New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1962. Reprint. Fine in heavy tan cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping and decorations on the spine and front board with a prior owner's name on the first free end page. In a very good+, price clipped dust jacket with multiple short closed tears at the upper edge of the spine area and a 1/8 inch deep chip from the upper edge of the front panel and a 1/3 inch deep chip from the upper edge of the rear panel. The "Diary" of Noah Blake of 1805. 108 pages of text and drawings which help to document life in the early 1800's. This volume contains the double fold-out page illustration of the farm where Noah lived. Extensively illustrated by the author throughout.

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Bookseller: Town's End Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: TB32611
Title: Diary of an Early American Boy
Author: Sloane, Eric
Book Condition: Used
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1962

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Reprint: Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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...
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....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Good+: A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
Fine: A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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...