New York: Harcourt Brace & Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. ©1982. Later Printing. Hardcover. 0152105301 . 298 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. Minor wear to the corner tips. A bit of foxing to the top text block edge. Inside pages are clean, bright and unmarked. Dust jacket has wear to the spine ends and corner tips, heaviest at head of spine. Some minor rubbing to the edges and folds. A little light soil to rear panel. An attractive copy of the fifth and final title in this charming series about the tiny family who lives secretly within an English house. In this one, Pod, Homily, and Arrietty escape from the Platters’ attic and set off to an old rectory to begin life anew Book Club Edition .

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Pod, Homily, and Arrietty Clock's huge adventures have been thrilling children young and old for fifty years--and their appeal is as strong as ever in these handsome new paperback packages. While the original beloved interior illustrations by Beth and Joe Krush have been retained, Marla Frazee's striking cover illustrations capture these little people with a larger-than-life appeal.

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Seller: Homeward Bound Books (CA)
Seller's Inventory #: 5566
Title: The Borrower's Avenged
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: 0152105301
ISBN 13: 9780152105303
Publisher: Harcourt Brace & Company
Place of Publication: New York
Keywords: 0152105301
Bookseller catalogs: Children's - Series;

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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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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...
Book Club Edition: A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
POD: A book which is printed by special order. Often a paperback printing, reproduced by scanning or photocopying the text from a...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Good+: A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.