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Sandman Set: The Sandman's Forest & The Sandman's Mountain
by Louis Dodge
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
DODGE, Louis.The Sandman's Forest. A Story for Large Persons to Read to Small Persons. Illustrated by Paul Bransom. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1918. 12mo, x 293pp. Olive green cloth stamped in gilt, brown, white and black. Two-color pictorial endpapers; 6 full-color plates. A bright, internally clean copy, with slight rubbing and bumping to board edges, slight sunning, cracking and rubbing to spine, bearing previous owner's inscription on verso of half title.
DODGE, Louis. The Sandman's Mountain. A Story for Large Persons to Read to Small Persons. Illustrated by Paul Bransom. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. 12mo, xii 278pp. Olive green cloth stamped in gilt, brown, black and white. Two color pictorial endpapers; 6 full-color plates. A bright, internally clean copy with slight rubbing and bumping around exterior edges of boards and minute warping to front and rear boards.
First editions. The adventures of 5-year-old Giddy as he is brought to the fantastical world of the Sandman's Forest and interacts with the talking animals that live there. Wonderfully brought to life by Paul Bransom's spectacular full-color plates. Bransom is most noted as the first artist to illustrate The Wind in the Willows in 1913 with 10 color plates, the 1908 first edition just having a line-drawing frontispiece.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Books of Wonder
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1049114
- Title
- Sandman Set
- Author
- Louis Dodge
- Illustrator
- Paul Bransom
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First editions
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1918 & 1920
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Size
- 12mo
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About Books of Wonder
Books of Wonder is NYC's oldest and largest independent children's bookstore, specializing in both new and old books. Established in 1980, Books of Wonder has a store in the Flatiron/Chelsea area of Manhattan.
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- Gilt
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- 12mo
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- Edges
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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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
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