The Real Book about Amazing Animals
by Dickinson, Alec
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Garden City Books. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1951. Hardcover. 191 p. 22 cm. Sound and square binding, in rust coloured cloth to spine and patterned paper covering boards. Some wear to the corners, lesser amount along the edges. Areas of rubbing. Inside pages are clean, bright and unmarked. Dustjacket has large chips (pieces missing) on the spine head and foot. Futher edge, folds, and corner wear, including tears and creasing. Not price clipped ($1.25). Part of the publisher's Real Book series for children. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1226
- Title
- The Real Book about Amazing Animals
- Author
- Dickinson, Alec
- Illustrator
- Fred Collins
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- Publisher
- Garden City Books
- Date Published
- 1951
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's - Series;
Terms of Sale
Homeward Bound Books
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About the Seller
Homeward Bound Books
Biblio member since 2011
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.
Glossary
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- 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...
- 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....
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...