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WEE GILLIS (Signed Limited Edition)
by Leaf, Munro, and Robert Lawson
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
-
Williamsburg, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Viking Press, 1938. First edition limited to 525 copies SIGNED, withou inscription, by both Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson on the limitation page. Lawson was the only person to have won both the Newbery Medal and the Caldecott Medal. WEE GILLIS was a Caldecott Honor book in 1939. The burlap cloth covered book is clean, tight, and fresh, with barely a hint of the spine toning that is usually seen on this edition. The glassine dust jacket is not present, but the original slipcase is present. It is clean and bright, with minimal tanning and some rubbing along edges; edges of top and bottom strips have been repaired.. SIGNED. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Robert Lawson. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- W1522
- Title
- WEE GILLIS (Signed Limited Edition)
- Author
- Leaf, Munro, and Robert Lawson
- Illustrator
- Robert Lawson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1938
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12&
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Illustrated Books; Children's Books;
Terms of Sale
Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art
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About the Seller
Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art
Biblio member since 2004
Williamsburg, Virginia
About Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art
Our office, located in historic Williamsburg, Virginia, is open by appointment or by chance. We are antiquarian booksellers who buy and sell carefully selected books for collectors and researchers in many genre. We also sell important autographs and photographs as well as original art, including wood engravings by Winslow Homer and J. J. Lankes; lithographs by Miró, Matisse, Calder, Wengenroth, and others; and works from the American Etching Revival. You can reach us by telephone: (757)378-5400; or by email: twbooks1@cox.net.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
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