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The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales From the Old French
by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch; Edmund Dulac [illus.]
- Used
- Condition
- Very Good +
- Seller
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1923. Very Good +. New York: George H. Doran Company, [1923]. Reprint. Octavo. 228 pp. 16 color plates with descriptive lettering facing, complete. Red cloth boards with elaborate gilt stamping to front; gilt stamping to spine; decorative endpapers. No dust jacket. Edges and joints lightly worn. A couple scrapes with brief exposure to front hinge, but binding sound and pages unmarked. Very Good or better.
Includes "Beauty and the Beast," "Blue Beard," and "Cinderella," as well as the title story.
[Hughey 23i].
Includes "Beauty and the Beast," "Blue Beard," and "Cinderella," as well as the title story.
[Hughey 23i].
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- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28809
- Title
- The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales From the Old French
- Author
- Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch; Edmund Dulac [illus.]
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- George H. Doran Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1923
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
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Washington, District of Columbia
About Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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...
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
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