The Queen of the Dolls as told by the Dolls Themselves
by BARTHOLOMEW, Edit (translated Into English by)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
USA: Calico Print Shop, 1965. First Thus . Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Duruy. dj, a little rubbed on spine tips and corners, dusty and a bit discoloured, French title: La Reine des Poupees (presumably with the original colour cover illustration), deep green cloth with gilt title on front, the original ills (12 plates + some text ills and ornamental initials by DURUY) from the 1837 edition, published in Paris, for this edition hand-coloured by EDITH BARTHOLOMEW, home made book plate on lower edge of front endpaper, SIGNED IN GREEN INK BY EDITH BARTHOLOMEW, lower page edges slightly marked, vg. 4to, unpaginated. Reproduced, translated from stilted French into even more stilted and abominable English, the plates are hand tinted with velox water colours (very nicely).
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- Bookseller
- Mad Hatter Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11C27
- Title
- The Queen of the Dolls as told by the Dolls Themselves
- Author
- BARTHOLOMEW, Edit (translated Into English by)
- Illustrator
- Duruy
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Calico Print Shop
- Place of Publication
- USA
- Date Published
- 1965
- Keywords
- Children's & Young Adult
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's;
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