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Buddy on Floating Island or A Boy 's Wonderful Secret
by Garis, Howard R
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/good -
- Seller
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Cupples & Leon Co, 1944. Hardcover. Near Fine/good -. [4], 210 p.: frontispiece; 19 cm. Red cloth with black spine and cover titles and front cover illustration. Illustrated endpapers. Color illustrated dust jacket. List of the first nine titles in The Buddy Books series on verso of title page. This is the ninth title in the series. The front flap of the dust jacket lists volumes 1 through 20, which was published in 1944; the back section has an advertisement for war bonds and stamps. Gift inscription on front fixed endpaper from Christmas 1944. Ownership section on front free endpaper filled in for E. George Dobash, Nesquehoning, Pa. Book is in Near Fine Condition: clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Good- Condition: loss at ends of spine; closed tears at edges and folds of flaps; tape residue from old repairs at some tears; color on front section is bright.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007639
- Title
- Buddy on Floating Island or A Boy 's Wonderful Secret
- Author
- Garis, Howard R
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- good -
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Cupples & Leon Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1944
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Classic Books and Ephemera
If the item is not as described, the buyer must contact us within 72 hours of their receipt of it. We will refund the full amount with the costs of return shipping within 24 hours of receipt of the item.
About the Seller
Classic Books and Ephemera
Biblio member since 2006
Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
About Classic Books and Ephemera
We have a large stock, focusing primarily, but by no means exclusively, on 16th- to mid-19th-century books in English, French, and German in the fields of history, travel, and the arts, and children's books; late 19th- and early 20th-century military prints and postcards; and manuscripts, deeds, maps, and printed ephemera of all periods and disciplines.
Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
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