New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1972 Color pictorial cloth, with matching cover and dust jacket illustration. With reinforced fabric "library" binding. Childrens book by the talented painter, illustrator, and costume and scenery designer. Color illustrations throughout, and full of historical facts. Very light rubbing to cover extremities. Front and rear endpapers moderately tape-stained where dust jacker was formerly attached. Library marks limited to small inkstamps at inside cover, top and bottom page blocks, and fore edge block. Otherwise clean and tight. Dust jacket clean but modertaley-to-heavily edgeworn, including irregular closed tears at extremities. Small library spine label. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall

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Bookseller: The Curiosity Book Shop (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 12978
Title: Balloons: The First Two Hundred Years
Author: Sotomayor, Antonio
Illustrator: The Author
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good+
Jacket Condition: Good-
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: Ex-Library First Edition.
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1972

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Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Fore Edge: The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
Spine Label: The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
G: Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.