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Ant Ventures
by Wade, Blanche Elizabeth
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Poor with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Chicago: Rand, Mcnally & Company. Poor with no dust jacket. 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Pictorial green cloth binding rubbed at extremities; spine ends & corners frayed; boards & backstrip scuffed & smudged; hinges & several points in textblock cracked; cracked front hinge neatly repaired with clear tape; one color plate missing; several leaves nearly detached; corners of a few leaves chipped/bent; leaf edges foxed, else a much-loved, clean copy, with bright & clear ils. No dj. ; Many charming b&w ils., by Harrison Cady, color cover art & only three color plates present. ; 8vo; 246 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46728
- Title
- Ant Ventures
- Author
- Wade, Blanche Elizabeth
- Illustrator
- Harrison Cady
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Rand, Mcnally & Company
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1924
- Keywords
- Antique Children's Books, Elizabeth Blanch Wade Collectibles, Harrison Cady Illustration
- Bookseller catalogs
- Vintage Young Adult;
Terms of Sale
Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
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
Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
Biblio member since 2019
Fort Wayne, Indiana
About Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
Open shop with over 125,000 volumes. We try to maintain a good selection in all categories and have a fondness for the odd & obscure. Specialties include History, Nature, Literature, Religion, Mystery, SF, Art, Children's, Humor, Indiana
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- Leaves
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
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