Kate Greenaway
by Spielman, M.H. And Layard, G.S
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
-
Amherst,, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1905. Blue cloth binding stamped in blue, pink and gold. Top edge gilt. 301pp. Endpapers are a miniature facsimile of the nursery wall paper reproduced with Kate Greenaway's special and exclusive permission by David Walker, Esq., Manchester, who owns the original drawings. 53 colour plates, 34 black and white plates and 56 thumb-nail and other sketeches with pen and pencil and numerous b&w photos. The ownership of each illustrated plate is given and each of the sketches is identified by the correspondence from which is came. Bibliography of Greenaway's illustrated books at back. Light wear, color fading, a few small defects to front hinge, back hinge repaired with some loss to botom 1/5. Small split at top of front joint. Scan on request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First American Edition.. Hardcover. Good+.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Valley Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 064385
- Title
- Kate Greenaway
- Author
- Spielman, M.H. And Layard, G.S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Edition
- First American Edition.
- Publisher
- G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1905
- Keywords
- ART ILLUSTRATION CHILDREN'S BOOKS BOOK JONES LIBRARY
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About the Seller
Valley Books
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Amherst,, Massachusetts
About Valley Books
After 34 years selling used and old books in downtown Amherst, we are now an online only seller as of July 2009. We have approximately 12,500 titles in most subjects and all our inventory is listed online. Our specialties include scholarly books in political science, social science, philosophy, science and natural history, poetry, European history, Asian and Far Eastern history, Asian and American art and Literary Criticism, as well as several other subjects, scholarly, antiquarian and collectible.
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- Good+
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- Cloth
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- Hinge
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- Facsimile
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- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- G
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