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Dwarf Long-Nose
by Hauff, Wilhelm (Translated by Doris Orgel. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak.)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Madison, Indiana, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Random House, 1960. First Edition thus, First Printing. Hardcover. Thin octavo. 9.25 x 7.5 inches. 62 pp. Very Good+ / Good. Translated by Doris Orgel. Pictures by Maurice Sendak. Preface by Phyllis McGinley. Unclipped dust jacket. Cloth-backed pictorial boards. Spine lettering stamped in black and white. Top edge dyed red. Illustrated endpapers. Profusely illustrated in black, white, and olive in text and plates by Sendak. Conforms to all points in Hanrahan A38. Binding solid, tight, and square. Black and white stamped board illustrations bright and sharp. Tips sharp. Light shelf wear at head and tail of spine. Cloth back strip and text block edges slightly age toned. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Else, internally clean and unmarked throughout. Dust jacket rubbed, edge worn, torn and taped with some loss (see photos). Dust jacket now in protective archival sleeve.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0000050
- Title
- Dwarf Long-Nose
- Author
- Hauff, Wilhelm (Translated by Doris Orgel. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak.)
- Illustrator
- Sendak, Maurice
- Format/Binding
- Cloth-backed pictorial boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1960
- Pages
- 62
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Picture; Collectables;
Terms of Sale
Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
All listed items are physically in our possession and will normally ship within 48 hours, securely packaged to prevent damage in transit. Within the U.S., we ship USPS Media Mail with insurance against loss or damage. Tracking number provided. Orders with destinations outside the U.S., expedited shipments, oversized/heavy items or sets will require an update of shipping charges before the sale is completed. All items are returnable within 72 hours of receipt with prior notification, if found to be not as described. Safe return shipment is the client's responsibility.
About the Seller
Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2008
Madison, Indiana
About Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
Village Lights Bookstore opened as a brick-and-mortar shop in 2008. We are a "mom & pop" business, and we live in the same building. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, the American Booksellers Association, and the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association. We offer a modest, but diverse, selection of rare, collectible, and antiquarian items, as well as select higher quality new books. We carefully grade our books in accordance with IOBA Book Condition Definitions (https://www.ioba.org/conditions-definitions), describe them using standard ABAA terminology (https://www.abaa.org/glossary), and painstakingly package them to prevent damage in transit. We value direct communication, so please feel free to call if you have questions about our listings or to confirm that an item is still on hand. And consider visiting us on Main Street in the heart of downtown Madison, Indiana, the country's largest contiguous National Historic Landmark District, and a Designated Indiana Cultural District, on the banks of the beautiful Ohio River.
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- Bookplate
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- Jacket
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- First Edition
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