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Hill of the Hawk
by O'Dell, Scott
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
Indianapolis/New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1947. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Novel for adults set in southern California right before the Gold Rush, by an author better known for his YA books such as "The Island of the Blue Dolphins.'' In 413 pages with decorative endpapers, it was SIGNED by the AUTHOR to the limitation page (his signature only), with a photo of a mission & the designation "California Edition." Endpapers show a map of southern California, redrawn by Paul Laune from W. H. Emory, Lieut. Top. Eng'rs. 1846-47, while the ffep depicts the floor plan of the Hill of the Hawk. A FIRST EDITION, First Printing from 1947, this hardcover 8vo has blue cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering & stamped design to front & spine. Condition is VG+: very clean, binding strong & straight, pages slightly off-white but unmarked, slight corner bumping & rubbing to extremities, with small white stain to lower edge of front board. Mild fading to spine lettering. NO DJ. Our photos depict the exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping if ordered by 2 pm weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next day.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Gargoyle Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 023125
- Title
- Hill of the Hawk
- Author
- O'Dell, Scott
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- Bobbs-Merrill Company
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis/New York
- Date Published
- 1947
- Keywords
- SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HISTORY NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN FICTION SOUTHWEST TRIBE TRIBAL travel exploration
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed Books; Californiana; Fiction / Historical;
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Gargoyle Books
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Gargoyle Books
Biblio member since 2006
La Mesa, California
About Gargoyle Books
On-line booksellers since 1996
Glossary
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- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
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