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Just So Stories for Little Children
by Kipling, Rudyard
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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UPLAND, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1902. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Kipling, Rudyard. Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling. Rare first American edition published by Doubleday, Page & Co, New York with 1902 date on title and copyright pages. All illustrations present. Green cloth boards with publisher's green pictorial cloth. Octavo 9 ¼" tall, 249 pages. Good condition. Former owner's name in ink on front free endpaper. No markings or notations on any text block page. Spine and covers rubbed. Soil and several small stains to covers. Corners slightly bumped. Small stains and light soil to text block. Small (1/4") closed tear page 131-132, rear hinge starting but joints are sound.
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- Bookseller
- Cedar Tree Antiques
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 115394
- Title
- Just So Stories for Little Children
- Author
- Kipling, Rudyard
- Illustrator
- Kipling, Rudyard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1902
- Pages
- 249
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- General
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Cedar Tree Antiques
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UPLAND, California
About Cedar Tree Antiques
Cedar Tree Antiques has been selling art, antiques and books since 1992, throughout Southern California.
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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