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Forty-Four Turkish Fairy Tales
by Dr. Ignacz Kunos
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
Item Price
A$918.36A$826.53
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About This Item
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1913 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 10" by 8". Willy Pogany. The scarce first US edition of this charming collection of Turkish tales, accompanied with tipped in colour plates by Willy Pogany. The scarce first US edition of this work, published in the same year as the first UK edition.Illustrated with sixteen tipped-in colour plates, with further vignette and full page illustrations. Collated, complete.Illustrated by prolific Hungarian children's illustrator Willy Pogany.A charming collection of Turkish fairy tales translated and compiled by Ignác Kúnos In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Handling marks and significant discolouration to rear board. Light shelf wear to back strip tail. Internally, firmly bound. Significant spotting and areas of foxing throughout. Very Good
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 897F53
- Title
- Forty-Four Turkish Fairy Tales
- Author
- Dr. Ignacz Kunos
- Illustrator
- Willy Pogany
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Thomas Y. Crowell
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1913
- Size
- 10" by 8"
- Keywords
- turkish fairy tales folk tales pogany folk tales
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Rooke Books
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BATH, Somerset
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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- Tipped In
- Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...