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Teen-Age Sports Parade
by B.J. Chute
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Grosset and Dunlap, 1949 Grosset and Dunlap, New York. 1949 Copyright. Hardcover. Reprint Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Good +; light wear to head, tail, tips, and board bottoms. DJ: Good +; Price Clipped; missing small pieces at head and tail; edge bumping and light wear at tips. Salmon tweed boards and spine with bright black lettering and rules on the spine and Teen Age Library Seal on front board. Tinted text block top. 255 pp 8vo. All of the stories were published in Boy's Life, the publication of the Boy Scouts. This is a collection of 11 sports stories featuring young men in athletic competitions that face some sort of adversity and must overcome to become the victor or in some cases learn the sting of defeat. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009684
- Title
- Teen-Age Sports Parade
- Author
- B.J. Chute
- Illustrator
- William Ricketts
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint Edition
- Publisher
- Grosset and Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1949
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- sports fiction, Boy Scouts, athletic competition, lessons learned in sports, competition, football games, camping, skiing, baseball track,
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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....
- 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....
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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