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PICCINO AND OTHER CHILD STORIES
by BURNETT, FRANCES HODGSON
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Light edge and Corner Wear/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1894. Frnnt cover and spine decorated in gilt and orange. Frontispiece and fourteen full-page illustrations in black and white through the text. Four stories in total. 203pp. + adverts. A very clean copy. See photos.. First Edition. Line-green Cloth. Light edge and Corner Wear/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Reginald B. Bush. Square Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015515
- Title
- PICCINO AND OTHER CHILD STORIES
- Author
- BURNETT, FRANCES HODGSON
- Illustrator
- Reginald B. Bush
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Light edge and Corner Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1894
- Size
- Square Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Children, Children's Illustrated
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
All books are subject to prior sale. Books are guaranteed as described and may be returned to us within 10 days with immediate notice of intent to return the item.
About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Spine
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
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