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English Fairy Tales: Tales for Children from Many Lands
by Ernest and Grace Rhys
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- acceptable/unjacketed
- Seller
-
Cazenovia, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Undated hardcover as pictured. This is a worn but still beautiful book. No publication date is given but a previous owner annotated it with a 1932 date. Binding is firm. Brown cloth boards with gold embossed front and spine and a paste on illustration are soiled and worn with slight fraying of head and tail of spine and corners. Illustration is rubbed and scuffed. Previous owner's book plate on FEP and name/date on FFEP. Endpapers are tanned. Text is clean and unmarked. 8 tipped in color illustrations as well as B&W drawings as chapter headings. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s
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Details
- Bookseller
- Friends of the Cazenovia Public Library
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1329
- Title
- English Fairy Tales
- Author
- Ernest and Grace Rhys
- Illustrator
- Herbert Cole and R Anning Bell
- Format/Binding
- See description
- Book Condition
- Used - acceptable
- Jacket Condition
- unjacketed
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Edited by F. C. Tilney
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- J M Dent & Sons
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- undated
- Pages
- 128
- Size
- 5x7.5
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Fairy Tales, Herbert Cole, R. Anning Bell
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's books; Children's Classics;
Terms of Sale
Friends of the Cazenovia Public Library
Return guarantee with full refund, including shipping costs, for up to 14 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Friends of the Cazenovia Public Library
Biblio member since 2018
Cazenovia, New York
About Friends of the Cazenovia Public Library
We are a group of volunteers supporting our local library. All proceeds go to the library. We strive for excellent customer service. Please contact us with any questions. If you are in the area you may also visit our store, Carriage Barn Books, adjacent to the library at 100 Albany Street Cazenovia NY
Glossary
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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....
- Tipped In
- Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
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