Roller Skates
by Sawyer, Ruth
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket chipped and toned, endpapers toned.
- ISBN 10
- 0670603112
- ISBN 13
- 9780670603114
- Seller
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Selkirk, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
NY: Viking and Junior Literary Guild. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket chipped and toned, endpapers . toned.. 1936. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 0670603112 . Blue cloth binding. Early book club edition of this Newbery Award winner, without any mention of the award on the jacket flaps nor the seal on the jacket. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 186 pages .
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
- Seller
- Old Saratoga Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 50190
- Title
- Roller Skates
- Author
- Sawyer, Ruth
- Illustrator
- Valenti Angelo
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket chipped and toned, endpapers toned.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670603112
- ISBN 13
- 9780670603114
- Publisher
- Viking and Junior Literary Guild
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1936
- Keywords
- 0670603112, 1930s Children's Books, Newbery Award Winners
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books;
Terms of Sale
Old Saratoga Books
We are happy to provide a refund within thirty days of the customer's receipt of any book(s) upon return of the book(s) to our shop.
About the Seller
Old Saratoga Books
Biblio member since 2005
Selkirk, New York
About Old Saratoga Books
Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Glossary
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- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...