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Animals of the Bible (signed)
by Lathrop, Dorothy (ill.)
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
-
Cedar Ridge, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Stokes, 1937. 1st ed. Hardcover. Fine. Lathrop, Dorothy. Second state with the artist's name correctly spelled on the spine of both book and jacket, 4to, full blue-green cloth stamped in bright gilt. Text selected by Helen Dean Fish. Winner of the first Caldecott award. Signed by Lathrop on the verso of the front free endpaper, neat owner's name and date (1939) printed in green ink on decorated front free endpaper. Light toning throughout to margins, else a fine bright copy in near fine, unclipped dj with darkened spine and tiny chips to spine ends. signed by the artist.
Synopsis
Animals of the Bible is a book illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop with text compiled by Helen Dean Fish. Released by J. B. Lippincott Company, it was the first recipient of the Caldecott Medal for illustration in 1938.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bud Plant & Hutchison Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 33034
- Title
- Animals of the Bible (signed)
- Author
- Lathrop, Dorothy (ill.)
- Illustrator
- Lathrop, Dorothy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Publisher
- Stokes
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1937
- Bookseller catalogs
- Caldecott Awards;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Bud Plant & Hutchison Books
Biblio member since 2006
Cedar Ridge, California
About Bud Plant & Hutchison Books
Find us online, by appointment or at selected West Coast book fairs and conventions where we display a wide range of illustrated and children's books as well as books on comic and fantasy art and artists.
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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- 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...
- Spine
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Second State
- used in book collecting to refer to a first edition, but after some change has been made in the printing, such as a correction,...
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