King of the Wind
by Marguerite Henry
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Constable and Co Ltd, 1957. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1957. No edition remarks. 126 pages. Dust jacket over red cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Prize plate stuck to front endpaper. Clean pages with light tanning and heavy foxing to endpapers. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine ends. Boards are notably warped. Clipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Heavy foxing. Heavy tanning to spine and edges. Notable staining to flaps.
Synopsis
King of the Wind is a novel by Marguerite Henry that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1949. It was made into a 1990 movie.
Reviews
On Dec 12 2009, Phone said:
KIng of the Wind is a great book about the Godolphin Arabian,Sham and horseboy,Agba.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1712760814CAB
- Title
- King of the Wind
- Author
- Marguerite Henry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Constable and Co Ltd
- Date Published
- 1957
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...