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King Of The Wind
by Henry Marguerite
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Vars, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Scholastic Book Services. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1968. Trade Paperback. Trade paperback with rubbing and edgewear, inside text clean and unmarked. A water mark to the foreedges. Creasing on spine edge. "The story of Sham--a stallion born in the Sultan of Morocco's stables. Although Sham is a strong and fast horse, he is treated cruelly by his various masters and owners. Will Sham ever find a home where he is treated with kindness? Winner of the 1949 Newbery Medal. "; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 174 pages .
Synopsis
King of the Wind is a novel by Marguerite Henry that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1949. It was made into a 1990 movie.
Reviews
On Dec 12 2009, Phone said:
KIng of the Wind is a great book about the Godolphin Arabian,Sham and horseboy,Agba.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bytown Bookery
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21242
- Title
- King Of The Wind
- Author
- Henry Marguerite
- Illustrator
- Dennis Wesley
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Scholastic Book Services
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1968
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children; Animals; Horses and Horse Racing; Juvenile;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Bytown Bookery
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Vars, Ontario
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Trade Paperback
- Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...