Swiss Family Robinson
by J.D. Wyss
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Binghamton, New York, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing, no date. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Art by T. H. Robinson. CF shelf. Larger light-blue stamped dark cloth, handsome paste-down front cover, slightly cocked. 1935 name verso front cover, pale gift note up front dated 1935. Clean text. Illus. endpapers, gorgeous color plates
Synopsis
The Swiss Family Robinson is a novel, first published in 1812, about a Swiss family who are shipwrecked in the East Indies en route to Port Jackson, Australia.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Gil's Book Loft (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 084783
- Title
- Swiss Family Robinson
- Author
- J.D. Wyss
- Illustrator
- Art by T. H. Robinson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Garden City Publishing, no date
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Pages
- 436
- Keywords
- children's 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...
- 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...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...