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POEMS OF CHILDHOOD
by Field, Eugene
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Very good
- Seller
-
Columbia, Missouri, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. Maxfield Parrish. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904. 199pp. Full-color title page illustration, 8 full-page color plates Maxfield Parrish. Imperial 8vo. Pictorial black cloth stamped in gold; black and white epages with bright orange crab. Previous owner's gift inscription dated 1931 on half title-page; minor signs of light foxing throughout, scattered light small spots on upper edge of textblock, small name stamped on rear free end page. The covers are unfaded, the cover plate is bright and unblemished. Overall a fine bright hardcover. The dust jacket has a color plate mounted on the front panel; overal the dust jacket has rubbing and shelfwear along the edges, large piece gone from lower spine panel. The back panel of the dust jacket advertises "Scribner Series of Illustrated Classics for Younger Readers" with SMOKY by Will James being the latest addition to the series (published 1929).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Columbia Books, Inc. ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1460
- Title
- POEMS OF CHILDHOOD
- Author
- Field, Eugene
- Illustrator
- Maxfield Parrish
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Date Published
- 1904
- Keywords
- ILLUSTRATION, POETRY
Terms of Sale
Columbia Books, Inc. ABAA/ILAB
Books are returnable for a refund
if not as described.
About the Seller
Columbia Books, Inc. ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2006
Columbia, Missouri
About Columbia Books, Inc. ABAA/ILAB
30,000 books in stock, with special emphasis on gardening,
art and textiles, poetry, children\'s and illustrated, Missouriana, antiquarian books.
Prints and maps are stocked as well.
Established 1977, member ABAA/ILAB
art and textiles, poetry, children\'s and illustrated, Missouriana, antiquarian books.
Prints and maps are stocked as well.
Established 1977, member ABAA/ILAB
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...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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