About Things
by Windsor, Mary
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1935. Essays about the origins & nature of various things, including blotters, lamps, maple sugar, candles, Easter eggs, Valentines, candy, Santa Claus, peanuts, Edam cheese, wooden shoes, checkers, clogs, tepees, igloos. Hardcover, black cloth spine over full color boards. General wear, corners bumped & frayed, edges chipped, light foxing; bookplate & ink name/date/note inside front cover; minor smudges within; inch-long tear to lower margin of page 13/14. Text clean; [51] pages, color & b/w illustrations.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Charlotte Stone. 9½" by 12½".
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- q0378
- Title
- About Things
- Author
- Windsor, Mary
- Illustrator
- Charlotte Stone
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1935
- Keywords
- Children's Books, How Things Work, Illustrated Books
- Size
- 9½" by 12½"
Terms of Sale
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
All books are subject to prior sale, though we make every effort to keep our inventory current. Books are returnable within ten days with prior notification. We will request extra shipping for large books and sets going to addresses outside the United States.
About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Most of our stock is on-line only, though we have many books in three booths at Angela's Attic Antique Mall, 1020 Gardner Street in South Beloit, Illinois; a booth across the street at the Best of Beloit; and a large booth at the Lake Geneva Antique Mall, 829 Williams Street, Lake Geneva, WI. You may request to see any of our on-line inventory at any location with a few days' notice.
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