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DON STURDY AMONG THE GORILLAS; OR, ADRIFT IN THE GREAT JUNGLE (DJ Protected by a Brand New, Clear, Acid-Free Mylar Cover)
by Appleton, Victor
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Livonia, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Grosset & Dunlap. Fair in Fair dust jacket. 1927. Hardcover. ; Red cloth cover has heavy damp staining but free from mildew. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Lacking front end sheet. Former owner's name on back of frontispiece. Pages are clean and in very good condition. Dust jacket has very heavy wear and tattered at corners and edges of spine strip. DJ protected by a brand new, clear, acid-free mylar cover. We add mylar covers to all books with DJs to preserve the DJs and add luster to magnify their beauty. (If pictured, shown without the mylar cover for an accurate representation of dust jacket. ); 7.4 X 5.0 X 1.1 inches .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2501
- Title
- DON STURDY AMONG THE GORILLAS; OR, ADRIFT IN THE GREAT JUNGLE (DJ Protected by a Brand New, Clear, Acid-Free Mylar Cover)
- Author
- Appleton, Victor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair in Fair dust jacket
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Date Published
- 1927
Terms of Sale
Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA
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About the Seller
Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2020
Livonia, Michigan
About Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA
Sage Rare & Collectible Books specializes in out-of-print, scarce, and rare books as well as signed and First Editions.
Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Mildew
- Mildew is an all-too-common affliction that plagues books and erodes their collectibility, value and preservation. A fungus...
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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....
- Spine Strip
- The material covering the spine, or the rear portion of the outside of a book.
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