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OLD SWEDISH FAIRY TALES
by WAHLENBERG, Anna
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Asbury Park, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1925. First Edition. An uncommon book. Small quarto: pictorial blue cloth, stamped in gilt with pictorial front panel; 296 pages. Translated from the Danish of Frede-Thomsen by Antoinette D. Coursey Patterson. Illustrated by Jeannette Berkowitz.. Very Good (covers bright; contents clean & tight with little occasional foxing). The book comes in its original glassine dust jacket, which has tears & chips. The original cardboard box containing the book is also present but has a few cracks & some edges missing front tray).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Antic Hay Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 58396
- Title
- OLD SWEDISH FAIRY TALES
- Author
- WAHLENBERG, Anna
- Illustrator
- Translated from the Danish of Frede-Thomsen by Antoinette D. Coursey Patterson. Illustrated by Jeannette Berkowitz.
- Format/Binding
- Small quarto: pictorial blue cloth, stamped in gilt with pictorial front panel; 296 pages
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition. An uncommon book
- Publisher
- The Penn Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1925
Terms of Sale
Antic Hay Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 10 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Antic Hay Books
Biblio member since 2007
Asbury Park, New Jersey
About Antic Hay Books
On-line dealer of rare & out-of-print books, specializing in autographs, signed copies & association copies.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Cloth
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- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
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