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Water Babies
by Smith, Jessie Willcox (Illus); Kingsley, Charles (Auth)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Torrington, Connecticut, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Nottingham: Hodder and Stoughton for Boots Pure Drug Company, 1925 240 pgs. VG. Green cloth, pictorially stamped in gilt, foxing to edge of text block and sporadically throughout, gift inscription, creases to tissue guards; printed paper dust jacket with full-color pastedown is worn with losses. Kingsley's most beloved work, beautifully filled out with 12 tipped-in color plates by Smith, as well as textual illustrations and decorations printed in green ink. Uncommon in dust jacket. Nudelman B17.. Pictorial Cloth. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Jessie Willcox Smith. Thick 4to.
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Details
- Bookseller
- E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009532
- Title
- Water Babies
- Author
- Smith, Jessie Willcox (Illus); Kingsley, Charles (Auth)
- Illustrator
- Jessie Willcox Smith
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Publisher
- Hodder and Stoughton for Boots Pure Drug Company
- Place of Publication
- Nottingham
- Date Published
- 1925
- Size
- Thick 4to
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- children's, Illustrated, jesse Wilcox Smith, Jessie Wilcox Smith, Illustrated Classics
Terms of Sale
E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA
All items returnable within 10 days after receipt, with prior notification, for a full refund. Buyer to pay return insured/trackable shipping. All returns should be boxed. Refund to be granted after item has been returned in the same condition as when first shipped. We do not drop ship or ship blind, all orders will contain branded labels and materials
About the Seller
E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA
Biblio member since 2004
Torrington, Connecticut
About E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA
Established in 2003, E M Maurice Books has been selling rare, collectible, out-of-print and obscure children's and illustrated books by catalog, online and at trade shows around the Northeast. We have high standards for condition and make every effort to describe condition and edition accurately. We rarely sell ex-library copies and on the rare occasion we do, it will be stated clearly in the description. Our quarterly digital catalogs include items which are offered to established customers before being offered online, please inquire if you would like to be added to our digital mailing list. We never sell our mailing list and save all customer information in a safe digital environment.
Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
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