Playtime Round the World
by Funk, Frances Ellen
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Chicago: Albert Whitman Co.. Good. ©1928. Hardcover. 160 p. 21 cm. Sound and square binding in cloth-covered boards, with coloured paste-down illustration on the upper board. Corners and spine ends are bumped and have some fraying and wear to cloth. Call number on the spine. Small stain on lower board, and some overall rubbing and light soil. Library and ownership marks on the endpapers. Otherwise, the inside pages are quite clean and bright. A book of children's games taken from different countries around the world. Charming three colour lithographs of children at play. Ex-Library .
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Details
- Seller
- Homeward Bound Books (CA)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 5124
- Title
- Playtime Round the World
- Author
- Funk, Frances Ellen
- Illustrator
- Eleanore Mineah Hubbard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Publisher
- Albert Whitman Co.
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- ©1928
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's - Activity;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Homeward Bound Books
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Campbellcroft, Ontario
About Homeward Bound Books
Homeward Bound Books is an online bookshop operated from our home in the Municipality of Port Hope, Ontario. We specialize in children's and illustrated books – collectible and reading copies; and local histories, particularly for Ontario. We also stock a selection of collectable mystery fiction, ephemera, and any other titles we find interesting or unusual. We have thousands of books yet to be catalogued. So, please contact us to be added to our client list, and we will let you know when we have books of interest to you. It is our pleasure to send books homeward bound -- from our shelves to yours.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...