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Jenny the Jeep
by TOWNEND, Jack
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/very good
- Seller
-
Rocky River, Ohio, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Faber and Faber, 1944. First Edition (?). Hardcover. Very good/very good. Oblong octavo, [26]pp. Publication date taken from OCLC. A slightly shaken very good copy, still crisp and clean, in the publisher's printed boards. In the rare dust jacket, price-clipped, with some small chips and small tape repairs to verso; despite its flaws, still mercifully present; very good. An arrestingly modern and attractive little children's book about Jeeps. The story centers on the title character, a Jeep who is "a very pretty Jeep indeed, because instead of being green like all the others, she was PINK." She is treated by the other Jeeps as an outcast due to her unusual hue, and it's only once all the Jeeps are shipped off to Italy to fight in the war that she proves her worthiness. After an array of her green peers try to remove a downed tree blocking a military route, Jenny gives it a shot and saves the day. The war ends, and she is sold to an Italian ice cream salesman. The book is scarce, as we count just nine holdings in OCLC. Presumably quite rare in dust jacket. A delightful children's book, with excellent illustrations, and which has appeal both to Jeep enthusiasts and children's books with strong female protagonists.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cleveland Book Company
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10542
- Title
- Jenny the Jeep
- Author
- TOWNEND, Jack
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition (?)
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1944
- Keywords
- Children's books, Illustrated books, Women's history
Terms of Sale
Cleveland Book Company
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About the Seller
Cleveland Book Company
Biblio member since 2017
Rocky River, Ohio
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As a small, independent bookseller in Cleveland, Ohio, I deal in general used, rare, and antiquarian books, autographs, manuscripts, pamphlets, and personal and family papers in all subjects. My family has been in the antiquarian book business since 1971. Are you moving, downsizing, or doing some spring cleaning? Did you inherit or otherwise come into some old books? Or, maybe you've collected modern novels from the last thirty or fifty years. No matter what kinds of books you have, we'd love to take a look at them! We travel throughout Ohio, western Pennsylvania and New York, southern Michigan, and eastern Indiana, and will travel farther in some cases to look at whole libraries or even just a few particularly interesting books. Give us a call at (216) 352-3940 and we can talk more about the kinds of books you have.
As a small, independent bookseller in Cleveland, Ohio, I deal in general used, rare, and antiquarian books, autographs, manuscripts, pamphlets, and personal and family papers in all subjects. My family has been in the antiquarian book business since 1971. Are you moving, downsizing, or doing some spring cleaning? Did you inherit or otherwise come into some old books? Or, maybe you've collected modern novels from the last thirty or fifty years. No matter what kinds of books you have, we'd love to take a look at them! We travel throughout Ohio, western Pennsylvania and New York, southern Michigan, and eastern Indiana, and will travel farther in some cases to look at whole libraries or even just a few particularly interesting books. Give us a call at (216) 352-3940 and we can talk more about the kinds of books you have.
Glossary
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- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.