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Dearest Debbie: In Ai Lee
by Dale Evans Rogers
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0800700651
- ISBN 13
- 9780800700652
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Old Tappan, NJ: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1976 Fleming H. Revell Company, Old Tappan, NJ. 1976. Hardcover. Edition/Printing not stated.1 of 130,000 in print. Book is tight, square and unmarked but for F/O names on the front pastedown and the FFFP. Book Condition: Very Good; shelfwear to head, tail, and tips. DJ; Good; NOT Price Clipped ($2.50); light wear to head, tail, and tips; closed tear on top of rear panel with small missing piece. Blue tweed boards and spine with black script lettering on the spine. 62 pp 12mo. This book is written in the form of a letter to her adopted Korean daughter, In-Ai Lee or Debbie, after her tragic death at age 12 in a church bus accident. This slim volume is Dale Evans' testimony of her daughter's life. It is a mother's testimony, full of affectionate memories. It is inter-cultural testimony, touching on adjustment and language learning that will interest anyone who adopts a child from overseas. It is Christian testimony, where tragedy is braced by a confidence that mother and daughter will meet in a life to come. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014751
- Title
- Dearest Debbie: In Ai Lee
- Author
- Dale Evans Rogers
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0800700651
- ISBN 13
- 9780800700652
- Publisher
- Fleming H. Revell Company
- Place of Publication
- Old Tappan, NJ
- Date Published
- 1976
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Keywords
- Ameraisan, Korea, Adoptee, Dale Evans Rogers, Roy Rogers, adopted daughter, death, childhood death, mother's letter, Christianity, Christian witness,
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
Glossary
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- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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