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Marooned on Mars
by Del Rey, Lester
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1969. Tenth Printing. Hardcover. 210 p. 21.5 cm. Sound and square library edition binding in cloth-covered boards. Upper board bowed at front edge. Sticky residue from tape on both boards. Text block edges have a bit of soil. Rear free endpaper removed, likely where library circulation slip/pocket was. School library stamp on the title page. Dustjacket has been laminated which has served to protect it quite well. It has a label on the spine and light edge and corner wear. Colours are still bright and sharp. Price clipped on front flap. The rear flap has been trimmed a little unevenly. A juvenile science fiction novel about a teenage boy who lives on the Moon and is chosen to be a crew member of an attempt to fly from the Moon to Mars (or so he thinks). Jacket illustration by Paul Orban. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4161
- Title
- Marooned on Mars
- Author
- Del Rey, Lester
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edition
- Tenth Printing
- Publisher
- Holt, Rinehart and Winston
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1969
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's - Science Fiction;
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About the Seller
Homeward Bound Books
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Campbellcroft, Ontario
About Homeward Bound Books
Homeward Bound Books is an online bookshop operated from our home in the Municipality of Port Hope, Ontario. We specialize in children's and illustrated books – collectible and reading copies; and local histories, particularly for Ontario. We also stock a selection of collectable mystery fiction, ephemera, and any other titles we find interesting or unusual. We have thousands of books yet to be catalogued. So, please contact us to be added to our client list, and we will let you know when we have books of interest to you. It is our pleasure to send books homeward bound -- from our shelves to yours.
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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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