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Seabird Hardcover - 1948

by Holling, Holling Clancy

  • Used
  • Hardcover

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1948. Hardcover. A fourteen year old serving as the ship's boy aboard a whaling ship carves a seabird from an ivory walrus tusk, and the bird travels the world aboard sailing ships and steam vessels. Beautiful color and b&w illustrations accompany the text. This is an early printing with the 1948 date on the verso of the title page. It was one of four Newberry Honor Award Winners in 1949. Original publisher's blue covers with white cover lettering. This is a nice clean, tight and unmarked book with no interior or exterior markings, no previous owner names and no bookplates, there is a little wear to the bottom corner tips and the bottom edge at the spine. The dust jacket has edgewear to the top edges (chips and tears). ; Color Illustrations; 8vo, 8"- 9" tall; 61 pages .
Used - Very Good in Good+ dust jacket
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  • Title Seabird
  • Author Holling, Holling Clancy
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Condition Used - Very Good in Good+ dust jacket
  • Publisher Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston
  • Date 1948
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 21449

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