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The Runaway Bag
by Terhune, Albert Payson
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Woodstock, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, clipped, some chips and bumps at the edges. Blue buckram, a bit rubbed at the bottom edge, with orange ink lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square, bound with some reading wear and a blue top stain, clean internally. The adventure story of Dirck Lanier and his theft of his mother's jewels and travels from America to Algiers.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4588
- Title
- The Runaway Bag
- Author
- Terhune, Albert Payson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- George H. Doran Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1925
- Keywords
- Adventure, Modern Literature, American Literature, Jewels, Algieria, Africa
Terms of Sale
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
All items are returnable for a refund within 30 days of receipt.
About the Seller
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2018
Woodstock, Illinois
About Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
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- 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...
- Buckram
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- Bumps
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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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...
- 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....
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