Boova and Nonsense Poems
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
Hardcover. Very Good. A fun, idiosyncratic collection of absurdities. N.d., mid-20th century. 12mo. 17.5 by 11 cm. Unpaginated, 28 pp. With 13 pen-and-ink and watercolored whimsical plates, with several lines of nonsense verse on facing page. Plate illustrations are on versos, poems on rectos. Poems surrounded by pen-and-ink square placard, being held by pen sketched gawky woman as also depicted on front cover. Front cover shows this woman's face as the head of two swans. Condition: some cocking to the spine -- front overhanging rear. Light soiling of cover, and edge/corner wear. Light soiling throughout.
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Details
- Bookseller
- White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007078
- Title
- Boova and Nonsense Poems
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Literature;
Terms of Sale
White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
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About the Seller
White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
Biblio member since 2010
New York, New York
About White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
By appointment. Antiquarian and rare books with strengths in illustrated plate books, the decorative arts, costume, sporting, foreign language literature (in the original language), with growing emphasis on early printing.
Glossary
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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....