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The Adventures of Poor Mrs. Quack
by Burgess, Thornton W
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
-
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1922. Textblock aged but clean and mostly tight. Rear hinge holding but shaken; Binding faded with time, large pencil/crayon scribble on rear outside cover. Light shelf wear along the edges and corners; Lacks dust jacket; 119p.. Early Reprint. Cloth. Good+. Illus. by Harrison Cady. 12mo - over 6¾" 7¾" Tall. Hardcover.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Clausen Books, RMABA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- EW5725
- Title
- The Adventures of Poor Mrs. Quack
- Author
- Burgess, Thornton W
- Illustrator
- Harrison Cady
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Edition
- Early Reprint
- Publisher
- Little Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1922
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" 7&f
- Keywords
- Juvenile Fiction, Childrens Literature, Childrens Series
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's;
Terms of Sale
Clausen Books, RMABA
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About the Seller
Clausen Books, RMABA
Biblio member since 2006
Colorado Springs, Colorado
About Clausen Books, RMABA
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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.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
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