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Mystery of the Third Mine
by Lowndes, Robert W
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+ in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Philadelphia: John C. Winston Company. Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. 201 p. 22 cm. Sound and square binding in lime green cloth-covered boards with black, stamped spine titles. Stains to both boards, more visible in certain light. Small area of foxing in the front hinge. Corners have light wear with two lightly bumped. Text block edges lightly tanned. Both inside hinges are very slightly darkened. Previous owner's name and address in pencil on back side of the front free endpaper. The inside pages are clean and unmarked. Dustjacket has chips, short tears, and creases; with largest chip being 2 x 1" on spine tail. paper loss along the full width of the rear top edge and a 1 x 1.25" chip on the bottom rear edge. The front flap fold and spine have been reinforced with cello tape on the reverse side. Worn at corners and along folds with some small holes. Rubbed with scratches. The reverse side of the jacket is tanned. Price clipped. A title in the Winston Science Fiction series for juvenile readers. Jacket designed by Kenneth Fagg and endpapers designed by Alex Schomburg. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2208
- Title
- Mystery of the Third Mine
- Author
- Lowndes, Robert W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- John C. Winston Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1953
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's - Series;
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About the Seller
Homeward Bound Books
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Campbellcroft, Ontario
About Homeward Bound Books
Homeward Bound Books is an online bookshop operated from our home in the Municipality of Port Hope, Ontario. We specialize in children's and illustrated books – collectible and reading copies; and local histories, particularly for Ontario. We also stock a selection of collectable mystery fiction, ephemera, and any other titles we find interesting or unusual. We have thousands of books yet to be catalogued. So, please contact us to be added to our client list, and we will let you know when we have books of interest to you. It is our pleasure to send books homeward bound -- from our shelves to yours.
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- Edges
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- Spine
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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....
- First Edition
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- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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