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The Mysterious Planet
by Wright, Kenneth
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good+
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: John C. Winston, 1958. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, Second Printing.. Philadelphia: John C. Winston, 1958. First Edition, Second Printing. Near Fine/Very Good+. First Edition, Second Printing in clean original dust jacket. From the excellent Winston Science Fiction series for young people, this is a clean hardcover book with rust red cloth boards, yellow lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. 209 pages. Illustrated jacket is unchipped, price clipped, a few tiny closed edge tears, very slight fading to spine background, hint of very light soiling to rear panel; jacket illustration is by Alex Schomburg; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A science fiction novel about Planet "X"..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 029998
- Title
- The Mysterious Planet
- Author
- Wright, Kenneth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition, Second Printing.
- Publisher
- John C. Winston
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1958
- Keywords
- WINSTON SCIENCE FICTION, BOYS KENNETH WRIGHT, NOVEL, FICTION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction; Children's;
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- Fine
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- New
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Edges
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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