The Runaways
by Victor Canning
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/Very Good+
- Seller
-
Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1972. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair/Very Good+. First edition. Book is bumped at head and tail of spine. Spine is cocked. Ex-library book has multiple tape stains on boards and end papers. Stamps to top and bottom edges of text block. Pocket on rear fep. Dust jacket has very light shelf wear; slight age toning to spine and top edges; no library marks or labels; not price clipped ($5.95); in an archival mylar sleeve. 5.75 x 8.25 inches. 222 Pages. Young adult novel about a rebellious youth fleeing from reform school who befriends a young cheetah that has escaped from the Longleat Lion Park in England.
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Details
- Seller
- Boyd Used & Rare Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 003763
- Title
- The Runaways
- Author
- Victor Canning
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- William Morrow and Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1972
- Keywords
- Teenage Boys, fiction, Longleat, young adult,
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Boyd Used & Rare Books
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Portland, Oregon
About Boyd Used & Rare Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
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