The Little Island
by MacDonald, Golden [Margaret Wise Brown] & Leonard Weisgard (Illust)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Doubleday & Company. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1946. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Color Illustrations; Oblong 4to 11" - 13" tall; 42 pages; 1946 Doubleday & Co. Oblong format HC/DJ. 1st edition, 1st printing. Tightly bound and exceptionally neat in black quarter cloth backed spine and vivid color pictorial paper covered boards, with matching color pictorial design to the uniformly bright dust jacket with the original 1st issue $2.50 issue price intact to the unclipped front flap. The book feels and appears generally unread with Weisgard's stunning color art lushly printed with deep huesand color saturation. First edition stated. Dust jacket crisp edged and uniformly bright, marred only by a short closed tear bottom edge of the rear panel, trace rubbing at spine ends, a tiny nick bottom edge of the front panel, small area of soling front edge of the cover and a few small point abrasions where a sticker had been placed top front corner of the front panel. A very handsome and well preserved copy of the 1st state printing of this lovely Caldecott winning title from the golden age legends - Margaret Wise Brown and Leonard Weisgard. F/VG+++ .
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Details
- Bookseller
- DogStar Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 49993
- Title
- The Little Island
- Author
- MacDonald, Golden [Margaret Wise Brown] & Leonard Weisgard (Illust)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1946
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books / Caldecott Winners;
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.
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.