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The Pony Express
by Samuel Hopkins Adams
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
-
San Rafael, California, United States
Item Price
£23.89£11.95
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Well-preserved book and dust jacket of this children's historical classic. First Edition! Boards are slightly faded, otw fine. DJ has minute bumps to edges and one 1/2" tear to top edge. In mylar plastic. Pages are clean, hinge is tight, no internal markings. Priced to sell!
All proceeds go to Benefit the Friends of the San Anselmo Library. No expedited shipping outside of the United States.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Town Books of San Anselmo
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28
- Title
- The Pony Express
- Author
- Samuel Hopkins Adams
- Illustrator
- Lee J. Ames
- Format/Binding
- Blue cloth boards with blue and gold titles and design
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1950
- Size
- 5.75 X 8.5
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Non-Fiction, Pony Express, Westward Movement,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Literature; First Editions;
Terms of Sale
Town Books of San Anselmo
All titles are available for a full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item is misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Town Books of San Anselmo
Biblio member since 2020
San Rafael, California
About Town Books of San Anselmo
Town Books is run by volunteers for the benefit of the San Anselmo Library, San Anselmo, CA. All titles are donated and go through a thorough accession process to ensure that the books are clean and in a good reading state. Selected titles of rare and vintage books are reserved for our online sales with Biblio.com.
Glossary
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
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