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Shackled Youth; Comments on Schools, School People, and Other People
by Yeomans, Edward
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good Condition/Good
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1932. Reprint. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/Good. Green coloured cloth covered boards with gilt embossed decoration and titles to the front panel and gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. Illustrated dustwrapper with black colour titles to the front panel and backstrip. A series of articles written by the author for The Atlantic Monthly in the early part of the 20th century (first edition 1921). The author talks about the education system and what it is doing to youth, and how educationalists can encourage their students to fly, not shackle two earth. Softening and browning to the textblock edges with rubbing to the book corners and lower book edges. Browning in foxing to the textblock edges and lighter browning in foxing to the pages. Offset tanning and faint foxing to the endpapers, previous owners name to the free front end paper and original bookseller's sticker to the lower left-hand corner of the same page. The sticker has ghosted on to the front paste-down. Chipping to the dustwrapper corners and backstrip edges. There is a small tear to the top edge of the front dustwrapper panel, with creasing and rubbing to both the dustwrapper edges and panels. Sunning to the backstrip along with signs of handing marks and stains to the dustwrapper panels. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [3], 4-138 pages.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Education; United States; Essays & Literary Criticism. Inventory No: 0117264. .
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- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0117264
- Title
- Shackled Youth; Comments on Schools, School People, and Other People
- Author
- Yeomans, Edward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1932
- Keywords
- BZDB2 Education; United States; Essays & Literary Criticism. Unbranded Yeomans, Edward Shackled Youth; Comments on Schools, School People, and Other People
- Bookseller catalogs
- Education;
Terms of Sale
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
transaction in Australian $'s for checks and money orders.If the book is not as described, return within 14 days, for a refund of the cost of the book.
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About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Biblio member since 2005
melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
Glossary
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- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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