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The Children's Homer: The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy
by Padraic Colum
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good
- Seller
-
Waccabuc, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1925. Decorative Cloth. Very Good +/Very Good. Willy Pogany. A handsome copy of this June 1925 early reprint. Tight and VG+ in its decorative cloth, with light offsetting at the front free endpaper and front pastedown. And in a crisp, price-intact (and price-clipped) VG dustjacket, with very lght chipping at the spine ends and the tips, and several neatly-applied thin strips of clear tape as reinforcement to those areas. Attractive and very presentable, richly illustrated thoughout (in color and black-and-white) by the great Willy Pogany.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Appledore Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18734
- Title
- The Children's Homer: The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy
- Author
- Padraic Colum
- Illustrator
- Willy Pogany
- Format/Binding
- Decorative Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1925
- Keywords
- rare children's books, rare Willy Pogany, illustrator Will Pogany, rare Padraic Colum
- Bookseller catalogs
- Childrens;
Terms of Sale
Appledore Books, ABAA
All books are offered subject to prior sale. Materials are returnable within 1 week of receipt provided prior notice is given.
About the Seller
Appledore Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Waccabuc, New York
About Appledore Books, ABAA
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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