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Blueberry Corners
by Lenski, Lois
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia/New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1940. First Edition Later Printing 4th Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Lenski, Lois. Another book both written & illustrated by this Newbery Medal-winning author and illustrator, this one featuring "two of the most loveable heroines who have ever lived in a story,'' Becky & Fanny Griswold, daughters of a parson in 1840's Connecticut. A FIRST EDITION, Fourth Printing, from 1940, this hardcover octavo has light blue cloth over boards stamped with a gilt floral design & lettering to front cover & spine, in 209 pages with decorative endpapers & drawings throughout the text.. Condition is VG: very clean, binding strong & straight, pages lightly tanned, especially around edges, but completely unmarked save for former owner's bookplate in front matter & gift inscription in pen to half-title page. Modest rubbing all around, corners lightly bumped. The bottom price-clipped DJ is just Good, with chipping at corners & both ends of spine, moderate-heavy rubbing to extremities; nicely protected in new clear mylar cover free! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received Weekdays by 2 pm Pacific time; later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Gargoyle Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 023554
- Title
- Blueberry Corners
- Author
- Lenski, Lois
- Illustrator
- Lenski, Lois
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Later Printing 4th Printing
- Publisher
- J. B. Lippincott Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia/New York
- Date Published
- 1940
- Keywords
- children rural south southern fiction Connecticut girls daughters nineteenth 19th century parson preacher family
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children-Young Adult (YA) / Illustrated & Picture Books;
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About the Seller
Gargoyle Books
Biblio member since 2006
La Mesa, California
About Gargoyle Books
On-line booksellers since 1996
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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