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ELSIE AND THE CHILD
by Bennett, Arnold
- Used
- Condition
- Contents fine and bright, covers about fine, slipcase very good with crack at crown
- Seller
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Paris, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
London: Cassell and Company Ltd, 1929. No. 396 of 750 copies. Contents fine and bright, covers about fine, slipcase very good with crack at crown. No. 396 of 750 copies. Quarto (viii), 86p. Illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer in opaque gouache colors in pochoir with 7 full-page plates and 3 vignettes. Bound in full cream cloth titled in black on spine and upper cover. In the original black boards slipcase with paper spine label. The stencil process "has depth of colour and a brilliance which could hardly have been achieved by any other printing method." (Herbert Simon. Song and Words, a History of the Curwen Press, p. 215).
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- Bookseller
- First Folio
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23909
- Title
- ELSIE AND THE CHILD
- Author
- Bennett, Arnold
- Book Condition
- Used - Contents fine and bright, covers about fine, slipcase very good with crack at crown
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- No. 396 of 750 copies
- Publisher
- Cassell and Company Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1929
- Bookseller catalogs
- ILLUSTRATED;
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First Folio
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- 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....
- 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...
- Fine
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- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
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