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Banjo Billy and Mr. Bones
by May Justus
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Arlington, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: Albert Whitman & Company, 1944. Hardcover. First Edition, no additional printings listed. Blue cloth over boards with red lettering to spine and illustrated pastedown to front. Illustrated endpapers. Color frontis. Many color and B&W illustrations. Very Good book in pictorial cover. No jacket. Bookplate to verso of FFEP, otherwise interior is unmarked. Binding tight. Cloth lifting off upper edge of inner board. Corners and spine ends bumped and worn. See photos. Not from a library. 63 pages. The story of an orphan boy and his dog, Mr. Bones, looking for his own "stay place."
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- Bookseller
- Books of the World
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000002935
- Title
- Banjo Billy and Mr. Bones
- Author
- May Justus
- Illustrator
- Christine Chisholm
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Albert Whitman & Company
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1944
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- fiction, children, juvenile, kids, teenagers, teens, young adult, youth, orphans, adoption, music, folksongs, bango, dogs, Southern Highlands, Appalachia
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children; Fiction; North Carolina; Music and Dance; Illustrated Books;
- Size
- 8vo
Terms of Sale
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About Books of the World
Finding new homes for the library I collected over five decades of travel around the world.
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- 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...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
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