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Francie on the Run Hardcover - 1939

by Hilda van Stockum

  • Used
  • Fine
  • Hardcover
  • first

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New York: The Viking Co., 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Hilda van Stockum. Publisher's blue cloth with illustrated endpapers and all first printing points. Book is fine and unmarked. Jacket has minor moderate rubbing at corners, and is otherwise fine, unclipped and protected by an archival Mylar jacket cover. A very attractive copy of this Irish young adults classic.
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  • Title Francie on the Run
  • Author Hilda van Stockum
  • Illustrator Hilda van Stockum
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Fine
  • Publisher The Viking Co., New York
  • Date 1939
  • Bookseller's Inventory # BN025679

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