The Peek-A-Boos Desert Island
by Hoyle, Zoe
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
Hartland, Michigan, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Humphrey-Milford. Good with no dust jacket. 1921. Hardcover. Red cloth spine with gilt and black lettering, pictorial paper covered boards quite worn, chipping to edges with heavy rubbing and some staining. Front hinge cracked with webbing showing. Name written front endpaper, pages toned with occasional fingerprint smudge. A few of the illustrations are detached, but includes sixteen full-page color illustrations with no tearing or markings. Scarce.; MCF03605 .
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Details
- Bookseller
- McCormick Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30863
- Title
- The Peek-A-Boos Desert Island
- Author
- Hoyle, Zoe
- Illustrator
- Chloe Preston
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Humphrey-Milford
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1921
- Keywords
- Children Picture Books Classic Illustrated
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children;
Terms of Sale
McCormick Books
Books are shipped immediately upon receipt of payments. Returns allowed within two weeks.
About the Seller
McCormick Books
Biblio member since 2004
Hartland, Michigan
About McCormick Books
Mail order book store specializing in Genealogy, History and Michigan History.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...