Fairy Tales from Hans Andersen Told to the Children by Mary Macgregor With Pictures by Olive Allen
by Andersen, Hans Chhristian; Mary MacGregor; Olive Allen (Illust)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
-
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
London & New York: T. C. & E. C. Jack; E. P. Dutton. Good+. 1906. Presumed 1st edition. Hardcover. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 113 pages; [1906] T. C. & E. C. Jack; E. P. Dutton. Small format HC soundly bound in original pale olive green cloth with art nouveau decorative designs and titles in gilt to cover and spine. Color pictorial plate from art by Olive Allen mounted to the front board. Trace evidence of a bookplate removed from the front pastedown; light shelf tapping and rubbing to boards at corner tips. Of the 8 color plates executed for the work by Olive Allen, there is one plate misssing - the frontispiece. Expected mild toning to page stock. Generally VG or perhaps a little better, but graded down to reflect the single missing color plate. G++ .
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Details
- Bookseller
- DogStar Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50157
- Title
- Fairy Tales from Hans Andersen Told to the Children by Mary Macgregor With Pictures by Olive Allen
- Author
- Andersen, Hans Chhristian; Mary MacGregor; Olive Allen (Illust)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Edition
- Presumed 1st edition
- Publisher
- T. C. & E. C. Jack; E. P. Dutton
- Place of Publication
- London & New York
- Date Published
- 1906
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fairy and Folk Tales;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
DogStar Books
Biblio member since 2020
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
About DogStar Books
DogStar Books is an open-shop used and rare book store located in historic Lancaster PA. We have been buying and selling scholarly, antiquarian and better books, images, and paper since 1991. We maintain a large general collection of over 40,000 titles on premises to serve our local book loving clientele. Out of town visitors and buyers are always welcome. Our online inventory at Biblio began in 2020 and we will be increasing our inventory here on a regular basis.
Glossary
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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"...
- 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....
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
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