Quacks - The Story of the Ugly Duckling after Hans Christian Andersen.
by WINGRAVE, Marion M
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Ward Lock & Co, London., [1884]. First edition. Quarto. Unpaginated. Illustrated by the author: each page of her verse rendering of the story has a chromolithograph. Printed on rectos only. Cloth-backed colour pictorial covers. Patterned endpapers. Contemporary (1884) ownership inscription on verso of front free endpaper. Inner hinges cracked. Prelims faintly foxed. Covers a bit rubbed at the edges and slightly dusty. Very good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Ellis bookseller (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WINGRAVE028232
- Title
- Quacks - The Story of the Ugly Duckling after Hans Christian Andersen.
- Author
- WINGRAVE, Marion M
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Ward Lock & Co, London.
- Date Published
- [1884]
- Keywords
- fairy tales
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Peter Ellis bookseller
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LONDON
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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,...
- 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...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- 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...