The Book of Goodnight Stories
by Stovicek, Vratislav
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Bedford Press. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1984. Reprint. Hardcover. 240 p. 28.5 cm. Sound and square binding in glossy, illustrated boards. A little light soil to the text block edges. Inside pages are clean, bright and unmarked. Dustjacket has a bit of crinkling to the corner tips and spine ends. There is a crease to the rear flap's bottom corner. A few faint scratches. A story a day book, with each day of the year having a very short tale and a single illustration. Charming and characteristic eastern European colour artwork. Originally published in the Czech language by Artia in 1982. May require extra postage due to weight of book. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3678
- Title
- The Book of Goodnight Stories
- Author
- Stovicek, Vratislav
- Illustrator
- Karel Franta
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Bedford Press
- Date Published
- 1984
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's - Story Collections;
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About the Seller
Homeward Bound Books
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Campbellcroft, Ontario
About Homeward Bound Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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....
- 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....