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On To Adventure
by Heffernan, Helen; Harper, Wilhelmina; Wulfing, Gretchen
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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Baldwinsville, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Chicago: Benj. H. Sanborn & Co., 1953. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Chicago: Benj. H. Sanborn & Co., 1953. New Edition. Octavo, red cloth boards with black spine imprinting and illustration, 432 pp. No jacket, as issued. Bright, tight, Near Fine copy, showing only some endpaper foxing, mainly at front endpapers, and a little dust on some interior page margins. Replete with very nostalgic color and b&w illustrations. Learning through adventure fiction. Eminently collectible mid-twentieth-century elementary school textbook. Very nicely preserved. Please see scans. L-32
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Details
- Bookseller
- Singularity Rare & Fine
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010301
- Title
- On To Adventure
- Author
- Heffernan, Helen; Harper, Wilhelmina; Wulfing, Gretchen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Benj. H. Sanborn & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1953
- Pages
- 432
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- text juvenile Action & Adventure
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Singularity Rare & Fine
Biblio member since 2005
Baldwinsville, New York
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Glossary
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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