London: Hodder & Stoughton. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Price clipped DJ shows heavy shelf wear with tears and chipping, large piece missing base of DJ spine, small chips at top, some soiling on back panel. Previous owner's name in ink on front pastedown. ; A tight solid book, hinges intact. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; B&W Illustrations; 191 pages; Mee gives kids the stories of a number of explorers who didn't return from their final voyages. .

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Bookseller: Ainsworth Books (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 18729
Title: They Never Came Back
Author: Mee, Arthur
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good in Fair dust jacket
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1936
Keywords: Explorers, Hudson, captain cook, balboa, Baffin
Bookseller catalogs: Juvenile; Exploration;

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Ainsworth Books

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About Ainsworth Books

Ainsworth Books was for many years a bricks and mortar store in Vancouver, BC. When we acquired the store, we moved to a location in Delta. After three years we moved the stock home and started operation as an online, by appointment only operation. I have worked with books my whole adult life and enjoy giving recommendations.

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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...
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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...
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....
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...