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The Adventures of Ulysses
by Gottlieb, Gerald
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Random House. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. ©1959. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 170 p. 21.5 cm. Sound and square binding in cloth covered boards. Spine ends softened and darkened. Some wear to the corners. Text block edges light foxed. Top edge of text block is lightly faded. Inside pages are clean, bright and unmarked, with one tiny corner crease. Dustjacket has heavy wear, with large chips, tears, and creases. Spine has been cello tape reinforced at the top. Folds, flaps, and rear panel show some soil. Foxing on reverse side. Does not have a price on flap and states BOMC Young Readers of America selection. The story of the legendary ancient Greek King, Ulysses and his adventures. Illustrated with two colour drawings. World Landmark Books No. W-40 .
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- Seller
- Homeward Bound Books
(CA)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 4543
- Title
- The Adventures of Ulysses
- Author
- Gottlieb, Gerald
- Illustrator
- Steele Savage
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- ©1959
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's - Series;
Terms of Sale
Homeward Bound Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Homeward Bound Books
Biblio member since 2011
Campbellcroft, Ontario
About Homeward Bound Books
Homeward Bound Books is an online bookshop operated from our home in the Municipality of Port Hope, Ontario. We specialize in children's and illustrated books – collectible and reading copies; and local histories, particularly for Ontario. We also stock a selection of collectable mystery fiction, ephemera, and any other titles we find interesting or unusual. We have thousands of books yet to be catalogued. So, please contact us to be added to our client list, and we will let you know when we have books of interest to you. It is our pleasure to send books homeward bound -- from our shelves to yours.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- 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....
- 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...
- BOMC
- Book-of-the-Month Club These are popular books republished and sold at a discounted price by one of these many clubs, the...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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