The Macmillan Company, 1935. Hardcover. Good/Fair. Good+ ; Fair Jacket. 1935 reissue of 1923 edition. The Macmillan Company. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has blue-violet cloth-covered boards with black spine and cover lettering. Color frontispiece. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Corners and spine ends lightly bumped. Covers have light surface and edge wear. Marked out price and later price in ink on front free endpaper. Pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Pages clean and unmarked. 181 pages. Color illustrated jacket has tattered top and bottom edges, with several pieces missing from edges, as well as several tears. A few tears have been repaired on the inside surface of the jacket with archival document repair tape. Surface of jacket in the area over tear at top front corner is abraded, and the top part of the K in the title is missing; it appears that a price sticker was removed from this area. Dust jacket is NOT price clipped, showing original price of $1.00. Price on jacket has been marked through in ink and another price is also marked out. Series: The Boys Own Books. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.

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Bookseller: SmarterRat Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 9351
Title: The Boys' Own Book of Adventurers
Author: Britt, Albert
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good
Jacket Condition: Fair
Publisher: The Macmillan Company
Date Published: 1935
Keywords: Children's Literature,Adventure
Bookseller catalogs: Children's Literature; Adventure;

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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...
Good+: A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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,...
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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....
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
Price Clipped: When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...