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Grimm's Fairy Tales
by Abbott, Elenor (Editor, Illustrator);
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First Thus . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Abbott, Elenore. One of a lovely series of classic books for young readers illustrated by famous artists of the day (here, Elenore Abbott), each with a colorful paper pastedown to the front board.Orig. published in this format in 1920, this is a 1929 printing, with 38 original stories! In addition to the full-color title page, there are 8 other full-page, full-color plates throughout the 308 pages of text; a 9th is missing (Cinderella), but all are virtually flawless. Hardcover small 4to (7.25" x 9.5") has black cloth-covered boards with front paper pastedown, which shows edgewear & rubbing, as do the extremities of both boards, with cloth fraying at corners & both ends of spine. Condition is Good. The binding has been cracked & reglued, but ffep remains completely detached, with wear to fore edge. Text block secure, but gutter cracked between pages 68-69 (where missing plate would have been). Pages creamy white with significant tanning & the occasional spot or smudge, else unmarked. Despite condition issues, the plates are stunning & the stories remain as wonderful as ever! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received Weekdays by 2 pm (Pacific); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Gargoyle Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022501
- Title
- Grimm's Fairy Tales
- Author
- Abbott, Elenor (Editor, Illustrator);
- Illustrator
- Abbott, Elenore
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- FAIRY TALES CHILDREN ILLUSTRATED PICTURE BOOKS ILLUSTRATORS FANTASY COLLECTIBLE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children-Young Adult (YA) / Illustrated & Picture Books; Fairy Tales-Folklore-Fables-Mythology;
Terms of Sale
Gargoyle Books
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About the Seller
Gargoyle Books
Biblio member since 2006
La Mesa, California
About Gargoyle Books
On-line booksellers since 1996
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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