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The Voyage Of The Hoppergrass.
by PEARSON, Edmund Lester, with illustrations by Thomas Fogarty
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Macmillan, 1913. Thomas Fogarty.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1913 First edition Octavo (775" x 55"), 5 preliminary leaves & 348 pages plus 5 unnumbered pages of publisher's advertisements, illustrated throughout Publisher's pictorial green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine & in pale yellow on the upper cover
Binding lightly soiled, brief wear at spine extremities, minor foxing mostly at the edges of the textblock, couple of short tears in lower margin of two leaves, couple of page corners turned, otherwise good or better
Although primarily an author in the true crime genre, Pearson here offers an engaging tale for a presumably male juvenile audience
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Details
- Bookseller
- Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1440
- Title
- The Voyage Of The Hoppergrass.
- Author
- PEARSON, Edmund Lester, with illustrations by Thomas Fogarty
- Illustrator
- Thomas Fogarty
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1913
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Juvenile Fiction, Children's, Illustrated, Maritime, Boats, Boating, Pirates,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's, Illustrated; Maritime, Nautical;
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About the Seller
Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
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Glossary
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- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Cloth
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- Octavo
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- First Edition
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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...
- 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....
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