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Silver Sun
by Mirza Ahmad Sohrab and Julie Chanler. Illustrated By Maginel Wright Barney
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Universal Publishing Co., 1939. First edition, 1939, with personlized inscriptions written and signed by each author on the front free endpaper. The children of the village meet a new charismatic young boy and some strange and exciting animals, journey through the desert and arrive in "the land of blue birds and orange blossoms". Bright yellow pictorial cloth printed in red and silver gilt, 102 pages, illustrated dustjacket. The book is in good to very good condition with some age-speckling and light blue staiing to the covers from the dustjacket, good hinges, sound text block, faint transparent stain (about a half inch high and one and a half inches wide) at the far bottom margins of most of the pages, pages otherwise clean with no other names or markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is priceclipped and has some uneven agetoning, some transparent stains to the spine and lower rear panel, upper corner of the front panel, two very small edge chips, little paper loss.. Inscribed By Both Authors. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 039735
- Title
- Silver Sun
- Author
- Mirza Ahmad Sohrab and Julie Chanler. Illustrated By Maginel Wright Barney
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Universal Publishing Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1939
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- CHILDRENS PERSIA WELCOME STRANGER
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books;
Terms of Sale
Resource Books, LLC
We pack well and ship promptly. Returns: Books may be returned for refund of purchase price within seven days provided prior notification is given and the books are returned in the same condition as when shipped.
About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2004
East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
Resource Books, LLC deals in antiquarian and out-of-print books in a wide variety of subject matter, mainly non-fiction.
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- Cloth
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- Text Block
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- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
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