New York, NY: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1959. Book. Very Good. Cloth. Reprint. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. New York, NY, Lothrop, Lee & Shephard, 1959. Reprint. 4to. Yellow cloth with black lettering embossed on spine, illustrated in black and white (and sometimes, blue), 64 pp. The dust jacket is intact, but it has been taped together internally and externally, which gives a nice, if slightly fractured appearance. A little soiling at spine. Text block is clean, crisp and appears gently read. Simple diagrams show how to make all kinds of kites. Very good in a fair dust jacket, protected by an archival-quality mylar cover..

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Bookseller: Respectful Exits (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: EM-B0066-02
Title: Kites: How to Make Them and Fly Them
Author: Downer, Marion
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Fair
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.
Place of Publication: New York, NY
Date Published: 1959
Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12&
Keywords: HOBBIES KITING CHILDRENS BOOKS
Bookseller catalogs: How-To; Children's Books;

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Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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....
Crisp: A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
Reprint: Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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....