THE DARK HORSE
by James, Will
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Poplar Grove, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939. Green hardcover cloth binding, sunned spine, light soiling, hinges good, square and tight. Foxing. Color frontispiece illustration may have been reglued in - can't tell for sure but it is secure. 1939 on title page and copyright page, but no Scribner's A, so probably 2nd printing. 306 pages, b/w illustrations throughout. A thoroughbred horse and a wild colt are thrown together and escape the humans and roam the wild rough big country. 306 pages.. Illus. by James, Will. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Very Good/No Jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Deja Vu Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012465
- Title
- THE DARK HORSE
- Author
- James, Will
- Illustrator
- James, Will
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1939
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Bookseller catalogs
- Horses - Children and Juvenile Fiction;
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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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