The Secret of Skeleton Island (A Ken Holt Mystery)
by Campbell, Bruce
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
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La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1949. First Edition Later Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Book #1 in the well-written YA mystery series featuring intrepid teenage reporter Ken Holt, on assignment for his father's newspaper, & his photographer friend, Sandy Allen. Orig. published in 1949, this is a later printing, listing to KH#10 in front matter & KH#2 on front flap. With tan tweed cloth-covered boards, this hardcover book is in VG condition: very clean, binding strong & straight, pages only lightly tanned, heavier around edges. NO writing or underlining or highlighting; not ex-lib. Minor rubbing to extremities & slight corner bumping are only flaws. The price-clipped DJ is only Fair, downgraded due to some large chips at both ends of spine & heavy rubbing to extremities; nicely protected in new mylar cover Free! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm weekdays (Pacific); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Gargoyle Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021407
- Title
- The Secret of Skeleton Island (A Ken Holt Mystery)
- Author
- Campbell, Bruce
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Later Printing
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- BOYS YA ADVENTURE MYSTERY NEWSPAPER REPORTERS TEENAGERS YOUNG ADULT
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children-Young Adult (YA) / Collectible Series; Mystery-Thriller-Suspense-Horror;
Terms of Sale
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Gargoyle Books
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La Mesa, California
About Gargoyle Books
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Glossary
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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....
- 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...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...