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Padre Porko the Gentlemanly Pig
by Davis, Robert
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fair
- Seller
-
Andover, Massachusetts, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
U.S.A.: Holiday House, 1939. First printing. The spine is slightly cocked. Previous owner's name is on the front free endpaper. Otherwise fine. The dust jacket is heavily edgeworn and has numerous holes and scuffed areas. The price, $2.00, is present on the front flap. In Brodart archival dust jacket protector.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fair. Illus. by Fritz Eichenberg. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Banjo Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009924
- Title
- Padre Porko the Gentlemanly Pig
- Author
- Davis, Robert
- Illustrator
- Fritz Eichenberg
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Holiday House
- Place of Publication
- U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1939
- Keywords
- Children's Fiction Collectible
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Banjo Booksellers
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About the Seller
Banjo Booksellers
Biblio member since 2004
Andover, Massachusetts
About Banjo Booksellers
On-line and mail-order only. We have a wide variety of books, both fiction and non-fiction, with an emphasis on modern first editions and collectible childrens books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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...
- 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....
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