Speedway Challenge
by Gault, William Campbell
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1956 Full tan cloth, red titling and décor. First edition stated. Light general wear, small rippled area on front cover, endsheets a little foxed, pale spot on fore-edge; jacket price-clipped, edgeworn with light chipping, short closed tear, some foxing. Narrator, old before his time at 22, learns to loosen up while watching out for and racing on the dirt oval with his uncle & 17 year old brother. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 5½" by 8¼".
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- u2506
- Title
- Speedway Challenge
- Author
- Gault, William Campbell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- E. P. Dutton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1956
- Keywords
- Juvenile Fiction, Automobiles, Racing, Dirt Track Racing
Terms of Sale
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
All books are subject to prior sale, though we make every effort to keep our inventory current. Books are returnable within ten days with prior notification. We will request extra shipping for large books and sets going to addresses outside the United States.
About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Most of our stock is on-line only, though we have many books in three booths at Angela's Attic Antique Mall, 1020 Gardner Street in South Beloit, Illinois; a booth across the street at the Best of Beloit; and a large booth at the Lake Geneva Antique Mall, 829 Williams Street, Lake Geneva, WI. You may request to see any of our on-line inventory at any location with a few days' notice.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...