Custard the Dragon
by Nash, Ogden
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near fine/good
- Seller
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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1959. Later printing. Hardcover. Near fine/good. Linell. 30pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] in decorative orange cloth. Ex-library with no exterior markings. Chipping and tears (none longer than 2") to jacket; boards are crisp and unworn; library markings to rear endpapers, else interior is clean and bright. Charming story in verse about a dragon who is "smooth and flabby as custard", with lively illustrations by Limell.
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Details
- Seller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 47423
- Title
- Custard the Dragon
- Author
- Nash, Ogden
- Illustrator
- Linell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later printing
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston, MA
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- CHILDREN'S BOOKS; PICTURE BOOKS; ; fancon
Terms of Sale
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
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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.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...