JIMMY WINS A PRIZE
by Helen Gale
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good -
- Seller
-
Chamblee, Georgia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
US: John Martin's House, Inc, 1947. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good -. Pages are clean and unmarked. Boards are clean. Light wear to extremities. Binding is square and tight. Endpapers lightly foxed and toned. Scarce dust jacket is bright, only lightly soiled with rubbing to extremities, several closed tears and chipping to the edges and ends of spine. Dust jacket is covered in protective mylar jacket. Pictures available upon request.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Atlanta Vintage Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 34728
- Title
- JIMMY WINS A PRIZE
- Author
- Helen Gale
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good -
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- John Martin's House, Inc
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 1947
- Keywords
- Children's
Terms of Sale
Atlanta Vintage Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Atlanta Vintage Books
Biblio member since 2007
Chamblee, Georgia
About Atlanta Vintage Books
Welcome to Atlanta Vintage Books, serving book lovers locally and worldwide for over 30 years. Our 5,000 square foot book store houses over 70,000 vintage, rare and out of print books. You'll be greeted with a smile when you enter but left alone as you browse. Our staff is friendly, helpful and knowledgeable. Special orders are happily accommodated, as hard-to-find and out-of-print editions are a specialty. Our store is light and airy with plate glass windows letting in plenty of natural light and wonderfully decorated with antique display cases, old barrister bookcases, and wood book shelves. The wide aisles and scattered seating make browsing a joy. You'll wonder where the time went.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....