NURSERY RHYMES
by Sackville-West, V[ita]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Collectible-Fine/Very Good +
- Seller
-
Williamsburg, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
London: The Dropmore Press, 1947. (6), 66, (4) pages. 4to. First printing. This was the fourth in a series called "The Dropmore Essays." Number 420 of an edition limited to 550 copies. Letterpress printed on paper that was hand made by Portals of Whitchurch. Fine binding by Evans of Croydon: blue cloth decorated and lettered in gilt; gilt dentelles; housed in a custom cardboard slipcase. Sackville-West's essay on nursery rhymes is equally serious and fun. She saw the writer of nursery rhymes as a poet-novelist, who as a "creator of characters, creator of situations, had a fine jugglery to play with. A vast population of Old Women and Little Men crept out of corners, sought in their cupboards, fired their little guns, wore cork legs which surprisingly sank in water, and found themselves in a variety of predicaments seldom equalled in life." The book is virtually as new in a clean bright dust jacket that has just a hint of tanning along the spine and a 1/8" closed tear at the head of the rear joint-fold and a corresponding 1/2" closed tear on the front joint-fold. The rare slipcase is rubbed & worn and has a red cloth tape repair along the backstrip.. First Edition. Hardcover. Collectible-Fine/Very Good +. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- W1151
- Title
- NURSERY RHYMES
- Author
- Sackville-West, V[ita]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectible-Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good +
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Dropmore Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1947
- Keywords
- Letterpress Children's
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary First Editions; Children's Books;
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Terms of Sale
Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art
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About the Seller
Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art
Biblio member since 2004
Williamsburg, Virginia
About Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art
Our office, located in historic Williamsburg, Virginia, is open by appointment or by chance. We are antiquarian booksellers who buy and sell carefully selected books for collectors and researchers in many genre. We also sell important autographs and photographs as well as original art, including wood engravings by Winslow Homer and J. J. Lankes; lithographs by Miró, Matisse, Calder, Wengenroth, and others; and works from the American Etching Revival. You can reach us by telephone: (757)378-5400; or by email: twbooks1@cox.net.
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