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Long Grass Whispers: A Book of African Folk Tales
by Geraldine Elliot
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/Fair
- Seller
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Chisseaux, France
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About This Item
Schocken Books, 1975. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Fair/Fair. Sheila Hawkins. The 1975 publication date I have listed is for the second printing. Dust jacket has a large tear along spine starting at head soon to become a chip. Also chipping at the tail and worn through the upper two foredge corners. Adhesive tape residue on back cover and tail of spine, a few spots on front, and inside pastedowns where apparently a mylar protector had been removed. Missing the FFEP and a stamp on back board verso has been blacked out. Although there is no smoking gun, it looks to be a library discard that someone tried to rehabilitate (with some success). There is shelf wear on bottom edges of boards and a flaw to the binding causing the first gathering to pull just a tad. Also opens readily to the pastedowns. Large swaths of th DJ and its edges are in fine condition, interior is clean except for where noted above. The irony is that this is one of those desirable collectibles that is relatively scarce, difficult to get with the jacket, and quite challenging to find in good condition; therefore, in this context this is actually a better than average copy. I have never seen the first edition. The early Routledge (1957) is nice but the later reprints and Shuter school editions are less appealing than the Schocken (first issued in 1968).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Les livres des Limbes
(FR)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16143
- Title
- Long Grass Whispers: A Book of African Folk Tales
- Author
- Geraldine Elliot
- Illustrator
- Sheila Hawkins
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2nd Printing
- Publisher
- Schocken Books
- Date Published
- 1975
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- ABI PM AJ2
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Biblio, ABI;
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
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