New York: The Macmillan Company, 1932. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 102pp. Orange cloth, black lettering and illustration. Small chip to head of spine,spine sunned, corners lightly rubbed, contents age-toning confined primarily to endpapers, owner's bookplate on front free endpaper, binding is tight an text is clean. Full page black and white illustration on each recto page, text on versos, also double page color illustration by author.

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Bookseller: Old Bookshelf (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 001951
Title: The Fairy Dictionary
Author: Richards, George M
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: The Macmillan Company
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1932
Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6&
Keywords: Elf Pixie Gnome Faun Satyr Centaur Mime Puck Rune
Bookseller catalogs: Literature and Fiction; Humor;

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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...
Bookplate: Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Recto: The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.
Sunned: Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
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....