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The Book of Small
by Carr, Emily
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: Oxford University Press. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. 245 p. 23 cm. Sound and square binding in cloth-covered boards. Rear inner hinge has a couple of insect holes. Damp stain to top edges of both boards. Light foxing to all text block edges. Top edge dusty. Previous owner's books plate and name on the front endpapers. Inside pages are clean and unmarked with slight toning. Dust jacket has heavy edge and folds wear, including chips, tears, and creases. The spine is faded and has a crease. Both panels show some soil, moreso to the rear. Reverse side shows red staining from cloth of books. The second book by Canadian artist Emily Carr, in which she tells the story of her childhood in Victoria, British Columbia.. .
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- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6085
- Title
- The Book of Small
- Author
- Carr, Emily
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Fair dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1942
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Homeward Bound Books
Biblio member since 2011
Campbellcroft, Ontario
About Homeward Bound Books
Homeward Bound Books is an online bookshop operated from our home in the Municipality of Port Hope, Ontario. We specialize in children's and illustrated books – collectible and reading copies; and local histories, particularly for Ontario. We also stock a selection of collectable mystery fiction, ephemera, and any other titles we find interesting or unusual. We have thousands of books yet to be catalogued. So, please contact us to be added to our client list, and we will let you know when we have books of interest to you. It is our pleasure to send books homeward bound -- from our shelves to yours.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- 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....
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