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Children's Books Old and Rare: Catalogue Number One
by Schatzki, Walter
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0810338785
- ISBN 13
- 9780810338784
- Seller
-
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1974 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Reprint. Large 8vo. (10) 46 (1) pp, New Forward by Leslie Shepard, ABC-Books and Primers; The Orbis Pictus; The Bible; Poetry -- Nursery Rhymes; Fairy Tales and Fables; Shakespeare, Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver, and Don Quixote; The Moral Tale; The Picture Story; Juvenile Fiction; Games and Sports; History and Geography; Natural History; Periodicals and Almanacs; Miscellaneous; (The American Woodcut); (Fashions and Costumes); Books About Children's Books; index with b&w plates throughout. Reprint of the 1941 edition published in New York by the author. Only the faintest wear to corner tips, else, Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Green cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine,and green decorative endpapers..
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Details
- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001079
- Title
- Children's Books Old and Rare: Catalogue Number One
- Author
- Schatzki, Walter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 0810338785
- ISBN 13
- 9780810338784
- Publisher
- Gale Research Company
- Place of Publication
- Detroit
- Date Published
- 1974
- Keywords
- COLLECTING CHILDREN'S LITERATURE RARE BOOKS CATALOGS BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Bookseller catalogs
- COLLECTING;
- Size
- Large 8vo
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Ann Arbor, Michigan
About West Side Book Shop, ABAA
West Side Book Shop, Located in downtown Ann Arbor, was established in 1975 by Jay Platt, a member of the ABAA. West Side Book Shop offers a wide selection of used and rare books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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"...
- 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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- 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....
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