The Golden Age
by Grahame, Kenneth; Maxfield Parrish
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- g
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
London and New York: John Lane, 1905. Later printing. Hardcover. g. Octavo. 252pp. Original olive cloth with embossed color illustration and red and black lettering on cover, red on spine. Illustrated endpapers. Frontispiece gravure. Illustrated title page. Reminiscing childhood and the everlasting generational gap, Grahame casts his reminiscences in imagery and metaphor rooted in the culture of Ancient Greece and Greek mythology. Illustrated with 18 photogravure including frontispiece and title page. Binding rubbed with some scuffing affecting title and wear along edges. Book block lightly age-toned. Binding in overall good-, interior in good+ condition.
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- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 36775
- Title
- The Golden Age
- Author
- Grahame, Kenneth; Maxfield Parrish
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - g
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- Later printing
- Publisher
- John Lane
- Place of Publication
- London and New York
- Date Published
- 1905
- Keywords
- bodley head, daily chronicle, Olympians, argonauts, perseus, Apollo, psyche, children stories
Terms of Sale
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
Biblio member since 2009
Santa Monica, California
About Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
We offer a broad selection of rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books with an emphasis on photography, architecture, art, Judaica, Bibles, Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, modernism, Olympic Games, erotica and foreign-language works, especially German, Hebrew, Polish and Yiddish. We also provide appraisal, auction, consulting and rental services.
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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- Cloth
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Title Page
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- Good+
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- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- 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....
- Edges
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