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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Macmillan Company
Date published: 1929
Description: Original DJ is very worn. Chipped and torn along edges. Covered in protective Mylar jacket. Pages clean, tight and uniformly age toned. Spine is square. Read More
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Studio Books
Date published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780525249122ISBN:0525249125
Description: Very good in fine dust jacket. ripped at corner of very first page (with no writing/typing on it, however), pages are clean & crisp, overall, very good quality. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 264 p. Audience: General/trade. Read More
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Whitman, Racine, Wisconsin
Date published: 1938
Description: Veva Storey. Covers are scuffed; wear & bending on edges & corners; spine has 2 tiny pieces missing; sticker ghost top right corner of front fly page; pages clean, uniformly age toned. 63 p. Includes illustrations. Juvenile fiction; 5 1/4 x 6 1/2"; Read More
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: D. Van Nostrand company, inc., New York
Date published: 1940
Description: Very good in fair dust jacket. DJ has tears on edges & slight discoloration; bk covers have scuffing, & corners/spine have bends; some age toning on pg, otherwise pgs are unmarked. xvii, 337, xx-xxiii p. incl. front., illus. (part col. ) tables, diagrs., forms. 24 cm. Read More
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Bent Spoon Multimedia
Date published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780615259888ISBN:061525988X
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by author. Front cover is worn, otherwise in very good condition. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 204 p. Audience: General/trade. Read More
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton
Date published: 1944
Description: Very good in fair dust jacket. DJ has small tears on edges & a bit soiled; pg 25 top corner has been been & flattened; otherwise pgs are unmarked & intact; very slight age toning. viii, 133 p.; 23 cm. "Issued under the auspices of International Secretariat, Institute of Pacific Relations"-half-title verso. Read More
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Aero Publishers Inc., U.S.
Date published: 1965
ISBN-13:9780816884001ISBN:0816884005
Description: Capt. Bill Seeman. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Book is in excellent condition with dust jacket covered with mylar sheath. Book is inscribed by the author and reads "For Josh Slocum Nicol and his mascot, Queenie-Keith Woodmansee ". 112 p. A humorous look at the subject with some delightfully funny drawings Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Dirigo Editions, Manchester, Maine
Date published: 1953
Description: Dark blue boards are slightly scuffed. Scuffing on bottom page block. Pages clean, tight and uniformly age toned. Spine square and tight. Read More
Language: German
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main
Date published: 1991
Description: Text in German. Covers show little to no wear. Pages very clean and tight. Spine tight. Text in German. 399 p. : chiefly ill. (chiefly col. ); 29 cm. Includes Illustrations. . Read More
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Like new. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Li'l Abner Dailies Series, 10. Audience: General/trade. Read More
Binding: Other
Publisher: Children's Press, Inc., Chicago, IL
Date published: 1946
Description: Linen or "rag" cloth book. Appears unread in protective Mylar cover with cardboard in between to protect pages. Colors are still vivid. Soft cover; linen pages; 9 1/2 X 12 1/2 inches, (16 pages); Lithographed in the US. Cover: dark blue background with Mother Goose flying over a town with the moon in the background. Children's Press Series: Children's Books Are Important, No. 1004. Read More
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Barse & Hopkins, New York
Date published: 1908
Description: Color plates by Florence England Nosworthy Pen Drawings by Louise Clark Smith. Green cloth boards are slightly scuffed and show wear on edges & corners; Pictorial onlay intact. Gift inscription in ink on front fly page, sticker ghost top right corner of same; tiny bit of foxing on title pg; pg 6-7. Read More
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlop, New York
Date published: 1931
Description: Roy Best. Blue Cloth back strip is gone (binding still good); much wear on covers, edges & corners; scuffing on covers; pgs 4, 5, 9, 14 have tears; stitching is gone from bottom up 2" but pgs are intact. 64 p. Includes illustrations. 12 x 10"; front & back endpapers color illustration of Never Never Land; children's fiction; includes sheet music for 3 songs Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Outing Publishing Company, New York & London
Date published: 1908
Description: Gift inscription in pencil of front fly page dated 1919. A few loose, torn pages, but text is good. Rubbing to all edges, corners slightly bumped. Color to lower front and back corners has been bleached out. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: D. Appleton & co, NY
Date published: 1914
Description: Covers have wear/bending to edges/corners, spine has library Dewey, on front pastedown is library sticker, on title pg is library number & embossed, pgs are intact with slight age toning, on last pg & back pastedown are library checkout paper/card &... Ex Margaret Carnegie Library book library markings Read More
Edition: third printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The S. E. Massengill company, [Bristol, Tenn.
Date published: 1943
Description: Fine. No dust jacket. Very little wear on bookcover; inside front cover has name plate with previous owners name signed by the author; on 1st page another owners name. 445 p. illus., 3 pl. (1 col. ) on double l. 24 cm; cover has raised picture; spine has raised title rectangle Name plate states: Presented to: H.J. Bugge Please accept with my regards this effort to record the steady progress that has been made in the sciences of medicine and pharmacy. S.E. Massengill, M.D. Read More
