Footprints Under the Window
by Dixon, Franklin W
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1933. Hardcover. black-&-white frontispiece. pp. iv, 218. 8vo. Bound in brown buckram with brown lettering & silhouette design,Top edge of book sprayed blue. Text printed on 'wartime' paper (now age-toned). Front dust jacket flap shows 110-150, and lists 21 titles, ending with 'The Clue of the Broken Blade'. Fourteen 'X-Bar-X' titles on rear panel. Jacket has yellow spine with number '12' at bottom. This format published between 1943 to 1951. See Axe, 'All About Collecting Boys' Series Books', pp. 98. The book is slightly rubbed at the edges. Former owner's name and address label on front free endpaper. Otherwise, the book is clean, tight, and in very good condition. The dust jacket is rubbed at the folds and chipped at the spine ends. Light overall soiling. Still in about good condition and now encased in clear archival-quality protective acetate. Frontispiece by J. Clemens Greeta and printed on coated paper. Orange coloured 'Gretta' endpapers.
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Details
- Bookseller
- BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9900040584
- Title
- Footprints Under the Window
- Author
- Dixon, Franklin W
- Illustrator
- black-&-white frontispiece
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1933
- Keywords
- Hardy Boys;Boys' Series;Boys' Fiction;Juvenile Mystery;Juvenile Series;;;;
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About the Seller
BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB
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Winnipeg, Manitoba
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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....
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...