The Green Story Book
by Blyton, Enid
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Good +
- Seller
-
Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1947. Bound in the publishers green cloth hard boards with black title lettering to spine. This is the first printing and first edition of a delightful collection of Enid Blyton childrens short stories. All pages are present and correct and tightly bound. Book sits solid and square. Illustrated throughout with black and white line drawings from the talented hand of Eileen Soper. Housed in the charming green dustwrapper with publishers printed price intact on front inside flap. Light edgewear and signs of handling with a few hairline tears but nontheless a lovely example of the dustwrapper. Protected in a removable archival booksleeve to preserve its condition. A very collectable example of a remarkably scarce Enid Blyton cchildrens book.. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Good +. Illus. by Eileen Soper. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. FIRST EDITION.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Rare Book Shelf (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001065
- Title
- The Green Story Book
- Author
- Blyton, Enid
- Illustrator
- Eileen Soper
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good +
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Methuen & Co Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1947
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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About the Seller
The Rare Book Shelf
Biblio member since 2005
Herefordshire
About The Rare Book Shelf
The Rare Book Shelf are suppliers of fine, rare and desirable books specializing in out of print and modern First Editions. We cover most areas of fiction and non fiction including childrens books and are constantly updating and improving our current stock. We take time to fully study each book individually before grading them with as detailed a description as possible. All relevant history and information regarding each title is relayed to the customer where possible.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...
- 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...