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Georgie to the Rescue
by Robert Bright
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Near Fine
- Seller
-
Waccabuc, New York, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1956. Pictorial boards. Very Good +/Near Fine. Robert Bright. A very presentable copy of the 1956 stated 1st edition. Tight and VG+ (tiny amount of light crayon at the front pastedown and the front free endpaper) in a crisp, price-intact ($1.75), Near Fine dustjacket, with one closed tear to the bottom of the front flap-fold and just a hint of very light chipping at the spine ends. Oblong quarto, nicely illustrated by the author Robert Bright himself.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Appledore Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19235
- Title
- Georgie to the Rescue
- Author
- Robert Bright
- Illustrator
- Robert Bright
- Format/Binding
- Pictorial boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1956
- Keywords
- rare children's books, rare children's series books
- Bookseller catalogs
- Childrens;
Terms of Sale
Appledore Books, ABAA
All books are offered subject to prior sale. Materials are returnable within 1 week of receipt provided prior notice is given.
About the Seller
Appledore Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Waccabuc, New York
About Appledore Books, ABAA
Buy and sell - rare, unusual and antiquarian - art, photography, literature, scholarly, sports, childrens, bindings.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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