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Flint's Island
by Wibberley, Leonard
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good ++/Very Good +
- ISBN 10
- 0374323313
- ISBN 13
- 9780374323318
- Seller
-
Calgary , Alberta, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1972 Very good plus plus first edition in very good plus dust jacket. Clean green boards with black ship and lettering, very light wear to corners and spine top and bottom, spine slightly cocked. Clean interior no writing or stickers or stamps or creases. Extremely good shape! Dust jacket is price clipped and has some small tears around edges, max less than an inch. Light soiling but complete and very well preserved for age. Very attractive jcket art, design by Enrico Arno. Farrar Strauss quality publication.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sparkle Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001074
- Title
- Flint's Island
- Author
- Wibberley, Leonard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good ++
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- ISBN 10
- 0374323313
- ISBN 13
- 9780374323318
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus & Giroux
- Place of Publication
- Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1972
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- PIRATES FICTION JUVENILE ACTION ADVENTURE
Terms of Sale
Sparkle Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Sparkle Books
Biblio member since 2008
Calgary , Alberta
About Sparkle Books
I search out used books on principle to highlight their value, keep them circulating and out of the landfill (and just because I am compelled to tell people to "read this"!)
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- 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...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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...
- A.N.
- The book is pristine and free of any defects, in the same condition as ...
- 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...
- 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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