For Yardley: A Story of Track and Field
by Barbour, Ralph Henry
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Staten Island, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1911. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, red cloth lettered in white with large color pictorial paste-down on front cover. 298 pages. Illustrated with color frontispiece and three additional full page color plates. First edition, first printing. A prolific author of over one hundred novels, Barbour is most well known for his popular tales of sports fiction for boys. No previous ownership marks. Hinges tight, sound and not cracked. Mild age soiling and one small nick to cover paste-down. A clean, internally fine copy. Very good. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020014
- Title
- For Yardley: A Story of Track and Field
- Author
- Barbour, Ralph Henry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- D. Appleton and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1911
- Keywords
- Juvenile Series Book, Children's Book, Sports Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Childrens Books;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Staten Island, New York
About Great Expectations Rare Books
We carry a general stock of antiquarian books with a focus on Charles Dickens, 19th and 20th century literature, history and biography.
Glossary
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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,...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...