DOCTOR DOLITTLE'S GARDEN
by Hugh Lofting
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good +
- Seller
-
Blue Hill, Maine, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: F. A. Stokes Co., 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Good +. 5 1/2 x 8 in. 327 pp. Green cloth boards with color plate on cover. Pictoral endpapers, color frontis with tissue, B&W plates. Condition is GOOD+ ; corners worn with board visible, spine ends frayed with small tears at sides at top, slight loss to tail. Covers clean, plate very clean but rubbed. Front inner hinge is cracked with muslin holding at the middle. Binding solid and text bright and unmarked. Child. Stax.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Andre Strong Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19250
- Title
- DOCTOR DOLITTLE'S GARDEN
- Author
- Hugh Lofting
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- F. A. Stokes Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1927
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Andre Strong Bookseller
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Blue Hill, Maine
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Glossary
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.