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The Book of Fairs
by Augur, Helen
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company., 1939 Hardcover in dust jacket. No statement of reprints on copyright page but no date on title page, probable reprint. 308 pp. This is a lovely copy with just a hint of soiling to edges. The jacket however is price clipped and has tiny tears and chips, some rubbing, heavy sunning to spine. Very Good/Fair.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ken Jackson
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 246511
- Title
- The Book of Fairs
- Author
- Augur, Helen
- Illustrator
- James Macdonald
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1939
- Keywords
- HISTORY-GENERAL
- Bookseller catalogs
- History- General;
Terms of Sale
Ken Jackson
Any book may be returned for any reason. If not as described we will pay shipping both ways.
About the Seller
Ken Jackson
Biblio member since 2005
Calgary, Alberta
About Ken Jackson
We are a family business and have been involved in books since 1971.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- 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....
- 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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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...
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