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Exploits of Don Quixote
by Reeves, James
- 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
London: Blackie & Son Limited. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. 219 p. 22.5 cm. Copyright date only. Sound and square binding in red, cloth-covered boards. Light wear to the corner tips and along the edges. Text block edges a little dusty and are toned. Inside pages also are lightly toned, but are clean and unmarked. No previous ownership marks. Dustwrapper has some corner and edge wear. The spine is a little faded and has a moisture stain on the tail on the reverse side only. A few scoring marks on the rear panel. Top edges are age toned. Not price clipped 17/6. A retelling of the the classic Spanish tale of Don Quixote and his adventures. Full colour dustjacket and endpapers, twelve colour plates, and pen and ink drawings by Edward Ardizzone. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4032
- Title
- Exploits of Don Quixote
- Author
- Reeves, James
- Illustrator
- Edward Ardizzone
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Blackie & Son Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1959
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's - Classics;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Homeward Bound Books
Biblio member since 2011
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
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- 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....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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....
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