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FAIRY TALES FROM ALL NATIONS
by Montalba, Anthony R
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
-
Fairfield, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers. Very Good+. 1850. Hardcover. Clean red blind stamped cloth, front cover & spine decorated with gilt. Text tight, clean & intact. Light foxing. Pictorial frontispiece. Engraved illustrations by Richard Doyle. Top corner of title page torn and remains attached to the ajacent page. Prior owners book plate "Philip J. A. Harper" (1824- 1896) son of James who founded Harper & Brothers Publishers & was Mayor of New York ; B&W illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 351 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11281
- Title
- FAIRY TALES FROM ALL NATIONS
- Author
- Montalba, Anthony R
- Illustrator
- Richard Doyle
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1850
Terms of Sale
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Books are conservatively described. Full refund within 20 days. Books mailed upon notification of sale. Books sold by direct payment to bookseller will be shipped after receipt of check or notice of payment through paypal. If your book are heavy or oversized, we may contact you for additional shipping. All books/ephemera are securely packaged to assure safe arrival at their destination. All books for sale are in-stock on premises.
About the Seller
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Fairfield, New Jersey
About Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Nick Bikoff and his wife Fran have been buying and selling quality books and ephemera since 1989 when they attended the "Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar" at the University of Denver. They offer a broad based selection of used, rare, and out-of-print stock ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- 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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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