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The Everyday Fairy Book
by Chapin, Anna Alice
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- fair
- Seller
-
Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1915. First Amer. edition. Hardcover. fair. Jessie Willcox Smith. 4to. 140pp. Green cloth with paste-down color plate. Captivating fairy tale by the author of "Humpty Dumpty" illustrated with full-page color plates by Jessie Willcox Smith. Tail of spine frayed and chipped. Corners bumped and worn. Abrasions and some scuffing to color plate. Staining and discoloration to back board. Hinges starting. Inscribed on front endpaper by previous owner. Frontispiece missing. Smudging to some pages not affecting text or plates. Binding in fair, interior in good condition. Scarce.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12518
- Title
- The Everyday Fairy Book
- Author
- Chapin, Anna Alice
- Illustrator
- Jessie Willcox Smith
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Amer. edition
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1915
- Keywords
- Fairy Tales, picture books,, Children's Books, Fairy Stories
Terms of Sale
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
Biblio member since 2009
Santa Monica, California
About Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
We offer a broad selection of rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books with an emphasis on photography, architecture, art, Judaica, Bibles, Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, modernism, Olympic Games, erotica and foreign-language works, especially German, Hebrew, Polish and Yiddish. We also provide appraisal, auction, consulting and rental services.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- 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....
- 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...
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