The Burgess Animal Book for Children
by Thornton W. Burgess
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Buffalo, New York, United States
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About This Item
Little, Brown & Co., 1945. Reprint. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Inscribed "To know animals is to love them" and signed by Burgess to half-title page, without personalization, and dated 1946. Light green cloth covered boards with color illustration to front. Light soil and waterspotting, minor edgewear and rubbing, and lightly bumped spine ends and corners. Spine browned. Binding shaken, with hinges starting. Text clean. Interior lightly toned and foxed. Color and b/w plates. 2 1/2" tear to one page, 2" tear to a second, and a 5/8" chip to another. Several pages with corner creases. Gift inscription to ffep. No stickers or stamps. Not ex-library.
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- Bookseller
- Albion Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000890
- Title
- The Burgess Animal Book for Children
- Author
- Thornton W. Burgess
- Illustrator
- Louis Agassiz Fuertes
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Co.
- Date Published
- 1945
- Pages
- 363
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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About the Seller
Albion Books
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Buffalo, New York
About Albion Books
Albion Books deals in fine used, out of print and rare books on a wide variety of topics. Specialties include Buffalo/New York history, science, religion, occult, and foreign language. The proprietor has been in the antiquarian book business since 2006.
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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