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Claim Jumpers of Marble Canyon
by Montgomery, Rutherford
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. 182 p. 20.5 cm. Sound and square binding in cloth-covered boards. Fore-corners are lightly bumped. Light wear to the spine ends. Top edge of the text block is foxed. Previous owner's name and bookplate on the front free endpaper. Endpapers have a little toning. Inside pages are clean and unmarked overall, with slight toning. Dust jacket is foxed and soiled on the rear panel. Edge and corner wear includes some chips, tears and creases. Reverse side is foxed. Not price clipped. A children's adventure story about two teenagers who accompany their prospector uncle as he searches for uranium on the Colorado Plateau and has to deal with some claim-jumpers. Black and white illustrations. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6702
- Title
- Claim Jumpers of Marble Canyon
- Author
- Montgomery, Rutherford
- Illustrator
- William Moyers
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1956
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Homeward Bound Books
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Campbellcroft, Ontario
About Homeward Bound Books
Homeward Bound Books is an online bookshop operated from our home in the Municipality of Port Hope, Ontario. We specialize in children's and illustrated books – collectible and reading copies; and local histories, particularly for Ontario. We also stock a selection of collectable mystery fiction, ephemera, and any other titles we find interesting or unusual. We have thousands of books yet to be catalogued. So, please contact us to be added to our client list, and we will let you know when we have books of interest to you. It is our pleasure to send books homeward bound -- from our shelves to yours.
Glossary
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- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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....
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