Till Owlglass' Funny Pranks (Till Eulenspiegel) , Done Into English for the Young Folks
by Julia Isabel Bull (trans & Adapt); Eugene Klimsch (Illustrator)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company. Very Good. 1899. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Chromolithographs & woodcuts; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 48 pages; 1899 Lothrop Publishing , Boston. Larger royal octavo HC in original quarter red cloth backed spine and chromolithograph illustrated paper covered boards. 1st edition, thus. The sanitized and reworked version of the escapades of the late Middle Ages jester, Till Eulenspiegel, here made into a children's book and illustrated with 4 full page chromolithograph color plates and numerous b&w in-text woodcuts. A well preserved example with bright clean pictorial boards and sound cloth backed spine. Mild fading to cloth spine; light shelf rubbing and some mild nicks and flaking to the paper over the boards at edges and tips. Publisher's linen lined hinges are sound and endpages bright and clean. Expected mild toning to page stock. A few trivial instances of fingering to the pages, but generally quite clean and neat. Uncommon thus. VG .
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- Bookseller
- DogStar Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50869
- Title
- Till Owlglass' Funny Pranks (Till Eulenspiegel) , Done Into English for the Young Folks
- Author
- Julia Isabel Bull (trans & Adapt); Eugene Klimsch (Illustrator)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Publisher
- Lothrop Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1899
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children''s Books; Antiquarian Books;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
DogStar Books
Biblio member since 2020
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
About DogStar Books
DogStar Books is an open-shop used and rare book store located in historic Lancaster PA. We have been buying and selling scholarly, antiquarian and better books, images, and paper since 1991. We maintain a large general collection of over 40,000 titles on premises to serve our local book loving clientele. Out of town visitors and buyers are always welcome. Our online inventory at Biblio began in 2020 and we will be increasing our inventory here on a regular basis.
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