Egg Tree
by Milhous, Katherine
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good-
- Seller
-
Ardmore, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
True First Printing with "A" on copyright page and correct flap price -- Not the Junior Literary Guild Book Club a reprint. SIGNED by Milhous on front end paper verso. Decorated cloth with sparse, light spotting on rear cover, two pin holes in rear spine fold and name on front end paper, else tight bright, unmarked interior pages. Priced ($2.00) jacket has three small tanned tape pieces on flaps, a couple chips and tears. 1951 Caldecott Medal winner.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Smarty Pants
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 92896
- Title
- Egg Tree
- Author
- Milhous, Katherine
- Format/Binding
- Hard
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Date Published
- 1950
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Smarty Pants
Biblio member since 2006
Ardmore, Pennsylvania
About Smarty Pants
Smarty Pants specializes in collectible, vintage (mid-20th century) children's picture books and books about art.
Glossary
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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