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Rocket Jockey
by St. John, Philip
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Philadelphia: John C. Winston Company. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. 207 p. 22 cm. Sound and square binding in grey, cloth-covered boards with navy, stamped spine titles. Corners bumped, with light wear. Spine ends a bit crinkled. Small pull mark on the half title page. Tiny spot in margin of two pages, otherwise the inside pages are clean and unmarked. Dustjacket has heavy wear to the spine ends, with paper loss at each end. Corners and edges also worn, including tears, creases and tiny chips. The spine is rubbed and very slightly faded at the top. Reverse side has some browning. Price clipped. A title in the Winston Science Fiction series for juvenile readers. Jacket and endpapers designed by Alex Schomburg. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2211
- Title
- Rocket Jockey
- Author
- St. John, Philip
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- John C. Winston Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1952
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's - Series;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Homeward Bound Books
Biblio member since 2011
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.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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....
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
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