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The Raggedy Man
by Riley, James Wihitcomb. Illustrated By Ethel Franklin Betts
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: The Bobbs Merrill Company, 1907. First edition with the Betts illustrations, 1907. Includes eight full page color plates, decoratve borders in black and shades of red on text pages, additional small illustrations in black and white plus shades of red on half-title and elsewhere. Green cloth with color illustration mounted on the front cover, 11.5 inches tall. Front cover illustration has some light scratching and scuffing, light fraying to the corners and spine ends, old hinge repairs with clear tape, text block sound but not tight (no loosened pages), endpapers and blanks lightly foxed (age speckled), pages clean, no names or other markings.. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. Fair. Folio - 12" - 15" Tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 046496
- Title
- The Raggedy Man
- Author
- Riley, James Wihitcomb. Illustrated By Ethel Franklin Betts
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Publisher
- The Bobbs Merrill Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1907
- Size
- Folio - 12" - 15" Tal
- Keywords
- CHILDRENS COLOR ILLUSTRATED
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books;
Terms of Sale
Resource Books, LLC
We pack well and ship promptly. Returns: Books may be returned for refund of purchase price within seven days provided prior notification is given and the books are returned in the same condition as when shipped.
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.
Glossary
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- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- 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....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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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