THE CHRISTMAS GIFT AND OTHER STORIES
by Youngdahl-Nelson, Ruth
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Poplar Grove, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Rock Island Illinois: Augustana Book Concern, 1933. Small red hardcover binding has gold leaf decoration spackled on covers, pastedown of author/title block, cloth spine, large crack in front cover length of the front, shelfwearm bumped corners, hinge cracked inside front cover, name with 1938 on ffep. Binding integrity intact. just minor soiling and wear to text pages. No illustrations. 78 pages. Written by a woman who was wife of a Lutheran Pastor and was an activist against nuclear proliferation. She wrote a number of devotional books. This one was written with stories for little boys and girls - true stories to help them draw closer to God. Rare.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Deja Vu Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012801
- Title
- THE CHRISTMAS GIFT AND OTHER STORIES
- Author
- Youngdahl-Nelson, Ruth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Augustana Book Concern
- Place of Publication
- Rock Island Illinois
- Date Published
- 1933
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Bookseller catalogs
- Childrens - Texts/Readers/Non-Fiction;
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- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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