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Riley Farm-Rhymes
by James Whitcomb Riley
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good
- Seller
-
Waccabuc, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1905. Cloth. Very Good +/Very Good. Will Vawter. The 1905 printing of this charming James Whitcomb Riley collection, in its uncommon pictorial dustjacket. Solid and VG+ in a crisp, VG- dustjacket, with small, decorative pasted-on leaf to the front panel, light chipping along the panel edges (including the spine ends) and several small, inconspicuous pieces of clear tape at the inside of the dustjacket as reinforcement. 12mo, Riley's verse at each verso, the evocative illustrations of Will Vawter along each recto.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Appledore Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18835
- Title
- Riley Farm-Rhymes
- Author
- James Whitcomb Riley
- Illustrator
- Will Vawter
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1905
- Keywords
- rare children's books, rare James Whitcomb Riley, rare Americana
- Bookseller catalogs
- Childrens;
Terms of Sale
Appledore Books, ABAA
All books are offered subject to prior sale. Materials are returnable within 1 week of receipt provided prior notice is given.
About the Seller
Appledore Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Waccabuc, New York
About Appledore Books, ABAA
Buy and sell - rare, unusual and antiquarian - art, photography, literature, scholarly, sports, childrens, bindings.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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.
- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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....
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