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CHILDREN OF THE STORM: BLACK CHILDREN AND AMERICAN CHILD WELFARE
by Andrew Billingsley
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good +/Very Good -
- ISBN 10
- 0151173400
- ISBN 13
- 9780151173402
- Seller
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Chamblee, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
US: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1972. Paperback. Good +/Very Good -. Grey cloth over boards with orange and black particulars to spine and orange ISBN to lower edge of rear board. Pages have highlighting in yellow throughout chapters two through four, previous price sticker to page x which has created shadowing to previous page, and previous owner's name in black pen to first free endpaper. Text block is sunned particularly at top edge with soiling and shelf wear to lower edge. Boards have light sunning to top and lower edge with rubbing to edges, corners and ends of spine and bumping to corners and ends of spine. Binding is tight and square. Dust jacket has light shelf wear, scuffing to fore edge of front cover, and closed tear to tail and top edge of rear board; creasing to edges and light chipping and rubbing to corners and ends of spine. Dust jacket is covered in a protective mylar jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Atlanta Vintage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 62053
- Title
- CHILDREN OF THE STORM: BLACK CHILDREN AND AMERICAN CHILD WELFARE
- Author
- Andrew Billingsley
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good -
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0151173400
- ISBN 13
- 9780151173402
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 1972
- Keywords
- African American Studies
Terms of Sale
Atlanta Vintage Books
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About the Seller
Atlanta Vintage Books
Biblio member since 2007
Chamblee, Georgia
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- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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....
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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