1987
- Keywords
- 0152103457
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's - Series;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Homeward Bound Books
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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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- Book Club Edition
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- Jacket
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- Rubbing
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- Good+
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- 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
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