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Old Peter's Russian Tales
by Ransome, Arthur
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Hartland, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Thomas Nelson & Sons. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1963. Hardcover. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine very minor sway to front board, spotting top edge. Tightly bound with no markings, occasional foxing. In an orange pictorial dustjacket with chipping and closed tears at points and spine ends, overall still a handsome copy now in protective mylar. All seven color plates present plus several line drawings. Collection of Russian peasant tales - "A new edition of a favourite book which will never grow old." ; MCF04148; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 334 pp .
Synopsis
Old Peter's Russian Tales was first published in 1916. The stories in this book are those that Russian peasants tell their children and each other. The tales include "The Tale of the Silver Saucer and the Transparent Apple," "The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship," "Prince Ivan, the witch baby, and the Little Sister of the Sun," "The Stolen Turnips, The Magic Tablecloth, The Sneezing Goat and The Wooden Whistle," "Little Master Misery," "Who Lived in the Skull ," and many more.
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Details
- Bookseller
- McCormick Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 37227
- Title
- Old Peter's Russian Tales
- Author
- Ransome, Arthur
- Illustrator
- Dmitri Mitrokhin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Publisher
- Thomas Nelson & Sons
- Date Published
- 1963
- Keywords
- Children Fiction Fairy Tales Russian Illustrated
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children;
Terms of Sale
McCormick Books
Books are shipped immediately upon receipt of payments. Returns allowed within two weeks.
About the Seller
McCormick Books
Biblio member since 2004
Hartland, Michigan
About McCormick Books
Mail order book store specializing in Genealogy, History and Michigan History.
Glossary
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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....
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
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