Roller Skates
by Sawyer, Ruth
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- VG+/G+
- Seller
-
Bella Vista, Arkansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: The Viking Press, 1936. Book. Illus. by Valenti Angelo. VG+. Hard Back. Signed By Author. First Edition. The book is bound in gray cloth-covered boards with illustration of a young girl in an oval frame on the cover and illustrated end pages. Book has light wear at spine, otherwise is clean, tight and unmarked. Dust jacket has edge chipping with missing pieces and tears with the Newberry gold seal on the front. Stated First Publication with unclipped dust jacket with $2.00 price. Book has rare SIGNATURE OF AUTHOR Ruth Sawyer on the title page. Black and white illustrations by Valenti Angelo. 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
- Bookseller
- K. L. Givens Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011517
- Title
- Roller Skates
- Author
- Sawyer, Ruth
- Illustrator
- Valenti Angelo
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+
- Jacket Condition
- G+
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1936
- Keywords
- COLLECTIBLE JUVENILE; CHILDREN'S
Terms of Sale
K. L. Givens Books
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About the Seller
K. L. Givens Books
Biblio member since 2006
Bella Vista, Arkansas
About K. L. Givens Books
Our home-based business is located in the beautiful Ozarks of northwest Arkansas. We began selling books in 1992 and still enjoy searching for treasures to list on the internet. We are not mega-sellers; instead we select our inventory for condition and rarity. Among our favorites are 19th century classics in decorative bindings; regional histories and genealogies; and military history.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....