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Don Sturdy with the Big Snake Hunters, or: Lost in the Jungles of the Amazon
by Appleton, Victor
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good- in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good- in Good dust jacket. 1927. Hardcover; Later Printing. Red cloth binding rubbed at spine ends & corners, and slightly cocked; small ding to top edge of rear board; front hinge & one point in textblock cracked; leaf edges & endpapers lightly foxed. Dj rubbed at extremities; spine ends & corners chipped; 1" closed tear to top edge of rear panel; surface lightly foxed/smudged, jacket now protected in mylar cover. ; B&w frontis ils. & color dj art by Walter S. Rogers; DON STURDY SERIES NO. 2. ; DON STURDY SERIES NO. 2 Series; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 216 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47516
- Title
- Don Sturdy with the Big Snake Hunters, or: Lost in the Jungles of the Amazon
- Author
- Appleton, Victor
- Illustrator
- Walter S. Rogers
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover; Later Printing
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Good dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1927
- Keywords
- Vintage Young Adult Series, Stratemeyer Syndicate Authors, Collectible Young Adult Novels
- 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
Glossary
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- 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....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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