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PEEPING PANSY.
by ATTWELL, Mabel Lucie and Marie Queen of Rumania.:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London, Hodder & Stoughton, (1919).. FIRST EDITION (1919). 285 x 215 mm, 11½ x 8¾ inches, original publisher's deep red cloth, gilt lettered and illustrated on upper cover and spine, 312 pages. 8 delightful tissue guarded mounted colour plates, charming black and white illustrations throughout, many full page. Binding slightly rubbed, very slight wear to head and tail of spine and corners, couple of 3 mm (1/8") nicks to cloth at head of spine, bright gilt on upper cover and spine, front inner paper hinge cracked, binding firm. Old bookplate on pastedown, portrait of Marie Queen of Rumania from magazine mounted on front endpaper. Rusty paperclip mark to top edge of front endpaper and half-title, top edges just faintly browned, very slight horizontal crease to some top margins, 2 small closed tears to 1 top margin expertly repaired. Plates perfect. Clean bright very good plus copy. Only first editions have GILT decorated binding, reprints are in yellow cloth. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST. A very heavy book which will require extra postage.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Roger Middleton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47752
- Title
- PEEPING PANSY.
- Author
- ATTWELL, Mabel Lucie and Marie Queen of Rumania.:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London, Hodder & Stoughton, (1919).
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Mabel Lucie Attwell illustrated books Children's books colour illustrated books
Terms of Sale
Roger Middleton
We have been established booksellers for 42 years. We are a postal business only (strictly no callers). We are long-standing members of the P.B.F.A. the largest trade association for antiquarian booksellers in the UK. We wrap all our parcels in new materials and all our books are insured at our expense. Books may be returned if wrongly described, all costs will be met by us. ****PLEASE NOTE: POSTAGE WILL BE CHARGED AT COST, MEANING THAT POSTAGE WILL BE REDUCED ON PARCELS WEIGHING UNDER 1 KILO, AND IT WILL BE INCREASED ON MOST PARCELS WEIGHING MORE THAN 1 KILO****
About the Seller
Roger Middleton
Biblio member since 2010
Oxford, Oxfordshire
About Roger Middleton
We are a postal business only, selling rare and antiquarian books on interesting subjects.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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....
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
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