Games and Pastimes of Childhood
by Jacques Stella
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Colombies, France
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Dover Publications, 1969. English Rework of the 1657 Edition . Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Claudine Bouzonnet Stella. Bound in grey cloth, with protected, unclipped dw, 52 engravings with French legends (from the original edition), text of poems is in English, 103pp. 50 games played by French children in 1657 are presented. Many are well known today such as The Spinning Top, Quoits, Pitching Pennies, Hopscotch, Shuttlecock and Blind Man's Buff others are more obscure such as Pot Breaking, Push-Pin, fire Leaping and Cherry-Pit. Ex-library but with new endpapers.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Seller
- Northgate Books (FR)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 6657
- Title
- Games and Pastimes of Childhood
- Author
- Jacques Stella
- Illustrator
- Claudine Bouzonnet Stella
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- English Rework of the 1657 Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Dover Publications
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1969
Terms of Sale
Northgate Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Northgate Books
Biblio member since 2018
Colombies
About Northgate Books
French and English secondhand and antiquarian books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...