Saint George And The Dragon - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Hodges, Margaret [; From Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0316367893
- ISBN 13
- 9780316367899
- Seller
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Summerville, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Boston Toronto: Little, Brown and Company. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1984. First Edition; First Printing. 1/3 Cloth. 0316367893 . A charming first edition/first printing in Near Fine condition, little rubbing and bumping to cloth spine in a Very Good+, edgeworn dust-jacket; Set "in the days when monsters and giants and fairy folk lived in England," Margaret Hodges recounts the battle between St. George and the Dragon - a creature so huge and fearsome that his tail "swept the land behind him for almost half a mile". (from the dust-jacket) Winner of the 1985 Caldecott Medal; Color Illustrations; Oblong 4to; 32 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Books Tell You Why, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29437
- Title
- Saint George And The Dragon - 1st Edition/1st Printing
- Author
- Hodges, Margaret [; From Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene]
- Illustrator
- Illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman
- Format/Binding
- 1/3 Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0316367893
- ISBN 13
- 9780316367899
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston Toronto
- Date Published
- 1984
- Keywords
- Collectible Rare Out-of-print
- Bookseller catalogs
- Awarded Illustrators; Legendary Illustrators; Awarded Books / Caldecott Medal;
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Glossary
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.