Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens From The Little White Bird
by Barrie, J.M
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG/None
- Seller
-
Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited No date, presumed First Edition. Once green (?) cloth on boards now shelf-sunned and faded to a chartreuse mix of colours. Front of cover with gilt title, four gilt birds on top margin and six gilt gnomes (?) on bottom margin. Mildly soiled and rubbed. Spine: head & foot with thin wear. Small wear to some of the boards corners. Light small indent to head of front boards top-edge. Edges: Light age yellowing and moderate foxings. Eps: mild foxings; ffep with two short inscribed, one is Xmas 1927. Front hinge with a few short splits. 50 coloured plates all clean and present. Frontis: coloured plate of child and fairies. Most pages margins are light to moderately foxed. Refp pages with loosely tipped in b/w illustrations with light touches of wear to extremeties and foxings. Binding is VG 127p Large book: 280 x 225 mm / 2 kgs.. Hb. VG/None. Illus. by Arthur Rackham.
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Details
- Bookseller
- BOOKMARK Ltd
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 042607
- Title
- Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens From The Little White Bird
- Author
- Barrie, J.M
- Illustrator
- Arthur Rackham
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction > Childrens Literature;
Terms of Sale
BOOKMARK Ltd
Will reimburse cost of book, if not as described.
About the Seller
BOOKMARK Ltd
Biblio member since 2006
Auckland
About BOOKMARK Ltd
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tipped In
- Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
- 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...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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...
- FFEP
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