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The Twelve Dancing Princesses and Other Fairy Tales Retold
by Arthur Quiller-Couch; Kay Nielsen [illus.]
- Used
- Very Good
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1923. Very Good/Very Good. New York: George H. Doran Company, [1923]. Reprint. Octavo. 244 pp. 16 color plates by Nielsen. Illustrated dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in gilt. Pictorial endpapers.
Jacket cleanly separated down front joint, with a couple small closed tears along edges, shallow chips at spine ends, and a bit of light toning to spine. Boards are square with very light shelfwear and nudging at head and tail. Top of text block a bit smudged. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.
Jacket cleanly separated down front joint, with a couple small closed tears along edges, shallow chips at spine ends, and a bit of light toning to spine. Boards are square with very light shelfwear and nudging at head and tail. Top of text block a bit smudged. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11989
- Title
- The Twelve Dancing Princesses and Other Fairy Tales Retold
- Author
- Arthur Quiller-Couch; Kay Nielsen [illus.]
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- George H. Doran Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1923
Terms of Sale
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2019
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.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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