Illustrated Children's Books (Britain in Pictures)
by Smith, Janet Adam
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good Minus
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
London: Collins, 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good Minus. Pictorial paper covered flexible boards in matching dust jacket, 4to, 50 pages, 8 color illustrations, black and white illustrations throughout. Boards edge worn, offset tanning at half title page and last page from paper being laid in (now gone), edge worn dust jacket with chipping at extremities, toned spine, now in protective mylar cover. Number 126 in the Britain in Pictures series.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Crooked House Books & Paper (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001596
- Title
- Illustrated Children's Books (Britain in Pictures)
- Author
- Smith, Janet Adam
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good Minus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1948
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- BOOKS ON BOOKS CHILDRENS BOOK ILLUSTRATORS
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About the Seller
Crooked House Books & Paper
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Portland, Oregon
About Crooked House Books & Paper
Welcome to the Crooked House, a one-of-a-kind bookstore in Portland, Oregon. Specializing in the beautiful and unusual: books by, for and about women, cookery, domestic science, decorative publishers bindings, weird how-to books and ephemera, 1920s-30s women's magazines, Modern Library, and more.
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- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- 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...