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Sabina
by Howard, Elizabeth
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Hutchinson's Books For Young People. Good in Good dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Crease to spine. Some knocking to corners of boards. A couple of small knocks, up to 3/8" to corners of boards. Rubbing to ends of dust wrapper spine. 1/4" tear at tail of dust wrapper spine. Some staining and marking to dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; 200 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated. Page dimensions: 186mm x 123mm. No date. "When Sabina set out for Detroit aboard the Forest Queen a hundred years ago she had no idea of what lay ahead of her. An orphan, she had been looked after by her mother's people, who had always made her feel her dependend position, and she was, therefore, pleased but a little apprehensive when her father's brother offered to take charge of her in the future." - from the dust wrapper blurb. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8768
- Title
- Sabina
- Author
- Howard, Elizabeth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hutchinson's Books For Young People
- Place of Publication
- London
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Blurb
- The blurb refers to the commentary that appears on the dust jacket flaps or the rear of the dustjacket. In the case of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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