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The Door in the Wall
by De Angeli, Marguerite
- Used
- very good
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good/very good
- Seller
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Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Junior Books, Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1949. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Very good/very good. Inscribed first edition of The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli, the recipient of the Newbery Medal in 1950.. Octavo, 112pp. Blue cloth, title stamped in silver on spine, illustration on front cover. Stated "first edition" on copyright page. Dampstain to fore edge of cloth, impacting both boards, minimal impact to text block. In the publisher's first state dust jacket, $2.50 on front flap, lacking the Newbery Medal sticker on front panel, chipping along top edge with an archival repair to verso, remnant of dampstain to rear flap. Inscribed on the copyright page: "For Peggy - with good wishes. Marguerite de Angeli / 1949." This children's novel won the 1950 Newbery Medal and the 1961 Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1961. De Angeli was also the illustrator of this book.
Synopsis
The Door in the Wall is a 1949 novel by Marguerite de Angeli that received the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1950.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13759
- Title
- The Door in the Wall
- Author
- De Angeli, Marguerite
- Illustrator
- Inscribed first edition of The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli, the recipient of the Newbery Medal in 1950.
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Junior Books, Doubleday & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- first edition Door in the Wall, Newbery Medal book, bright april de Angeli, Yonie Wondermose, Black fox of Lorne, butter at the old price de Angeli,
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- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- 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....
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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