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Under the Eagle
by Potter, H.R
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
-
Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Macdonald & Co.. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. 175 p. 20 cm. Sound and square binding in red, paper-covered boards. Minor wear to the corners. Text block edges slightly dusty. Inside pages are clean, bright and unmarked. Dustwrapper has a crease and tiny closed tear along the front top edge. It has some wear at the corners and the spine ends. The rear white panel shows soiling and darkening. No price on jacket, possibly an export copy. The story of two boys who belong to a northern tribe in Britain during the time of the Roman occupation. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3055
- Title
- Under the Eagle
- Author
- Potter, H.R
- Illustrator
- John Lawrence
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Macdonald & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1964
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's - Historical Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Homeward Bound Books
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About the Seller
Homeward Bound Books
Biblio member since 2011
Campbellcroft, Ontario
About Homeward Bound Books
Homeward Bound Books is an online bookshop operated from our home in the Municipality of Port Hope, Ontario. We specialize in children's and illustrated books – collectible and reading copies; and local histories, particularly for Ontario. We also stock a selection of collectable mystery fiction, ephemera, and any other titles we find interesting or unusual. We have thousands of books yet to be catalogued. So, please contact us to be added to our client list, and we will let you know when we have books of interest to you. It is our pleasure to send books homeward bound -- from our shelves to yours.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- 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....
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
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