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SKIPPY RAMBLES
by Crosby, Percy 01d
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- FINE book, no DJ. Gilt lettered blue cloth. 7.5"x5", 179pp.
- Seller
-
Lyndonville, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
NY: Putnam's. FINE book, no DJ. Gilt lettered blue cloth. 7.5"x5", 179pp.. 1932. 1st edition.. Hardcover. FINE book, no DJ. AS NEW BUT FOR ONE FLAW, lightly foxed foxed frontis. Top edgs tinted a light red. . All three text block edges clean as new. Very tight, book stays closed when stood on edge. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quiet Friends
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002130
- Title
- SKIPPY RAMBLES
- Author
- Crosby, Percy 01d
- Illustrator
- Color frnotis, many plates.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - FINE book, no DJ. Gilt lettered blue cloth. 7.5"x5", 179pp.
- Edition
- 1st edition.
- Publisher
- Putnam's
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1932
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- FINE book, no DJ. AS NEW BUT FOR ONE FLAW, lightly foxed foxed, frontis. Top edgs tinted a light red.
Terms of Sale
Quiet Friends
Visa, M/C, MO, Check. Shipping is free for a "regular" weight book. But for heavier books, and multi volume sets, we ask for any additional postage. Basically we pay the first $3.
About the Seller
Quiet Friends
Biblio member since 2008
Lyndonville, New York
About Quiet Friends
We sell about 75% internet, 25% book fairs. We have been in business since the early 90's. We pack extremely well. We describe very conservatively and have only a few returns in the 5000 orders we have mailed.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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