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Wag-By-Wall
by POTTER, Beatrix
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very good +/Fair
- Seller
-
Thomaston, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Boston: The Horn Book, Inc, 1944. First Edition. Stiff wraps. Very good +/Fair. J.J. [Julius] LANKES. First edition. 12mo; [32pp]; tan buckram over board with red stamped title, author and illustrator to front; woodcut cottage illustration onlay; decorative endpapers; frontispiece a tipped in photographic illustration of author with a young child, facsimile signature below; illustrations in text; light age toning of paper, a few small spots on page tails, one small (1/8") closed tear to page fore edge; cream illustrated dust jacket; dj flaps and spine separated front and rear; very good plus in fair dj. Quinby 32. Published posthumously (Beatrix Potter 1866-1943) with a forward by Bertha E. Mahony, founder of The Horn Book children's magazine and part of the children's literature movement. Frontispiece is a lovely tipped-in photograph of Potter with a young child. Wag-By-Wall is a Christmas story held by request of Potter "for our Twentieth Anniversary Number (May-June 1944), states the front dust jacket flap.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 700
- Title
- Wag-By-Wall
- Author
- POTTER, Beatrix
- Illustrator
- J.J. [Julius] LANKES
- Format/Binding
- Stiff wraps
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good +
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Horn Book, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1944
- Keywords
- Holiday, Christmas
Terms of Sale
Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller
Items are returnable for any reason for a full refund. Please inform us within three days of receipt and provide the reason for the return.
About the Seller
Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller
Biblio member since 2019
Thomaston, Maine
About Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller
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- Flap(s)
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
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- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Tipped In
- Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
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