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A Jolly Winter Day:Thrilling Stories for Boys and Girls, Embracing Marvels of Natural History, Monsters of the Ancient World, Wild Animals of the Forest and Plain, Beautiful Birds and Insects, Queer Wanderers in the Vasty Deep, Sublime Natural Scenery...
by Staff Compilers
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States
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About This Item
US. Fair with no dust jacket. 1904. Hardcover. Pictorial blue board & blue cloth binding rubbed at extremities; boards scuffed & edges chipped; hinges cracked & separating, several points in textblock cracked; front endpapers removed; leaves brittle & leaf detached but present; a bit of pencilled juvenile scribbling to paste-downs & endpapers; outer leaves foxed. No dj.; Many good b&w ils., color cover art. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" ; 256 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44129
- Title
- A Jolly Winter Day:Thrilling Stories for Boys and Girls, Embracing Marvels of Natural History, Monsters of the Ancient World, Wild Animals of the Forest and Plain, Beautiful Birds and Insects, Queer Wanderers in the Vasty Deep, Sublime Natural Scenery...
- Author
- Staff Compilers
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 1904
- Keywords
- Early 20th Century Storybooks, Antique Children's Books, Vintage Illustration
- Bookseller catalogs
- Vintage Juvenile: Online Shelf;
Terms of Sale
Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
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
Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
Biblio member since 2019
Fort Wayne, Indiana
About Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
Open shop with over 125,000 volumes. We try to maintain a good selection in all categories and have a fondness for the odd & obscure. Specialties include History, Nature, Literature, Religion, Mystery, SF, Art, Children's, Humor, Indiana
Glossary
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
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