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Ruth Fielding In The Great Northwest
by Emerson, Alice B. / W. Bert Foster
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG/Good
- Seller
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Louisville, Kentucky, United States
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About This Item
NY: Cupples & Leon Company, 1921. Book. Illus. by Thelma Gooch. VG. Hardcover. 8vo. 206pp, plus 6-pages of ads, illustrated with a full-page frontis plate by Gooch, tan cloth with black lettering and decoration, light general wear-only, previous owner's name / date in ink at front fly, overall very clean and bright copy, in a clipped, lightly worn and soiled dust jacket with creasing noted at lower half of front panel, spotting at spine, shallow chipping at some edges, and a few red ink smudges at rear panel, now housed in protective Brodart. Faults noted in pictures. This is #17 in the Ruth Fielding Series. Alice B. Emerson was a pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate for the Betty Gordon and Ruth Fielding series books. All the various writers taking up the pen of Alice B. Emerson are not known; however, books 1-19 of the Ruth Fielding series -- of which the present title is among -- were written by W. Bert Foster..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Legacy Books II
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021235
- Title
- Ruth Fielding In The Great Northwest
- Author
- Emerson, Alice B. / W. Bert Foster
- Illustrator
- Thelma Gooch
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Publisher
- Cupples & Leon Company
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1921
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- Juveniles, Children's Literature, Series Books, Women Authors, Women Writers, Female Authors, Female Writers, American Literature, American Fiction
Terms of Sale
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Glossary
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- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Spine
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- Brodart
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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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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