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Hansel and Gretel and Other Stories by the Brothers Grimm
by Brothers Grimm; Kay Nielsen (Ill.)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- g to vg+
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1925. First American edition. Hardcover. g to vg+. Quarto. xi, 11-310pp. Original red cloth with gilt lettering and decorative ruling on spine, black lettering on illustrated gilt label pasted to cover, protected by modern mylar. Decorative endpapers. Color frontispiece. Illustrated title page. Code "B" on copyright page. Historiated headpiece, decorative initials. Compilation of twenty-two tales by the Brothers Grimm with twelve tipped-in color and ten lithographed b/w illustrations by Kay Nielsen, all full page. Tales included are Hansel and Gretel, The Fisherman and His Wife, The Drummer, Rosebud, Rapunzel, The Three Magic Gifts, he Golden Goose and Rumpelstiltskin, among others. Binding with light wear along edges, very light fraying at head and tale of spine and corners. Four small strips of tape on inside front cover. Decorative front free endpaper missing. Illustrated and signed Ex Libris on half-title. Some repair at gutter at inside back cover. Binding in overall good, interior in good+, plates in very goo+ condition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47782
- Title
- Hansel and Gretel and Other Stories by the Brothers Grimm
- Author
- Brothers Grimm; Kay Nielsen (Ill.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - g to vg+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American edition
- Publisher
- George H. Doran Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1925
- Keywords
- German fairy tales, Grimm fairy tales, color illustrations, drawings, prints , lithography
Terms of Sale
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
Biblio member since 2009
Santa Monica, California
About Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
We offer a broad selection of rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books with an emphasis on photography, architecture, art, Judaica, Bibles, Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, modernism, Olympic Games, erotica and foreign-language works, especially German, Hebrew, Polish and Yiddish. We also provide appraisal, auction, consulting and rental services.
Glossary
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- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- 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...
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