The Luck of the Comstocks A Story of Block Island
by Maribelle Cormack and William P. Alexander
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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North Providence, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company Incorporated. Good in Good dust jacket. 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition [with "1" code at the rear]. Blue "cloth" with dark blue lettering, illustrated with black-and-white drawings.
"An American boy, Barton Greeley, and a girl from the Isle of Wright, Heather Comstock, are brought together under strange circumstances on Block Island off the coast of Rhode Island, where Heather's grandfather is the lighthouse-keeper".
Very good with spotting to boards, light foxing to the endpapers, owner's name and date to the front paste-down in Dust Wrapper with foxing to the front panel, relatively light fading to the spine which is also frayed at the head, and with a few tiny edge tears. See photos.bx83E
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- Bookseller
- biblioboy (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 861280
- Title
- The Luck of the Comstocks A Story of Block Island
- Author
- Maribelle Cormack and William P. Alexander
- Illustrator
- Hilda Frommholtz
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- D. Appleton-Century Company Incorporated
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1941
- Pages
- 298
- Size
- 8vo 8" - 9" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- JUVENILE, ADVENTURE, FICTION, BLOCK, ISLAND, RHODE, ISLAND, LIGHTHOUSE-KEEPERS
- Bookseller catalogs
- FICTION / Action & Adventure; Fiction / Juvenile;
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