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The Twelve Dancing Princesses and Other Fairy Tales
by Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur. Illustrated By Kay Nielsen
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1923. Undated, circa 1923. Early printing, without the publisher's insignia on the copyright page. Collection of fairy tales with sixteen stunning full page (not tipped in) color plates by Kay Nielsen in Art Nouveau style. Purple pictorial cloth printed in dark gray, decorative endpapers, no dustjacket. Some shelfwear, mainly to the corners and spine ends, spine still purple but less vivid than the covers, good hinges, sound text block, light chipping to the far bottom margin of the plate on page 169, pages clean, no names or other markings. The stories include: Minon-Minette, Felicia or The Pot of Pinks, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, Rosanie or The Inconstant Prince, The Man Who Never Laughed, and John and the Ghosts.. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 047237
- Title
- The Twelve Dancing Princesses and Other Fairy Tales
- Author
- Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur. Illustrated By Kay Nielsen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First US Edition
- Publisher
- George H. Doran Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1923
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- CHILDRENS FANTASY COLOR ILLUSTRATED ART NOUVEAU DECO
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books;
Terms of Sale
Resource Books, LLC
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About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2004
East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
Resource Books, LLC deals in antiquarian and out-of-print books in a wide variety of subject matter, mainly non-fiction.
Glossary
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- 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...
- 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....
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