Dorcas Porkus
by Tudor, Tasha
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
-
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Henry Z. Walck. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1963. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Color Illustrations; Square 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 1963 Henry Z. Walck. Square format HC/DJ. 1st printing of this enlarged edition after the 1942 original. Tightly bound and fresh in original pictorial dust jacket. Feels and appears unread. This copy with publisher's linin lined hinges presumably earmarked for the library trade, more or less confirmed by the deep corner clips to the front jacket flap. Otherwise the jacket is crisp edged, bright and neat but with the spine panel lighjtly sunned. NF/VG .
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Details
- Bookseller
- DogStar Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 49914
- Title
- Dorcas Porkus
- Author
- Tudor, Tasha
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Publisher
- Henry Z. Walck
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1963
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children''s Books;
Terms of Sale
DogStar Books
15 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 15 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
DogStar Books
Biblio member since 2020
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
About DogStar Books
DogStar Books is an open-shop used and rare book store located in historic Lancaster PA. We have been buying and selling scholarly, antiquarian and better books, images, and paper since 1991. We maintain a large general collection of over 40,000 titles on premises to serve our local book loving clientele. Out of town visitors and buyers are always welcome. Our online inventory at Biblio began in 2020 and we will be increasing our inventory here on a regular basis.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- 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...
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