The Secret of Skeleton Island (A Ken Holt Mystery)
by Campbell, Bruce
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
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La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1949. First Edition Later Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Book #1 in the well-written YA mystery series featuring intrepid teenage reporter Ken Holt, on assignment for his father's newspaper, & his photographer friend, Sandy Allen. Orig. published in 1949, this is a later printing, listing to KH#10 in front matter & KH#2 on front flap. With tan tweed cloth-covered boards, this hardcover book is in VG condition: very clean, binding strong & straight, pages only lightly tanned, heavier around edges. Minor rubbing to extremities & slight corner bumping are only flaws. The price-clipped DJ is only Fair, downgraded due to some large chips at both ends of spine & heavy rubbing to extremities; nicely protected in new mylar cover Free! Our photos depict the EXACT book you will receive from us--never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Gargoyle Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019754
- Title
- The Secret of Skeleton Island (A Ken Holt Mystery)
- Author
- Campbell, Bruce
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Later Printing
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- BOYS YA ADVENTURE MYSTERY NEWSPAPER REPORTERS TEENAGERS YOUNG ADULT
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children-Young Adult (YA) / Collectible Series; Mystery-Thriller-Suspense-Horror;
Terms of Sale
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Gargoyle Books
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La Mesa, California
About Gargoyle Books
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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...
- VG
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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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...