A Child's Calendar
by Updike, John
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. Book. Illus. by Nancy Ekholm Burdert. Fine. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. Tall octavo, decorative patterned blindstamped red cloth covered boards with gilt spine titles. Blue endpapers. Unpaginated [32pp]. Illustrated with full page drawings and decorations by Nancy Ekholm Burkert with verses written by the National Book Award Winning novelist and short story writer. A very tight, clean, bright volume with fresh cloth and clear gilt. Neat very brief prior owner gift inscription on verso of half-title, else fine in a clean, bright, unmarked dust jacket, with a short closed edge tear at rear spine top and minor edge wear. Near fine in a very good plus dust jacket..
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- Bookseller
- Brillig Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 07190
- Title
- A Child's Calendar
- Author
- Updike, John
- Illustrator
- Nancy Ekholm Burdert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1965
- Keywords
- UPDIKE, BURKERT, ILLUSTRATED, ILLUSTRATOR, CHILDREN, CHILDREN'S, SEASONS, NURSERY, RHYME, VERSE, POEM, POET, POETRY, LYRIC, JUVENILE, NATIONAL BOOK AWARD, FICTION, NOVELIST, AUTHOR, AMERICAN,
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About the Seller
Brillig Books
Biblio member since 2006
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
About Brillig Books
An independent bookseller of uncommon, out-of-print, used and rare books since 1991.
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- Tight
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- Jacket
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- 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....
- 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
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- First Edition
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Fine
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