The Selfish Giant
by Wilde, Oscar
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Ellington, Connecticut: Privately Printed. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Miniature hardcover in orange morocco, paste down titles, 2 3/4 x 2 inches, not paginated, uncut pages, spine and portion of front cover toned, otherwise no notable flaws. Miniature book plate adhered to front paste down, from the private collection of Kal Levitan. Number 68 of one hundred twenty copies of this little book hand-set in Cheltenham Oldstyle at the private press of a Yankee Dauber, Ellington, Connecticut and printed in four page forms, french fold, direct from the type. 0
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Details
- Bookseller
- Crooked House Books & Paper (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- CS00382
- Title
- The Selfish Giant
- Author
- Wilde, Oscar
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- Privately Printed
- Place of Publication
- Ellington, Connecticut
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- MINATURE BOOK TINY BOOK STORY CLASSIC WILDE VINTAGE
Terms of Sale
Crooked House Books & Paper
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About the Seller
Crooked House Books & Paper
Biblio member since 2005
Portland, Oregon
About Crooked House Books & Paper
Welcome to the Crooked House, a one-of-a-kind bookstore in Portland, Oregon. Specializing in the beautiful and unusual: books by, for and about women, cookery, domestic science, decorative publishers bindings, weird how-to books and ephemera, 1920s-30s women's magazines, Modern Library, and more.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Uncut Pages
- 'Uncut pages', or simply 'uncut', traditionally refers to a book which has not been trimmed by rebinding. Prior to the...
- 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....
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Miniature
- A book that is less then 3 inches in width and ...