Long & New York: Frederick Warne. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1955. First thus. Hardcover. Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing of first edition reprint edition in 1955. (Harte's story was first published in 1886.) Book is As New, crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. Offsetting of front flaps onto endpapers. Boards are beige, with paste-down illustration on front. Edges are bright green. Price-clipped dust jacket is fresh and bright, with just a trace of tanning at edges. Illustrated with Kate Greenaways's delicate art. 8vo. 64 pp. In protective Mylar. .

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Bookseller: KULTURAs books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 88254
Title: The Queen of the Pirate Isle
Author: Harte, Bret; Illustrated by Kate Greenaway
Illustrator: Kate Greenaway
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Edition: First thus
Publisher: Frederick Warne
Place of Publication: Long & New York
Date Published: 1955
Keywords: Juvenile Classics

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Paste-down: The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
Flap(s): The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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...
New: A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
Fine: A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
Reprint: Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
Crisp: A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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...