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THE LITTLE GREEN ISLAND
by Josephine Balfour Payne
- Used
- Condition
- Very Good -/Good
- Seller
-
Chamblee, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
US: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1942. Hardback. Very Good -/Good. RARE. Green pictorial boards with white and black particulars to spine. Soiling and tanning to gutters of some pages throughout; light shadowing from illustrations onto facing pages throughout. Illustrations and text are clean and unmarked. Text block is foxed and sunned. Boards are clean with light sunning to edges and headcap of spine; scuffing, bumping and rubbing to edges, corners and ends of spine; blue pen markings to edges of rear flap. Binding is tight; boards are slightly bowed inward. Dust jacket is lightly soiled with moderate to heavy creasing, chipping, closed tears and rubbing to extremities. Dust jacket is covered in a protective mylar jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Atlanta Vintage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64694
- Title
- THE LITTLE GREEN ISLAND
- Author
- Josephine Balfour Payne
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good -
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- G. P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 1942
- Keywords
- Children's
Terms of Sale
Atlanta Vintage Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Atlanta Vintage Books
Biblio member since 2007
Chamblee, Georgia
About Atlanta Vintage Books
Welcome to Atlanta Vintage Books, serving book lovers locally and worldwide for over 30 years. Our 5,000 square foot book store houses over 70,000 vintage, rare and out of print books. You'll be greeted with a smile when you enter but left alone as you browse. Our staff is friendly, helpful and knowledgeable. Special orders are happily accommodated, as hard-to-find and out-of-print editions are a specialty. Our store is light and airy with plate glass windows letting in plenty of natural light and wonderfully decorated with antique display cases, old barrister bookcases, and wood book shelves. The wide aisles and scattered seating make browsing a joy. You'll wonder where the time went.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- 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...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
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