Old Peter's Russian Tales
by Ransome, Arthur
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good-
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons. Very Good-. Reprint. Hardcover. 336 p. 21 cm. Not publication or copyright date. Sound binding in cloth-covered boards. Very slightly cocked. A few soil spots along the text block edges and top edge is darkened. Fairly light wear to the corners and spine ends. Minor soil to the boards and spine. Previous ownership name and address in pencil and a small bookshop stamp on the front free endpaper. One leaf has a tiny edge tear. A couple have some margin smudges. Otherwise clean, with slight edge toning. A collection of twenty-one Russian folk tales, in English. Reprint of the 1916 first edition from T.C. & E.C. Jack.. Includes six full colour plates. .
Synopsis
Old Peter's Russian Tales was first published in 1916. The stories in this book are those that Russian peasants tell their children and each other. The tales include "The Tale of the Silver Saucer and the Transparent Apple," "The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship," "Prince Ivan, the witch baby, and the Little Sister of the Sun," "The Stolen Turnips, The Magic Tablecloth, The Sneezing Goat and The Wooden Whistle," "Little Master Misery," "Who Lived in the Skull ," and many more.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6864
- Title
- Old Peter's Russian Tales
- Author
- Ransome, Arthur
- Illustrator
- Dmitri Mitrokhin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Thomas Nelson and Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's - Folk Tales;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Homeward Bound Books
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Campbellcroft, Ontario
About Homeward Bound Books
Homeward Bound Books is an online bookshop operated from our home in the Municipality of Port Hope, Ontario. We specialize in children's and illustrated books – collectible and reading copies; and local histories, particularly for Ontario. We also stock a selection of collectable mystery fiction, ephemera, and any other titles we find interesting or unusual. We have thousands of books yet to be catalogued. So, please contact us to be added to our client list, and we will let you know when we have books of interest to you. It is our pleasure to send books homeward bound -- from our shelves to yours.
Glossary
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- 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....
- 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...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.