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Funnybone Alley
by Kreymborg, Alfred
- Used
- very good
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Macaulay Company, 1927. First Edition. Leather. Very Good. Artzybasheff, Boris. 4to. 268 pp. Burgundy calf with bold gilt titling, spine rebacked with new leather, sunned to a reddish orange. Heavy scuffing and rubbing to leather, with board edges and corners exposed. Top edge gilt, new stuck-on endbands, pictorial endpapers. Inner hinge splitting before title page, with first signature starting to detach but holding. Otherwise fine inside, with bright, tipped in, color plates throughout. Illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff.
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Details
- Bookseller
- small volume
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 611
- Title
- Funnybone Alley
- Author
- Kreymborg, Alfred
- Illustrator
- Artzybasheff, Boris
- Format/Binding
- Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Macaulay Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1927
- Keywords
- children's, stories, tipped in plates, color plates, chromolithograph, illustrated
Terms of Sale
small volume
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
small volume
Biblio member since 2023
Providence, Rhode Island
About small volume
Small Volume is based out of Providence, RI. We buy + sell old, rare, odd, unusual, and otherwise collectible books + ephemera.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Tipped In
- Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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....
- Rebacked
- having had the material covering the spine replaced. ...
- 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...
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
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