The Brownies
by Ewing, Juliana Horatia
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- Seller
-
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946. Book. Illus. by Katherine Milhous. Fine. Original Cloth. First Edition. 16mo, original illustrated pink cloth covered boards with matching dust jacket. 50pp. Illustrated throughout by Katherine Milhous. (Scribner's A present). A lovely fresh and fine volume in a tight, crisp dust jacket with moderate sunning to the spine, a short closed edge tear at rear and minor touches of soil. Fine in very good dust jacket. An attractive and very presentable volume..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Brillig Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 07065
- Title
- The Brownies
- Author
- Ewing, Juliana Horatia
- Illustrator
- Katherine Milhous
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1946
- Keywords
- CHILDREN, CHILDREN'S, BROWNIES, EWING, ILLUSTRATED, MILHOUS, FICTION, MYTH, FOLK, LORE, LEGEND, FAIRIES, FAIRY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's;
Terms of Sale
Brillig Books
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About the Seller
Brillig Books
Biblio member since 2006
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
About Brillig Books
An independent bookseller of uncommon, out-of-print, used and rare books since 1991.
Glossary
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- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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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