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Baby Goose: His Adventures
by Ostrander, Fannie E
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Chicago: Laird & Lee. Fair with no dust jacket. 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Pictorial board binding abraded at extremities; spine ends & corners frayed; backstrip chipped & soiled; some smudging & pencilled juvenile scribbling to boards; hinges cracked & separating, textblock loosening in binding stitching; eps removed; some leaves nicked at fore-edges; leaf edges foxed, else a complete copy of this charming storybook, with bright & clear ils. No dj. ; Many delightful color ils. by R.W. Hirchert.; Oblong 4to 11" - 13; 96 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44224
- Title
- Baby Goose: His Adventures
- Author
- Ostrander, Fannie E
- Illustrator
- R.W. Hirchert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Laird & Lee
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1900
- Keywords
- Early 20th Century American Juvenile Authors, Ohio Authors, Antique Children's Books, R.W. Hirchert, Illustrator
Terms of Sale
Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
Biblio member since 2019
Fort Wayne, Indiana
About Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
Open shop with over 125,000 volumes. We try to maintain a good selection in all categories and have a fondness for the odd & obscure. Specialties include History, Nature, Literature, Religion, Mystery, SF, Art, Children's, Humor, Indiana
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- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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