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THE BIRTHDAY BOOK FOR CHILDREN
by GREENAWAY KATE
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Leicester, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London, 1880. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. (London and New York [1880]). First UK Edition. 382 Illustrations by Kate Greenaway, printed by Edmund Evans, verses by Mrs Sale Barker. Publisher's original beige cloth. Title on covers printed in brown, with pictures representing the four seasons, one in each corner, stamped in colours. Blue end-papers, yellow page edges. Overall a VG copy with some minor mottling to the cloth, slight lifting to front board, some neat manuscript entries and neat contemporary gift inscription dated 1881 to the presentation leaf. This copy accords with all the first edition points in Schuster & Engen 39(1a). In the VERY RARE pre-paid beige-coloured D/W designed to send the book through the post. This Book Post wrapper has printed lettering on the front panel 'BOOK POST for the United Kingdom, Threehalfpence and the title below with dotted lines for the address. The D/W has a slither of loss at the head and tail of the spine and neat archival repairs to the verso. This BOOK POST wrapper is not mentioned in Schuster & Engen and must be exceedingly uncommon.
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Details
- Bookseller
- James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 355490715951
- Title
- THE BIRTHDAY BOOK FOR CHILDREN
- Author
- GREENAWAY KATE
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1880
Terms of Sale
James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
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About the Seller
James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
Biblio member since 2006
Leicester
About James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
James M Pickard (Rare Books) is proud to be a full member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association (ABA), the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) and The Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association (PBFA).
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- First Edition
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Cloth
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- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
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