The Island of Make Believe
by Wade, Blanche Elizabeth; Emma Troth (Illust)
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
-
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: The Page Company. Fair. 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Color plates and b&w drawings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 298 pages; 1914 The Page Company. HC 1st edition in beige cloth with color pictorial design. Titles at spine dulled and almost illegible. Binding much shaken with paerial splits to the endpages in the hinges. Mild silverfsih pitting to page block edges. Binding is holding and contnets generally clean. Tired and worn copy of this hard to find title. Fair only .
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Details
- Bookseller
- DogStar Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47742
- Title
- The Island of Make Believe
- Author
- Wade, Blanche Elizabeth; Emma Troth (Illust)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Page Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1914
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children''s Books;
Terms of Sale
DogStar Books
15 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 15 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
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
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...