Pinocchio: the Story of a Puppet
by Carlo Collodi
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
The Heirloom Library, 1956. Hardcover. Good. 1956. Reprint. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Contains colour illustrated plates throughout. Clean pages with mild tanning and heavy foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Mild tearing to last page. Notable droplet staining to text block edges. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Pencil scribbles to front board. Notable tanning to spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped.
Synopsis
This is a story of a carved wooden puppet who dreamt of becoming a real boy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1712830351MHP
- Title
- Pinocchio: the Story of a Puppet
- Author
- Carlo Collodi
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Heirloom Library
- Date Published
- 1956
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Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.