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The Youth Plupy or the Lad with a Downy Chin
by Shute, Henry A
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Omaha,, Nebraska, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Birch, Reginald. The Plupy Stories", volume 7. Bound in green cloth with titles nd rules stamped in silver. First edition, with corresponding 1917 dates to the title and copyright pages and "Published August 1917" below the copyright. With a frontispeice (with tissue guard) and 5 internal illustrations by Reginald Birch. 253 pages. The cloth shows only a touch of edgewear with tiny frays at the corners, head and heel. Hinges solid; binding square. Fingernail-size stain to the front endpapers, otherwise a clean, tight, unmarked copy. Mattson & Davis 45750, format 5.
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- Bookseller
- Friendly Used Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 125680
- Title
- The Youth Plupy or the Lad with a Downy Chin
- Author
- Shute, Henry A
- Illustrator
- Birch, Reginald
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1917
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- New England Boys Adventures Fun Exeter New Hampshire
- Bookseller catalogs
- fiction; juvenile; Antiquarian and Collectible Books;
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Friendly Used Books
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About the Seller
Friendly Used Books
Biblio member since 2005
Omaha,, Nebraska
About Friendly Used Books
We have been selling books for over 40 years. For many years we had a B&M shop. We now exclusively sell online. We are conservative graders.
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...
- ND
- no publisher's date given
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- 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...
- 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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