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A Child's book of stories.
by Coussens, Penrhyn [compiler]; Jessie Willcox Smith [illus]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG-
- Seller
-
Bluffton, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
NY: Duffield & Company, 1915. Hardcover. VG-. Jessie Willcox Smith (cover). Early printing (originally published in 1911), 8vo, blue cloth, gilt titles, pictorial paste-on, 463 pages, 10 color plates, illustrated endpapers. VERY GOOD- / no jacket: light rubbing to spine extremities and corners, gilt lettering on spine slightly dulled, pictorial paste-on has a few scratches at the edges, first signature is slightly loose with half-title detaching, owner inscribed on first blank page otherwise book is clean throughout, all the lovely and bright Smith plates are present with tissue guards. A nice copy despite these few flaws.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bygone Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16726
- Title
- A Child's book of stories.
- Author
- Coussens, Penrhyn [compiler]; Jessie Willcox Smith [illus]
- Illustrator
- Jessie Willcox Smith (cover)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Duffield & Company
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1915
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- JESSIE WILLCOX SMITH, Illustrated Books
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Literature;
Terms of Sale
Bygone Books
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About the Seller
Bygone Books
Biblio member since 2004
Bluffton, South Carolina
About Bygone Books
A closed shop of fine used and collectible books with specialties in Literature, Children's, Domestic Arts, Decorative Arts, and Great Britain.
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
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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....
- 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...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
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