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The Mail Carrier, "Boy Trapper Series
by Castlemon, Harry Castlemon
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Philadelphia, Chicago and Toronto: The John C. Winston Co.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 12mo. 326 pages. Hardcover bound in tan cloth with a pictorial pastedown on the front cover and with spine designs in black and red. Moderate rubbing and wear to the binding. Pictorial endpapers. Early owner's gift inscription on the back side of the frontis reads, "Alfred Carpenter / from Aunt Alice / Xmas 1919." Text is toned but is generally clean. The only date on the copyright page is 1879, but the endpapers show an early airplane (much in the fashion of the original Wright Brothers' aircraft), so the actual printing date should be in the early 1900s and certainly no later than 1919. Other than the illustrated frontis, this is not an illustrated work.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 051138
- Title
- The Mail Carrier, "Boy Trapper Series
- Author
- Castlemon, Harry Castlemon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The John C. Winston Co.
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia, Chicago and Toronto
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 1.50 lbs
- Keywords
- 1879; 1919; Harry Castlemon; Boy's Series Books; Juvenile; 19th Century; Adventure; Fiction; Novel; Literature.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books; Literature & Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
14 day return guarantee, with full refund if an item arrives mis-described or damaged. Buyer pays return shipping.
About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- A.N.
- The book is pristine and free of any defects, in the same condition as ...
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