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The Golden Age
by Kenneth Grahame
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Collectible; Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Waccabuc, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd, 1928. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. The 1928 1st Ernest Shepard-illustrated edition. Tight and VG in a bright, VG- example of the charming dustjacket, with light chipping at the spine ends and along the panel edges. 12mo, 166 pgs., the wonderful Ernest Shepard line drawings thtruout complementing the Kenneth Grahame text.
Synopsis
Looking back to those days of old, ere the gate shut behind me, I can see now that to children with a proper equipment of parents these things would have worn a different aspect. But to those whose nearest were aunts and uncles, a special attitude of mind may be allowed. They treated us, indeed, with kindness enough as to the needs of the flesh, but after that with indifference (an indifference, as I recognise, the result of a certain stupidity), and therewith the commonplace conviction that your child is merely animal.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Appledore Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8312
- Title
- The Golden Age
- Author
- Kenneth Grahame
- Format/Binding
- Decorative Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectible; Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1928
- Keywords
- Rare Children's books, rare Ernest Shepard
- Bookseller catalogs
- Childrens;
Terms of Sale
Appledore Books, ABAA
All books are offered subject to prior sale. Materials are returnable within 1 week of receipt provided prior notice is given.
About the Seller
Appledore Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Waccabuc, New York
About Appledore Books, ABAA
Buy and sell - rare, unusual and antiquarian - art, photography, literature, scholarly, sports, childrens, bindings.
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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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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