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The Golden Age
by Grahame, Kenneth/Maxfield Parrish
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/None
- Seller
-
Middlebury, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
London: John Lane, 1900. 1st thus. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Maxfield Parrish. Hardcover, maroon cloth with with 41 gold X's and 40 gilt butterflies stamped on the cover, no dust jacket, top edge gilt, untrimmed edges. With the date of 1900 on the title page, but with a John Lane Copyright 1899, The University Press U.S.A. on the CR page. With 18 Maxfield Parrish black & white plates. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front cover, name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Record # 383340
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- Bookseller
- Browsing Is Arousing
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 383340
- Title
- The Golden Age
- Author
- Grahame, Kenneth/Maxfield Parrish
- Illustrator
- Maxfield Parrish
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Edition
- 1st thus
- Publisher
- John Lane
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1900
- Keywords
- Children's Illustrated, Illustrated, Maxfield Parrish, .
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Illustrated;
Terms of Sale
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- Cloth
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- 1st Thus
- This indicates that this is not the first appearance of a book in print, but that this is the first appearance in a...
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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