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The Adventure Club Afloat
by Barbour, Ralph Henry
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Omaha,, Nebraska, United States
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About This Item
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1927. Reprint. . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Caswell, Edward C.. Bound in yellow cloth with a red flag (front and spine) and titles in black. Second format, a volume issued circa 1927 for the Dodd Young People's Library. (The Cumulative Book Index lists this Dodd series as issued in 1927). This copy undated on the title page, but we have others in the set, all dated 1927. The series box on the half-title verso lists ten titles. Clearly the second format, as the first was an octavo in dark brown cloth, the first edition of which was dated 1917 on the title page. This copy lightly rubbed, with mild edgewear and a small black smudge on the rear cover. Bertrand Smith's Long Beach stamp is present on the front pastedown, otherwise unmarked. Hinges solid, binding square. A clean, tight copy. Mattson & Davis 00400, format two. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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- Bookseller
- Friendly Used Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 125106
- Title
- The Adventure Club Afloat
- Author
- Barbour, Ralph Henry
- Illustrator
- Caswell, Edward C.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint.
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1927
- Keywords
- FICTION BOYS SERIES
- Bookseller catalogs
- juvenile; Antiquarian and Collectible Books;
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About the Seller
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Glossary
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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...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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