A Wonder Book
by Hawthorne, Nathaniel; Arthur Rackham (illus.)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Kutztown, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1928. Book. Illus. by Arthur Rackham. Near Fine. Decorative Cloth. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Burgundy cloth, lettered/illus. in gilt, illus. endpapers. Light shelf wear, spine lettering rather faded, text block edges a bit toned by age. Firm binding, clean and unmarked interior beyond former owner's signature (dated Christmas 1930) on upper front pastedown, all color plates present and fully intact. x,207 pp., illus. w/ (15) full page color plates including frontis. Please note that this 1928 printing is not strictly a reprint of the earlier (1922) Doran edition, which contained a total of (24) plates; the '28 printing contains (9) fewer plates, including the original Pandora frontis. and (7) Japanese-style wood cut prints. The "List of Illustrations" on p. ix is a revised listing consistent with the '28 printing, but the verso (p. x) contains a partial set of entries beginning with p. 84 that is identical to the listing found in the 1922 edition; clearly the publishers neglected to remove p. x when they replaced p. ix. Additionally, several of the plates are sized approx. 1/8-1/4" shorter than the text block, leaving a short gap between bottom plate edge and bottom text block edge, but none was removed or trimmed, clearly original to issue. The gilt cover and spine illustration and lettering are identical to those of the 1922 edition, which was bound in red rather than burgundy. Main title dated 1928, no statement of edition or printing..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Saucony Book Shop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 032992
- Title
- A Wonder Book
- Author
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel; Arthur Rackham (illus.)
- Illustrator
- Arthur Rackham
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran and Co.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1928
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's;
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Terms of Sale
Saucony Book Shop
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About the Seller
Saucony Book Shop
Biblio member since 2005
Kutztown, Pennsylvania
About Saucony Book Shop
The Saucony Book Shop, located in the heart of scenic rural Berks County, epicenter of Pennsylvania German folk culture (our shop specialty), offers a full range of gently used, rare, and antiquarian books, with many volumes of scholarly merit and an unabashed emphasis on the quaint, the curious, and the utterly obscure. We make no attempt to be a general-service book shop. Our inventory is highly selective, individually chosen from among the hundreds of thousands of books to which we have access annually at auctions, library and estate sales, and through individual scouts and vendors. We do not handle material that does not meet our expectations in terms of condition or interest to our specialized, idiosyncratic customers. Despite maintaining a browsing inventory of more than 15,000 volumes, we have minimized our carbon footprint by maintaining our entire operation in a cozy ca. 1890 barn and lean-to adjacent to an historic creamery in rural Maxatawny Township. Our shop is available for browsing by appointment and occasionally, in temperate weather, by chance, so email or call ahead to peruse the eclectic selection gracing our shelves, or ask our ferociously over-read staff for recommendations. Selling antiquarian books of merit since 1981. Full search and appraisal services; always keenly interested in purchasing quality used books, whether by the piece or by the bushel. Thanks for reading about us! Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
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- Text Block
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- Reprint
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- Verso
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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- Fine
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- Plate
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