The Middle Moffat
by Estes, Eleanor
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Madison, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co, 1956. 317pp. Black cloth boards, titles on spine label, illustration on small, square front board label. Book shows only mild wear apart from a couple of small white paint stains on back board, and a pair on fore-edge of deckle edged pages. 1956 edition, following original 1942 issue. Comes with typed and signed laid-in letter from Estes to Mr. Morley, an editor at Harcourt Brace, dated July 23, 1947. In it, she laments not getting to work with him on a novel, and explains how her book, The Echoing Green, came to be published by Macmillan. A friendly letter from Estes in the early years of her career, just in the aftermath of The Moffats and The Middle Moffat. Estes won three Newberry Medals, and a number of her books remain in print. . Signed By Author. Later Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Illus. by Louis Slobodkin. 8vo.
Synopsis
Who is Jane Moffat, anyway? She isn't the youngest in the family, and she isn't the oldest-she is always just Jane. How boring. So Jane decides to become a figure of mystery ... the mysterious "Middle Moffat." But being in the middle is a lot harder than it looks. In between not rescuing stray dogs, and losing and finding best friends, Jane must secretly look after the oldest inhabitant of Cranbury...so he can live to be one hundred. Between brushing her hair from her eyes and holding up her stockings, she has to help the girls' basketball team win the championship. And it falls to Jane-the only person in town with enough courage-to stand up to the frightful mechanical wizard, Wallie Bangs. Jane is so busy keeping Cranbury in order that she barely has time to be plain old Jane. Sometimes the middle is the most exciting place of all.... Eleanor Estes's beloved Moffats stories are being published in new editions as Odyssey/Harcourt Young Classics. The original interior illustrations have been retained, but handsome new cover art by Tricia Tusa gives the books a fresh, timeless appeal for today's readers.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Chatham Bookseller, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 033620
- Title
- The Middle Moffat
- Author
- Estes, Eleanor
- Illustrator
- Louis Slobodkin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Later Printing
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1956
- Keywords
- Eleanor Estes, the Middle moffat, Children's literature, letter, Signed by Author
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About The Chatham Bookseller, LLC
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