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THE WATER BABIES
de Smith, Jessie Willcox; Kingsley, Charles
- Usado
- Estado
- Very good plus to near fine.
- Librería
-
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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Sobre este artículo
(London): (Hodder and Stoughton for Boots Pure Drug Co.), 1920. Very good plus to near fine.. Beautiful Golden Age of Illustration-era edition of the Victorian fantasy novel, one of the best illustrated interpretations of the classic. . Quarto. 9.75'' x 7.5''. Original green pictorial cloth stamped in cloth with underwater design after Smith's illustration. Illustrated by Smith with 12 tipped-in color plates with captioned tissue guards and in-text images printed in green. x, 240 pages. Light foxing primarily to first and last few leaves as well as text block edges. Spine lean, a couple spots of rubbing to boards. Gilt bright.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Type Punch Matrix
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 405
- Título
- THE WATER BABIES
- Autor
- Smith, Jessie Willcox; Kingsley, Charles
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very good plus to near fine.
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- (Hodder and Stoughton for Boots Pure Drug Co.)
- Lugar de publicación
- (London)
- Fecha de publicación
- 1920
- Palabras clave
- 20th century,English & British,Fairies,Golden Age,Gift Pict Cloth,Pictorial Cloth
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Type Punch Matrix
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Silver Spring, Maryland
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- 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....
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
