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The Bell Ringers
by Vern Swartsfager
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, 1948 The Macmillan Company, New York. 1948. Hardcover. Stated First Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; bumped tail; slight curling to upper and lower front tips. DJ: Good +; NOT Price Clipped ($3.00); clipped corners on front flap; chipping and closed tears at head, tail, and tips; light sunfading to spine. Red cloth boards and spine with gilt lettering on the spine. 212 pp 8vo. Written by a bad boy turned priest this is a book about promoting a better way of life for young people. After catching a gang of boys ringing the Cathedral bell at St. Matthews in Dallas as a way to call their gang together, the author reads the boys the "riot act" and forms the Gremlin Club to help reform the boys bad ways. Through the Gremlin Court, athletic societies, and organized social meetings, the movement has grown throughout Dallas to make physically and spiritually stronger boys (and girls). 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 #
- 008480
- Title
- The Bell Ringers
- Author
- Vern Swartsfager
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1948
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- St. Matthews Cathedral, juvenile delinquency, boy gangs, truants, troublemakers, prison, juvenile detention, reform programs, Gremlin Club, Boys Club, Girls Club,
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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
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- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- 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...
- 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...
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