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Collected Dog Stories
by Kipling, Rudyard
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Andover, Massachusetts, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1934. stated "first edition after the printing of a limited edition of four hundred and fifty copies". Red cloth with gilt dog illustration and gilt spine lettering. Top edge stained red. 277 pp. The red of the top edge and top edges of the boards has bleached, evidently from damp, and some of the color has bled onto the endpapers. The spine is sunned. Otherwise fine in a tight binding.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good+/No Jacket. Illus. by Marguerite Kirmse. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Banjo Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009315
- Title
- Collected Dog Stories
- Author
- Kipling, Rudyard
- Illustrator
- Marguerite Kirmse
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1934
- Keywords
- Collectible
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Banjo Booksellers
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About the Seller
Banjo Booksellers
Biblio member since 2004
Andover, Massachusetts
About Banjo Booksellers
On-line and mail-order only. We have a wide variety of books, both fiction and non-fiction, with an emphasis on modern first editions and collectible childrens books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- 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....
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