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Czechoslovak Fairy Tales
by Parker Fillmore
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good-/No dust jacket
- Seller
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GAHANNA, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1919. Hardcover. First edition. Condition: Good-. No dust jacket. Spine and covers show significant shelf wear. Former library copy. Bottom half of frontispiece is missing. 244 pp. Text yellowed typical of age with light foxing. Numerous pencil markings throughout and on front free endpapers. Prior owners name in pencil on title page. Five full page b/w drawings and numerous smaller artworks by Jan Matulka. Contains 15 old Czechoslavak stories for children. Few first edition copies of this compilation are known to exist. Despite good- condition designation, this is a complete, easily readable copy of this rare book.
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- Bookseller
- Select Tomes
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 100391
- Title
- Czechoslovak Fairy Tales
- Author
- Parker Fillmore
- Illustrator
- Jan Matulka
- Format/Binding
- Blue cloth boards with title and pictorial drawing on cover. Hinges loose but intact. Corners bumped.
- Book Condition
- Used - Good-
- Jacket Condition
- No dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1919
- Pages
- 244
- Size
- 5 3/4 X 8 1/4
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Fairy tales
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's literature;
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Biblio member since 2020
GAHANNA, Ohio
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I am making available selections from my collection of eclectic, historical and sometimes rare books. My collection includes historical novels, cookbooks, textbooks and children's books along with other ephemera.
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- Spine
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