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A WONDER BOOK
by Rackham, Arthur; Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Near fine in very good dust jacket.
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
London, New York, & Toronto: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1922. Near fine in very good dust jacket.. First Rackham trade edition of six stories from Ancient Greek mythology, famously retold by Nathaniel Hawthorne, with gorgeous Golden Age illustrations. Rackham's beautiful paintings bring these legends to life with Golden Age flair. This is a particularly nice copy of this title, which is not often found in its original dust jacket. 9.75'' x 7''. Original red cloth binding with gilt and blind stamping. Original unclipped (no price) color pictorial dust jacket. Black topstain. Pictorial endpapers of a fawn and two fancy children. Illustrated with color frontispiece tipped onto thick paper with printed guards, with 15 color plates tipped onto thick paper with printed guards and various black and white and tinted images throughout. viii, 208 pages. Jacket with light edgewear and short closed tears, some tape repairs to verso; a few thin spots of dampstaining, primarily to top of rear panel. Binding with a bit of edgewear, tiny bump to lower edge. Clean and bright.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Type Punch Matrix
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15285
- Title
- A WONDER BOOK
- Author
- Rackham, Arthur; Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine in very good dust jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London, New York, & Toronto
- Date Published
- 1922
- Keywords
- 20th century,US American,Chapter Book,Golden Age,Ancient Greece and Rome
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About the Seller
Type Punch Matrix
Biblio member since 2020
Silver Spring, Maryland
About Type Punch Matrix
Type Punch Matrix is a rare book firm founded by Rebecca Romney and Brian Cassidy. TPM is a member firm of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and upholds their Code of Ethics.
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