New York: H. M. Caldwell, Co.. Hardcover. Used - Good/No Jacket. Undated, early edition. Illustrated by Frank C. Pape. Dark green cloth covered boards with gilt text and gilt top edge. Gilt flowers and lighter green stems and leaves decorate the front cover. A color illustrated pastedown as attached. Gilt text block on the spine. Lovely sage and light green illustrated endpages. Color frontispiece, as well as 11 other full page color illustrations. Many smaller black and white illustrations. Wear to corners, top and bottom of spine. Vintage book plate attached to inside front cover. Light foxing in parts of the book.

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Bookseller: Bookends (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 259540
Title: At the Back of the North Wind
Author: George Mac Donald
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: H. M. Caldwell, Co.
Place of Publication: New York
Pages: 391

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We are a brick and mortar store located in Hutchinson, Kansas. We have been buying and selling books since 2012. We specialize in antique and collectible children's books and books about U.S. History.

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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...
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....
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
Leaves: Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
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....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...