New York: The Junior Literary Guild & Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1937. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Hasselriis, Malthe. Yellow hardcover with red print onspine and red butterflies on front. Spine a bit browned. Minor dirtiness and general shelf wear to boards. Light bumping and very light fraying to corners of boards. PO's name stamped on ffep.and backside of last page. Pages are tight but book will stay open fanned. Pages are clean/unmarked. 261 pages. Very Good to Fine condition. May be 1st edition as only print info stated is Copyright 1937 and "1937" on bottom of title page. Very nicely illustrated. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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Bookseller: Village Books and Music (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1607006
Title: Tales of a Chinese Grandmother
Author: Carpenter, Frances
Illustrator: Hasselriis, Malthe
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: The Junior Literary Guild & Doubleday, Doran & Company
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1937
Bookseller catalogs: Children's Fiction;

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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....
Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
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...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Fine: A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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...