Little Brother & Little Sister and Other Tales
by BROTHERS GRIMM & RACKHAM, ARTHUR (Illus)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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About This Item
Constable & Co 1917. FIRST EDITION, imperial octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine & front board, deckled page edges, illus eps & title page, frontispiece, xi + 251pp, illus/plates- all present, scruffy but worth the effort! (heavy fraying & scuffing to extrems, 21cm crack to rear hinge, moderate chafing to boards, boards v shaky but attached, moderate to heavy tanning to page edges, ffep completely missing, light foxing to pgs sporadically throughout, v heavy cracking to gutters)
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- Hard To Find Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Little Brother & Little Sister and Other Tales
- Author
- BROTHERS GRIMM & RACKHAM, ARTHUR (Illus)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Constable & Co 1917
- Keywords
- brothers Grimm fairy tales Arthur Rackham literature children's modern first edition fantasy
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- FFEP
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- Edges
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- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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....
- Title Page
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