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Buddy at Red Gate, or A Boy on a Chicken Farm; Dust jacket title: Buddy at Red Gate. The Buddy Series
by GARIS, Howard R
- Used
- near fine
- Condition
- Near fine/Very good
- Seller
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Thomaston, Maine, United States
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About This Item
New York: Cupples & Leon Company, 1941. Later printing. Boards. Near fine/Very good. [Russell TANDY, dust jacket illustrator]. Later printing. Number 17 in The Buddy Series. 12mo; 209pp; black-stamped red pebbled boards, vignette pictorial to front; patterned endpapers with a printed bookplate (not used); b&w frontispiece; paper age-toned; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, front flap lists books through number 20. Buddy and the G-Man Mystery; creasing and light chipping to edges, 2 closed tears to rear, light soiling to rear; near fine in very good dj. Not to be confused with the Buddy Books for Boys published by Grosset & Dunlap, The Buddy Series was a 1930s series of 21 books for young boy readers, from 6-10 years of age. The front flap states, "You will more than like BUDDY with his carefree ways, his cheerful smile, his boundless enthusiasm and his overflowing youth. BUDDY is certain to linger in your memory long after you have finished these stories.".
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1056
- Title
- Buddy at Red Gate, or A Boy on a Chicken Farm; Dust jacket title: Buddy at Red Gate. The Buddy Series
- Author
- GARIS, Howard R
- Illustrator
- [Russell TANDY, dust jacket illustrator]
- Format/Binding
- Boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later printing
- Publisher
- Cupples & Leon Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1941
- Keywords
- Juvenile Series Book
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller
Biblio member since 2019
Thomaston, Maine
About Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller
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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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
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