LITTLE FOLKS : A Magazine for the Young. New and Enlarged Series
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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Penzance, Cornwall, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Paris & Melbourne: Cassell and Company Limited, 1896. Imitation Leather. Good+. Delightful book of Short Stories, Poetry etc for Children. Frontispiece Illustrated with a Full Page Chromolithograph Plate showing 2 little Girls in Japanese Costume "a joke in Japanese". First Story is "a Race with Death" by, David Ker. Well Illustrated througout, with 14 beautiful Full Page Colour Chromolithograph Plates, and many Monochrome and B&W Plates and In-Text Illustrations. Book is in 2 sections each with its own Title, Frontis and Contents. 2nd Frontis illustrated with a Colour Plate of a boy & girl carrying a little girl by the sea shore. 473 Pages + 475 Pages = 948 in total in the one volume. Imitation Half-Leather Binding with Gilt title on Red leather ground to spine. Green cloth covered boards with dimpled texture. Title Page Illustrated with a little boy running. 9 1/2" Tall. Some edge wear & chipping & loss of colour to cloth (see photo). Hinges sound & Binding firm. Pages & Illustrations in very good, clean condition, only a few occasional spots of foxing. Weighs nearly 2 Kilos so Shipping outside UK will be extra. (Other copies of "Little Folks" available, I'm happy to give a Discount on 2 or more.) Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cornish Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012019
- Title
- LITTLE FOLKS : A Magazine for the Young. New and Enlarged Series
- Format/Binding
- Imitation Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cassell and Company Limited
- Place of Publication
- London, Paris & Melbourne
- Date Published
- 1896
- Keywords
- CHILDREN'S FICTION/ILLUSTRATED BOOKS/LITTLE FILKS
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About the Seller
Cornish Books
Biblio member since 2019
Penzance, Cornwall
About Cornish Books
Online Bookseller since 2008, in Penzance, Cornwall.We are a small family business and offer a personal service.Always in stock is a good selection of Cornish Interest Books.
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- 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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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....
- 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.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...