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Ben's Dream
by Van Allsburg, Chris
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good +/very good
- Seller
-
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good. SIGNED. 31pp. Slim quarto [26 cm] Teal cloth over boards with gilt lettering on the spine and front cover. With minor splaying of the boards, and minor bumping to the foot of the spine. In the pictorial dust jacket, with moderate edge wear. Signed by Chris Van Allsburg on the half title. Van Allsburg has been the recipient of numerous awards, including two Caldecott Medals for The Polar Express and Jumanji.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 48836
- Title
- Ben's Dream
- Author
- Van Allsburg, Chris
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good +
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1982
- Keywords
- patcat; signed; first edition; children's books; Chris Van Allsburg; PASADENA 2017; OAKLAND 2017 (ABAA); SEATTLE 2018; SEACAT18; PASADENA2019 & OAKLAND2019; LAX2019 & SEATTLE2019; santa monica 2021
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About the Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Salt Lake City, Utah
About Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Ken Sanders Rare Books is a full service antiquarian bookshop in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. We carry an ever-changing inventory of art, ephemera, maps, photography, and postcards in addition to a vast selection of used and rare books along with a few new books. We actively purchase and appraise books in all fields.
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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
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