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Everyday Play for Children
by Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: M. A. Donohue, 1916. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. Very clean first edition book in original dust jacket. Clean unfaded green cloth boards with white, yellow and black decoration on cover (child sitting on the floor playing with a toy elephant), crisp black and white lettering on cover; image of child and black lettering on spine. No wear to decorations or lettering. No bumping or wear to cloth. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages and edges are clean with clean decorated endpapers; small previous owner inscription on back of frontispiece. Decorated title page; frontispiece by C. H. Lawrence. Decorated copyright page. Black and white drawings throughout. 212 pages. Clean dust jacket has some light edge and corner wear; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A lovely book in great condition that presents play activities for children that will enhance their all round development,mental, moral and physical. "The book is offered as a working program of play for mothers, teachers and all who are interested in the joyful, free, normal development of the spirit of the child.".
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31989
- Title
- Everyday Play for Children
- Author
- Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- Publisher
- M. A. Donohue
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1916
- Keywords
- CHILDREN'S PLAY, GAMES FOR CHILDREN, DECORATED AMERICAN TRADE BINDING, DATB, CAROLYN SHERWIN BAILEY, FIRST EDITION, CHILDHOOD EDUCATION, HOME SCHOOLING, PARENTING, CHILD RAISING
- Bookseller catalogs
- Education; Children's; Decorated American Trade Binding;
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Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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About the Seller
Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
Biblio member since 2003
Stanley, New York
About Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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