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Five Points Service
by Barbour, Ralph Henry
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Omaha,, Nebraska, United States
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About This Item
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1935. First Edition (stated). . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Caswell, Edward C.. Bound in beige cloth with titles and decorations stamped in red. First edition, with corresponding dates to the title and copyright pages and a one in parentheses (1) on the last page of text. 275 pages; no ads. With a frontispiece and three internal illustrations by Edward C. Caswell. The cloth shows only light wear at the corners and spine ends; there is a touch of soil. Old gift inscription partially blacked out on the front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked. Hinges solid; binding square. A clean, tight copy. A boy goes to work in a gas station, with union agitation as part of this Depression-era story. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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- Bookseller
- Friendly Used Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 125582
- Title
- Five Points Service
- Author
- Barbour, Ralph Henry
- Illustrator
- Caswell, Edward C.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition (stated).
- Publisher
- D. Appleton-Century Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1935
- Keywords
- BOYS JUVENILE GAS STATION UNION DEPRESSION BUSINESS MYSTERY
- Bookseller catalogs
- fiction; juvenile;
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About the Seller
Friendly Used Books
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Omaha,, Nebraska
About Friendly Used Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
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