PENNY'S WORTH
by Caffrey, Nancy (illus By Jeanne Mellin)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+/No Jacket
- Seller
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Poplar Grove, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1952. Blue cloth binding has minor shelfwear, bumped corners, a bit of soiling mostly to back cover, square and tight - interior clean and tight. Color frontispiece, double color center spread.Some foxing but overall clean interior with no writing. 120 pages. A couple of the pages have small closed tears. This is a wonderful story about a riding academy horse who longs to be privately-owned. When she is purchased for an insecure boy because of her kindness and wisdom - not her looks! - she ends up helping to turn the young boy's life around.. Illus. by Mellin, Jeanne. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st. Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Deja Vu Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013454
- Title
- PENNY'S WORTH
- Author
- Caffrey, Nancy (illus By Jeanne Mellin)
- Illustrator
- Mellin, Jeanne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- E.P. Dutton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1952
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- HORSE, HORSE PONY PONIES RIDING SCHOOL POLO
- Bookseller catalogs
- Horses - Children and Juvenile Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Deja Vu Books
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About the Seller
Deja Vu Books
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Poplar Grove, Illinois
About Deja Vu Books
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- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- E.P.
- The double leaves bound into a book at the front and rear after ...