The Mousewife
by Rumer Godden
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- Seller
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Buxton, Derbyshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Synopsis
Rumer Godden (1907–1998) grew up in India, where her father ran a steamship company. When her husband left her penniless in Calcutta with two daughters to raise, she started to write books to pay off her many debts. She wrote more than sixty books for adults and young adults, including The Doll’s House, Impunity Jane, The Greengage Summer , and An Episode of Sparrows (also published by The New York Review Children’s Collection). William Pène du Bois (1916–1993) was born in New Jersey to a family of artists and educated mostly in France. A founding editor of The Paris Review , Pène du Bois wrote some twenty-five books, many of which he also illustrated, including The Twenty-One Balloons , winner of the 1948 Newbery Medal.
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- Bookseller
- M and P Books PBFA member (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005871
- Title
- The Mousewife
- Author
- Rumer Godden
- Illustrator
- William Pene Du Bois
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- The Reprint Society
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1958
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Keywords
- CHILDREN FICTION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Juvenile Fiction;
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...