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ABOUT WISE MEN AND SIMPLETONS Twelve Tales from GRIMM by Elizabeth Shub (translator)
- Bookseller: Jackson Wegren
(CA)
- Seller Inventory #: 000288
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: F
- Jacket condition: F
- Edition: First Edition, First Printing
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Macmillan
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1971
Description
New York: Macmillan, 1971. Fine with illustrated pastedown to front board in a fine price-clipped dustjacket. Halftone etchings and colour pictorial jacket, illustrated by Caldecott Medalist Nonny Hogrogian. Dust jacket is mylar-protected. A beautifully produced book.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. F/F. Royal Octavo.
dust jacket : A protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
jacket : Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book
octavo : A book whose page size is approximately 12 inches by 9 inches. The size is based on a sheet of paper 25 inches by 38 inches, the size of paper traditionally used by book printers, which has been cut into eight pages.
price-clipped : The portion of the dust jacket flap where the publisher prints the suggested price has been cut away. Usually this is a clean 1-2" diagonal cut made with scissors.
f/f : Fine condition book, with fine condition dust jacket. Fine condition is defined by AB Bookman's Weekly as "approaches the condition of As New, but without being crisp. For the use of the term Fine there must also be no defects, etc., and if the jacket has a small tear, or other defect, or looks worn, this should be noted."
pastedown : The paper glued to the inside cover of a hard cover book.
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