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Hitty - The Life and Adventures of a Wooden Doll
by Field, Rachel
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Sturminster Newton, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd., 1937. Book. Illus. by dorothy p lathrop. Fair. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. NB: No dustjacket. First published in 1932, this is the 1937 reprint. Ochre yellow cloth with title in red on spine and front cover. Condition: Fair to good, with general light shelfwear and light soiling to covers. Binding sound. Previous owners name with another name underneath on top outer corner of front endpaper. Foxing to textblock edges, endpapers, half-title and title pages as well as occasionally throughout the book. 214pp. 3 colour plates (including frontispiece), together with 20 b/w illustrations by the American illustrator Dorothy P Lathrop (1891-1980).
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- Bookseller
- Karen Jakobsen Art & Design Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007498
- Title
- Hitty - The Life and Adventures of a Wooden Doll
- Author
- Field, Rachel
- Illustrator
- dorothy p lathrop
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- George Routledge & Sons Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1937
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- dorothy p lathrop
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books;
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About the Seller
Karen Jakobsen Art & Design Books
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Sturminster Newton
About Karen Jakobsen Art & Design Books
Karen Jakobsen Art & Design Books specialises in Modern British Art and 20th century design books, and is based in Dorset. We are always interested in buying books, particularly those related to art, design, photography and architecture. Please contact us on 01258 471 249 or info@karenjakobsen.co.ukKaren Jakobsen is a Member of the PBFA
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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....
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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...
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