The Telling Line; Essays on Fifteen Contemporary Book Illustrators
by Martin, Douglas
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair in Fair dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0385300484
- ISBN 13
- 9780385300483
- Seller
-
Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Delacorte Press. Fair in Fair dust jacket. 1990. Hardcover. 0385300484 . 320 p. 26 cm. Ex-library copy with usual marks. Wear to bottom edges. Staining to fore-edge of text block. Inside pages generally still clean and bright. Dustjacket is still in library mylar and is glued to the paste-down endpapers of the book. It has a library spine label. Includes examples in colour or black and white of each of the illustrators featured. Ex-Library Fifteen essays on British (born or living in) contemporary book illustrators, including: Charles Keeping, Faith Jaques, Victor Ambrus, Nigel Lambourne, Brian Wildsmith, Shirley Hughes, John Lawrence, Jan Pienkowski, Helen Oxenbury, John Burningham, Raymond Briggs, Quentin Blake, Janet and Allan Ahlberg, Anthony Browne, and Michael Foreman. May require extra postage due to packaged weight. .
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Seller
- Homeward Bound Books (CA)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 457
- Title
- The Telling Line; Essays on Fifteen Contemporary Book Illustrators
- Author
- Martin, Douglas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair in Fair dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0385300484
- ISBN 13
- 9780385300483
- Publisher
- Delacorte Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- 0385300484
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books About Books;
Terms of Sale
Homeward Bound Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Homeward Bound Books
Biblio member since 2011
Campbellcroft, Ontario
About Homeward Bound Books
Homeward Bound Books is an online bookshop operated from our home in the Municipality of Port Hope, Ontario. We specialize in children's and illustrated books – collectible and reading copies; and local histories, particularly for Ontario. We also stock a selection of collectable mystery fiction, ephemera, and any other titles we find interesting or unusual. We have thousands of books yet to be catalogued. So, please contact us to be added to our client list, and we will let you know when we have books of interest to you. It is our pleasure to send books homeward bound -- from our shelves to yours.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- 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...
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....