Once Upon a Time!
by Wain, Louis. Harry B. Neilson (illustrators)
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Pasadena, California, United States
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About This Item
London: S.W. Partridge & Co., Lrd, 1910. First edition. Original red cloth over color pictorial front board and advertisement on rear board, advertisements on endpapers. Corners and board edges a little worn. Large quarto (10 3/16 x 7 11/16 inches; 259 x 195 mm.). Pictorial title-page printed in blue, 92 unnumbered pages and six full page color plates. Numerous other mono-color and black & white illustrations throughout the text including six by Louis Wain. Ink inscription on verso of color frontispiece dated Xmas 1910. A good copy of a very scarce book, in fact the first time that we have ever seen this title.
The Louis Wain illustrations in this delicate book include the following:
How Pride Betrays. (three 0ne-third page, printed in brown) When the Cook's Away. (full-page, printed in blue)
Tubbing the Kitties. (one-third page, printed in green) "You Naughty Kitties!" (full-page, printed in green).
The Louis Wain illustrations in this delicate book include the following:
How Pride Betrays. (three 0ne-third page, printed in brown) When the Cook's Away. (full-page, printed in blue)
Tubbing the Kitties. (one-third page, printed in green) "You Naughty Kitties!" (full-page, printed in green).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Whitmore Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3818
- Title
- Once Upon a Time!
- Author
- Wain, Louis. Harry B. Neilson (illustrators)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- S.W. Partridge & Co., Lrd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1910
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Pasadena, California
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
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- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...