All Falling Down
by Zion, Gene
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Ardmore, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
True First Edition published by Harper & Brothers (re-printed a decade later by Harper & Row). Cloth backed pictorial boards. Lightly foxed front cover and end papers plus gift note on front paste-down, else tight, bright and clean. Small chips, scuffs and tears to lightly foxed jacket with $1.75 flap price. Zion's first book and a 1952 Caldecott Honor winner, illustrated by Margaret Bloy Graham. Two-color picture book is all about things that fall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Smarty Pants (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 91460
- Title
- All Falling Down
- Author
- Zion, Gene
- Illustrator
- Graham, Margaret Bloy
- Format/Binding
- Hard
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Date Published
- 1951
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Smarty Pants
Biblio member since 2006
Ardmore, Pennsylvania
About Smarty Pants
Smarty Pants specializes in collectible, vintage (mid-20th century) children's picture books and books about art.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.