The Olive Fairy Book
by Andrew Lang
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/N
- Seller
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Birsay, Orkney, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, New York, Bombay and Calcutta: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1907 A very good copy of the 1st edition in the original light green decorative cloth binding with 8 colour plates, 20 full page black and white plates, and 22 in text illustrations. All page edges gilt. The front board is very bright with a tiny spot mark towards the top corner. The spine is equally bright and is slightly cocked to the front. There is some pulling to spine ends and a small (1 cm) split in the rear spine joint half way up. The back board is clean and bright. There is a small bump to the bottom corner of the front board and light wear and turning to the other corners. The decorative endpapers are present with slight toning to the front free endpaper. The contents are complete and clean with the occasional spot or mark eg light mark in gutter pp 36/7, small brown mark top edge verso of plate p 89; small brown stain top margin p 208 mirrored on 209. Pages 221 and 223 have a very small (circa 1 mm) top edge tear and there is a crease to the bottom corner tip of p 29/30. Please enquire if you would like to see additional images.
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Details
- Bookseller
- E C Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 033291
- Title
- The Olive Fairy Book
- Author
- Andrew Lang
- Illustrator
- Henry J Ford
- Format/Binding
- Decorative Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- N
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green, and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London, New York, Bombay and Calcutta
- Date Published
- 1907
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- andrew lang; fairy books; olive fairy book; h j ford
- Bookseller catalogs
- Illustrated; Children's;
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- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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"...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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....