Gaudenzia, Pride Of The Palio
by Henry Marguerite
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Vars, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Rand McNally. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1960. Hardcover. Red cloth covers with bold gilt titles to the cover and spine. A tightly bound copy with a clean, unmarked interior. Colorful illustrated end papers. There is spine end and corner bumping, light tanning to the cover top and bottom edges. Overall in Very Good+ condition. The DJ is clipped with cover scuffing, some tearing to the edges with a peice missing of off the bottom spine end. "A story, based on real events, about a boy and a half-Arabian mare who enter the Palio, an annual race in Siena, Italy, with all the pageantry of a medieval contest." ; Color / Black & White Illustrations ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 237 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bytown Bookery (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15248
- Title
- Gaudenzia, Pride Of The Palio
- Author
- Henry Marguerite
- Illustrator
- Lynn Ward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Publisher
- Rand McNally
- Date Published
- 1960
- Keywords
- Italy, Palio Festival, Siena, Italy
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children; Horses and Horse Racing; Historical Fiction;
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About the Seller
Bytown Bookery
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Vars, Ontario
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...