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Babouscka: A Russian Christmas Story, and Other Stories
by Folk Tales
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
-
East Granby, Connecticut, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Akron, OH: The Werner Company, 1899. First edition, 1899. Collected folk stories illustrated with black and white engravings. Pictorial tan cloth printed in dark green, red and lighter tan, no dustjacket as issued. Fair to good condition, extremities rubbed with light fraying to the spine ends, spine darkened, good hinges, text block sound but not tight (no pages loosened), pages clean with some occasional light age-speckling, gift notation from Christmas 1899 on front free endpaper, no other markings.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 040343
- Title
- Babouscka: A Russian Christmas Story, and Other Stories
- Author
- Folk Tales
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Werner Company
- Place of Publication
- Akron, OH
- Date Published
- 1899
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- HOLIDAY FOLK STORY FOLKLORE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Literary History;
Terms of Sale
Resource Books, LLC
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About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2004
East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
Resource Books, LLC deals in antiquarian and out-of-print books in a wide variety of subject matter, mainly non-fiction.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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....
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