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Beau Beau's 1 2 3
by Sherman, E. Helene
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Sudbury, MA: Kurbel Books, 1985. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 64mo - up to 3" tall. Miniature hardcover in card stock slipcase; Deluxe edition of 200 numbered copies of which this is 043; 2.5 x 2.5 inches; accordion fold; unpaginated; 12 illustrated pages, 11 of which are in color plus 4 pages of 20c dog stamps. Cream leather (goat) boards with blue titles to spine, marbled end papers, tiny exlibris book plate in front end paper for [Kalman] Levitan (co-founder of the Miniature Book Society), red stock slipcase with tiny color paste-down illustration to front, edges of slipcase are lightly creased, else no notable flaws. This little fold-out book is amazing and adorable! The artist E. Helene Sherman was occasionally visited by a toy poodle named Beau Pierre, and she made this little book to honor him. Ten pages numbered 1-0 each with a different illustration of Beau being the dog he is, followed by four pages of beautiful stamps of different breeds of dogs.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Crooked House Books & Paper
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000832
- Title
- Beau Beau's 1 2 3
- Author
- Sherman, E. Helene
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- Kurbel Books
- Place of Publication
- Sudbury, MA
- Date Published
- 1985
- Size
- 64mo - up to 3" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- ACCORDION FOLD ILLUSTRATED DOG BOOKS POSTAGE STAMPS TOY POODLE ARTISTS BOOKS KALMAN LEVITAN MINITURE BOOK SOCIETY
Terms of Sale
Crooked House Books & Paper
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About the Seller
Crooked House Books & Paper
Biblio member since 2005
Portland, Oregon
About Crooked House Books & Paper
Welcome to the Crooked House, a one-of-a-kind bookstore in Portland, Oregon. Specializing in the beautiful and unusual: books by, for and about women, cookery, domestic science, decorative publishers bindings, weird how-to books and ephemera, 1920s-30s women's magazines, Modern Library, and more.
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- 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...
- 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....
- Miniature
- A book that is less then 3 inches in width and ...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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