OLD BONES THE WONDER HORSE
by Pace, Mildred Mastin
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Very Good/Good+
- Seller
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Poplar Grove, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Whittlesey House - McGraw-Hill Book Company Weekly Reader Book Club, 1956. Blue hardcover binding clean square and tight. DJ has some chips and shelfwear, stain on back of jacket. Previous owner name on front flap. Not price-cliipped. Book clean and tight with yellowed pages. Rubbed spot on front free endpaper - over erased. Includes the Children's Book Club flyer from February 1956 describing this book. 119 pages. Fact/fiction story of the great racehorse Exterminator, born in 1915 of royal breeding, but gangly and not very pretty. Used as a workhorse for the great Sun Briar, he surprised everyone by winning the 1918 Kentucky Derby.. Illus. by Dennis, Wesley. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Near Very Good/Good+.
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Details
- Seller
- Deja Vu Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 012690
- Title
- OLD BONES THE WONDER HORSE
- Author
- Pace, Mildred Mastin
- Illustrator
- Dennis, Wesley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Publisher
- Whittlesey House - McGraw-Hill Book Company Weekly Reader Book Club
- Date Published
- 1956
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Bookseller catalogs
- Horses - Children and Juvenile Fiction; Horses - Illus by Wesley Dennis;
Terms of Sale
Deja Vu Books
Prepaid check or money order US currency.Visa, Mastercard, Discover and American Express accepted. Also take PAYPAL.S/H in US: Priority mail - $6.00 first book, $1.00 each addt\'l. Media mail - $3.00 first book, $1.00 each additional. Some heavier books may be higher.Ins. Extra Foreign shipment costs determined with order.All items returnable for full refund if not as described in listing - buyer must notify me by email BEFORE RETURNING within 3 days of receipt of item.
About the Seller
Deja Vu Books
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Poplar Grove, Illinois
About Deja Vu Books
NOT AN OPEN SHOP: please e-mail questions and leave phone number if you\'d like - I\'ll get back with you! Catalog sales specializing in children\'s horse dog, and animal books; adult horse fiction and non-fiction; some aviation; and childrens books to read or collect.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.