Stories from an Indian Cave: The Cherokee Cave Builders
by Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Poplar Bluff, Missouri, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: Albert Whitman & Co., 1924 Blue cloth covers with paste-on color illustration and gilt imprinting on the front and spine. The corners and spine top/bottom are bumped and rubbed and the spine edges are worn through, else good. The front and back paste-downs and flyleafs are illustrated. The front pastedown has the former owner's name and address in pencil and the back pastedown has some small numbers in pencil. The front and back pastedowns, the half-title page and the corresponding back page are age-yellowed, else good. 218 pages which are clean, crisp, and uncreased, with a very few lightly written notes and a stain on page 56. The binding is good and tight. A good collector's edition, especially for its age, from a non-smoking household. We ship daily. Pictures available upon request.. Assumed First. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Dash, Joseph Eugene. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.
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- Bookseller
- Lots of Love Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015120
- Title
- Stories from an Indian Cave: The Cherokee Cave Builders
- Author
- Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin
- Illustrator
- Dash, Joseph Eugene
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Assumed First
- Publisher
- Albert Whitman & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1924
- Keywords
- Children, History, American Indian
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Literature; History;
Terms of Sale
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Glossary
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- 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....
- 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...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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