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The Story of Amelia Earhart
by Adele de Leeuw
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good +
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Grosset and Dunlap/Signature Books , 1955 Grosset and Dunlap/Signature Books, New York. c1955. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Signature Book #33. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; scant shelfwear; light bumping to head and tail. DJ: Very Good +; light wear to head, tail, and tips; small closed tears to edges. Orange cloth boards and spine with bright black titles and decorations on the spine and front board. Pictorial endpapers. 181 pp 8vo. Designed for adolescent readers, the Signature Books were written to present interesting episodes of a famous person's life to set them as a role model for the reader. This book is the story of Amelia Earhart, a girl from Kansas who fell in love with aviation, airplanes, and flying eventually becoming a world famous aviatrix. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015185
- Title
- The Story of Amelia Earhart
- Author
- Adele de Leeuw
- Illustrator
- Harry Beckhoff
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Publisher
- Grosset and Dunlap/Signature Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1955
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Amelia Earhart, flying, aviation, Pacific Ocean, Fred Noonan, World War I, World War II, lost at sea, plane crash, Lockheed Model 10-E Electra, Howland Island, Lockheed Vega 5B, transatlantic flights,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Aviation/Aircraft; Biographies; Adolescent/Childrens Books;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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.
- 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....
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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