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Fifi [ True First Edition complete with First Edition Dust Jacket ]
by Ludwig Bemelmans
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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SANDY, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1940. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Ludwig Bemelmans. A whimsical find for a collector.
A First Edition/First Printing of "Fifi" with the original dust jacket.
There is some wear to the board tops and ends along with a very light toning to pages edges and some creases along spine, else fine. Book is bound tight and illustrations are bright still and clean.The pictorial boards are clean and bright with a light scratch across the back pictorial board. Paste down boards are clean and bright with no wrinkling depicting the mischievous dog and cat characters patterned throughout.
Dust jacket has some edge wear with chipping across the spine. First edition price of $2.00 present in bottom right corner of dust jacket. There is a vintage bookplate on the archival wrapper, but nothing attached to the dust jacket itself (archival wrapper is removable). No bookplates of any kind on the actual dust jacket or book itself.
An overall fantastic copy of the this true first edition that will genuinely please a collector.
A First Edition/First Printing of "Fifi" with the original dust jacket.
There is some wear to the board tops and ends along with a very light toning to pages edges and some creases along spine, else fine. Book is bound tight and illustrations are bright still and clean.The pictorial boards are clean and bright with a light scratch across the back pictorial board. Paste down boards are clean and bright with no wrinkling depicting the mischievous dog and cat characters patterned throughout.
Dust jacket has some edge wear with chipping across the spine. First edition price of $2.00 present in bottom right corner of dust jacket. There is a vintage bookplate on the archival wrapper, but nothing attached to the dust jacket itself (archival wrapper is removable). No bookplates of any kind on the actual dust jacket or book itself.
An overall fantastic copy of the this true first edition that will genuinely please a collector.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Parrish Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4833
- Title
- Fifi [ True First Edition complete with First Edition Dust Jacket ]
- Author
- Ludwig Bemelmans
- Illustrator
- Ludwig Bemelmans
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1940
- Keywords
- Madeline
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Parrish Books
Biblio member since 2006
SANDY, Oregon
About Parrish Books
Parrish Books is a full-time on-line dealer in fine collectible books in business since 2002. With specialities in signed limited editions and many favorite authors including Ray Bradbury, Richard Bach, Tom Clancy, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, Edward Gorey and Maurice Sendak. We specialize in exceptional customer service and quality packaging of all orders.
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
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