Story Parade Rainbow Book: A Collection of Modern Stories for Boys and Girls
by Sawyer, Ruth (introduction)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Asheville, North Carolina, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Philadelphia, PA: John C. Winston Company, 1942. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo (9.5"x6.5"). 357pp. Rainbow cloth-covered boards with white titles. Light rubbing to corners & upper spine extreme. Blue & white illustrated endpapers. Gift inscription in pen to ffep verso. Pages lightly toned. B&W illustrated cuts throughout. Typographic dust jacket covered in protective mylar: chips up to 1" missing along top-edges, 1.5" closed tear, smaller chips to tail edges.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Downtown Books & News (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3278
- Title
- Story Parade Rainbow Book: A Collection of Modern Stories for Boys and Girls
- Author
- Sawyer, Ruth (introduction)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- John C. Winston Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia, PA
- Date Published
- 1942
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About the Seller
Downtown Books & News
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Asheville, North Carolina
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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.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- 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...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...