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Mother Goose or The Old Nursery Rhymes; Illustrated by Kate Greenaway
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good +
- Seller
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
London: Frederick Warne and Co, 1945. Hardcover. Good +. 52 p.: color illustrations; 17 cm. Brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles; illustrated pastedown on front cover. No dust jacket. Top page edges red. Illustrated endpapers. llustrated title page. Colophon on back free endpaper: "Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans, Ltd. 154 Clerkenwell Road, London, E.C. I." Front free endpaper bears gift inscription: "Norah Winkelman Christmas, 1966 from her parents." Her printed bookplate is on the back fixed endpaper. No date of publication. Edmund Evans used the address 154 Clerkenwell Rd., the address in the colophon, in the 1940s (not before 1940, not after 1950?). Code 368.456 on title page verso and colophon. In Good+ Condition: lacking 3-cm. of cloth at tail of spine; minor loss at head of spine; cover is slightly soiled; light marginal soiling; illustrations are clean and bright.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005369
- Title
- Mother Goose or The Old Nursery Rhymes; Illustrated by Kate Greenaway
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Frederick Warne and Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1945
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Classic Books and Ephemera
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
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- 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...
- Bookplate
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- Cloth
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
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