Early Children's Books and Their Illustration
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Gleneden Beach, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: The Pierpoint Morgan Library, 1975. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Beautiful book almost 12 inches in height, soft cover in pictorial wraps, 263 pages heavily illustrated with 225 color and black and white illustrations, format: alphabetized bibliography of early illustrated children's books from two dozen or so genres, also included are a preface, foreword and Essay: The First Flourishing of Children's Books by J.H. Plumb. An excellent and beautiful reference for the collector, bibliophile or admirer of beautiful illustrations. Book is at least Very Good Plus, a light bend to corners, some light edge soiling, interior and illustrations are Fine. No bookplate or previous owner writing. An ultra clean and most presentable First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pacific Coast Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001931
- Title
- Early Children's Books and Their Illustration
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- The Pierpoint Morgan Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1975
- Keywords
- Illustrated Children's Books, Children's Illustrated Books
Terms of Sale
Pacific Coast Books
10 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 10 days after delivery if an item arrives mis-described or damaged.
About the Seller
Pacific Coast Books
Biblio member since 2015
Gleneden Beach, Oregon
About Pacific Coast Books
Pacific Coast Books specializes in quality of books of interest from our store on the Central Oregon Coast. We are proud members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and have been buying and selling books for almost 20 years. Visit our website at www.Pacifc CoastBooks.net. Please feel free to call or email with any titles you would like to add to your collection. Only a small fraction of our inventory is online. We buy book collections.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Pictorial Wraps
- Pictorial wraps are color illustrated covers for paperback books. Preceding mass-market paperbacks, this format brought popular...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...