Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport
by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0027824500
- ISBN 13
- 9780027824506
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1980 Macmillan Publishing Company, New York. 1980. Hardcover. First Printing by Line Number/Book Club Edition on the DJ rear flap. Retired small town library copy. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for stamp on the FFFP. Book Condition: Good; check-out pocket in rear, tape residue on end papers; repaired 4" tear to title page. DJ: Very Good +; light sunfading to spine. Pictorial heavy laminate boards and spine with orange and black lettering on the spine and front board. Non-paginated 8vo oblong. A story about a boy with all the wrong perceptions about moving to Arizona from New York is pleasantly surprised by what he finds based on what he thought would be there. A book on relieving a child's anxieties. A clean presentable copy with a very nice DJ.
Synopsis
A young boy, born and bred in New York City, imagines his new life out West as his family prepared to move.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008071
- Title
- Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport
- Author
- Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
- Illustrator
- Byron Barton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0027824500
- ISBN 13
- 9780027824506
- Publisher
- Macmillan Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1980
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- anxieties, misperceptions, fantasy, ideas, perceptions, reality, children, misconceptions, miscommunication.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Adolescent/Childrens Books;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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