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God's Pocket: the story of Captain Samuel Hadlock, Junior, of Cranberry Islas, Maine
by Rachel Field
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Lee, New Hampshire
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About This Item
The MacMillan Company: New York, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 163 pages, brown titles and decorations on tan cloth. A very good , generally clean, neat original hard cover first edition with minor shelf wear but spine cloth darkened (likely foxing) and light foxing to the top fore-edges; binding tight, text paper a dark cream white. In a very good minus, moderately-worn dust jacket with chipping to the top and bottom edges of the back strip and and flap folds, and original price present.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 60235
- Title
- God's Pocket: the story of Captain Samuel Hadlock, Junior, of Cranberry Islas, Maine
- Author
- Rachel Field
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket condition
- Very Good
- Quantity-available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The MacMillan Company: New York
- Date Published
- 1934
- Keywords
- History, Biography, New England, Maine
Terms of Sale
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Lee, New Hampshire
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About Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC
Our store is open Fridays & Saturdays from 10am to 6pm in Lee, New Hampshire, less than 10 minutes from the University of New Hampshire!Avenue Victor Hugo Books specialize in first editions of the best in fiction, history, biography, poetry, drama, and essay, as well as the good items which happen to come our way in other subjects. Genre literature such as Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery, and Westerns will remain of special interest to us. We also carry many collectible magazines, including TIME, LIFE, National Geographic, and Playbill.
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- 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... [More]
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"... [More]
- jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps... [More]
- 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.... [More]
- shelf wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is... [More]
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched... [More]
- chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or... [More]
- octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing... [More]
- tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
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