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Folklore and Fairy Plays
by Going, Charles Buxton
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good+
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Walter H. Baker Company, 1927. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition, First Printing.. First Edition in scarce dust jacket, signed by the author. Very clean unfaded green cloth boards with gold lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, pages and edges are clean. " Louise M. Dusinberre from Maj. Going" in ink at top of front pastedown. No other marks. 245 pages. Jacket has brown lettering and line border, small illustration of fairies dancing on a garden bench; Louise M. Dusinberre's name is written in ink across top of jacket, otherwise clean, with slight browning to spine; several closed edge tears, one tiny edge chip; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30214
- Title
- Folklore and Fairy Plays
- Author
- Going, Charles Buxton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- Publisher
- Walter H. Baker Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1927
- Keywords
- FAIRY TALES, FOLKLORE, FOLK FIRST EDITION, CHARLES BUXTON GOING, DUST JACKET
- Bookseller catalogs
- SIGNED Editions; Folklore;
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About the Seller
Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Stanley, New York
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- Spine
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- New
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- Fine
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