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Don Sturdy Trapped in the Flaming Wilderness: Unearthing Secrets in Central Asia
by Victor Appleton
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-/No dust jacket
- Seller
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GAHANNA, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Grosset & Dunlap, Inc., New York, NY, 1934. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No dust jacket. First Edition as listed inside through this title. 204 pp. Text ivory, clean, unmarked with no prior owner attribution. Small worm hole on bottom edge extends 1/2 inch, but does not reach text. Top edge tinted green. Spine is sunned. Cover shows wear from use. Green and white art drawings on front and back free endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated b/w drawing frontispiece by Nat Falk. Victor Appleton was a house pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate and its successors, most famous for being associated with the Don Sturdy and Tom Swift series of books.
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- Bookseller
- Select Tomes
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 100484
- Title
- Don Sturdy Trapped in the Flaming Wilderness
- Author
- Victor Appleton
- Illustrator
- Nat Falk
- Format/Binding
- Red boards with black title and author on front cover and spine. Hinges very tight. Corners lightly bumped.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- No dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1934
- Pages
- 204
- Size
- 5 1/4 X 7 3/4
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- American Classics;
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GAHANNA, Ohio
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I am making available selections from my collection of eclectic, historical and sometimes rare books. My collection includes historical novels, cookbooks, textbooks and children's books along with other ephemera.
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