Miss Hickory (Signed)
by Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
Signed: The Viking Press. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover in dustjacjet. Green cloth boards, orange flower illustration, sharp, age toning to edges. Protected, pric unclipped, distjacket, bright, general mild age toning, nicks and chips to edges, sun fade to spine. Book is firm in binding, color illustrated endpapers, front with previous owner;s book plate, numerous b&w illustrations, by Ruth Gannett, of Miss Hickory--a country woman with an applewood twig body and a hickory nut head--are totally winning. A very nice copy of this older children's book. Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 122 pages; Signed by Author .
Synopsis
Miss Hickory is a 1946 novel by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1947.
Reviews
On Oct 7 2014, a reader said:
Like Rabbit Hill and Charlotte's Web, it's a cute little story about animals that talk.
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- Bookseller
- KULTURAs books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2784
- Title
- Miss Hickory (Signed)
- Author
- Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin
- Illustrator
- Ruth Gannett
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- Signed
- Date Published
- 1946
- Keywords
- Ruth Gannett. New Hampshire., Collectible Children's Books,, Newbury award winner 1940s 1946
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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