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The Farmer Boy. The Story of Jacob / with scarce dust jacket
by Willard, J.H
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Baldwinsville, New York, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, 1905. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, 1905. Children of the Bible Series. First Edition, with the scarce dust jacket. Illustrated copiously. 12mo, light brown dust jacket with black design and imprinting, ornately gilt-imprinted cream boards with pastedown illustration as well; floral endpaper illustrations; 42 pp. Please see scans. The book, technically Very Good Plus, has the curb appeal of Near Fine, with just endpaper foxing shadow the quaint little old sticker of a jeweler in Roxbury, NY who once owned it, and a yet earlier owner's name artfully inked, in 1910, within the "This Book Belongs To" box printed by Altemus as part of the front endpaper illustration. The rare jacket has darkened with age, shows small-scale chipping along the top edge and small pieces of loss at its spine, but is essentially complete, including flaps. A genuinely striking book, from Altemus' Children of the Bible Series (each title within which highlighted the childhood of a different biblical figure; this one focuses on Jacob's farm boy youth). Gorgeous binding, remarkably preserved; and the humble-by-comparison dust jacket is very, very scarce. You won't likely ever see this combination again. L-28
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- Bookseller
- Singularity Rare & Fine
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005434
- Title
- The Farmer Boy. The Story of Jacob / with scarce dust jacket
- Author
- Willard, J.H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Henry Altemus Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1905
- Pages
- 42
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Keywords
- bible religion children's juvenile fiction General, Christian, General, Children's
- Bookseller catalogs
- Religion Other Than Asian;
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About the Seller
Singularity Rare & Fine
Biblio member since 2005
Baldwinsville, New York
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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....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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