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To Please A Child: A Biography of L. Frank Baum Royal Historian of Oz
by Baum, Frank Joslyn & Russell P. MacFall
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Archer City, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: Reilly & Lee Co, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Slight lean to spine. Boards and extremities rubbed. Endpapers and edges foxed and stained. Dust jacket faded and stained with chips and tears.
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- Bookseller
- Booked Up, Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 238
- Title
- To Please A Child: A Biography of L. Frank Baum Royal Historian of Oz
- Author
- Baum, Frank Joslyn & Russell P. MacFall
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Reilly & Lee Co
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1961
Terms of Sale
Booked Up, Inc.
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
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Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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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