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The Baby's Opera; a Book of Old Rhymes with New Dresses
by Crane, Walter
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: Frederick Warne. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Later Printing. Hardcover. 56 p. 18 x 19 cm. Undated, but circa 1930 based on New York office address of 381 Fourth Avenue on rear of jacket. Glossy, illustrated paper over boards with burgundy cloth spine. Text block edges stained red. Plain endpapers. Wear to corners and edges. Light rubbing. Inside pages clean, bright, and unmarked. Dustwrapper has several tears up to 2", general edge wear, and spine and panels darkened. Both flaps have some light crinkling. A collection of traditional children's songs, with brightly coloured illustrations and decorations by Walter Crane. Originally published in 1877. .
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- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1013
- Title
- The Baby's Opera; a Book of Old Rhymes with New Dresses
- Author
- Crane, Walter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- Later Printing
- Publisher
- Frederick Warne
- Place of Publication
- London
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's - Song Books;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Homeward Bound Books
Biblio member since 2011
Campbellcroft, Ontario
About Homeward Bound Books
Homeward Bound Books is an online bookshop operated from our home in the Municipality of Port Hope, Ontario. We specialize in children's and illustrated books – collectible and reading copies; and local histories, particularly for Ontario. We also stock a selection of collectable mystery fiction, ephemera, and any other titles we find interesting or unusual. We have thousands of books yet to be catalogued. So, please contact us to be added to our client list, and we will let you know when we have books of interest to you. It is our pleasure to send books homeward bound -- from our shelves to yours.
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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"...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
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