Fan and Fannie, The Baseball Twins by McMahan, Valrie
- Bookseller: Read'Em Again Books
 (US)
- Seller Inventory #: 005724
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Very Good
- Jacket condition: No Jacket
- Illustrator: McMahan, Valrie
- Publisher: Barse & Co.
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1928
Description
New York: Barse & Co., 1928. Very scarce children's fantasy baseball story. 62 pages. Color illustrations throughout. Full-color illustrated endpapers. Three baseballs (two from white boys and one from a black boy) are lost and turned into baseball shaped children (two white and one black) by a good fairy, who leaves them in the care of Mother Glove (a nice catcher's mit) to watch over them and teach them about the world Tight binding. Clean pages. Cover has some minor wear and sunned spine. . Pictorial Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by McMahan, Valrie. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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 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. Also known as the back. tight : Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use. leaves : When used to refer to a part of a book means the book's pages. sunned : The affected portion of the book has been discolored from exposure to the sun. 8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 8-10 inches tall. 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 folded and cut into 16 pages..
Unfortunately often misunderstood to mean 8 volumes. endpapers : The first and last two pages (verso and recto) from the front and back of a book.
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