Lassie Come-Home
by Knight, Eric
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Philadelphia: John C. Winston Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1940. Hardcover. 239 p. 21 cm. Sound and square binding in green, cloth-covered boards. Light wear to the corner tips and edges slightly rubbed. Book club circle on lower board. Previous owner's name on front pastedown endpaper. Otherwise inside pages are clean and unmarked. Dustjacket has edge wear, heaviest to corners and spine ends, and including chips and small tears. A couple of tape repairs on reverse side. Folds and spine somewhat darkened. Light soil overall. The tale of a collie dog named Lassie and the Yorkshire boy who loved her. Illustrated with colour plates and two tone drawings. Book Club Edition .
Reviews
On Jun 22 2011, Samandtweet said:
This is a very touching and wonderful book. I read it many many times as a child and it was my inspiration for getting a collie of my own
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Details
- Seller
- Homeward Bound Books (CA)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 4222
- Title
- Lassie Come-Home
- Author
- Knight, Eric
- Illustrator
- Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Publisher
- John C. Winston Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1940
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's - Dogs;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Homeward Bound Books
Biblio member since 2011
Campbellcroft, Ontario
About Homeward Bound Books
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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...