The Secret World
by KWITZ, Mary DeBall
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: Follett Publishing Company, 1971. Hardcover. Illustrations by the author. 8vo. Green cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 32pp. Color illustrations. Near fine.very good. Mild jacket edgewear. A tight, quite attractive first edition of this natural history nonfiction tale for young readers, handsomely inscribed and signed by the author/illustrator in blue ballpoint opposite the half-title page: "To Elizabeth Larkin / Best Wishes / Mary DeBall Kwitz." Charming.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21579
- Title
- The Secret World
- Author
- KWITZ, Mary DeBall
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Follett Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1971
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Terms of Sale
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Galena, Illinois
About Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts has been serving book lovers, collectors and institutions since 1991. Our inventory of quality out-of-print books spans 50 subjects, while the extensive autograph holdings have a decidedly historical bent, reflecting personages from every field of human endeavor.
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- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Fine
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