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Peter Parley's Tales About the Sun, Moon, and Stars
by Parley, Peter. Pseudonym of Samuel Griswold Goodrich
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co., 1850. Title page dated 1850. Attractively bound in dark brown blind-stamped cloth with the spine lettered and extensively decorated in gilt, 5.75 inches tall, frontis wood engraving and other wood engravings throughout. Good to very good condition with some shelf rubbing, mainly to the extremities, and some very light spine chips, good hinges, sound text block, pages mainly very clean with just a very tiny bit of foxing here and there, names in pencil on front free endpaper, no other markings.. Hard Cover. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 041554
- Title
- Peter Parley's Tales About the Sun, Moon, and Stars
- Author
- Parley, Peter. Pseudonym of Samuel Griswold Goodrich
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Publisher
- Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1850
- Size
- 16mo - over 5¾" - 6&
- Keywords
- CHILDRENS ILLUSTRATED INSTRUCTIONAL EDUCATIONAL
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2004
East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
Resource Books, LLC deals in antiquarian and out-of-print books in a wide variety of subject matter, mainly non-fiction.
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- 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...
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