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Denslow's Mother Goose: Being The Old Familiar Rhymed and Jingles Of Mother Goose
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Hendersonville, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: McClure, Phillips & Company Publishers, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. W. W. Denslow. Hardback. First edition, *rare book*. This book is the second state with four pages of illustrations following the dedication page before the Humpy Dumpty rhymed poem and drawings. Hand-lettered verses by Fred W. Goudy. Bright and colorful illustrations on each page. The pages are somewhat dirty and have smudges. The front end-page is unattached from the rest of the book. The front fly page has marginalia. Page 12 has visible graphite markings on top of an illustration and page 34 has a larger horizontal tear halfway through the page (starting at the marginal edge). There are about 90 pages of content. The leaves have mostly broken away from the binding, but are connected by two threads still. Sage green cover boards and spine with black lettering and illustration. There is an owner's signature on the front cover board along with other markings. The cover shows indents and heavy rubbing along the corners, edges, and spine. Overall fair condition. Full refund if not satified.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Shelley and Son Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 064695
- Title
- Denslow's Mother Goose: Being The Old Familiar Rhymed and Jingles Of Mother Goose
- Illustrator
- W. W. Denslow
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- McClure, Phillips & Company Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1901
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Children, Poems, Rhymes, Stories, Children's Stories
Terms of Sale
Shelley and Son Books
I offer a full refund if not satisfied as long as the book is returned in the same condition as sent.
About the Seller
Shelley and Son Books
Biblio member since 2005
Hendersonville, North Carolina
About Shelley and Son Books
We specialize in books by and about C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, the Inklings, and their Friends.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- 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...
- Second State
- used in book collecting to refer to a first edition, but after some change has been made in the printing, such as a correction,...
- 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....
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
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