The Gorgon's Head; A Myth from the Isles of Greece
by Hodges, Margaret
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. 32 p. 23 cm. Sound and square reinforced binding in cloth-covered boards. Not an ex-library copy. Top edge of text block is lightly foxed. Else fine. Price written on upper right corner of endpaper. Inside pages are clean and unmarked. Dustjacket has foxing to both panels and the spine is darkened and soiled. Two tiny cut marks on front panel. Not price clipped. A retelling of the myth of Perseus and his voyage to get the head of Medusa. Illustrated by American artist Charles Mikolaycak. .
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- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4690
- Title
- The Gorgon's Head; A Myth from the Isles of Greece
- Author
- Hodges, Margaret
- Illustrator
- Charles Mikolaycak
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1972
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Campbellcroft, Ontario
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Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...