Children of the Wild
by Roberts, Charles G. D
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Macmillan. Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket. 1913. First Edition; Later Printing. Hardcover. Dust jacket heavily chipped with some loss head of DJ spine. Book corners lightly bumped and worn. Previous owner's name store sticker on front free end paper. Light soiling of endpapers ; A tight solid book, DJ in Mylar, hinges intact. Matching illustrations of wolves hunting on paper covered boards and dust jacket, B&W frontispiece and seven B&W plates by Bransom. ; B&W Plates; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 300 pages; Primarily known for his poetry, Roberts also turned a number of books about nature and animals written in fictional form from the animals point of view. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ainsworth Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16073
- Title
- Children of the Wild
- Author
- Roberts, Charles G. D
- Illustrator
- Paul Bransom
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; Later Printing
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1913
- Keywords
- Wolves, Fiction, Nature & Ecology
Terms of Sale
Ainsworth Books
Satisfaction guaranteed - if I have made an error in the description, I will refund book and shipping both ways. If the customer just changes his/her mind I will only refund one shipping charge. Please contact me before sending a book back. Any dust jackets on books will have a Mylar protector. Books shipped from US or Canada.
About the Seller
Ainsworth Books
Biblio member since 2003
Chilliwack, British Columbia
About Ainsworth Books
Ainsworth Books was for many years a bricks and mortar store in Vancouver, BC. When we acquired the store, we moved to a location in Delta. After three years we moved the stock home and started operation as an online, by appointment only operation. I have worked with books my whole adult life and enjoy giving recommendations.
Glossary
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Jacket
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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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.