The MacMillan Company, 1932. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1932. First Edition. 112 pages. No dust jacket. Orange cloth with green lettering. Black and white illustrated frontispiece, and other illustrations by Weda Yap throughout. Pages are mildly tanned and foxed, and text and illustrations remain clear. Binding is firm. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper, and reverse of frontispiece. Boards have noticeable shelf-wear, with moderate corner bumping and scuffing to edges. Spine and edges are moderately sunned, with noticeable crushing and slight splitting to ends. Black markings overall. Book has a minor forward lean.

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Bookseller: World of Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1663951780DPB
Title: Cricket and the Emperor's Son
Author: Elizabeth Coatsworth
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: The MacMillan Company
Date Published: 1932

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Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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...
Sunned: Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
Acceptable: A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
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....
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...
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...