THE BOOK OF THE LITTLE PAST
by Peabody Josephine Preston
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1908. First edition. With 6 illustrations in color by Elizabeth Shippen Greene, decorated initials begin each chapter and with a pictorially decorated title page in colours. Tall 8vo, publisher's original blue cloth over brown boards, the upper cover lettered in blue and with a charming colour illustration paste-down tipped on to the central area. ix, 49 pp. A very nice copy with only mild overall mellowing or evidence of age, internally, tight and well preserved. FIRST EDITION WITH IDYLLIC FULL PAGE COLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS BY ELIZABETH SHIPPEN GREENE. "Of the poems of child-life brought together in this book many are wholly new; some are reprinted from "The Singing Leaves," published in 1903; and others have appeared in Harper's Monthly Magazine..."- JPM
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Details
- Bookseller
- Buddenbrooks, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29253
- Title
- THE BOOK OF THE LITTLE PAST
- Author
- Peabody Josephine Preston
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Co
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1908
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About the Seller
Buddenbrooks, Inc.
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Newburyport, Massachusetts
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...