An Elephant Up a Tree
by VAN LOON, Hendrik Willem
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- very good/poor
- Seller
-
New York, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1933. First. hardcover. very good/poor. 3 color illustrations and many in black & white. 8vo, green cloth with colored pictorial label, dust wrapper. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1933. First Edition.<br/><br/> The binding is rubbed and soiled & the spine faded; the chipped dust wrapper is heavily reinforced on the verso, but the book is special because of the original watercolor & ink drawing of an elephant family, along with a 1933 presentation covering an entire blank fly-leaf.<br/><br/>
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Details
- Bookseller
- Argosy Book Store (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 247486
- Title
- An Elephant Up a Tree
- Author
- VAN LOON, Hendrik Willem
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - very good
- Jacket Condition
- poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1933
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About the Seller
Argosy Book Store
Biblio member since 2004
New York, New York
About Argosy Book Store
We are a large retail store, with 6 floors of out-of-print and rare books, (including, Americana, modern first editions, history of medicine and science), antique maps and prints, autograph manuscripts, letters & signatures.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Fly-Leaf
- ...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...