SPEEDY IN OZ
by Thompson, Ruth Plumly
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Poor
- Seller
-
Yarmouthport, Massachusetts, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Chicago:Reilly & Lee Co., (1934). First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/Poor. Chicago:Reilly & Lee Co. (1934). 1st edition. 298pp. Illustrated with 12 color plates. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very good, 1st edition with semi script imprint on spine; endpapes illustrated in black/white; 12 color plates and dust jacket which lists to #26, Ojo in Oz. Grey boards clean with light soiling along edges. Front paste-down in very good, bright condition. Internally, decorated end-papers slightly age-toned but with no previous owners marks or signatures. Plates are clean and bright. Binding is tight and hinges intact. The dust jacket did it's job well and shows the strain, missing a large piece from the top back panel and a smaller piece from the lower back panel. Also torn along spine strip with pieces missing, and the rear flap is detached, but present. *Bienvenue p 116.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Parnassus Book Service (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23721
- Title
- SPEEDY IN OZ
- Author
- Thompson, Ruth Plumly
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chicago:Reilly & Lee Co.
- Date Published
- (1934)
- Keywords
- JUVENILE; OZ; RUTH PLUMLY THOMPSON; FICTION;
Terms of Sale
Parnassus Book Service
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About the Seller
Parnassus Book Service
Biblio member since 2016
Yarmouthport, Massachusetts
About Parnassus Book Service
Ben Muse began selling books from the former Knowles General Store in 1959. Now in our third generation, we are a famiy-run, general book store selling new and old (often rare) books as well as issuing specialty catalogs on a variety of subjects: Americana, Latin America, Maritime, Art, the Orient and a variety of other subjects. If you can't find what you are looking for here on the web, please contact us directly at our Yarmouthport shop -- or better yet stop by to browse and talk. We look forward to seeing you.
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Edges
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- Paste-down
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- Spine Strip
- The material covering the spine, or the rear portion of the outside of a book.
- First Edition
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- Jacket
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