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A / APPLE PIE.
by Greenaway, Kate
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Cadyville, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London & New York: Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd., circa [1930s]., [1930s].. Good. - Small oblong quarto [8 inches high by 10 inches wide], pictorial yellow cloth in a price-clipped matching dust wrapper. The corners are slightly rubbed & the bottom edge of the front cover is lightly foxed. The dust jacket is chipped with some foxing and light staining & foxing. There is a piece out of the head of the jacket spine & a tear to the bottom edge of its rear panel. Half-title, title & [19] leaves. Each leaf is illustrated in color by Kate Greenaway. Occasional light foxing, mainly to the endpapers & blanks. Very good in a good dust wrapper.
A reprint of the edition printed by Edmund Evans from original woodblocks engraved in 1886.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 37432
- Title
- A / APPLE PIE.
- Author
- Greenaway, Kate
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London & New York: Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd., circa [1930s].
- Date Published
- [1930s].
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- CHILDREN'S & ILLUSTRATED; ABC; ALPHABET; A / APPLE PIE; KATE GREENAWAY; REPRINT EDITION.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's & Illustrated;
Terms of Sale
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Payment with order from individuals. Items are offered subject to prior sale. All purchases are subject to your approval, returnable within 10 days. New York State residents please add sales tax to your purchases. All items are guaranteed authentic and as described.
About the Seller
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Biblio member since 2003
Cadyville, New York
About Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (incorporated 1989) is a general antiquarian book store which buys and sells collections and individual items of significance. Booksellers Ric Zank and Daniel Meunier each bring to the business over 18 years of experience in seeking out and offering for sale unusual, uncommon and rare books, autographs, and ephemera in all fields. Our office is open 7 days a week from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and frequently later. An answering machine will take your message after hours and when we are out of the office.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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