Marooned on Mars
by Del Rey, Lester
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1969. Tenth Printing. Hardcover. 210 p. 21.5 cm. Sound and square library edition binding in cloth-covered boards. Upper board bowed at front edge. Sticky residue from tape on both boards. Text block edges have a bit of soil. Rear free endpaper removed, likely where library circulation slip/pocket was. School library stamp on the title page. Dustjacket has been laminated which has served to protect it quite well. It has a label on the spine and light edge and corner wear. Colours are still bright and sharp. Price clipped on front flap. The rear flap has been trimmed a little unevenly. A juvenile science fiction novel about a teenage boy who lives on the Moon and is chosen to be a crew member of an attempt to fly from the Moon to Mars (or so he thinks). Jacket illustration by Paul Orban. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4161
- Title
- Marooned on Mars
- Author
- Del Rey, Lester
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edition
- Tenth Printing
- Publisher
- Holt, Rinehart and Winston
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1969
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's - Science Fiction;
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Homeward Bound Books
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Campbellcroft, Ontario
About Homeward Bound Books
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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....
- 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...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.