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SHADOW OF A BULL
by Wojciechowska, Maia
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Near fine in very good jacket.
- Seller
-
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Atheneum, 1964. First printing. Near fine in very good jacket.. Lovely first edition of this Newbery Award winner about the son of a famous bullfighter in Spain. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original red cloth lettered in blind, gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($3.50) yellow pictorial dust jacket, with no award seal. Gold endpapers. Illustrated by Alvin Smith. 165, [3] pages. Jacket with light rubbing, a few short closed tears repaired with tape to verso. Book with light foxing to text block edges. Tight.
Synopsis
Shadow of a Bull is a novel by Maia Wojciechowska that was awarded the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1965.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Type Punch Matrix
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14981
- Title
- SHADOW OF A BULL
- Author
- Wojciechowska, Maia
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine in very good jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing
- Publisher
- Atheneum
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1964
- Keywords
- Newbery,20th century,US American,Chapter Book
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About the Seller
Type Punch Matrix
Biblio member since 2020
Silver Spring, Maryland
About Type Punch Matrix
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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