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Jack Holborn
by Garfield, Leon
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Pantheon, 1965. Book. Illus. by Antony Maitland, Illustrator. Very Good+. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. New York: Pantheon, 1965. Stated First edition. Very Good+/Very Good+. Antony Maitland, Illustrator. First Edition in clean original unclipped jacket. Very clean red cloth boards with black compass decoration on cover, black lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 250 pgs. Clean unfaded dustjacket is not price clipped (3.75 on front inside flap), unchipped, with one short closed edge tear at base of rear panel (under 1"), light rubbing to corners. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A young stowaway finds that his fate is strangely bound up with pirates on the ship, as the enigmatic Captain claims to know the secret of his parentage. An exotic and adventurous tale along the lines of "Treasure Island." This was the author's first book..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018965
- Title
- Jack Holborn
- Author
- Garfield, Leon
- Illustrator
- Antony Maitland, Illustrator
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- Stated First Edition.
- Publisher
- Pantheon
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1965
- Keywords
- CHILDREN'S ADVENTURE FICTION PIRATES SHIPS LEON GARFIELD
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's;
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Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Stanley, New York
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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....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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