Roller Skates
by Ruth Sawyer
- Used
- Condition
- very good+/good+
- Seller
-
St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Viking Press, 1936. Hard Cover. very good+/good+. A nice copy in dust jacket. Endpapers and interior illustrations by Valenti Angelo. Dust jacket has chipping along edges with some loss. Seal of Newberry award on front cover. Copyright page states "First Published October 1936" SIGNED by author on title page. In a protecitve brodart wrapper. Newberry award winner.
Synopsis
Roller Skates is a book by Ruth Sawyer that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1937. It deals with the author's New York childhood.
Reviews
On Oct 7 2014, a reader said:
I thought it would be a happy-go-lucky book about way back when, but I was surprised by how many dark topics, like murder and death are in it.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Midway Used and Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 49017
- Title
- Roller Skates
- Author
- Ruth Sawyer
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - very good+/good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1936
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Midway Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
St. Paul, Minnesota
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- 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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...