THE VALIANT TAILOR
by Retold and Illustrated by Kurt Werth
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+ in Good [or better] dust jacket
- Seller
-
Milton, Vermont, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
NY: Viking Press, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. VG+ in Good [or better] dust jacket. Green cloth hardcover with just light shelf-wear, clean and tightly bound; an unmarked copy, light signs of handling, o/w clean. Dust jacket with visible edge-wear including tiny chipping to head of head/tail of spine, tiny tear, rubbing to spine edges, not price-clipped (shows $3.00) and quite presentable in a protective, clear archival sleeve.
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Details
- Bookseller
- North Country Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18885
- Title
- THE VALIANT TAILOR
- Author
- Retold and Illustrated by Kurt Werth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+ in Good [or better] dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1965
Terms of Sale
North Country Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
North Country Books
Biblio member since 2008
Milton, Vermont
About North Country Books
General used, collectible and antiquarian books. Also paper, ephemera and posters. I am now in my 14th year of full-time book selling.
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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....
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- O/W
- An abbreviation for otherwise
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
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