BOAT CHILDREN OF CANTON (1944) by Ward, Marion B
- Bookseller: Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
 (US)
- Seller Inventory #: 7429
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
- Illustrator: Illustrated by Helen Sewell
- Edition: Stated First Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: David Mckay Co.
- Place: Philadelphia
- Date published: 1944
Description
Philadelphia: David Mckay Co.. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket 1944. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Clean tan cloth decorated with red. Text tight, clean & intact. Pictorial endpapers & frontispiece. Color & B/W illustrations. Dust Jacket protected in a mylar cover. Two children searching for their parents and their many adventures. Children; Dust Jacket with a few edge chips & closed edge tears. ; Color & B/W Illus.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 92 pages .
dust jacket : A protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
tight : Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
frontispiece : A portrait or illustration on the page opposing the title page.
8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 8-10 inches tall. The size is based on a sheet of paper 25 inches by 38 inches, the size of paper traditionally used by book printers, which has been folded and cut into 16 pages..
Unfortunately often misunderstood to mean 8 volumes.
endpapers : The first and last two pages (verso and recto) from the front and back of a book.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
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