London: Humphrey-Milford. Good with no dust jacket. 1921. Hardcover. Red cloth spine with gilt and black lettering, pictorial paper covered boards quite worn, chipping to edges with heavy rubbing and some staining. Front hinge cracked with webbing showing. Name written front endpaper, pages toned with occasional fingerprint smudge. A few of the illustrations are detached, but includes sixteen full-page color illustrations with no tearing or markings. Scarce.; MCF03605 .

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Bookseller: McCormick Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 30863
Title: The Peek-A-Boos Desert Island
Author: Hoyle, Zoe
Illustrator: Chloe Preston
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good with no dust jacket
Publisher: Humphrey-Milford
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1921
Keywords: Children Picture Books Classic Illustrated
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Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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...
Hinge: The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
Cracked: In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
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....
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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...