WACKIEST WHITE HOUSE PETS
by Gibbs Davis
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/None as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 043973889X
- ISBN 13
- 9780439738897
- Seller
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Berkeley, California, United States
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About This Item
New York. NY: Scholastic, 2004. First Edition, 4th Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. David A. Johnson (Illustrator). Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Illustrated stapled softcover/NF w/trace shelfwear to corner tips. Winner of 2004 Parent's Choice Gold Award. Book for the young as well as the old, sporting cartoons of David A. Johnson (1827 - 1908). Some 400 pets, including alligators, bears and raccoons, can claim residency in America's White House, albeit on the "coat-tails" of presidents. Annecdotes w/hilarious illustrations of American history. Did you know nearly 400 White House pets - including alligators, bears and raccoons. John Quincy Adams' kept an alligator; Thomas Jefferson stolled about with his pet grizzly bears; James Buchannan housed a herd of elephants from the King of Siam!; and, know-you-not the lawns were once mowed by Woodrow Wilson's sheep? Harry Truman said, "If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog"; how true! History is serious, but ifortunately not in its entirety.
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- Bookseller
- 100 POCKETS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019600
- Title
- WACKIEST WHITE HOUSE PETS
- Author
- Gibbs Davis
- Illustrator
- David A. Johnson (Illustrator)
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- None as Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, 4th Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 043973889X
- ISBN 13
- 9780439738897
- Publisher
- Scholastic
- Place of Publication
- New York. NY
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- Pets/White House/Hsitory/Cartoon/Juvenile/Humour
- Bookseller catalogs
- Humor/Wit;
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- 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...