The Purple Prince of Oz
by Thompson, Ruth Plumly
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Topeka, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Chicago: Reilly & Lee Co.. Good in Good dust jacket. 1932. Hardcover. Later Printing w/o color plates. Some shelf wear and light bumping at corners though corners remain square. Block edges show dust staining. Text is yellowing. Front hinge loose and starting to separate, back hinge loose. "This book belongs to" filled out in pencil and pen. DJ has heavy chipping and is missing several small pieces including one 1/4" piece on front cover at middle of spine. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Oddfellow's Fine Books and Col (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 119
- Title
- The Purple Prince of Oz
- Author
- Thompson, Ruth Plumly
- Illustrator
- Neill, John R.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Good dust jacket
- Publisher
- Reilly & Lee Co.
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1932
Terms of Sale
Oddfellow's Fine Books and Col
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About the Seller
Oddfellow's Fine Books and Col
Biblio member since 2014
Topeka, Kansas
About Oddfellow's Fine Books and Col
We sell antiquarian and gently used books specializing in all things Kansas. We also offer a large selection of books for children, vintage young adult & series books; Agriculture; Psychology; Militaria and Western Americana.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...