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PETER GRAVES - AN EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURE!
by Du Bois, William Pene
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Very Good/Near Very Good
- Seller
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Poplar Grove, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
The Viking Press, 1950. Decorated hardcover binding with yellow cloth spine is square and tight, some staining along spine. slightly bumped corners. DJ not price-clipped, also has some stains and foxing - protected now in clean Brodart jacket. 168 pages. Interior clean and tight. Peter Graves is a rambunctious fellow who plans an extremely hazardous fame of follow the leader - when he winds up the afternoon by destroying the home of an old inventor. Determined to earn money to rebuild the house, Peter goes to work with the inventor combining the old man's brains with Peter's wild imagination.. Illus. by Du Bois, William Pene. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Very Good/Near Very Good.
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- Bookseller
- Deja Vu Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013561
- Title
- PETER GRAVES - AN EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURE!
- Author
- Du Bois, William Pene
- Illustrator
- Du Bois, William Pene
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Date Published
- 1950
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Bookseller catalogs
- Juvenile - Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Deja Vu Books
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About the Seller
Deja Vu Books
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Poplar Grove, Illinois
About Deja Vu Books
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- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...