Tom Swift and His Electronic Retroscope
by Appleton, Victor II
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Decatur, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1959. Reprint. Hardcover. Spine slightly cocked. Front hinge broken but page block tight. Dustjacket worn and chipped. ; Blue tweed binding.; Tom Swift Jr.; Vol. 14; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .
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- Bookseller
- Novel Ideas Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 101710
- Title
- Tom Swift and His Electronic Retroscope
- Author
- Appleton, Victor II
- Illustrator
- Graham Kaye
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Fair dust jacket
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1959
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About the Seller
Novel Ideas Books
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Decatur, Illinois
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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.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
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