The Gnome King of Oz
by Thompson, Ruth Plumly
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very good in fair to good dust jacket. Text block tight and internally bright and clean, with a 3" closed tear to the lower port
- Seller
-
Denver, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
The Reilly & Lee Co., 1927. First edition, first printing. Very good in fair to good dust jacket. Text block tight and internally bright and clean, with a 3" closed tear to the lower portion of p. 97. Spine tips pressed, light wear and toning to board edges and corners, light bump to upper front corner, and small nick to rear board. Illustrated cover label clean and bright. Numerous short edge tears to dust jacket, with moderate to severe chipping to spine tips and corners, most notably a half-inch chip missing from upper spine removing "The" from the title, with general toning and soiling across all panels. In mylar cover.. Green cloth with illustrated cover label. Dust jacket lists to "The Yellow Knight of Oz" (1930).
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- Bookseller
- The Hermitage Bookshop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 209125
- Title
- The Gnome King of Oz
- Author
- Thompson, Ruth Plumly
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in fair to good dust jacket. Text block tight and internally bright and clean, with a 3" closed tear to the lower port
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, first printing
- Publisher
- The Reilly & Lee Co.
- Date Published
- 1927
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About the Seller
The Hermitage Bookshop
Biblio member since 2006
Denver, Colorado
About The Hermitage Bookshop
The Hermitage Bookshop was established in 1973 and has been under one owner since its inception. We are a full service rare and used bookshop and our stock is limited to hardbacks in excellent condition. We have been a member of both the ABAA and ILAB since 1980.
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- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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