THE BUCKING CHESTNUT
by Hallett, Joan
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Poplar Grove, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Collins, 1950. Red hardcover cloth binding sllightly warped, cocked spine, bumped corners. Light soiling. Interior clean and tight with yellowing pages. DJ not price-clipped, shelfwear with some chips along edges. Protected from further damage in clean Brodart. 254 pages. Written by a 16 year old girl. About a wild chestnut pony, turned to grass because no one can control it, becomes the conern for a few weeks one summer of three very different girls.. Illus. by Christie, Marjorie. Jacket design by Marcia Lane Foster. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Deja Vu Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012826
- Title
- THE BUCKING CHESTNUT
- Author
- Hallett, Joan
- Illustrator
- Christie, Marjorie. Jacket design by Marcia Lane Foster
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Collins
- Date Published
- 1950
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Bookseller catalogs
- Horses - Children and Juvenile Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Deja Vu Books
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About the Seller
Deja Vu Books
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Poplar Grove, Illinois
About Deja Vu Books
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- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...