The Adventure Club
by Fyleman, Rose
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+ in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Methuen & Co.. Good+ in Fair dust jacket. 1925. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 80 p. 19 cm. Sound and square binding in blue, cloth-covered boards with gilt stamped titled and decoration. Corners and edges show some wear. Endpapers are heavily foxed with some foxing spots to preliminary and ending pages. Inside pages are clean and unmarked, with some age toning. Dustwrapper has darkened edges and folds, pieces missing and tears to the spine, and front and rear panels are slightly faded. Partial publisher's sticker on spine. A children's adventure story featuring "jolly, normal children...in quest of excitement and adventure". (from flap) .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1608
- Title
- The Adventure Club
- Author
- Fyleman, Rose
- Illustrator
- A.H. Watson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ in Fair dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Methuen & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1925
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's - Adventure;
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Homeward Bound Books
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Campbellcroft, Ontario
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...