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THEY FOUND ATLANTIS
by Wheatley, Dennis
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Middletown, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
London: Hutchinson & Co, [1936]. Diana Younger. First edition. INSCRIBED, "For Diana / who drew the figures in the end papers (of this book) ... love / from Dennis." Diana Younger, Wheatley's stepdaughter, illustrated the endpapers for this book and several others, and the dust jacket for THE GOLDEN SPANIARD (1938). Red cloth boards stamped in black on front and spine. Cloth frayed at head of spine, light stain on spine, "tide" mark along lower edge, otherwise crisp and bright and therefore better than good. In fair to good dust jacket skinned at edges and folds and with shallow chipping and one deeper v-shaped chip affecting the "D" in Dennis on front panel. NICE FAMILY ASSOCIATION, INSCRIBED
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quill & Brush
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 53572
- Title
- THEY FOUND ATLANTIS
- Author
- Wheatley, Dennis
- Illustrator
- Diana Younger
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hutchinson & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- [1936]
- Bookseller catalogs
- ASSOCIATION COPY;
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- Inscribed
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- Edges
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- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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