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Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes
by de la Mare, Walter
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with No dust jacket as issued
- Seller
-
Palatine, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
NY: Henry Holt & Company. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1927. First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full green cloth, gilt lettering on spine and cover, peacock vignette, gilt, on cover. Illustrated with tissue-protected color frontispiece and full-page and in-text drawings by W. Heath Robinson. . Brief gift inscription dated May 31, 1927, on ffep, else fine; otherwise unmarked, tight, square, and clean. VERY GOOD. . Color and B&W illustrations. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. x, 178, (1) pp .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29725
- Title
- Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes
- Author
- de la Mare, Walter
- Illustrator
- W. Heath Robinson
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with No dust jacket as issued
- Edition
- First Edition. First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Henry Holt & Company
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1927
- Keywords
- Poetry, Children's Books, Walter de la Mare, W. Heath Robinson, Nursery Rhymes, Poems
Terms of Sale
Round Table Books, LLC
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About the Seller
Round Table Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2008
Palatine, Illinois
About Round Table Books, LLC
Round Table Books, LLC lists rare, beautiful and interesting books. All books are described accurately, packed carefully and shipped promptly. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED - Any book may be returned within 30 days of receipt for a full refund.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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...
- 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....
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...