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Wee Gillis
by Leaf, Munro
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0805455833
- ISBN 13
- 9780805455830
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Viking Press. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1938. First Trade Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0805455833 . Illustrated by Robert Lawson. NY: Viking Press, 1938. First Trade Edition, First Printing. 10 x 7 ½ in. 71pp. 33 full-page illustrations in b&w, title page vignette, and illustration on endpapers in green. Yellow cloth back with green letters, plaid paper boards with Lawson illustration centered on front cover. Yellow cloth spine, plaid boards with Lawson's depiction of Wee Gillis in the center; brief wear to corners and small spot on top edge of front cover, gift inscription on the blank verso of the illustrated front endpaper. Illustrated dust jacket quite chipped at top edges, short tears, small hole, small stain, fair. ; Drawings; 10 x 7 1/2 inches; 71 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Dale A. Sorenson
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8874
- Title
- Wee Gillis
- Author
- Leaf, Munro
- Illustrator
- Robert Lawson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- Edition
- First Trade Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0805455833
- ISBN 13
- 9780805455830
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1938
- Keywords
- 0805455833, Children`s, Illustrated Book
Terms of Sale
Dale A. Sorenson
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About the Seller
Dale A. Sorenson
Biblio member since 2015
Silver Spring, Maryland
About Dale A. Sorenson
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- Edges
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- Cloth
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- 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...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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