The Children's Hour: Along Blazed Trails
by Marjorie Barrows (Ed)
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Grolier Incorporated, 1966. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1966. No Edition Remarks. 372 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering and illustrated front board. Contains black and white and colour illustrations. Anthology of stories in "The Children's Hour" series. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Illustrations are bright and clear. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Heavier rubbing to spine. Fore-edge to text block well-thumbed. Boards are bowed. Mild crushing to spine ends with tears to the top. Gilt lettering is faded to spine but clearer to front board.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1686310666MHP
- Title
- The Children's Hour: Along Blazed Trails
- Author
- Marjorie Barrows (Ed)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Grolier Incorporated
- Date Published
- 1966
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...