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Gnomes
de Huygen, Wil (text) & Rien Poortvliet (illustrations)
- Usado
- Bueno
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Bueno/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0810909650
- ISBN 13
- 9780810909656
- Librería
-
South Pasadena, California, United States
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing of first American edition. Book is bound in tan brown boards with a gnome holding a lantern embossed in gilt on front. Light rubbing to bottom edge, else Fine. Dust jacket is unmarred. A fantasy classic. Folio. Unpaginated.
Sinopsis
Treating his subject as Audubon might have treated a new species of bird (and with a twinkle in his eye) the artist portrays Gnome families in their daily - actually nightly - activities, since Gnomes never leave their underground houses in daylight. Follow Papa Gnome as he rises for breakfast in the early evening; see him chopping wood, working in a Gnome foundry or glass factory, and assisting various animal friends in distress. For Gnomes are benevolent allies of wild animals (and human beings as well, though we are seldom aware of their intervention). Watch Gnome workers disentangle a deer's horns from barbed wire; see how Gnomes build their houses, educate their children, court and marry, travel on a honeymoon! A delight to the eye and filled with verbal fun, 'Gnomes' will be a treat for the whole family: as a book to show little ones, as a spoof of scientific studies for the sophisticate, and as a charming piece of make-up reality for every reader.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Warwick Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 96644
- Título
- Gnomes
- Autor
- Huygen, Wil (text) & Rien Poortvliet (illustrations)
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Bueno
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0810909650
- ISBN 13
- 9780810909656
- Editorial
- Harry N. Abrams
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1977
- Palabras clave
- Fantasy forest creatures; whimsical stories; historical fantasy; folklore
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Juvenile fiction;
Términos de venta
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Sobre el vendedor
Warwick Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2004
South Pasadena, California
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
