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A DISH OF APPLES
by Eden Phillpotts; Arthur Rackham (illustrator)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
-
Chamblee, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
UK: Hodder & Stoughton, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Signed by illustrator, Arthur Rackham, and author, Eden Phillpotts. Limited, numbered edition: 447 of 500. Small quarto (10 x 7 5/8 in; 254 x 193 mm). 75, (3) pp. Illustrated with three full-page mounted illustrations in color with tissue guards and twenty-three drawings in black and white. Publisher's cream cloth pictorially stamped in gilt. Pictorial end papers. Top edge gilt. Boards are faintly soiled and there is rubbing to extremities;. Endpages are toned. Very little foxing to interior, although there is light toning to page edges. There is a tipped in bookplate between the frontispiece and tissue guard. Boards slightly bowed. Pictures available upon request.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Atlanta Vintage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 35803
- Title
- A DISH OF APPLES
- Author
- Eden Phillpotts; Arthur Rackham (illustrator)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 1921
- Keywords
- Children's
Terms of Sale
Atlanta Vintage Books
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About the Seller
Atlanta Vintage Books
Biblio member since 2007
Chamblee, Georgia
About Atlanta Vintage Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Tipped In
- Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
- 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...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- 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...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
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