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THE BOOK OF THE CHILD With Facsimiles in Colour by Jessie Willcox Smith and Elizabeth Shippen Green and Stories and Verses Written for the Pictures by Mabel Humphrey
por Humphrey, Mabel (text); Smith, Jessie Willcox and Green, Elizabeth Shippen (illustrations)
- Usado
- Capa dura
- first
- Condição
- Good Plus
- Livreiro
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Granville, New York, United States
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Sobre este item
NY: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1903. First edition. Hard cover. Published NY: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1903, Published in October, 1903. Large format folio, 15" x 14", published as a child's lapbook, as shown in the cover illustration. Green cloth backed paper covered boards, with color Smith drawing inset on front and rear covers. Recto printed sheets and seven exquisite, full page color plates - four by Green and three by Smith (plus her cover illustration), along with six headpiece drawings in orange and black by Smith, and six by Green. All plates are present. Stories and verses written for the pictures by Mabel Humphrey. Color process by noted printer Charles W. Beck, Jr., who would have a hand in other Smith publications. The book is very good internally and good plus overall. Pages and plates are clean with no writing or markings, colors and text are strong and sharp, binding is tight. There is wear along the edges and corners of the boards, some scuffing/soiling to covers, with one short, closed tear to the bottom margin of three plates and two of the text sheets. A significant book. Scarce. . 1st. Hard. Good Plus. Folio.
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- Livreiro
- The Wild Muse
(US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 008947
- Título
- THE BOOK OF THE CHILD With Facsimiles in Colour by Jessie Willcox Smith and Elizabeth Shippen Green and Stories and Verses Written for the Pictures by Mabel Humphrey
- Autor
- Humphrey, Mabel (text); Smith, Jessie Willcox and Green, Elizabeth Shippen (illustrations)
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Good Plus
- Edição
- 1st
- Editorial
- Frederick A. Stokes Company
- Local de publicação
- NY
- Data de publicação
- 1903
- Catálogos de livreiros
- Literary & Modern First Editions;
- Size
- Folio
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Granville, New York
Sobre The Wild Muse
Literary and modern first editions. Established 1985. Mail order only.
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- 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,...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.
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