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Catland Stories
de Wain, Louis (illustrator); edited by Capt. Edric Vredenburg
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Fair with no dust jacket
- Librería
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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Sobre este artículo
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons. Fair with no dust jacket. [c1915?]. First Edition. Hardcover. Boards rubbed and faded. Cloth spine very faded, rubbed and dampstained. Front hinge broken with spine mull visible, and adhesive tape stains from a repair attempt along margins of gutter. Contemporary gift inscription on front endpaper "To Ethel wishing her a Happy Christmas from Mum & Dad". Front free endpaper and frontispiece partly detached. Complete. Moderate foxing. ; A scarce Louis Wain title. No date [c1915?]. [48] pages + colour frontispiece + 1 other colour plate. Numerous in-text b&w or single colour illustrations of cats by Louis Wain. The colour frontispiece is also by Louis Wain, the other colour plate is not (it is by Sidney Hayes). Patented black furry cat on front board. Papered boards with cloth spine. Page dimensions: 258 x 194mm. First story is "The Holiday Home". "[. . .] And every cat has a history of some sort or another. We could not possibly tell them all; it would take too many pages, and you would never have time to read them. But here we have selected some specially interesting tales, and Mr. Louis Wain has made the book beautiful by drawing pictures for you for these Catland Stories." - from the Introduction. ; Father Tuck's "Furry Mascot" Series; 4to .
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Detalles
- Librería
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 15481
- Título
- Catland Stories
- Autor
- Wain, Louis (illustrator); edited by Capt. Edric Vredenburg
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fair with no dust jacket
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Raphael Tuck & Sons
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- [c1915?]
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Sobre el vendedor
Renaissance Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
Sobre Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Plate
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- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
