Mother Goose or the Old Nursery Rhymes
by Greenaway, Kate
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1881. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Kate Greenaway. 16mo. 47 pages. Hardcover quarter bound in green cloth with illustrated paper wrapped boards. Image on the front cover of a woman seating in a chair, facing right and with a small child on her lap. Damp spot on the front cover. Binding is rubbed, has smudges and scuffs. Corners rubbed down to boards. Front hinge is cracking with the muslin exposed. Rear hinge is loose but gutter is whole. Early owner's inscription on front flyleaf reads, "Hanning(?) Leonard, from Aunt Kate Xmas '81." Text is unmarked. The signature is NOT Kate Greenaway's. There is no actual publication date, but the book is hand-dated [18]81. Appears to be the second issue of the First American Edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 049015
- Title
- Mother Goose or the Old Nursery Rhymes
- Author
- Greenaway, Kate
- Illustrator
- Kate Greenaway
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 2nd Printing
- Publisher
- George Routledge and Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1881
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Weight
- 1.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1881; Kate Greenaway; Nursery Rhymes; Children's Books; illustrated;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books; General Antiquarian & Rare;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- A.N.
- The book is pristine and free of any defects, in the same condition as ...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.