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THE BIG GREEN BOOK
by Robert Graves
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
-
Los Angeles , California, United States
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About This Item
[ROBERT GRAVES, MAURICE SENDAK]. THE BIG GREEN BOOK. Macmillan Publishing Company, New York, 1985. First Edition reissue by this publisher. First printing with full number line. First Edition Thus. Appears unread, yellow endpapers, one-quarter yellow cloth with green paper covered boards, pages are very clean, bright and binding tight. Neat owners inscription on the first endpaper. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Price clipped, rubbing, closed tears to upper corner edges as expected for a vintage dust jacket of this age. Illustrated by Marie Sendak. Originally published in 1962 before Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are" in 1963 today regarded as the artist's best known masterpiece.Classic 1960's children's fantasy book from a major illustrator, collectible. 62 pgs. 4to.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Astro Trader Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1000-671
- Title
- THE BIG GREEN BOOK
- Author
- Robert Graves
- Illustrator
- Maurice Sendak
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1985
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's and YA (Young Adult);
- Size
- 4to
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Astro Trader Books
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Los Angeles , California
About Astro Trader Books
Astro Trader Books was founded in 2010 selling camera manuals, then branched into antiquarian, modern firsts, science fiction, fantasy, horror genres and pulp fiction.
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
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- Rubbing
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- Number Line
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- Cloth
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- Price Clipped
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
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- New
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