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The Heroes: Or Greek Fairy-Tales for My Children
by KINGSLEY, Charles
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Relfe Brothers, Ltd, 1900. Hardcover. Near Fine. 12mo. With notes by F. Gorse. Illustrated with a map and halftone plates. Prize binding, signed "Relfe Brothers, Limited, London" in contemporary green morocco with gold tooling on both boards, coat of arms with motto "In Hortis Reginae" stamped in gold on front board, gilt spine divided into six panels with maroon titling label, turn-ins stamped in blind, floral endpapers in blue and gold, all edges marbled. Presentation bookplate (printed in gold and completed in manuscript, dated 1907) on front pastedown. Modest sunning to the spine and edges of the boards, near fine. A handsome prize binding designed for the Queenswood School at Clapham Park, a prestigious Methodist boarding school for girls.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 438907
- Title
- The Heroes: Or Greek Fairy-Tales for My Children
- Author
- KINGSLEY, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Relfe Brothers, Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1900
- Keywords
- Children'sBook, EnglishLiterature, Women
Terms of Sale
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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About the Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Gloucester City, New Jersey
About Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., founded in 1985, specializes in first editions of 20th Century American and English fiction. Our inventory of over 75,000 first editions includes: African-American literature & history, Mysteries, Detective Fiction, Drama, Books into Film and Sports books. We routinely issue extensively illustrated color catalogs, available by subscription. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA)and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB). Tom Congalton, founder of Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., actively promotes the ethics and standards of these professional organizations and served as President of the ABAA from 2000 to 2002.
Glossary
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- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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....
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