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Morning Face
by Porter, Gene Stratton
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: The Author. 950 g; 130 pages, illustrated throughout with part page and full-page black-and-white photographs, and with one tipped in plate being page 51/52, a colour illustration of the red Cardinal. The plate is detached partially. Girls' Grammar School prize bookplate dated 1919 on the front end page, bumping and rubbing of the heel of the spine, and the lower corners, as well as the top corner of the front panel, and the head of the spine. The stitching is visible at a couple of the gatherings, and the hinging while complete, is sloppy. The front board is illustrated with a two colour blind stamped and filled illustration of birds crossing in front of reeds, with the sun in the background. "This is the keynote of the book: it is for the ear; to be read aloud; in many of the rhymed lines the intended and proper effect can be obtained only by charging the lines and lengthening or shortening the syllables to fit the metre, like a rune or incantation. The book is about living things, for the most part baby creatures, for which all children have natural affection. The regularity of rhythm, which was designed to make the lines mated to children, was intentional and used for that purpose." Page 19 Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: The Author. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Natural History & Resources; Inventory No: 0222009. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0222009
- Title
- Morning Face
- Author
- Porter, Gene Stratton
- Illustrator
- The Author
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1916
- Keywords
- BZDB2 natural history, photography, story, Children Natural History & Resources; The Author Unbranded Porter, Gene Stratton Morning Face
Terms of Sale
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
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About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Biblio member since 2005
melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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....
- Gatherings
- A term used in bookbinding, where a gathering of sheets is folded at the middle, then bound into the binding together. The...
- Tipped In
- Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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