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Mother Goose for Grown-Ups
by Wetmore Carryl, Guy (Text); Peter Newell and Gustave Verbeek (Illustrators)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- g
- Seller
-
Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
New York; London: Harper & Brothers, 1900. First edition. Hardcover. g. Quarto. [14], 115, [1]pp. Uncut. Original pictorial forest-green cloth, stamped in gold, light-green and white. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece. Printer's device on title-page. Title-page in red and black lettering. First book edition of this exquisite work which was originally published in Harper's Magazine, the Saturday Evening Post, and the London Sketch. It is profusely illustrated with numerous b/w illustrations by Peter Newell and Gustave Verbeek. Some age-wear on binding with slight rubbing along covers and head and tail of spine. Sporadic foxing on very first and very last pages. Binding and interior in overall good to good+ condition.
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- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27009
- Title
- Mother Goose for Grown-Ups
- Author
- Wetmore Carryl, Guy (Text); Peter Newell and Gustave Verbeek (Illustrators)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - g
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York; London
- Date Published
- 1900
- Keywords
- Fiction, Tales, First edition, Reference
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.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
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