How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin (Just So Stories Series)
by Kipling, Rudyard
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- Seller
-
Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing, 1942. Hardcover. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. F. Rojankovsky. Square octavo. Unpaginated. Hardcover in colour illustrated dust jacket. DJ is rubbed, foxed, has edgewear. 3 inch diagonal tear at bottom of rear cover and 1.75 inch long tear at bottom edge of rear cover. Spine of DJ is chipped and creased. Endpapers are illustrated. "The State Bookshop" seller label at bottom of front pastedown. Text is toned. Black and white as well as colour illustrations.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 048438
- Title
- How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin (Just So Stories Series)
- Author
- Kipling, Rudyard
- Illustrator
- F. Rojankovsky
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Garden City Publishing
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1942
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 1.50 lbs
- Keywords
- 1942; Rudyard kipling; F Rojankovsky; Children's Books; Animals; Rhinoceros
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
14 day return guarantee, with full refund if an item arrives mis-described or damaged. Buyer pays return shipping.
About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...