UNCLE BOUQUI OF HAITI
by Harold Courlander
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Chamblee, Georgia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: William Morrow & Co, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Lucy Herndon Crockett. Cream cloth over boards with black-and-green decorations to front cover and particulars to spine. Cover, endpapers, and illustrations throughout designed by Lucy Herndon Crockett. Lacking dust jacket. Previous owner's gift inscription to first free endpaper; bookseller sticker (Newbegin's in San Francisco) to back pastedown; otherwise, pages are clean and unmarked. Boards are clean and bright. Wear to head and tail of spine; corners bumped. Endpapers are lightly foxed. Binding is tight and square.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Atlanta Vintage Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 55183
- Title
- UNCLE BOUQUI OF HAITI
- Author
- Harold Courlander
- Illustrator
- Lucy Herndon Crockett
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- William Morrow & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1942
- Keywords
- Children's
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Atlanta Vintage Books
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Chamblee, Georgia
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Glossary
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- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...