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Green-Pipes: Poems and Pictures
by Fredericks, J. Paget ( Joseph Paget Rous )
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Media, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: The MacMillan Company, 1929. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. J. Paget Fredericks. Hardcover/ no DJ; VG+ condition. First Edition, Stated 1st printing, Sept., 1929. 43 pages, followed by 2 pgs. illus., oversize 12 x 9"", color & b/w illus. by author. Green cloth binding tight, bright, clean & square w/ light sun to spine. NO bumps, rubs, fray or scuffs. All gilt cover lettering & silhouette illus. bright & intact. Clean & bright pictorial contemporaneous child's bookplate inside front cover- to me, this adds to copy's appeal. Crisp, bright purple pictorial endpapers. Text is tight, clean & unmarked w/ little to no toning. 2 numbers in circle inside back cover, at bottom- minor. NO hinge splits, torn pages, etc., NOT ex library. Handsome, well preserved copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- EDM Book Loft
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 116
- Title
- Green-Pipes: Poems and Pictures
- Author
- Fredericks, J. Paget ( Joseph Paget Rous )
- Illustrator
- J. Paget Fredericks
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The MacMillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1929
Terms of Sale
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Media, Pennsylvania
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