New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1954. First Edition. First printing Near fine in blue cloth covered boards with gilt text and decorations stamped on the spine with light rubbing to the heel of the spine and with light shelf wear to the board edges. In a good+ dust jacket with a price clipped front flap and with 1/4" deep chips across the upper edge of the spine area with a 1/3" deep by 2" long chip at the lower edge of the front panel and a 2" closed tear to the rear panel. 256 pages including an index, text and with over 100 illustrations through-out.

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Bookseller: Town's End Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: TB15346
Title: English Childrens's Books
Author: Muir, Percy
Book Condition: Used
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Frederick A. Praeger
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1954
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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...
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...
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Good+: A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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....
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
Fine: A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Price Clipped: When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Heel: The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.