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Sooky (dear Sooky) Letters from Skippy
by Crosby, Percy
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Poor Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Taylor, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good+ in Poor Dust Jacket. 1929. Hardcover. From rear DJ panel: "the fragile and beautiful sequel to "skippy", this book is a collection of random letters of a small boy, Skippy, to Sooky, which, in philosophy and pathos, represent the very height of contemporary humour. All 7 tipped-in illustrations by the author are present. Very hard to find with DJ. Edgewear is minimal with the minor exception of head and heel of spine, the second page in the book has been torn out so I don't know what page it was. Title page, copyright page, frontispiece and front free endpaper still present. This torn-out page was between the ffep and illustrated frontispiece and I suspect it was a second ffep which had a signature on it (you can see the mirror image on the first ffep. DJ is chipped and torn, and has the list of other G&D children's books listed on the back. DJ was taped back together on the underside. All the 'enclosed' letters on front of DJ have been penciI-shadowed in. Now in new mylar to prevent further damage. Binding is square and tight and text block is clean. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 124 pages; 28236 .
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Novel Shoppe
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28236
- Title
- Sooky (dear Sooky) Letters from Skippy
- Author
- Crosby, Percy
- Illustrator
- Percy Crosby
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Poor Dust Jacket
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- CHRISTMAS, CHILDREN, POETRY, Letters
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
The Novel Shoppe
Biblio member since 2003
Taylor, Texas
About The Novel Shoppe
Used, out-of-print and old books, magazines and other paper collectibles online only. I specialize in Texana (anything about Texas)
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- 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....
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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...
- 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....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
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