Roller Skates (Newbery Library, Puffin)
by Ruth Sawyer
- Used
- Acceptable
- Paperback
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Puffin, 1968. Paperback. Acceptable. 1968. No Edition Remarks. 176 pages. Pictorial paper cover. Contains black and white in-text illustrations. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Cracking to hinges, with front cover coming away from text-block slightly. Binding remains firm. Paper cover has moderate edge wear with scuffing to edges and creasing. Small splits to joints. Book has rolled spine. Mild tanning to spine and edges. Mild rubbing to surfaces with curling to corners.
Synopsis
Roller Skates is a book by Ruth Sawyer that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1937. It deals with the author's New York childhood.
Reviews
On Oct 7 2014, a reader said:
I thought it would be a happy-go-lucky book about way back when, but I was surprised by how many dark topics, like murder and death are in it.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1644303869LSA
- Title
- Roller Skates (Newbery Library, Puffin)
- Author
- Ruth Sawyer
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Puffin
- Date Published
- 1968
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...