CONDITION: Very Good without jacket; 1966 gift inscription on half title, extrems bumped, and three small red spots on top board, faded areas, soil to spine ends, tight, straight, with crisp paper. Picture Book hardback. A nice wide copy of this lovely Caldecott Medal book, depicting the wildlife around the Haders' Stone Cottage in heavy snow. ABE Heritage Seller since 1996; conservative AB condition grading. We ship all our books in cardboard protection. International shipping. /B&EH, illustrators.

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Bibliographic Details

Title: The Big Snow.
Publisher: Macmillan, /1948, 16th printing; grey cloth boards with large white snowflakes, blue snowflake endpapers, 8.6x10.25; np., New York
Publication Date: 1966
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: /B&EH, illustrators

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"Heritage members" of Abebooks, among the first 50 or so sellers to sign up with Rick Pura who invented it to sell his wife's books from Victoria BC. We specialize in children's quality literature and picture books, and take pride in our condition and shipment standards. Over 6,000 children's titles are listed on our own webpage at www.oldchildrensbooks.com, which has many more images, additional information on our books, about 30 browse catagories, German, French, and children's reference sections, a detailed search engine, and general information and links. We also have about 1000 titles in music, especially folk or fiddle music, and a few thousand misc. titles. We have long experience with children's literature and are delighted to respond to questions about books and authors. We are happy to answer inquiries for titles, authors, topics or themes. We maintain a Looking for a (Children's) Book forum at www.oldchildrensbooks.net We observe the Antiquarian Bookman / ABAA professional guidelines on grading and returns (which too often these days are not followed) and are members of Columbia Booksellers Association.

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Truman Price & Suzanne Price / oldchildrensbooks
OR, U.S.A.

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Weekday orders ship within 24 hours. Shipping costs are based on books weighing 2.2 LB, or 1 KG. If your book order is heavy or oversized, we may contact you to let you know extra shipping is required.

EIN: 91 1816469
ABN: Columbia Basin Books

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