Little Sandman and the Fifty Famous Sky Stories: a Child's Book of Familiar Sky Legends
by June, Caroline Silver
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Lawrence, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: Albert Whitman & Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1937. First; Third. Hardcover. Blue cloth hardback has colored pictorial label to front cover. Contains numerous illustrations in black and muted orange and brown popular in the 20s and 30s and 47 sky stories "that may be used as an introduction to astronomy". End papers in a blue and yellow design. FO plate to FFEP but no other marks. Binding a little weak at lower spine with very light wear to corners and spine and light rubbing to cover illustration. Digital photos available. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 126 pages .
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- Bookseller
- The Book Lady
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1461
- Title
- Little Sandman and the Fifty Famous Sky Stories: a Child's Book of Familiar Sky Legends
- Author
- June, Caroline Silver
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First; Third
- Publisher
- Albert Whitman & Company
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1937
- Keywords
- Children, Astronomy
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children;
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
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