Boys and Girls of Bookland
by Nora Archibald Smith
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Collectible; Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Waccabuc, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 1923. 1st. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. The 1923 1st edition. Solid and VG in a bright, VG- example of the wonderful pictorial dustjacket, with chipping at the spine ends and creasing and chipping at the panel edges. Still though, very presentable. Tall quarto, 100 pgs., wonderfully illustrated thruout by the great Jessie Willcox Smith.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Appledore Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8824
- Title
- Boys and Girls of Bookland
- Author
- Nora Archibald Smith
- Format/Binding
- Decorative Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectible; Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- David McKay Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1923
- Keywords
- Rare Children's Books, rare Jessie Willcox Smith
- Bookseller catalogs
- Childrens;
Terms of Sale
Appledore Books, ABAA
All books are offered subject to prior sale. Materials are returnable within 1 week of receipt provided prior notice is given.
About the Seller
Appledore Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Waccabuc, New York
About Appledore Books, ABAA
Buy and sell - rare, unusual and antiquarian - art, photography, literature, scholarly, sports, childrens, bindings.
Glossary
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- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...