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Penrod Jashber by Booth Tarkington; Illustrations by Gordon Grant
by Tarkington, Booth
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/very good -
- Seller
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1929. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good -. Copyright 1929 by Doubleday, Doran & Co. No date of publication by Grosset & Dunlap. x, [2], 321 p.: illustrations; 22 cm. Green cloth with dark green stamped spine and cover titles. Green endpapers. Top page edges green. Illustrated dust jacket in lined jacket cover. Grosset & Dunlap issued this with several different dust jackets. This one shows Penrod sitting and holding a book while he looks at some handwritten pages by his feet, with a dog next to him. Publisher's catalog on back section of dust jacket. Book is in Near Fine Condition: minor damage to fore-edges of 2 leaves; otherwise, clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Very Good- Condition: chipping and minor loss at spine ends; scrape on front section near upper edge; several closed tears of 2 cm. or less from upper and lower edges; color is bright. 0.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007829
- Title
- Penrod Jashber by Booth Tarkington; Illustrations by Gordon Grant
- Author
- Tarkington, Booth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good -
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1929
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Children's Books;
Terms of Sale
Classic Books and Ephemera
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About the Seller
Classic Books and Ephemera
Biblio member since 2006
Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
About Classic Books and Ephemera
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
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