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The Land of Enchantment
by Rackham, Arthur (Illustrated by); A. E. Bonser; B. Sidney Woolf; E. S. Buchheim (Text by)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- g to vg
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1907. First edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Quarto (11 x 9"). 144pp. Original illustrated brown cloth with gold lettering to spine and dark brown lettering to front cover. This is thus the first edition, first impression, in the secondary binding as noted in Riall. Tissue-guarded tinted frontispiece. Illustrated title with red and black lettering.
Originally published between 1896 and 1902 in "Little Folks," this collection of five stories is splendidly illustrated throughout with twelve full-page half-tone illustrations and 24 in-text drawings with yellow background by one of the most celebrated painters of the British Golden Age of Illustration: Arthur Rackham.
The stories featured in this book are:
- The maker of ghosts and the maker of shadows
- The mines of experience
- Harry and Herodotus; or, tales of an old traveller
- The stories of Ben the sailorman
- Stories from the Edda.
Some rubbing to head and tail of spine. Lower corners bumped (not affecting pages throughout). Offsetting and minor foxing to endpapers. Binding in overall good to good+, interior in very good condition.
Originally published between 1896 and 1902 in "Little Folks," this collection of five stories is splendidly illustrated throughout with twelve full-page half-tone illustrations and 24 in-text drawings with yellow background by one of the most celebrated painters of the British Golden Age of Illustration: Arthur Rackham.
The stories featured in this book are:
- The maker of ghosts and the maker of shadows
- The mines of experience
- Harry and Herodotus; or, tales of an old traveller
- The stories of Ben the sailorman
- Stories from the Edda.
Some rubbing to head and tail of spine. Lower corners bumped (not affecting pages throughout). Offsetting and minor foxing to endpapers. Binding in overall good to good+, interior in very good condition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 42107
- Title
- The Land of Enchantment
- Author
- Rackham, Arthur (Illustrated by); A. E. Bonser; B. Sidney Woolf; E. S. Buchheim (Text by)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - g to vg
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Cassell and Company, Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1907
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
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Santa Monica, California
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- Spine
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- VG
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- G
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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