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Sisters
by North, Grace May
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good+
- Seller
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Steelton, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Akron, Ohio: Saalfield, 1928. Listed as part of Saalfield's "Girls Detective Series," Number 3632, this copy is in Fine condition with a Very Good+ dust jacket (click on photo). The story concerns two orphaned sisters, each separated at infancy, one raised in a wealthy household and the other, on a farm, with loving but common parents. The book is bound in a wovern burgundy cloth with black titles on front panel and spine. The binding is tight and the pages are clean, but with some age toning. The dust jacket has several tears, repaired on the reverse with non-acidic tape, and placed into a Brodart protective sleeve. The book measures 5 1/2 by 8 1/8 inches and includes 310 pages. . Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Grimalkin Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001296
- Title
- Sisters
- Author
- North, Grace May
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Publisher
- Saalfield
- Place of Publication
- Akron, Ohio
- Date Published
- 1928
- Keywords
- Children's Literature, Mystery
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery and True Crime; Romance Fiction; Children's Literature, Fairy Tales and Mythology;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Grimalkin Books
Grimalkin Books is located in Steelton, Pennsylvania, the first town south of Harrisburg. We specialize in older, unusual books and sets, often literary, artistic, or historical. "Grimalkin" is old English for an old gray cat, mainly because the owner, Bob Amsel, is a cat lover. All books subject to prior sale. Payment must be received within 10 days of the order or item will be returned to stock. We accept money orders, bank checks, personal checks (allow time to clear), PayPal or MasterCard/Visa through Biblio's credit card processing service. International orders must be paid in US dollars and can be paid via PayPal, credit card (through ABE), or International Postal Money Order. Your purchase will be carefully packaged to protect it during shipping. Books may not be returned just because the buyer has changed his mind. Only books with actual defects that were not mentioned by the seller in the listing may be returned. Please insure returns for their full value.
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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....
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
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