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The Walrus and the Carpenter
by Carroll, Lewis and Jane Breskin Zalben (Illustrator)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near fine
- ISBN 10
- 0805000712
- ISBN 13
- 9780805000719
- Seller
-
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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About This Item
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. SIGNED. Unpaginated. Quarto. [26 cm]. Deep red cloth over boards with gilt stamped title to spine and a small gilt flower on front board. Very subtle wear to spine ends, else Fine. Dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with some very subtle signs of shelf wear and some interior toning. Signed in black ink on the half title page, "Best wishes From Jane Breskin Zalben". With annotations by Tweedledee and Tweedledum. Printed in Japan.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64799
- Title
- The Walrus and the Carpenter
- Author
- Carroll, Lewis and Jane Breskin Zalben (Illustrator)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0805000712
- ISBN 13
- 9780805000719
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1986
- Keywords
- alice; jabberwocky; collectible; wonderland
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About the Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Salt Lake City, Utah
About Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Ken Sanders Rare Books is a full service antiquarian bookshop in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. We carry an ever-changing inventory of art, ephemera, maps, photography, and postcards in addition to a vast selection of used and rare books along with a few new books. We actively purchase and appraise books in all fields.
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, 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....
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
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