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Yourself and Your Body
by Grenfell, Wilfred T
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good in Poor dust jacket
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: Hodder and Stoughton. Good in Poor dust jacket. 1924. Hardcover. 317 p. 18.5 cm. Sound and square binding in red, cloth-covered boards. Corners bumped and showing some wear. Small tear to the spine. Spine head faded, less so along spine and at the tail. Text block edges and endpapers have foxing. Markered out and erased? ownership information on the front free endpaper. Inside pages have occasional soil but are generally clean and unmarked. The page paper has some toning. Dustjacket is split into two and has been rejoined with archival document repair tape. Long tear on rear panel also repaired with same tape. Front flap is reinforced on the back side with masking tape. Paper loss to the corners and spine ends, affecting the title. Both panels and spine are darkened. A book intended for boys, to explain how their bodies are made and work. Written by medical missionary Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell, who spent years working in Labrador in the late 19th and early 20th century. He apparently wrote this book when his own sons were at the age of asking many questions. The book is illustrated with simple, humourous drawings by the doctor. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3347
- Title
- Yourself and Your Body
- Author
- Grenfell, Wilfred T
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Poor dust jacket
- Publisher
- Hodder and Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1924
- Keywords
- Labrador, Newfoundland
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Homeward Bound Books
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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
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- 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...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- 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....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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