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Jane Withers and the Phantom Violin
by Roy J. Snell; Henry E. Vallely [Illustrator]
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable/Missing
- Seller
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Manhattan Beach, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Whitman Publishing Company, 1943-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable/Missing. Whitman Publishing Company [Published date: 1943]. Hard cover, 248 pp with 3 page of ads at back. Authorized Edition with Illustrations by Henry E. Vallely. In acceptable+ condition/ MISSING dust jacket. Blue textured boards with orange lettering. Light bumping, scuffing and soling to edges of covers and top and bottom of spine. Moderate spotting and staining to rear cover. Spine is cracked along front hinge but binding is otherwise solid. Front end paper with lovely illustration has a split running along the seam of the hinge between the front paste-down and the front free end paper as well as a 1/2" chip to the paper at along the top edge of the front free end paper near the spine. Previous owner's name and address in pencil on front paste down. Pages are browned with age but otherwise unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. No remainder marks. A good reading copy. Part of a collection of stories published by Whitman in the 1940's featuring female film actress named in the title and pictured on the book's dust jacket. The stories ranged from mystery and adventure to humor. This story is a retelling of a 1934 book written by Snell entitled "Phantom Violin.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Epilonian Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20160918001
- Title
- Jane Withers and the Phantom Violin
- Author
- Roy J. Snell; Henry E. Vallely [Illustrator]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Jacket Condition
- Missing
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Whitman Publishing Company
- Date Published
- 1943-01-01
- Keywords
- Fiction, Whitman, Juvenile books
Terms of Sale
Epilonian Books
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About the Seller
Epilonian Books
Biblio member since 2009
Manhattan Beach, California
About Epilonian Books
Epilonian Books is a small bookseller dedicated to preserving ephemera and any esoteric or imminently extinct written work.
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- 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...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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....
- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- Remainder
- Book(s) which are sold at a very deep discount to alleviate publisher overstock. Often, though not always, they have a remainder...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
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